Mary Halvorson Profled in Rolling Stone

Source: Rolling Stone.

Mary Halvorson‘s guitar playing can be challenging and at times even confrontational, but it is never conventional. A fixture in avant-garde and improvisational music circles, the 35-year-old New York City–based guitarist is just as likely to pick out intricate, harmonically and melodically complex lines of stunning beauty as she is to unleash a violent spray of atonal, harshly distorted six-string noise. And she does it all with an impressive array of musicians — over the past dozen years, Halvorson has appeared on more than 70 albums, working as a bandleader, an ensemble member and a guest artist — and in a wide range of styles.