The singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Elizabeth Nelson formed the DC-based band the Paranoid Style in 2012, wedding a background in labor organizing and musical theater to her love of the of the Mekons, the Specials, Merle Haggard, Sleater-Kinney, and the Kinks. Following the word-of-mouth underground smash Rock & Roll Just Can't Recall in 2015, she signed with the legendary Hoboken indie Bar/None Records, which subsequently issued the acclaimed releases Rolling Disclosure, Underworld USA, A Goddamn Impossible Way of Life, and For Executive Meeting. She has been profiled in the New Yorker and praised by NPR, Rolling Stone, Spin, and the Dean of American Rock Criticism Robert Christgau. Nelson also is a decorated journalist and regular contributor to the New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Oxford American, The Wall Street Journal and The Ringer on the topics of music, sports, film and television, and politics. In February 2024, The Paranoid Style released their most recent LP The Interrogator, their biggest-sounding and best-selling album to date, and their first to feature legendary pop icon Peter Holsapple of the dB’s on lead guitar.