I don’t think any of it is that controversial, but people just get mad about anything. ![]() I feel like it’s normalized, talking about it, and I thought it would be that way when I said something, but it just wasn’t for some reason? That’s the thing. And it was the same thing about South by. You shouldn’t put a punk-adjacent band on a stage sponsored by one of the worst companies ever we’re gonna say something. Because I’m like, “who is pro-Amazon mistreating their workers?” They put us on an Amazon stage at Primavera. I’m always surprised when people get up in arms about it. Karly Hartzman: I think it’s pretty obvious stuff I’m talking about. You spoke out at Primavera Sound in Barcelona about Amazon’s treatment of workers, and that takes some serious balls. I watched all of it if anyone was trying to mess with me by slipping something in there about the show, I’d be like “I gotcha.”ĪD: Since your band has been playing bigger festivals, you’ve been vocal about labor issues and compensation. Karly Hartzman: Yeah, I don’t think it was a very good show. I feel like everyone’s got a different little nostalgic relationship to that game.ĪD: That’s funny, what you say about your band not being very searchable, because I imagine now, when people search Wednesday, it’s all Jenna Ortega, who played Wednesday Addams in the Netflix show. So Mortal Kombat was the cool shit that my older cousin was up to when he would let me hang out while he was playing. That is more nostalgic to me, because I was born in ‘96, but I had a cousin who’s like 10 or 15 years older than me who was really into gaming. ![]() So I don’t really know how anyone feels about anything, which is great. Karly Hartzman: That’s the thing, it’s impossible to know what anyone’s saying about our band, because we aren’t very searchable online. | m hobbs coons of Wilco Will Love You PodcastĪquarium Drunkard: Do you get a lot of 90s kids who are real excited about the way you use “FINISH HIM” in “Bull Believer?” We connected virtually with Karly, peering into her teenage, poster-clad bedroom as we spoke, the influences that formed her earliest musical leanings, from Lana Del Rey to Azealia Banks to Chairlift-era Caroline Polachek, surrounding and seeming to bolster her throughout the conversation. It’s music full of haunted spaces: Gothic, but not in the sense of black lace and The Cramps warmer, more like a red hoodie and some Drive By Truckers. And lyrically, their latest Rat Saw God continues to embody that Southern smaller-town spirit, weaving in hometown references and encapsulating the teenage sweet spot of horror-meets-ennui specific to the band’s origin point. On them, Hartzman’s voice careens from a near yodel to a clear scream, sometimes within the span of a single song, melodic riffs periodically punching through. Helmed by songwriter Karly Hartzman, Wednesday has evolved from an Asheville, NC solo project to a full-fledged band with five albums to their name.
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