RECORD RELEASE: LACED UP TIGHTLY

Yeah. We got this one out late, but surely more than a few of you are still trolling the internet looking for something to do tonight. Well happy lucky happy for you for, as it turns out, the record release party for Gretchen Schmaltz’s Laced Up Tightly ep is tonight at Mojo Rising. A copy of her debut, put out by the local Mia Kat Empire label, is included with your cover, as are performances by Mlee Marie and those guys who we said had “goofball synths” in one of their songs, label-mates The Nautical Mile.

Schmaltz’s folk leaves country-western out to sulk in the garage while she wanders around a big wooden Southern Gothic house, strumming and crooning while a band plays in the other room even as she stops to smirk at the occasional sunflower or rummage through a sad, departed relative’s steamer-trunk. So, if Clutch isn’t really your thing, maybe try this out instead.