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Sarah Shook & the Disarmers - Chapel Hill-based Sarah Shook & the Disarmers will release Nightroamer on February 18th via Thirty Tigers. Sarah is a mother, activist, musician, and proud member and advocate in the LGBTQIA+ community and is at the forefront of the modern queer country scene. The band has taken huge sonic and creative leaps from their last album Years.

Mightmare - Sonically, there are a few things we got right in the ‘90s: stompy, rage-fueled queer bands; hazy, uber-pedaled guitar; poeticism to be yelled full-chested towards the windshields of our 2nd (or 3rd, or 4th) hand vehicles. More generally, there was also a lot we got wrong: conversations on mental health, non-conventional identities, issues of accessibility and opportunity, etc. Sarah Shook’s new solo project, Mightmare, finds a way to roll those sounds we couldn’t live without into a response about the issues we couldn’t live with, confronting personal habits and rules in the process. Loved for their work in Sarah Shook and the Disarmers, Shook’s Cruel Liars brings their crispy clean, country-twanged vocals to the table alongside a furiously urgent need to express themselves independently.

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