
Music
Wednesday
Stunning alt-country songs about wasp stings, deceased landlords, and smoking weed from Pepsi cans.
How treacherous was the summer indie hit 'Elderberry Wine'? As a 'regular' alt-country band, Wednesday is already phenomenal, but the group from Asheville, North Carolina sometimes likes to pour a dose of grunge over its audience – in 'Pick Up That Knife' for example, or two-thirds into 'Bull Believer'. They feel like night terrors. The focal point Karly Hartzman is also a horror storyteller in the style of Drive-By Truckers' Patterson Hood. She sings about murders that are often metaphors but sometimes also very real – local news melted with personal woes. Even a song about a too-tall truck crashing into a viaduct can be heartbreaking.










