Alt-country outfit Freakwater embarked on their first US tour “in many moons” last week. That tour visits Brooklyn, NY tonight (1/15), and will make its way to Chicago for a performance at the Hideout ...

Freakwater is calling from a tire shop somewhere between Ann Arbor and Cleveland. Janet Beveridge Bean is sitting in the band's nine-person van, while Catherine Irwin is in the waiting room. The ...

By: Sumanth Gopinath Body: Freakwater 11.26.05 400 Bar Around midnight on an early winter Saturday, the 400 Bar seemed even darker than usual. A modest audience of about fifty people watched in mostly ...

Freakwater’s Janet Bean and Catherine Irwin have been singing together since they were teenagers growing up in Kentucky. Their harmonies sound like a conversation that’s been going on for decades — ...

Throughout its long career, irreverent humor and compassion for the human condition has been at the core of Freakwater‘s alternative country music. On its latest record, Scheherazade, its first album ...

Freakwater's brand of music sits comfortably between the edges of alternative and country, but their latest single "The Asp And The Albatross" leans heavily towards the latter. The track is taken from ...

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Long-running alt-country duo Freakwater are currently on tour and made a stop in Brooklyn earlier this week (1/15) at The Bell House and pictures from that show are in this post. Opening were fellow ...

Very legendary alt-country outfit Freakwater returns after a long, cold decade-plus on February 5 with their seventh album, Scheherazade, their first LP for Bloodshot Records. Janet Bean and Catherine ...

Janet Beveridge Bean and Catherine Irwin have been singing together for most of their two-decade friendship, which is inextricably intertwined with their musical partnership as country-crooning duo ...

"Scheherazade," the latest album from Freakwater, has not one but two songs about imperiled infants: "What the People Want," (which opens with the chilling line ''they slit that girl from stem to ...

In the early days of the COVID pandemic, retail clerks, day-care staff, public-transportation employees, and many other workers learned what coal miners have known for a very long time: that the ...