Talk about blowing your punk credentials. Mary Timony may have been childhood friends with the MacKaye brothers in Washington DC and raised on the city's famous hardcore scene, but that didn't stop her from selecting records by the likes of Rainbow, Yes and Fairport Convention, as well as a clutch of lute albums, when invited to do some shopping at Amoeba in LA. She does pick the punkiest Iron Maiden album (Killers), though.
That Timony is a fan of Fairport Convention won't have come as a surprise to anyone who read her We've Got A File On You interview for Stereogum back in February. It was conducted to coincide with the release of her solo LP Untame The Tiger, on which the Convention's Dave Mattacks plays drums after she plucked up the courage to cold-call him.
Other subjects of conversation included former bands Autoclave and Helium; her reflections on the music scenes in DC and Olympia; collaborating with Carrie Brownstein, Chino Moreno, the Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt and William Shatner; and giving guitar lessons to Lindsey Jordan aka Snail Mail and Brendan Canty's daughter Mabel. Well, there are certainly worse people to be taught by.
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