Mar 12, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Waxahatchee (aka Katie Crutchfield) is releasing a new album, Tigers Blood, on March 22 via ANTI-. Now she has shared its third single, “365,” via a music video filmed in one continuous shot. More

Feb 16, 2024 By Mark Redfern (with Andy Von Pip)

Welcome to the sixth Songs of the Week of 2024. It was a stacked week for new tracks. Vampire Weekend released two songs and they both made the list (and might’ve charted even higher if they had just put out one song and not split the vote). Even most of the honorable mentions are great this week and would’ve made the main list on other weeks. More

Feb 13, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Waxahatchee (aka Katie Crutchfield) is releasing a new album, Tigers Blood, on March 22 via ANTI-. Now she has shared its second single, “Bored,” via a music video. She’s also announced some new European tour dates. More

Jan 12, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to the first Songs of the Week of 2024. This week’s list includes songs from the last two weeks, as we didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week due to it being the first week of the year and there not being a lot of worthy songs to consider. But this week the music industry was in full swing, with plenty of important album announcements. More

Jan 09, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Waxahatchee (aka Katie Crutchfield) has announced a new album, Tigers Blood, and shared its first single, “Right Back to It,” which features MJ Lenderman. She’s also announced some new tour dates. More

Oct 14, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Plains, a new duo consisting of Waxahatchee (aka Katie Crutchfield) and Jess Williamson, have released their debut collaborative album, I Walked With You A Ways, today via ANTI-. More

Oct 12, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Plains, a new duo consisting of Waxahatchee (aka Katie Crutchfield) and Jess Williamson, have shared a video for their new single, “Hurricane.” It is the latest release from their forthcoming debut album, I Walked With You A Ways, which will be out this Friday (October 14) via ANTI-. More

Sep 02, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone and Caleb Campbell)

Welcome to the 33rd Songs of the Week of 2022. Lots of British artists this week! Including the entire Top 3. This week after much inner-dialogue, we settled on a Top 12. More

Aug 30, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Plains, a new duo consisting of Waxahatchee (aka Katie Crutchfield) and Jess Williamson, have shared a video for their new single, “Abilene.” It is the latest release from their forthcoming debut album, I Walked With You A Ways, which will be out on October 14 via ANTI-. More

Jul 29, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the 29th Songs of the Week of 2022. This week saw the return of a 1970s icon and a new joint project from two of our favorite modern singer/songwriters. This week we liked enough tracks to settle on a Top 12. More

Jul 27, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Plains, a new duo consisting of Waxahatchee (aka Katie Crutchfield) and Jess Williamson, have announced the release of their debut album, I Walked With You A Ways, which will be out on October 14 via ANTI-. They have also announced a tour in support of the album and have shared a video for the album’s lead single, “Problem With It.” More

Jul 21, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Kevin Morby and Waxahatchee (aka Katie Crutchfield) have shared covers of Broadcast’s “Tears in the Typing Pool” and Guided By Voices’ “The Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory.” All proceeds from the covers will support Vote No Kansas, a political action campaign working to prevent the passing of the “Value Them Both” Amendment. If passed, Kansas legislature would be able to completely ban abortion. More

May 24, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Country musician Wynonna and Waxahatchee (aka Katie Crutchfield) have shared a duet, “Other Side.” It is the first collaboration between the two artists, and it is out now via ANTI-. More

Feb 01, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Bright Eyes (Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, and Nathaniel Wolcott) have announced a reissue of their first three studio albums, A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997, Letting Off the Happiness, and Fevers and Mirrors. Each album will be released alongside a companion EP, which features reworkings of original album tracks. The band has shared three of these reworkings: “Falling Out of Love at This Volume,” “Contrast & Compare” (feat. Waxahatchee), and “Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh” (feat. Phoebe Bridgers). More

Jan 31, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Nashville-based singer Madi Diaz has announced the release of a new EP consisting of four reworkings of songs from her newest album, History of a Feeling. The EP, entitled Same History, New Feelings, will be out on March 4 via ANTI, and it features collaborations with Waxahatchee, Natalie Hemby, Courtney Marie Andrews, and Angel Olsen. Diaz has shared a reworking of the song “Resentment” featuring Waxahatchee. More

