Screaming Females’ new release, “Deeply,” is a restrained and slightly wistful outing for the celebrated NewJersey punk band. The snare that largely marks time in the song cuts in sporadically, giving the track a stark and fractured quality that is similar to the band’s fiercer recent single “Glass House.”
However, “Deeply” never culminates into a mess of distortion or a consistent backbeat. The track comes complete with a video featuring the Females’ lead singer, Marissa Paternoster, spray-painting its lyrics onto a wall. The song, propelled by a droning organ-like sound, encourages the listen to “get high and quiet” and “get high for entry.”
Screaming Females’ new double album, “All at Once”, is out on February 23rd on Don Giovanni Records. The band pressed a 24-copy limited edition 7″ of its first single, “Black Moon,” in September, which was later released digitally.
Screaming Females. The New Jersey DIY-punk luminaries have announced their seventh studio album All At Once, due out next year on February 23rd, on the ever wonderful Don Giovanni Records.
Listen to opening track Glass House which singer/guitarist, Marisa Paternoster describes thus, “It’s very simple — just bass, drums, and two simple riffs. In the past, I might have insisted on adding more. Practicing self-restraint is something I have consciously been trying to do.”
The New Jersey DIY-punk luminaries Screaming Females have announced their seventh studio album All At Once, due out February 23rd, 2018 on Don Giovanni Records.
It will be made available in various formats including Digital, CD, Double-LP vinyl with a Limited Edition 7” and a Deluxe Limited Edition LPx3 with the 7” and an exclusive bonus LP of album demos. The band collaborated with producer Matt Bayles (Pearl Jam, Mastodon), setting out to make an album in the spirit of a salon-style gallery show, where larger pieces provide an eye-level focal point to a galaxy of smaller works. Concision took a back seat to experimentation, with arrangements meant to evoke the energy and spontaneity of their live performances.
Now more than a decade into its existence, Screaming Females can claim something that few of their peers possess in a comparable capacity: experience. “When you’ve been a band for 12 or 13 years, the resources can dry up and you just go back to what feels comfortable,” explains Dougherty. “The other option is that you develop stuff that a younger band would not have been able to do.” All At Once is the evidence of that growth — in its sprawl and scope, but also in its subtleties. “A song like ‘Glass House’ is something we knew we were capable of, but it took a while to fully embrace,” says Paternoster. “It’s very simple — just bass, drums, and two simple riffs. In the past, I might have insisted on adding more. Practicing self-restraint is something I have consciously been trying to do.”
There’s no other way to say it: This album kicks so much ass. Instead of rattling around your brain, the hooks on this thing punch right through your skull. Screaming Females sound less ragged and more polished, and to some, the sanding down of their punk edges could be a disappointment. But that polishing leaves them a towering rock machine, every one of Marissa Paternoster’s guitar heroics and defiant wails perfectly calibrated to make you want to go stomp a dragon in the teeth. And if that makeover paves the way for something like “Wishing Well,” a downright pretty alt-pop song that still manages to shred, I’m all for it.
New Brunswick New Jersey powerhouse Screaming Females have cranked out the first single since their 2015 album Rose Mountain, and it’s exactly as punchy and blistering as you would expect from this band. “Black Moon” is just another testament to how the trio have built their devoted fanbase in their decade-plus of being a unit with commanding vocals, and thundering Sabbath styled guitar and bass riffs.
The band previously released the single in physical format last week. The super-limited, ultra-exclusive 7” single was available in only 24 copies at only one store, Spina Records in their hometown of New Brunswick, N.J.
The Screaming Females head out on tour next week until the start of November—check out their dates and listen to “Black Moon” below.
Band Members
Jarrett Dougherty-Drums
King Mike-Bass
Marissa Paternoster-Guitar/Vocals
Screaming Females are one of the hardest working, hardest shredding independent punk bands, boasting an incredible frontwoman in Marissa Paternoster.
Last year was the band’s 10th anniversary, and saw the release of their sixth studio album,To celebrate the tour and release, drummer Jarrett Dougherty, bassist Michael Abbate, and aforementioned vocalist/guitarist Marissa have extenede their Rose Mountain release. They’re about to grace our shores for the first time in August, and decided to bring with them a special ‘Australian TourEdition’ of the record featuring B Sides and demos, and only available here. One such bonus track is ‘Let me In’,
Screaming Females just headlined their label Don Giovanni’s Records free annual New Brunswick show recently. Led by tiny dynamo Marissa Paternoster, the New Jersey trio play boisterous yet melodic indie rock in the great tradition of Hüsker Dü and Dinosaur Jr. If you’re going to make rock music influenced by those titans, you’d better bring the riffs, and over the course of six albums and numerous EPs and singles, Paternoster has emerged as one of the most powerful guitarists of her generation.
