Potty Mouth

Northampton, Mass., punk band,Potty Mouth (Ally Einbinder, Phoebe Harris, and Abby Weems are pictured) meld minimal garage-pop and surfy post-punk with super-hooky harmonizing and girl-gang vocals. Potty Mouth was an idea Einbinder and Harris had early in 2011, while bored on a retreat at Smith College where Einbinder works and Harris graduated. They knew Weems from shows at Harris's apartment, and sent her a Facebook message on the spot. In only a little more than a year, that idea has turned into something radical. In the summer of 2013, they played in a 10-day tour with Chemical Peel and also played their first show at a Western Mass punk house.

In September of 2012, they recorded a demo tape in Einbinder's basement a meld of minimal garage-pop and surfy post-punk, marked by super-hooky harmonizing, girl-gang vox on tracks like "Drip-Dry," and simple yet resonant Beat Happening-inspired lead guitar on "Dog Song". With only that tape out, Potty Mouth quickly had a few different labels interested in releasing their music. In July, their studio-recorded debut 12-inch EP Sun Damage was released as a three-way split by Brooklyn-based Puzzle Piece, Cambridge label Ride the Snake, and Northampton's Feeble Minds Records.

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Some of the best rock music of the moment is being performed in living rooms. There's a thriving DIY punk scene with hotspots all over the country that operates independent of professionally booked music venues or bars. One of the best-loved new artists of 2013, Waxahatchee, got her start in the scene, which has already spawned many more great songs. One of them is "The Spins" by Potty Mouth. Abby Weems, Ally Einbinder, Phoebe Harris and Victoria Mandanas channel early Dinosaur Jr. (incidentally, one of their neighbors) and Black Tambourine on this coarse but catchy single, the first taste of a debut full-length, Hell Bent, that's due out in September 2013.