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“Knudsen deftly uses these basic ideas to create huge worlds.”

Read Marc Masters' astute review of Wednesday Knudsen's double LP ATRIUM in his monthly Bandcamp Daily column of the best new experimental music.

Pick-up a copy of ATRIUM on @bandcamp.com

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The Best Experimental Music on Bandcamp, October 2025
Cello loops, manipulated voices, minimalist electronics, radical interpretations of Van Halen, etc.
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November 3, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Wednesday Knudsen’s double LP ATRIUM it out today on SPINSTER & Feeding Tube! As equally as ATRIUM is an experience of presence, it also reinforces the power of art as resistance, distilling our attention in a language WK calls “the opening of the heart.” wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/album/atrium-2
October 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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This was such a thoughtful, reverent session, listening to and discussing Ella Hanshaw’s music. Attendees became fans and were singing along by the end. They wanted to take this photo to share with Ella’s family ellahanshaw.bandcamp.com/album/ella-h...
October 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Though there's a lot of overlap bet/n @spinstersounds.bsky.social & my folklore work, the Ella Hanshaw record is the first to really bridge those 2 worlds directly. Excited to talk about that with 2 of my favorite feminist folklorists & musicians at the big #AFS2025 folklore conference this weekend.
October 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Guitar mage Tom Carter (Charalambides) on Wednesday Knudsen's forthcoming double LP ATRIUM...

ATRIUM will be out on digital & CD 10/24. Vinyl has been delayed to 11/28 due to a pressing issue, but it will be here in due time! Pre-order: wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/album/atrium-2
October 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
A chance to listen to Wednesday Knudsen's masterful new double LP ATRIUM a couple weeks before it's officially released. RSVP: wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/merch/atrium...
October 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Join Wednesday Knudsen this coming Tuesday, October 14th at 6pm ET for a listening party & exclusive preview of her forthcoming masterful double LP ATRIUM! RSVP:
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Atrium Listening Party from Wednesday Knudsen
Listening Party from Wednesday Knudsen.
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October 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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We've got another Heavy Lidders live one for ya - available today on the most excellent Eiderdown ! Limited plastic shelled magnetic tape, my preferred format ! Guest sax from Wednesday Knudsen (we are not worthy!) and while yr at it, go buy her new LP on @spinstersounds.bsky.social too ! Autumnal !
Peer thru da fog of taper action with two exquisite live tracks from Jeffrey Alexander & The Heavy Lidders @lidders.bsky.social shredding at legendary Tubby's with special guest Wednesday Knudsen on saxophone! Awesome art by Aubrey Nehring too...
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Live At Tubby's, by Jeffrey Alexander and the Heavy Lidders
2 track album
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October 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Today we release the 2nd single off Wednesday Knudsen's double LP, ATRIUM. Skyline I is a deep & expansive melody of arching arpeggios, evoking Lynchian scenes of a stark winter forest or a city coming into view from a vast desert landscape. Listen: wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/album/atrium-2
October 3, 2025 at 1:53 PM
"The piece raises from the canvas to the canopy, echoing out over the mountains in a stunning reflection of the jagged landscape." Thank you @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social for this review of Wednesday Knudsen's "Fair Aegis" off her 2xLP ATRIUM, out 10/24

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October 1, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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We also learned that she was a renowned cooker of beans, apparent Michael Hurley adapter, and early feminist who liked hangin out with weird people (Cheech Marin among them)!

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We kick off Season 2 w/ the late great Karen Dalton! We chat about who and how she was “in her own time”: a sublime, confident folk musician & interpreter who made everything she played sound like a Karen Dalton song.

