Screaming Females

[Finch Platte]

Been reading a lot about this trio, and am listening to my first song by them, "Wild". Their guitarist, Marissa Paternoster (wasn't she on Three And A Half Men? ) is known to be kind of a shredder. Short, punky songs with lead guitar. What a concept!



Anyone else heard them?

The first time I saw Screaming Females was 2009 at The Parlor in Austin, a small, narrow pizza place that sends gusts of warm pizza dough wind into the venue every time the oven is opened. Within five minutes of their set, guitarist and singer Marissa Paternoster ripped into her first solo.

Her fingers climbed furiously up and down the neck of her guitar like she was trying to put out a fire. Her voice was this wondrous mix of high vibrato and low tension, a rubber band stretched almost to the breaking point. I went out and found everything I could by them, which, at that point, already consisted of three albums....

Continued here: Screaming Females' Marissa Paternoster Talks About Ugly Stuff - Page 1 - Music - Dallas - Dallas Observer

And here's most of a cool in-store concert, almost 30 minutes of Screaming Females!



Check out the epic shredfest that starts around 16 minutes!