In 2013, Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Emmy Wildwood (ex-frontwoman of garage rock band Velta) started a solo career. This spring, she’ll release her new EP All My Blood, which will contain her recent single Down Down and the brand-new follow-up Everything Hurts.

The latter sounds like a very well executed attempt to make Fleetwood Mac’s Tango In The Night-era sound her own. The track even has the same driving rhythmic basis as Big Love. Lyrically, Everything Hurts is a triumphant empowerment anthem, inspired by ‘the moment that survival instincts kick in during a crisis’. “We’re taught as women to constantly withstand everything in all of our relationships, romantic or otherwise, so things have to be really bad to get the strength to fight for fair treatment and justice,” she says. “Because we’re taught not to speak out, it’s in those rock bottom situations that we tend to find or remember our power.”

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Werner Schlosser

I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.