Aunt Katrina is an exercise in staying in place and making music in your community. The songs on 2023 EP, Hot, careen into place, exciting “pop songs” that never fail to surprise with distorted samples or articulate finger-picking. But it’s the straightforward lyrics and unaffected delivery that circle the dangerously mundane. Aunt Katrina’s live band consists of Ray Brown (Snail Mail), Eric Zidar (Tosser), Laney Ackley, Emma Banks, Connor Peters, and sometimes Nick Miller. Despite what you’ve heard, they are all friends.