The Menzingers have been playing punk rock songs about hanging out and drinking beers with their friends for more than 15 years. Not unlike a lot of punk bands, they’ve always wondered what things would look like when they all grew up. The 2019 release Hello Exile was the closest that has come yet to being realized.
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S.G. Goodman’s old Kentucky home.
Hickman is at the far western point of Kentucky, on the Mississippi Delta. That’s where S.G. Goodman grew up before settling in Murray after college. She’s proud of her home state, and she has no intentions of leaving it for the bright lights of Nashville. She released her debut album, Old Time Feeling, during the summer of the pandemic. She also just released a cover of “Lungs” by Townes Van Zandt which was recorded in Muscle Shoals at FAME.
Continue readingKatie Toupin makes her first stop in Birmingham as Katie Toupin.
Katie Toupin left Houndmouth in April of 2016 and released her solo debut, Magnetic Moves, in 2019. She’s since learned a lot about herself and who she was all along; self-examination that was aided by sobriety, which Toupin has successfully maintained for four years now.
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