Waxahatchee

“Drank someone else’s juice and left only the rind,” Katie Crutchfield boasts on her excellent new Waxahatchee album, Tigers Blood. She’s got a right to sound cocky. The long-time indie-rock underdog hero won herself a lot of new fans with Saint Cloud, her 2020 breakthrough hit, going for a laid-back style of heartland rock & roll twang. But Tigers Blood is even more rugged and confident, a master storyteller fully aware she’s on a hot streak. She sings about adult romance, struggling for sobriety, the day-to-day…

Americana rager is the second taste from upcoming album Tigers Blood Waxahatchee has given us another taste of Tigers Blood, her new album out next month. The new single, “Bored,” is a surge of upbeat Americana — just watch the excited crowd in the video below, recorded at Devil’s Backbone Tavern in Fischer, Texas. “I can get along — my spine’s a rotted two by four,” Katie Crutchfield sings. “Barely hanging on – my benevolence just hits the floor/I get bored.”…

Waxahatchee, Brittany Howard, Vampire Weekend, and more The year is starting off with some great new releases from beloved indie and alt-rock heroes, must-hear singer-songwriter LPs, welcome returns from metal veterans, and more. Plus, we’ve got some updates on albums we hope we get before 2024 is out. Sleater-Kinney, ‘Little Rope’ (Jan. 19) Image Credit: Chris…

Katie Crutchfield, the artist better known as Waxahatchee, is at home and relaxed in Breeders T-shirt and cardigan, her hair piled up high around her headphones. She is feeling reflective about the decade so far. “There’s a lot more room for happiness in my 30s – it’s really interesting. I wake up every day and I’m like: ‘I’ve changed.’” She lets slip a rueful chuckle. “I’m different now.”Crutchfield, 35, credits the shift to maturity, sobriety and success – although, she makes clear, they are all linked. Having played in…

It’s been three years since we’ve had a new Waxahatchee album, but the wait is over: Katie Crutchfield will release Tigers Blood on March 22 via Anti-. Crutchfield previewed the long-awaited album with the lead single “Right Back to It,” a duet with Wednesday’s MJ Lenderman. It’s an Americana burner full of tender twang, with lines chronicling a longtime love. The video, which you can watch below, features Crutchfield and Lenderman in Caddo Lake, Texas, serenely riding in a low boat.…

It would be hard for a duets record – and certainly one so congenially titled – not to sound companionable, but on their debut, Plains move past mere affability to bring a deep kind of ease. Plains brings together old friends Katie Crutchfield (AKA Waxahatchee) and Texas songwriter Jess Williamson, and much of the allure here lies in the duck and dive of their two voices: Crutchfield’s full of elasticity and billow, Williamson’s offering a sweetness and a trill. When they meet, as on the warmly unapologetic Hurricane,…