NYC-via-Texas project Why Bonnie’s sophomore album and Fire Talk debut, Wish on the Bone, “is a ‘level-up’ in every way” (UPROXX). Surrounding its release, Wish on the Bone received a wealth of praise from Pitchfork, Stereogum, Consequence, FLOOD and more, with the latter praising Why Bonnie’s “signature Western influence along with bright guitars and massive build-ups that mimic the light of unwavering hope illuminating [their] songwriting.” Today, Why Bonnie unveil...
Why Bonnie, the New York-based project of Blair Howerton, unveil a new single/video “Three Big Moons” from their forthcoming album,Wish on the Bone, out August 30th via Fire Talk. Set on a distant planet inspired, in part, by a sci-fi novel, the gorgeous and aching track is “about how isolation can be equal parts comforting and lonely,” Howerton explains. “They pinned a note to my collar/ It said...
Today, Why Bonnie, the New York-based project of Blair Howerton, unveil the new single/visualizer “Rhyme or Reason” from their upcoming album Wish on the Bone, out August 30th on Fire Talk. In conjunction, Why Bonnie announce a fall North American tour, with dates in Boston, Toronto, Chicago, and more (tickets are on sale this Friday at 10am local time). “Rhyme or Reason” is about regenerating a sense of hope after...
Why Bonnie — the New York-based project of Blair Howerton — announces their new album and Fire Talk debut, Wish on the Bone, out August 30th, and presents lead single “Fake Out.” Why Bonnie’s first full-length, 90 in November, captured who Howerton felt like she was at the time: a twenty-something living in New York, yearning for the Texas of her adolescence through rose-colored glasses. On Wish on the...
Fire Talk Records is pleased to announce their new signing, Why Bonnie, the New York-based project of Blair Howerton, and today present their new single/video, “Dotted Line.” It’s the band’s first piece of new music since 2022’s 90 in November, their album praised for its nostalgic depictions of wide-open spaces that earned comparisons to fellow Americana travelers Waxahatchee and Wednesday. And while their beloved debut “glistens with [a]...sun-soaked sentimentality”...