Category Archives: deathrats

Hot Mess : Demo (2010)

2011/01/05 – 8:38 pm

DC ladycore scene stalwart Jaime (ex-Cuddle Circle, ex-deathrats) wrote in to tip me off to a demo by her new band, Hot Mess. She says: Two of the best ways to describe us are by a) Our patch that features a cutesy/raunchy DIVA cup spilling out it’s bloody contents to spell out the name “Hot [...]

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Cuddle Circle : Snow Sesh (2009)

2010/03/02 – 9:46 pm

Jaime of Deathrats recently sent along a link to this demo by her now-defunct, delightfully named project, Cuddle Circle. I was hella excited to hear this recording, which reminds me of early Sleater-Kinney multiplied by Designing a Nervous Breakdown-era Anniversary divided by Hey Mercedes. Basically, an equation for recreating my late teen years. LOVES IT. [...]

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Record of the Week: Deathrats : s/t 7″ (2009)

2009/12/11 – 10:48 am

Image unknowingly courtesy of xbrachiosarusx Yesterday, I came across a MRR blogpost highlighting the female-fronted DC hardcore band Deathrats. I don’t have words enough to describe how excited this band and their debut record make me, as DR is yet another example of the emerging lady- and lady-fronted hardcore/crust/whatever movement–if it can even be called [...]

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