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A pit bull puppy peeing off a balcony. Mounted antlers in the kitchen on a crooked nail. Pink boiled eggs stay afloat in the brine. For its dedicated audience, the North Carolina ...

WEDNESDAY: (Singing) Cracked my tooth on a cough drop. Winter stuck around after it's gone. Grocery store on Christmas. Parked too close to someone to get out SIMON: The album is called "Bleeds," and ...

After three long years, Wednesday is finally back. Part One of Season Two drops on Aug. 6 (naturally, that’s a Wednesday), and ahead of the release, Netflix has revealed all the songs featured in Part ...

Touring behind this year's excellent Bleeds album, the band had the songs, and energy, to comfortably fill the Globe Iron.

Wednesday's lead singer and main songwriter, Karly Hartzman (second from right), is fiercely loyal to her home state of North Carolina. The songs on the band's sixth album, Bleeds, are filled with ...