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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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Teenage Cool Kids, Solanin, Lava Lava [Happen to be Gays]

2010/07/07 – 11:22 pm

I’ve been made hip to heaps of artists who don’t necessarily produce “queercore,” but are nonetheless queer and make great music worth sharing. So, I’m gonna share them with you! And, no–I don’t care that it’s against the rules. I MAKE THE RULES, OK? Teenage Cool Kids First up: Teenage Cool Kids! Wait, did you [...]

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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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