The band, made up of lead vocalist Teddi Tarnoff, guitarist Erik Carlsson, bassist Will McLean and drummer Jeremy Strawn, released its second extended play album, “Mother Mercury,” this summer. The four have been navigating the local music scene while working as instructors for 260-plus students and balancing other teaching and performance gigs.
“I was changing one in my house one day,” Pauli said. “And he said, ‘Honestly, that would be a good gig for you to start with.’” Pauli agreed. He said changing an air filter could be a “nightmare,” and recognized how willing he would be to pay somebody else to do the task for him.
In the months following its release, the show has elicited praise while also igniting debate over whether Reed’s reporting was voyeuristic or, as The Atlantic referred to it, “a well-crafted monument to empathy” to America’s urban-rural divide.
