TUNABUNNY + SHRAG

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TUNABUNNY
Tunabunny is, for now, less of a criminal element that it used to be. On 2010's debut album (Happy Happy Birthday To Me Recordings), you had to listen closely to hear the Blondie, to hear the Abba, to hear the pop. Some people just heard noise. Some people thought it was glorious. The album received rave reviews including one from "The Legend" Everett True, and a top-5 end of year placing on the BBC's website which led to a successful East Coast USA tour in Spring 2011 and a prestiged slot at Athens Popfest supporting Throwing Muses. The bands second album Minima Moralia was released in 2011, with this record, Tunabunny make a shift from noise towards melody, from chaos towards structure, from indifference towards rapture. It signals a Tunabunny more pop, yet more intense; more accessible, yet more desperate; more comforting, and yet more uncomfortable.
"The greatest band from Athens, Georgia since Pylon; Tunabunny's half-songs are fuller than most songs around for the simple reason that they haven't had the spirit and imagination and inspiration bashed and bullied out of them." (Everett True BBC)
http://www.facebook.com/Tunabunny

SHRAG
An exhilarating blend of dirty, distorted post-punk guitars, shouty riot grrl-style vox and fantastic pop songs, alongside nods to everyone from Le Tigre to Penetration. Their debut album garnered comparisons to Love is All, Gang of Four and B-52s, and led to a UK tour supporting The Cribs, appearances at both London Popfest and Indietracks festivals, and a session for Marc Riley on BBC 6music. Their second album Life! Death! Prizes! was released on WIAWYA Records in October 2010 and was named Album of the Month in Artrocker Magazine. The band are currently finishing off working on their third album due for release early 2012 on Fortuna POP! (Crystal Stils, Herman Dune, Allo Darlin') and WIAIWYA.
"A spectacularly bitter indie girls-set-on-stun dual vocal attack, in what is one of the better bands to juxtapose schmindie twee and angered literary abstraction since 1990s unsung legends Prolapse." (The Guardian)
http://www.myspace.com/shrag


ETHICAL DEBATING SOCIETY
The Ethical Debating Society began as the pseudonym for Tegan Christmas, who began writing anti-love songs on her hooty piano, but quickly blossomed into a full band, now with Kris-Martin on guitar, Rob Macabre playing pots and pans and Su singing her art out. 4 songwriters. 4 attitude problems. 4 adverts for national service: they are The Ethical Debating Society. Most of their heroes don't appear on no stamps.
"Raw, energetic, fresh riot grrrl punk rock fury - frontwoman Tegan has a wail that could wake the dead and this band is truly a force to be reckoned with" Pussy Whipped
http://www.myspace.com/ethicaldebating

SKINNY GIRL DIET
Skinny Girl Diet are an all-girl post-punk band from London formed in 2010, comprised of Delilah Holliday (vocals and guitar), Ursula Holliday (Vocals and drums) and Amelia Cutler (bass guitar).
"The sounds Delilah, Ursula and Amelia make in Skinny Girl Diet grabs us by the hair and headbutts our teeth in, in slow motion whilst playing the Pop Group & The Slits split out of boom box in the adjoining room. On tape. With dying batteries" (So Tough! So Cute!)
http://skinnygirldietband.tumblr.com