Guts Club: Because the world has enough traditional man bands

Lindsey Baker is a true force for good in the independent music world. As a sound tech and booker at Gasa Gasa, a publicist with WolfieVibes Publicity (initially founded by her wife, Kelly McClure), and a talented musician in her own act, Guts Club, she sees the music industry from multiple angles. Guts Club is her long-running, sometimes-solo project that in recent incarnations has been a vehicle for gloomy folk, lo-fi country, and now crushing psychedelic doom rock. Its initial full-band recording from 2018, Trench Foot, was a dark, twangy masterpiece, featuring Baker's distinctive countrified snarl. It's a captivating listen and a sound the band shall not revisit anytime soon. Reconstituting the group into a guitar-guitar-drums trio, with the addition of Alex Dimeff and Ronna Sandoval, the emphasis is now on sonic devastation—guitars primarily as noise machines, drums serving to push it all into your bowels and over a cliff, vocals that scream through the cacophony. 

Baker's involvement in nearly all aspects of the independent music world has given her a singular and essential point of view about the issues facing independent musicians and she is (mostly) optimistic about what lies ahead…

Read the whole article, by Nick D’Amore, in The New Orleans Arts Rag Volume 1