Last year, Nazis and white supremacists rioted in the streets of the small Southern city where I've lived for the past six years. They killed one person, and they sent the entire community into a profound, traumatized funk. A couple of months later, Julien Baker came to town. One of her opening acts was Kiley Lotz, a young woman from central Pennsylvania who records under the name Petal. During her set, Lotz, who stood alone onstage and who didn't look that comfortable doing it, became just about the only touring performer I've seen in Charlottesville who had anything serious to say about the racist horde who'd just ripped through the place.
