{"id":308,"date":"2010-02-09T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/?p=308"},"modified":"2015-09-19T14:01:26","modified_gmt":"2015-09-19T18:01:26","slug":"the-heartless-bastards-im-gonna-see-what-tomorrow-brings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2010\/02\/09\/the-heartless-bastards-im-gonna-see-what-tomorrow-brings\/","title":{"rendered":"The Heartless Bastards: I’m Gonna See What Tomorrow Brings"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I am guilty of misogyny in my listening practices. I am not the most girly of girls, and hearing twee and breathy vocals can turn me off to a song faster than mentions of pina coladas and getting caught in the rain or riding through the desert on a horse with no name. I find a great many female singers either sound alike to me or give me nothing I can connect to. This is one reason I am grateful for Erika Wennerstrom and her band the Heartless Bastards.<\/p>\n

[Author’s note: In recent years, this line of misguided chatter has haunted me, and I feel shame whenever I think about it. I’d like to offer my apology for it. Women in music, women in general, people in general, deserve better.]<\/p>\n

To say Erika Wennerstrom has a powerful voice is a bit like saying meteor showers are pretty. True as it is, it doesn’t get the whole idea across. By all accounts a diminutive woman, Wennerstrom can belt out vocals like she’s eight feet tall. Though her power is not just in volume, but also in the emotions she can convey: weariness, toughness, heartache, hope. Backed up by the Bastards with buzzsaw guitars and stomping beats, one might be inclined to dub the Heartless Bastards listening experience “empowering”. I prefer to think of it as bringing out my inner badass, and Wennerstrom effortlessly takes her place alongside rock ‘n’ roll heroines like Patti Smith, Chrissie Hynde, Kim Gordon and the Deal sisters. (One might be tempted to posit a theory that there’s a correlation between being from Ohio and being a wickedly cool lady.)<\/p>\n

The Heartless Bastards will be playing two stateside dates at the end of this month (February 25 in Shreveport, Louisiana, and February 26 in Houston, Texas) before heading out on a Eurpoean tour. There has also been talk of a Heartless Bastards headlining tour<\/a> with A.A. Bondy playing support for several shows, which seems like a perfect match.<\/p>\n

On a sidenote, I would love to hear Erika Wennerstrom and A.A. Bondy duet. What stories those two voices could tell together!<\/p>\n

The Heartless Bastards – The Mountain<\/a>
The Heartless Bastards – Sway<\/a><\/p>\n

The Heartless Bastards official site<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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