Liz + the Baguettes are a band based in Chicago. We have dubbed our hybrid of post-punk, rock, folk, and alt-country post-country. Post-country: It's not just a political condition any more!
SUBVERT
We're proud to be among the large cohort of founding artists on Subvert, a cooperative artist-owned music platform that was created as an alternative to the general awfulness of certain streamers and platforms. Subvert has a zero-AI policy, and it allows for purchased downloads as well as streaming. (They do not, as far as I can tell, have a space for lyrics; however, you should be able to find all our lyrics in Bandcamp or Gracenote. Or you can do what Thomas does and make up your own version.) Anyway: check it out! There will be some hiccups—it's a new website run by a tiny team—but collective action is so, so important in the music marketplace.
WE'RE LEAVING SPOTIFY
Not a hard decision, really, given the (alleged) payola and the (definite) ICE ads and the AI bands and the AI-weapon investments and the near-total lack of streaming pay for artists at our scale. If you visit this page regularly, you'll notice that the Spotify widget no longer appears below. There are several tools (Songshift, FreeMyMusic, Tune Your Music, Soundiiz, etc.) for migrating your playlists to better streaming services. Now we have to do the work of finding and removing all the Spotify links in our promo materials. Ugh...never trust a billionaire, guys.
WE'RE RECORDING AGAIN
Working title of the album: Posthistoric. Lead single: "The Alchemists"? "Lie"? "Fevers"? At some point we'll know.
Working title of the EP (really, at this point, a paired album) of twangier songs: Backroads. (That's a glimpse of the cover art in this page's new header image!)
NEW-ISH ALBUM
Highway Gothic. Available on Bandcamp, Amazon, and many other fine services from ButterBean Records. Watch the first video on YouTube, or listen to demo versions of some songs over on ReverbNation.
NO LONGER THE NEWEST ALBUM
Everything I Think I Know Is Wrong is available for download on Bandcamp, Amazon (where, because of a single word in "Whatever, I Know," the entire album is marked as explicit), and Apple Music. Pick your poison. BUT WAIT! Make sure you get the newest version. Because ButterBean has released a remastered and expanded version, featuring four tracks that weren't on the 2015 edition.
PRESS, ETC.
Reverb Raccoon featured a couple of our songs on their Christmas compilation playlist.
I Don't Hear a Single gave us a smashing review for the remastered Everything I Think I Know Is Wrong: "already a splendid album. The remastered version makes it even better."
Reverb Raccoon featured "The Age and the Ache" as the 7/15/19 song of the day: "a beautiful country song, the kind of real country music sung by real people who know the human condition."
We headlined the 8/24/19 Paper Machete.
UK comedian Dave Bailey featured "Slinky" in his 9/2/19 podcast.
SUBVERT
We're proud to be among the large cohort of founding artists on Subvert, a cooperative artist-owned music platform that was created as an alternative to the general awfulness of certain streamers and platforms. Subvert has a zero-AI policy, and it allows for purchased downloads as well as streaming. (They do not, as far as I can tell, have a space for lyrics; however, you should be able to find all our lyrics in Bandcamp or Gracenote. Or you can do what Thomas does and make up your own version.) Anyway: check it out! There will be some hiccups—it's a new website run by a tiny team—but collective action is so, so important in the music marketplace.
WE'RE LEAVING SPOTIFY
Not a hard decision, really, given the (alleged) payola and the (definite) ICE ads and the AI bands and the AI-weapon investments and the near-total lack of streaming pay for artists at our scale. If you visit this page regularly, you'll notice that the Spotify widget no longer appears below. There are several tools (Songshift, FreeMyMusic, Tune Your Music, Soundiiz, etc.) for migrating your playlists to better streaming services. Now we have to do the work of finding and removing all the Spotify links in our promo materials. Ugh...never trust a billionaire, guys.
WE'RE RECORDING AGAIN
Working title of the album: Posthistoric. Lead single: "The Alchemists"? "Lie"? "Fevers"? At some point we'll know.
Working title of the EP (really, at this point, a paired album) of twangier songs: Backroads. (That's a glimpse of the cover art in this page's new header image!)
NEW-ISH ALBUM
Highway Gothic. Available on Bandcamp, Amazon, and many other fine services from ButterBean Records. Watch the first video on YouTube, or listen to demo versions of some songs over on ReverbNation.
NO LONGER THE NEWEST ALBUM
Everything I Think I Know Is Wrong is available for download on Bandcamp, Amazon (where, because of a single word in "Whatever, I Know," the entire album is marked as explicit), and Apple Music. Pick your poison. BUT WAIT! Make sure you get the newest version. Because ButterBean has released a remastered and expanded version, featuring four tracks that weren't on the 2015 edition.
PRESS, ETC.
Reverb Raccoon featured a couple of our songs on their Christmas compilation playlist.
I Don't Hear a Single gave us a smashing review for the remastered Everything I Think I Know Is Wrong: "already a splendid album. The remastered version makes it even better."
Reverb Raccoon featured "The Age and the Ache" as the 7/15/19 song of the day: "a beautiful country song, the kind of real country music sung by real people who know the human condition."
We headlined the 8/24/19 Paper Machete.
UK comedian Dave Bailey featured "Slinky" in his 9/2/19 podcast.
UPCOMING SHOWS
May 30 Liz solo at EcoFest, Welles Park
June 7 Liz and Charlie with The Unswept at Montrose Saloon
June 20 Baguettes at Montrose Saloon, 8:00 p.m. (lineup also includes PIPES/Cheryl Lynn Tomblin, whom you may have seen in last year's Highwomen tribute shows)
Book us.
May 30 Liz solo at EcoFest, Welles Park
June 7 Liz and Charlie with The Unswept at Montrose Saloon
June 20 Baguettes at Montrose Saloon, 8:00 p.m. (lineup also includes PIPES/Cheryl Lynn Tomblin, whom you may have seen in last year's Highwomen tribute shows)
Book us.
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