Biography
Having spent nearly fifteen years anchoring Boston’s music community as the driving force behind indie rock stalwarts Autoclave and Helium, Mary Timony relocated to her native Washington, D.C., in the middle of the 2000s. Toward the close of that decade she started Pow Wow alongside boyfriend Jonah Takagi and Winston H. Yu of These United States. Once the trio learned that at least two other groups already used the name, they adopted Soft Power, a term philosopher Joseph Nye had introduced in 1990. In June 2009 T.J. Lipple’s arrival expanded the lineup to a quartet. Positioning Timony as equal collaborator rather than sole frontwoman—she and Takagi alternate lead vocals—the group began shaping psychedelic-tinged indie rock that carried a pronounced medieval hue, echoing Helium while sounding at once more airy and more sharply aggressive.
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