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S2 Episode 1: Do It Or Die!: On Karen Dalton
Podcast Episode · The Female Bob Dylan · 09/29/2025 · 53m
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September 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Pre-order Wednesday Knudsen's double LP ATRIUM, out 10/24 on SPINSTER & Feeding Tube Records wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/album/atrium-2
"Fair Aegis" turns drone into the primer for the painting, adding brushstrokes of sax and synth that play at the speakers like light through the trees in Knudsen's upstate NY surroundings. The piece raises from the canvas to the canopy, echoing out over the mountains. bit.ly/3VFZgm0
September 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Today we share the video for "Fair Aegis," the 1st single off Wednesday Knudsen's forthcoming double LP, ATRIUM. Shot, produced & edited by Knudsen, the video is an homage to the leaf-light and light-ways of her home's hillside setting in NY's Taconic Mountains 🍃⛅🍂

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Wednesday Knudsen - "Fair Aegis" (Official Video)
YouTube video by SPINSTER
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September 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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This is appalling. But if turns some more people onto Yasmin Williams's extraordinary music, it will have done some good. Go buy her albums. They are the perfect accompaniment to the arrival of autumn.
Log Cabin Republicans Disrupted Yasmin Williams’s Kennedy Center Performance - Washingtonian
Staffers say center president Ric Grenell's office set aside passes for the group, which booed and heckled the musician.
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September 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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currently smoothing over a sinus headache
Thrilled to announce our forthcoming joint release w/ Feeding Tube of Wednesday Knudsen's, ATRIUM, a stunning masterwork & her 1st double LP. ATRIUM will be out 10/24 & you can preorder and listen to the first single "Fair Aegis" on our Bandcamp now wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/album/atrium-2
September 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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New solo Wednesday whopper! Check it out / grab a copy for your home —
Thrilled to announce our forthcoming joint release w/ Feeding Tube of Wednesday Knudsen's, ATRIUM, a stunning masterwork & her 1st double LP. ATRIUM will be out 10/24 & you can preorder and listen to the first single "Fair Aegis" on our Bandcamp now wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/album/atrium-2
September 5, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Thrilled to announce our forthcoming joint release w/ Feeding Tube of Wednesday Knudsen's, ATRIUM, a stunning masterwork & her 1st double LP. ATRIUM will be out 10/24 & you can preorder and listen to the first single "Fair Aegis" on our Bandcamp now wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/album/atrium-2
September 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
If you know the songs of @lou-turner.bsky.social, you know she's a poet's songwriter. But she's also a songwriter's poet, a truth on beautiful display in her connective & inventive book of country music poems, Twin Lead Lines, coming in Sept. & up for pre-order now via @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social
August 13, 2025 at 11:19 PM
We can only imagine how tickled Ella would have been to know her songs and story were being aired across the hills and hollers of her beloved home state of West Virginia 📻🎶💚

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Five Years After Her Death, W.Va. Singer-Songwriter Gets Her Due - West Virginia Public Broadcasting
Ella Hanshaw was a singer and songwriter who grew up and lived in West Virginia before moving to Ohio. She passed away in 2020. The collection Ella Hanshaw’s Black Book came about in part because of H...
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August 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
“Across faded tape hiss and the incidental noise of daily life, [Ella Hanshaw’s] voice remains steady and luminous honoring tradition with self-made testimony.”

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Ella Hanshaw's Black Book — New Commute
Black Book chronicles Maysel, West Virginia folksinger Ella Hanshaw’s musical life with an understated clarity, threading her homespun recordings together into a moving patchwork of country sorrow a...
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August 8, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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“Her sweet clear twang, in harmony with the others, hit like sunshine.”

—After discovering recordings made by her little-known gospel-singing grandmother, Ella Hanshaw, Kelly Kerney worked to preserve and share them for the very first time.

🔗: https://shorturl.at/3HFZv
July 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Our latest release, Ella Hanshaw's Black Book, of previously unheard music by West Virginia songwriter Ella Hanshaw, in
@oxfordamerican.bsky.social! ellahanshaw.bandcamp.com/album/ella-h...
“Her sweet clear twang, in harmony with the others, hit like sunshine.”

—After discovering recordings made by her little-known gospel-singing grandmother, Ella Hanshaw, Kelly Kerney worked to preserve and share them for the very first time.

🔗: https://shorturl.at/3HFZv
July 15, 2025 at 8:38 PM