There are over 1,300 voice memos on Julia Kugel’s phone. The prolific musician, who is best known as part of the punk trio The Coathangers, explains that every fragmented voice memo is “waiting to be somewhere” whether that’s with The Coathangers, the duo Soft Palms with her husband Scott Montoya, her Suicide Squeeze label supergroup Julia & The Squeezettes, or for her solo work.

The random snippets come to her in the middle of conversations with friends or, far too often, while riffing during sound check and they get sorted into files. “I’ll file folder them into which project like Soft Palms or is this Julia, Julia or I just started a new band called Animal Self, so maybe it is Animal Self,” she tells Billboard.

The collection of memos started during her Coathangers days when each memb

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