Heartless Bastards
Rock
The next Heartless Bastards concert is scheduled for Friday, May 30, 2025 at Wolf Trap in Vienna, VA, United States. See all 4 upcoming concerts
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About Heartless Bastards
Hometown
Dayton, OH, United States
Formed
2003
Genre
Rock
Anchored by the powerful vocals and incisive songwriting of Erika Wennerstrom, the Heartless Bastards are a roots rock band whose tough, emotionally resonant music incorporates elements of blues, hard rock, garage punk, and country as filtered through tales of a hardscrabble life lived in the American Midwest. While Wennerstrom -- the group's sole constant member -- would move the band to Texas, their sensibility stayed much the same, though her music would become more eclectic and ambitious and the lyrics more philosophical. The tough, blues-based attack of their first era is best heard on 2006's All This Time. 2012's Arrow showcased a new lineup and a more polished approach, and 2021's A Beautiful Life was their most stylistically diverse release to date. A previously unreleased film soundtrack project from 2013, Winter in the Blood, was issued in 2024.
Members of Heartless Bastards include, or have included, Erika Wennerstrom and Mark Nathan.
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