Riot Grrrl's Not Dead DC!

Friday October 9th

Riot Grrrl's Not Dead DC! ft. Buko Buko, Ammonite, Bitter Tits, Sheila

DC-based BUKO BUKO is a happy punk band born out of boredom from sad, soggy, serious punk music and fueled by Riot Grrrl and mean mommy energy. BUKO BUKO live shows are an experience to laugh, dance, and mosh. They don bright colors and cheap wigs, feed fans gummy worms, and get the crowd moshing to songs like “Spaghetti Time.” BUKO BUKO’s debut album, titled All You Can Eat, was released as a labor of love (literally) to "bring feral joy to the mosh pit," as Washington Post writes. Their song topics range from food metaphors to immigrant manifestos and they're known for their banter and crazy dance moves. BUKO BUKO means “young coconut” in Tagalog and is a nod to the singer’s half-Filipino heritage.

Like heartland folk with a switchblade in its boot, Ammonite comes out swinging. Sweeping audiences away on a musical adventure marked with rolling emotional hills and lyrical revelations. The trio offers up Queer Americana for people who grew up on punk. Delivered with tension, dynamic, and outstanding vocals and guitar from the couple at the heart of the group - Erin Frisby (they,them) and Selena Benally (she,her), Ammonite is a full band explosion of something memorable, sometimes visceral, vulnerable, and cathartic. It's virtuosic songwriting and playing that still manages to capture all of the thrill and spontaneity of a basement show.

Bitter Tits is a punk rock duo based out of Baltimore and we play punk rock, we sing the stories of our lives and apologize for nothing the world is what made us who we are. We’re here to help you get by, we’re to help you forget, we’re here to help you remember, and we’re here to party with the masses.

Sheila is a Washington, D.C. based twin sister duo carving out their own lane in music with gritty riffs, raw energy, and lyrics that speak up. Centering on Black empowerment, the call for a free Palestine, and advocating for those whose voices are often ignored. Fueled by a shared love of performing, activism and all things anime, Sheila's music is what you would get if you mixed early 2000's pop punk with the best shounen/magical girl animes of all time, a dash of lush orchestration and arrangements for the musical girlies, and topped off with the most unhinged and witty rappers from the past 10 years; ie Kendrick Lamar and Rico Nasty.