Need a gorgeous voice to match this April weather? How about Erika Wennerstrom of Heartless Bastards? The local quartet’s new CD, Arrow, flies Byrds-meets-Tom Petty on the lost highway of love. Wennerstrom leads her sulfurous Bastards in-store at Waterloo Records on Wednesday, 5pm.

Produced by Spoon’s Jim Eno, Arrow spins sterling sound for new label Partisan Records. Here’s “Parted Ways,” so sure to pierce your heart that if you didn’t catch them at La Zona Rosa Friday night, the in-store constitutes a reprieve.

This article appears in April 20 • 2012.

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