“I WRITE a lot of songs on my front porch,” says Karly Hartzman, singer and guitarist for the North Carolina band Wednesday. That porch overlooks a couple of grassy acres called Haw Creek, a small village of misfits just outside the city of Asheville. “We’re surrounded by mountains here. It gives the illusion of being way out in the country, but I’m five minutes away from the mall.” The setting has informed much of Wednesday’s thunderous, country-inflected indie-rock – including their terrific 2023 album . “Any line about Mandy fighting with her
