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As WFUV honors Women's History Month, we're also heralding a handful of "Ascending Women" musicians who are making their own history with outstanding new music. Mia Berrin, who leads Brooklyn rockers Pom Pom Squad, chose favorites that span multiple genres, from the savage grunge of Hole to pioneering singer-songwriter Connie Converse.
The songwriting spectre: Connie Converse and the hauntology of Spotify Introducing the ghostly Connie Converse. March 3, 2021 Listening to my Spotify Discover Weekly playlist in May 2018, my hem was snagged on the briar of Connie Converse’s singular voice and lilting guitar. Compared to the phosphorescent pop that had played prior, the song was diminutive; a melancholic, yet wryly playful sound. Herein laid its inimitable charm. The entire album, How Sad, How Lovely, wanders through lyrical thickets of loneliness, sexual longing, and the desire for simplicity and beauty, doing so through s...