Topping The Mountain wasn’t going to be easy for Erika Wennerstrom. The third album by her band Heartless Bastards both expanded the scope of her classic-rock fixation and cut to the quick of her ...

After Heartless Bastards’ 2009 album, bandleader Erika Wennerstrom pressed the reset button. She reconnected with family through a series of solo road trips, rejiggered her band’s roster to reinvent ...

Heartless Bastards (as I'm sure some of you are too!). Arrow, their freshly minted CD, produced by fellow Austinite Jim Eno of Spoon, is out today and is their best work yet. Today's Top Tune is a ...

Thunder-voiced Erika Wennerstrom and the powerful rumblings of her rock band the Heartless Bastards take listeners to the West in their latest album ‘Arrow. Written mainly at a friend’s ranch in West ...

Erika Wennerstrom has always had the kind of voice that causes a commotion, a clear-out-the-room roar that wouldn’t have sounded out of place on a 78-rpm blues recording from the 1930s. But she’s ...

In 2009, Heartless Bastards’ frontwoman Erika Wennerstrom appeared on Nerve’s list of the “Forty Sexiest Frontwomen in Rock History,” and deservedly so—in the last seven years, Wennerstrom has ...

Heartless Bastards are (from left) Erika Wennerstrom, Jesse Ebaugh, Mark Nathan, and Dave Colvin. Last month, Heartless Bastards celebrated the one-year anniversary of Arrow, the band’s latest and ...

It used to be easy to confuse the Heartless Bastards with the Black Keys, their brothers in the overpopulated field of neo-garage rock. Like the Keys, the Bastards have a fondness for American classic ...

Austin, Texas's Heartless Bastards is a throwback both in their sound and their work ethic. In an era in which bands can blow up overnight on the Internet, the blues-rock quartet has turned people on ...

Heartless Bastards' sound and story — the moodily bluesy Southern rock, the reputation for tireless touring, the ever-changing lineup of backing players — is a satellite orbiting around Erika ...

On Heartless Bastards’ fourth album, singer-songwriter-guitarist Erika Wennerstrom and her newest set of backing musicians continue to follow the mud-stained heartland highway that connects early Neil ...