“DC punk lifer and Rolling Stone top-100 guitarist whose angular, literary songwriting has powered Autoclave, Helium, Wild Flag, Ex Hex, and a quietly devastating solo catalog.”
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Curatorial notes
Mary Timony has been a foundational figure in American independent rock since the early 1990s, when she co-founded the all-female math-rock band Autoclave on Dischord Records while still a student at Boston University. Classically trained on guitar and viola, she brought a formal musician's ear to DC's DIY punk scene — a tension between rigor and rawness that has defined everything she has...
