B52s. The Go-Go’s. Cracker. Bands whose music hits home somehow. Enter Elettrodomestico. I met this stellar two-piece band — Jane Wiedlin of The Go-Go’s and Pietro Straccia — here in the Haight in 2017 as we were traveling the same music circles (they played the Red Vic!)...

“I feel like this record kind of saved me,” says Jane Wiedlin, of her duo Elettrodomestico’s lush psych-pop debut If You’re A Boy or a Girl. “I was in such a dark place, and now I’ve finally come out of it. That’s the power of music, whether you’re writing or listening to it.”

This week I had the chance to sit down with Jane Wiedlin and Pietro Straccia of Elettrodomestico at the Catalyst Club in Santa Cruz, California to talk about their new collaborative project and album.

Often times, the lyrics of a song can get lost in the music. But for psych-pop's Elettrodomestico, the lyrics are as important as the groovy bass lines and dramatic melodies. The single "Aloha" comes from Elettrodomestico's premiere album If You're A Boy or A Girl (October 20, 2017)...

Jane Wiedlin of the Go-Go’s has a new project simmering: a band with Italian songwriter Pietro Straccia called Elettrodomestico. They have a record coming out on October 20 called If You’re A Boy or A Girl, but, in the meantime, Wiedlin chatted with TIDAL about some records that changed her life.

After the Go-Go’s retired from touring 2016, founding member Jane Wiedlin opted to start writing new music and get back in the studio. Wiedlin and Pietro Straccia, who first met in 2014, wrote their first song for Elettrodomestico following the death of David Bowie...