Last year, Screaming Females toured relentlessly in support of their critically acclaimed third album
Power Move. Their hard work landed them spots opening for Dinosaur Jr., Throwing Muses, and Jay
Reatard, plus dates touring with Arctic Monkeys and the Dead Weather. The year brought them to a wider mainstream consciousness, gaining attention for their punk rock sensibilities and their raucous live
shows driven by front woman Marissa Paternoster’s famed guitar heroics.
Screaming Females’ success came after four years of playing over 300 self-booked shows at nontraditional show spaces, sleeping on floors around the country, self-releasing their first two albums, and breathing new life into the New Brunswick, New Jersey DIY basement show circuit. And on their forthcoming September 2010 LP, Castle Talk, the band tells how they have grown with this latest album
“Power Move was the first record that a lot of people had heard by us, and after that came out a lot of
people had the same reaction, that Marissa is a woman who can play guitar solos,” says drummer Jarrett
Dougherty. “But we are more than just that simplistic observation and I think this record shows that.”
Check out Screaming Females when they play the Siren Fest July 17th in Brooklyn, NY