Dec 16, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Waxahatchee (aka Katie Crutchfield) has announced the release of her original soundtrack for the upcoming Apple TV+ show El Deafo. She has also shared a single from the soundtrack, “Tomorrow.” El Deafo, based on the New York Times bestseller by Cece Bell, follows a young girl who has recently lost her hearing and is learning to navigate school alongside her superhero alter ego, El Deafo. It will make its Apple TV+ premiere on January 7. More

Dec 06, 2021 By Joey Arnone

HAIM have announced a North American tour set for spring 2022. Supporting acts at select dates will be Waxahatchee, Faye Webster, SASAMI, Princess Nokia, and Buzzy Lee. Tickets go on sale this Friday (Dec. 10) at 10 a.m. local time. More

Nov 03, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Nashville-based singer Madi Diaz has shared a remix of “Crying In Public” by electronic pop band MUNA. The original song was featured on her most recent album, History of a Feeling. Diaz has also announced that she will be a supporting act for Waxahatchee on her 2022 tour. More

Jun 08, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Bright Eyes (Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, and Nathaniel Wolcott) have announced some new summer tour dates, in what will be their first tour in 10 years. The shows go down this July and August and Lucy Dacus will support all dates. One show will also feature Japanese Breakfast and Waxahatchee will be opening another show. More

Apr 15, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Waxahatchee (aka Katie Crutchfield) has announced a new tour to support her most recent album Saint Cloud. The tour begins in September and will feature a performance at Bonnaroo in Manchester, Tennessee. Katy Kirby will be the supporting act. Tour tickets will go on sale tomorrow (Apr. 16) at 10 a.m. EDT. More

Mar 29, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Waxahatchee (aka Katie Crutchfield) has released an extended edition of her acclaimed 2020 album, Saint Cloud, in honor of its one-year anniversary and it includes three previously unreleased covers of songs by Lucinda Williams (“Fruits of My Labor”), Dolly Parton (“Light of a Clear Blue Morning”), and Bruce Springsteen (“Streets of Philadelphia”). More

Sep 01, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Kevin Morby has announced a new album, Sundowner, and shared its first single, “Campfire,” via a video for the song that also features his real life romantic partner, Katie Crutchfield (aka Waxahatchee), who has a brief vocal part in the middle of the video. Morby has also announced a virtual tour where he’ll be performing each of his albums in order. More

May 28, 2020 By Lily Guthrie

Katie Crutchfield, better known in indie rock as Waxahatchee, released her latest full-length, Saint Cloud, in March via Merge. More

May 26, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Whitney (Julien Ehrlich and Max Kakacek) have teamed up with Waxahatchee (aka Katie Crutchfield) to cover John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads.” The duo have also covered SWV’s “Rain.” More

Apr 14, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Waxahatchee (aka Katie Crutchfield) and Kevin Morby have done a four-song set from their home for NPR Music’s Tiny Desk (Home) Concerts series, an adjusted version of NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Concerts. They did two Waxahatchee songs from her recent Saint Cloud album (“Fire” and “Lilacs”), Morby’s 2016 gun control song “Beautiful Strangers,” and a cover of Songs: Ohia’s “Farewell Transmission.” More

Apr 01, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Waxahatchee (aka Katie Crutchfield) released a new album, Saint Cloud, last week via Merge. Now she has covered Caroline Polachek’s “So Hot You’re Hurting My Feelings” for SiriusXM. More

Mar 27, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Waxahatchee (aka Katie Crutchfield) has released a new album, Saint Cloud, today via Merge. Now that the album is out, you can stream the whole thing here. Also, yesterday we posted our in-depth interview with Crutchfield about the album and quarantining during COVID-19 and you can read that and earlier this week we posted our rave review of Saint Cloud. Plus she has announced some rescheduled tour dates. More

Mar 20, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to the eleventh Songs of the Week of 2020. How’s everyone doing out there? It’s definitely scary times. We know we should stop watching the news, but we can’t stop watching the news. The COVID-19 coronavirus continues to spread and not everyone is taking it seriously enough. More

