Six Questions For … The Moaners

Chapel Hill, NC’s the Moaners was recently interviewed by David Malitz of the Washington Post

Six Questions For … The Moaners

“If Sleater-Kinney and Mary Timony had a baby named Lightning Johnson. That’s how the Moaners are described on a flier for tonight’s show at the Black Cat and it was such a good and funny description that I’m it to use right here. The North Carolina duo – Melissa Swingle on vocals and guitar, Laura King on drums – is certainly informed by the post-riot grrl indie-rock sounds of S-K and Timony’s sorely overlooked ‘90s band, Helium. But the Moaners are a blues band as much as an indie band, with Swingle’s slide guitar and Southern drawl giving the songs a distinctive Delta feel.[...]”

Read the full interview here and catch Yep Roc records’ all-girl indie-rock & blues duo tear it up on Tuesday, July 22nd. Ticket are on sale now!

Posted by Ed Post on 05/01 at 04:54 pm