“When I look back, The Strokes were like this tentpole. They led me to learn how to accompany myself and made me want to start my own band”: Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield found her country voice via indie and riot grrrl

No-one could accuse Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield of skipping the Southern States’ toilet circuit. At high school in Alabama, she formed her first musical group, teenage rock band The Ackleys, alongside twin sister Allison.

After three years, the duo launched feminist-fused PS Elliot, while also performing in pop-punk pairing Bad Banana. And that’s all before she stepped out solo in 2010, writing and recording under the moniker of Waxahatchee.

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