Mar 16, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Waxahatchee (aka Katie Crutchfield) is releasing a new album, Saint Cloud, on March 27 via Merge. Now she has shared another song from the album, “Can’t Do Much,” via a video for the track. More

Feb 21, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to the seventh Songs of the Week of 2020. Since Monday was President’s Day here in America, it should’ve been a less busy week for new tracks, but there was still plenty to choose from and this week we’ve got 12 songs that we consider the week’s best. More

Feb 18, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Waxahatchee (aka Katie Crutchfield) is releasing a new album, Saint Cloud, on March 27 via Merge. Now she has shared another song from the album, “Lilacs,” via a video for the track. Ashley Connor directed the clip, which solely features dancer Marlee Grace dancing to the song in an empty warehouse/performance space. More

Jan 24, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to the third Songs of the Week of 2020. It was a mixed week for new songs. There were certainly some good tracks this week, but few that screamed Top 10 of the week. More

Jan 22, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Waxahatchee (aka Katie Crutchfield) has announced a new album, Saint Cloud, and shared its first single, “Fire,” via a video for the track. She has also announced some new tour dates. More

Apr 22, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

The lineup for the 2019 Woodsist Festival has been announced. Put on by the Woodsist label and its flagship band Woods, the festival will feature the 2009 lineup of Woods (featuring Kevin Morby and G Lucas Crane) in honor of the 10th anniversary of the band’s Songs of Shame. Morby will be performing solo as well and the lineup also features Real Estate, Whitney, Waxahatchee, Hand Habits, and others. More

Feb 06, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Merge Records are celebrating their 30th anniversary with a hometown festival July 24-27, 2019, in Carrboro and Durham, NC. The four-day festival is set to feature more than 30 artists and the initial lineup has been announced. More

Nov 15, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Waxahatchee (aka Katie Crutchfield) has announced some new West Coast tour dates. They go down next February and March. Support will come from Bonny Doon, who will also be her backing band. More

Sep 07, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Spiritualized (aka Jason Pierce and backing band) released a new album, And Nothing Hurt, today via Fat Possum (and Bella Union in the U.K.) and it’s easily our Album of the Week. More

Jul 20, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Songs of the Week returned last week after a five-week hiatus and now we’re back into the full swing of things. This week’s list features some returning artists who have appeared on other Songs of the Week lists lately, including a repeat #1, as well as some artists making their debut on the list. It all ends with one of the silliest songs to ever make the Songs of the Week list, which will hopefully lift your spirits. More

Jul 17, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Waxahatchee (aka Katie Crutchfield) has announced a new EP, Great Thunder, and shared a video for its first single, “Chapel of Pines.” The video features Kevin Morby (although he does not sing on the song). More

Apr 23, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Superchunk released a new album, What a Time to Be Alive, back in February via Merge. Now they have shared a video for previous single “Erasure,” which features the guest vocals of Stephin Merritt (The Magnetic Fields) and Katie Crutchfield (Waxahatchee), Whitey McConnaughy directed the video, which humorously shows the negative effect President Trump’s tweets can have on people on a day-to-day basis. More

Mar 20, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist Courtney Barnett is releasing a new album, Tell Me How You Really Feel, on May 18. Now she has announced some new fall tour dates. They mainly happen this October and Waxahatchee will support. More

Jan 26, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

After two weeks of a plethora of tracks vying to be one of our Songs of the Week, this week the pickings were slimmer. Thus this week we have only nine best songs, instead of 10. There were also a lot of covers this week. More

Jan 25, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Kevin Morby and Waxahatchee (aka Katie Crutchfield) have teamed up to cover two songs by Jason Molina, who died in 2013. The digital 7-inch is being released via Dead Oceans, with proceeds going to MusiCares, which “was established by the Recording Academy to safeguard the health and well-being of all music people.” More

Jan 09, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Superchunk are releasing a new album, What a Time to Be Alive, on February 16 via Merge. Previously they shared a lyric video for its title track. Now they have shared another song from the album, “Erasure,” which features the guest vocals of Stephin Merritt (The Magnetic Fields) and Katie Crutchfield (Waxahatchee). More

