Dan Creahan: July 2009 Archives

There's a lot going on in a Red Tag Rummage Sale song. Sliding between the dark heat of cello/guitar dissonance and nearly feral rhythms punctuated by their raw vocals, they call to mind the best of post-hardcore and Midwest indie while recontextualizing it into a duo that could be one of the first "chamber-punk" groups the Queen City has ever seen.  The husband-wife pairing of Lisa (Cello and vox) and Phil (guitar, vox, also of All Of Them Witches and Knife Crazy) Freedenberg have just released a full-length album, Body Maps, and have recently finished up a nationwide tour, so I figured now would be the perfect time to chat with them about their music and the city.  What I got was an incredible look not only at the band,