Screaming Females

Screaming Females are such a treat to work with; their story truly reads like a rock & roll legend. Female fronted power trio from New Brunswick, NJ self-releases two albums, tours house shows all over the country with no booking agent and no marketing team, releases third album on their friend's tiny hometown label Don Giovanni Records, and then sets out on tour again, still doing everything themselves.

Wait for it, it's about to get all fairy tale... so, in the midst of their recent tour, J. Mascis of Dinosaur Jr. taps them to open their NYC gig, Henry Rollins loves the album and plays Screaming Females on his show, Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls is hyping it as her new favorite band, Kristen Hersh asks them to open for Throwing Muses, Jim DeRogatis starts writing about his love for them and then, blammo, Jack White falls head over heels for them and asks them to be the main support act for his upcoming tour with Dead Weather and THEY STILL DON'T HAVE A BOOKING AGENT; they've booked 500+ shows themselves!

These kids (guitarist/singer Marissa Paternoster, drummer Jarrett Dougherty and bassist King Mike) are one of those, honest-to-god, punk rock success stories. They might even remind you a bit of the rise to fame that headliner Jack White experienced just a few short years ago...

"Paternoster demands the spotlight as an awesome front woman whose rampaging guitar and banshee wail pack more
punch than a North Korean nuke." - Jim DeRogatis, Chicago Sun-Times


07.13.09
Washington, DC
9:30 Club

07.14.09
Washington, DC
9:30 Club

07.16.09
New York, NY
Terminal 5

07.17.09
New York, NY
Terminal 5

07.18.09
New York, NY
House of Blues

07.21.09
Montreal, Quebec
Olympia De Montreal

07.22.09
Toronto, Ont.
Kool Haus

07.24.09
Detroit, MI
The Fillmore

07.25.09
Columbus, OH
The LC Pavilion

07.27.09
Minneapolis, MN
First Avenue

07.28.09
Chicago, IL
Vic Theatre

07.29.09
Chicago, IL
Vic Theatre

07.30.09
Nashville, TN
War Memorial Auditorium

BIO

"Be sure to bring some breath mints. There will be a room full of open mouths. Jaws will drop. The New Jersey trio Screaming Females will be in town."—Independent Weekly

"I've never seen anything quite like it and never seen a small, ad hoc audience so outta-nowhere floored at a set."—Austin American Statesman

Screaming Females are one of those bands. The force-of-nature kind that only comes around once in a blue moon. The kind that blows minds; changes lives, the kind that re-ignites and redefines what music means to those whose faith may have waned in the most fundamental of ways.

The band—guitarist/singer Marissa Paternoster, drummer Jarrett Dougherty and bassist King Mike—live and breath their hometown of New Brunswick, NJ, and are possessed of the ethos, drive, and spirit that has made the punk greats great during a time when fewer and fewer artists have the gumption to operate as such. Since their 2006 inception, the band have self-released two full-lengths and one 7", contributed songs to two splits, and self-booked over 260 shows, scoring a mass of critical praise and accruing throngs of devotees along the way with both their recorded output and devastating live shows. As their legend grew to epic proportions, Screaming Females were approached by many labels and various industry crackerjacks. All were denied—until 2008, when the band signed to the one label that mirrored their values and championed their hometown, Don Giovanni Records. Now, with their third and most scorching full-length (aptly titled Power Move) in the bag, Screaming Females are poised more than ever to do what they do best, on their own terms, their way.

Power Move is Screaming Females at the top of their game—Paternoster, heralded already as the principal delegate for this era's "new generation of femme shredders", as renowned writer Jessica Hopper noted in the Chicago Reader, is at her bombastic best, firing off gritty, urgent solos and spitting radical magic into the mic that builds upon the oeuvre of those before her (Patti Smith, Corin Tucker, Iggy Pop) and will undoubtedly inform those after her. The rhythm of it all, the rooty grooves and dub notes and post-dance beats laid down by Dougherty and Mike, are iron-strong roller coaster tracks upon which the train careens forwards. A further Hopper assertion: "I don't think anything like her has happened to punk before, and I'm glad it finally has"—the band happens to you; you can't un-hear them, their is no going back to your pre-Screaming Females self.

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