As strong as 2012’s Ugly and the recent album 2015’s Rose Mountain are, fans are still waiting for Screaming Females own Zen Arcade, that perfect balance between raucousness and melody that everyone knows they have in them. The seven-and-a-half-minute Ugly centerpiece “Doom 84” is beastly, featuring a towering performance by Paternoster, as she hammers out blues-rock riffs that few of her male indie rock peers have the guts and chops to pull off
Their tour hits their hometown of Brooklyn on November 8 at Music Hall of Williamsburg. Most dates have support from Potty Mouth,
In related news, Screaming Females singer/guitarist Marissa Paternoster directed and starred in the new video from their labelmates/recent tourmates Vacation. It’s for the song “I Wish I Could Be Someone Else” off their new album Non-Person, and you can watch it below.
This is the second time Screaming Females have joined us for AV Undercover, but the first time the trio has played a Taylor Swift song. (Last time around, it was Sheryl Crow.) You’ll surely agree that the energy brought to this version is of a different sort than the original song, but that it’s no less powerful. The New Jersey’s band’s latest album is “Rose Mountain”. The great Jersey punk power trio Screaming Females are no strangers to the A.V. Club’s Undercover web series, in which bands pick a song from a list to cover. Three years ago, they made their first appearance, reducing Sheryl Crow’s “If It Makes You Happy” to flaming wreckage. And now they’re back on the latest episode, taking on Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off” and giving it a surprisingly straight reading. I would’ve rather heard them cover literally any other Taylor Swift song, but it’s still a blast to hear frontwoman Maria Paternoster applying her unhinged megaton howl to Swift’s lyrics. The “this sick beat” spoken-word bit is especially transcendent, as is Paternoster’s “I guess we’re done now” face.
New Brunswick trio Screaming Females are back with a blistering new record—”Rose Mountain”—you can check out the premiere for “Hopeless” here. They strike the perfect sweet spot between punkish angst and melodic pop nous.
Legendary filmmaker and music documentarian Lance Bangs followed the band on tour and here’s part one for your viewing pleasure. Singer Marissa Paternoster admits sleep is her ultimate drug (we hear you), but their live shows are anything but a snooze. In the van, at home, in a basement, in bed, Bangs shadows the band wherever they happen to be to paint an intimate picture of Screaming Females, including Paternoster opening up about her struggle with Fibromyalgia. Just watch.
In the second part of this Lance Bangs-directed on the road doc, New Brunswick trio Screaming Trees open up about their inter-band dynamics, what lies behind the lyrics, plus we venture behind the bloody scenes of their recent video for “Hopeless.” They know Walmarts across 48 states like the back of their hands.
New Jersey trio, Screaming Females return with their new, sixth record“Rose Mountain”, out 24th February viaDon Giovanni Records and we’re psyched to premiere their video for“Hopeless.”Kicking off with a teetering piano line“Hopeless”hangs on singer/guitaristMarissa Paternoster’sfull-bodied vocals. It starts off pared back and pristine before the scuzz-rock kicks in just before the three minute mark, a wave Paternoster rides it till the song’s succinct conclusion.
For filmmaker Lance Bangs (Sonic Youth, Odd Future, Yeah Yeah Yeahs), “Hopeless” was the album’s immediate standout track. The video itself was lit with flashlights and shot over the course of several freezing winter nights out in central New Jersey. Those blood splatters on the pickguard were 100 percent real: Paternoster apparently played in the chilly conditions till her fingers split open. And the setting? Those are definitely decommissioned McDonald’s playground structures in the background.
As for the crazy wiggles and scrawls that vibrate across the screen, Bangs had this to say about the after effect: “We did this bonkers approach of editing everything, then getting it turned into an actual 35mm negative, then we had movie prints made, then Marissa spent days obsessively scratching, bleaching, and hand animating the 5400 individual frames. After that we rescanned it all, and synched it up to the audio. To our knowledge I don’t think anyone has bothered to go through all of that hassle for a video before.”
Talk about dedication to awesome. Bangs has also been on the road with the band so keep your eyes peeled for that tour documentary coming out next week.
Screaming Females signed to the ever excellent Don Giovanni Records Back in December, we premiered the first live video that legendary rock-doc filmmaker Lance Bangs directed for Screaming Females’ song “Ripe,” off of the New Jersey band’s forthcoming album “Rose Mountain”. I’ve said it several times in recent posts, and I’ll say it again: That record is going to be a total shit-kicker. Get a taste of what to expect in a second Bangs-directed live video, this time for the previously unheard song “It’s Not Fair.”
New Jersey punks Screaming Females will unleash “Rose Mountain” early next year, a record that’s bound to be a total shit-kicker.The new single “Ripe,” and today the band shared a live performance of the song. Lance Bangs has directed an impressive roster of videos, the most recent of which was for Kim Deal’s new track “Biker Gone,” and he helmed the forthcoming Slint documentary Breadcrumb Trail. This is a high-contrast, stark video — the carefully coordinated cinematography rubs up against Screaming Females’ purposefully raw sound. Although the audio was professionally recorded, the band chose to not overdub it, maintaining some auditory semblance to a live performance. Maybe it always looks this way, but Marissa Paternoster’s guitar appears to be speckled with blood as she tears through the song’s absurdly awesome inaugural riff.
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