After Years of Record-Label Limbo, Michelle Branch Can Tell You That She’s Happy Now :: Music :: Features :: Michelle Branch :: Paste

Sometimes when Michelle Branch goes out for coffee, the barista recognizes the name on her credit card. Assuming that said server was alive and watching MTV or VH1 in the early aughts, they’ll almost certainly ask Branch what she’s been up to since the release of her platinum-selling 2003 sophomore record, Hotel Paper, which is…

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The Price of Vigilance

Illustration by Hanna Barczyk / GMG. In order to get to the women’s bathroom at Radio City Music Hall, you have to pass through an old-fashioned sitting room lined with yellow upholstered sofas and tan leather chairs. Painted onto the walls are murals of ladies in various stages of powdering their noses. It’s a familiar…

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