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Getting Piggy With It
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If You Go
Heartless Bastards with The Flaming Lips
Tuesday, April 5
The Andrew J Brady Music Center
The Banks, 25 Race Street
Tickets and info: bradymusiccenter.com/concerts
No one loves a hometown-girl-made-good story quite like Cincinnati.
From her humble beginnings as a bartender at Northside Tavern, Erika Wennerstrom has become an indie rock superstar. She returns to Cincinnati on Tuesday, opening for The Flaming Lips at the Andrew J Brady Music Center.
She is supporting Heartless Bastards first album in over five years, “A Beautiful Life.” Continuing a history of collaboration, Wennerstrom is joined on the album by guitarist Lauren Gurgiolo (Okkervil River), drummer Greggory Clifford (White Denim), multi-instrumentalist Jesse Chandler (Mercury Rev, Midlake), keyboardist Bo Koster (My Morning Jacket), guitarist David Pulkingham (Patty Griffin), and longtime Heartless Bastards bassist Jesse Ebaugh.
“It’s so easy to get caught up in the material goals that are prioritized by our society and the every-man-for-himself mentality of late-stage capitalism,” Wennerstrom says of the album’s central themes. “That way of thinking presents a false idea of what a beautiful life is, and I think it’s so important that we as individuals all ask ourselves what it truly means to have a beautiful life.”
Photo by Aaron Conway