Jul 24, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Waxahatchee (aka Katie Crutchfield) released a new album, Out in the Storm, a couple of weeks back via Merge. It was our Album of the Week. Now she has shared a dreamy video for “Recite Remorse” and announced some November tour dates. More

Jul 18, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our Summer 2017 Issue, which is out now digitally via Under the Radar’s app and the magazine app Readly. The print version has shipped out to subscribers and stores and will be on all newsstands soon (as well as available soon digitally via the magazine app Zinio). The issue features Grizzly Bear on the cover. More

Jul 14, 2017 By Matthew Berlyant

In the past, Waxahatchee, the solo project of former P.S. Eliot singer/songwriter Katie Crutchfield, was easy to like, but hard to love. Though her previous three albums have songs that rival anything on here, she’s never made an artistic statement so strong from start to finish. More

Jun 05, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Waxahatchee (aka Katie Crutchfield) is releasing a new album, Out in the Storm, on July 14 via Merge. Previously she shared a video for its first single, “Silver.” More

May 08, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Waxahatchee (aka Katie Crutchfield) is releasing a new album, Out in the Storm, on July 14 via Merge. Now she has announced some new U.S. tour dates for July and August that feature her full backing band. More

Apr 28, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

“Our First 100 Days” is an anti-President Donald Trump project. The good folks behind the “30 Days, 30 Songs” anti-Trump campaign during the election have teamed up with Secretly Group for “Our First 100 Days.” More

Apr 18, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Waxahatchee (aka Katie Crutchfield) has announced a new album, Out in the Storm, and shared a video for its first single, “Silver.” Out in the Storm is due out July 14 via Merge. More

Jan 17, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

The New Pornographers have announced some spring U.S. tour dates. It’s been two-and-a-half years since the band’s last album, 2014’s Brill Bruisers, but a press release promises that “the band will be performing songs from their forthcoming seventh full-length record.” The details of that full-length will be announced soon. Waxahatchee will open all shows. More

Mar 03, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

American Laundromat Records have announced Say Yes! A Tribute to Elliott Smith, which is due out October 15. The Elliott Smith tribute album will feature newly recorded covers of Smith’s songs by Julien Baker, Amanda Palmer, Jesu/Sun Kil Moon, Yuck, Waxahatchee, Lou Barlow, J Mascis, Adam Franklin of Swervedriver, Tanya Donelly, and others. More

Apr 03, 2015 By Mike Hilleary

Coinciding with the release of her new album Ivy Tripp this week, musical artist Katie Crutchfield, aka Waxahatchee, has shared a brand new music video featuring her single “Under A Rock.” More

Mar 30, 2015 By Mike Hilleary

Next week Toro y Moi, aka Chaz Bundick, returns with his newest studio album, What For?, the follow-up to his 2013 LP Anything In Return. More

Jan 12, 2015 By Mike Hilleary

Musical artist Katie Crutchfield, otherwise known as Waxahatchee, has announced the release of her third album, Ivy Tripp, set for release on April 7 via her new label home Merge. More

Jan 22, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Katie Crutchfield, better known as Waxahatchee, has announced a string of dates surrounding her Cochella performances. More

Sep 10, 2013 By Scott Dransfield

Waxahatchee has premiered a new music video for the song “Misery Over Dispute.” The song is taken from the album Cerulean Salt, which was released to acclaim earlier this year. More

Sep 29, 2017 By Mark Redfern

To end out the week, we ask Waxahatchee (aka singer/songwriter/guitarist Katie Crutchfield) some questions about endings and death. More

May 10, 2013 By Austin Trunick

Only in her early 20s, Katie Crutchfield is already a road-tested indie rock veteran. She’s been forming bands, recording albums, and touring the country with her twin sister, Allison, since they were in high school. More

Sep 13, 2018 By Matt the Raven

This is the same Waxahatchee that gave us the splendidly energetic buzz rock of Out in the Storm last year. But you won’t believe it when listening to Great Thunder. More

Apr 10, 2015 By Austin Trunick

Anyone craving a carbon copy sequel to 2013’s exemplary Cerulean Salt should probably re-assess their expectations. Katie Crutchfield was a four-year veteran of punk pop band P.S. Eliot before launching her solo career; now three albums in, she’s still only in her mid-20s. More