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From The Desk Of Chastity Belt: Bhakti Chai

Chastity Belt began as something of a joke when guitarist/singer Julia Shapiro, guitarist Lydia Lund, bassist Annie Truscott and drummer Gretchen Grimm were still undergrads at Walla Walla, Wash.’s Whitman College. After the band relocated to Seattle postgraduation, its first album, 2013’s No Regerts, continued in the in-it-for-yuks vein, with songs inserting a healthy dose of self-deprecating humor into the group’s unschooled, spindly guitar rock. But then a funny thing happened on the way to the punchline: Shapiro found something more than merely “funny” to say, and began writing more sophisticated songs that demanded a closer degree of attention. Which, in turn, pushed the band’s latest LP, Time To Go Home (Hardly Art), toward altogether more fertile creative turf. Chastity Belt will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our new feature on them.

Tea

Lund: In order to counteract the toll touring takes on our health, we make frequent stops at Whole Foods stores. On our most recent cross-country trip, our touring mate Darren Hanlon introduced us to Bhakti Chai, and we all fell in love. The fresh ginger juice really sets it apart from other bottled teas.

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