Blondshell

In about three weeks, Sabrina Teitelbaum will hit the road opening for Porridge Radio as part of her first proper tour as Blondshell, capping an artistic journey that began by absorbing her parents’ favorite music as a New York City teenager, discarding it in favor of grunge, new wave, and Britpop and eventually summoning the courage to start performing at local open-mic nights, including one above the M&M’s World store in Times Square. “I had terrible stage fright as a kid. My dad’s idea was for me to play for his friends when they’d come over, but that didn’t help,” Teitelbaum tells SPIN. “So I just Googled ‘open-mic nights.’ I was underage, so my sister would go with me. I’d be trying out stage names — Sabrina Teitelbaum isn’t a great stage name [Laughs]. It just doesn’t flow, you k...