| Member Since | 8/12/2005 | | Band Website | http://thepussypirates.vial8.org/ | | Band Members | Jess: tenor sax and vocals...
Gabriela: alto sax, trumpet and vocals...
Aaron: drums...
Karen: bass and vocals...
Laura: guitar and vocals...
 
"Pussy Pirates' Plastic Paradise" made with recycled cardboard, veg based/earth friendly inks
places you can find our music:
ann arbor:
encore music
underground sounds
foggy bottom bayou
chicago:
reckless records (in-store and online)
permanent records
kansas city MO:
Zebedees
Prospero's Books
St. Louis MO:
A Pop Records
OKC OK:
Size Records
Guestroom Records
Tulsa OK:
Under the Mooch
baltimore MD:
Reptilian Records
if you would like to carry or order our cd/7" just message us! also feel free to message us about our previous releases. | | Influences | oraciones de mi infancia, reading the paper, eating things i shouldn't, each other, el cielo, tu boca, pajaritos, distancia, hechando plumas, trasladando, ridiculously long bike rides, other musics, sunshine, weeds, walking, smoothie king, beer, america, dead panda bears, freak accidents, driving alone, getting wasted, africa, yahtzee, pimple puss, dreams, getting stoned, found poetry.
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| | Sounds Like | "While it's been trendy in recent years to steer syncopated post-punk sounds into sleek, danceable territory, there's been an equally exciting effort to keep it fresh, confrontational, and political. In that raw spirit, Ann Arbor's The Pussy Pirates keep on twisting those rhythms and spitting out leftist challenges, blasting it with female group vocals and, most notably, sax and trumpet." The Onion 10/6/08
 "The Pussy Pirates might be a lot of things (ambitious, punk and queer, for example), but they insist that they are most certainly not a ska band. Self-identifying as “post-punk with no wave influence” with roots in jazz syncopation, their lyrics are chock-full of anger, humor and satire.
The quintet is composed of four riotous Midwestern grrls jamming on tenor/alto saxophones, trumpet, bass and guitar, with a lone male on the drums. Their new, live album, Pussy Pirates Plastic Paradise, will be released by Riot Grrl Ink in September. The title refers to the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” a.k.a. the ocean—the final resting place for most of our plastic refuse. Like most of their songs, the album is a tongue-in-cheek response to the problems of today. “The world is completely absurd to us so we’re going to have this absurd response to it,” says Gabriela Zapata, the power behind many of the lyrics, vocals and instruments. The album is 100 percent recycled plastic and cardboard, and uses Earth-friendly inks. The band goes on the road after their album drops this September. When they tear through your town, expect to be overwhelmed by the group’s passion and their highly animated, interactive performances. For more info, visit thepussypirates.com."
—Michelle Barnwell GO magazine 8/08
“That’s far worse,” Newman laughs. “The word pussy is far more offensive than the word fuck.” Really? Because you can say “pussycat.” “Yeah, but it's got connotations to it that go very deep,” Newman explains. “If you ever meet a guy and he says, ‘She has a nice pussy,’ you’d think, ‘That’s a guy I need to stay far away from.’ Even if you call someone a pussy, that’s harmless. But it’s that one connotation of the word, when you put it in Pussy Pirates, that makes it one of the grossest words of them all.”
This coming from a guy in a band named The New Pornographers.
- Carl Newman/Thomas Matich, Real Detroit Weekly 4/1/08
"PUSSY PIRATES If you can get past their name, these five women (four from Ann Arbor, one from Chicago) might just charm your socks off. They all play the part of the tough girl, with stay-the-hell-away hairdos and curled upper lips, but their punchy doomsday horn punk brims with love, spirit, and humor. The two lead singers growl and shout about demons, jailbait, a half-eaten nun--even when they coo it's full of shrapnel--and between lines they deliver ska-tinged stings and hyperventilating solos (one doubles on tenor sax, the other on alto and trumpet). Meanwhile spooky tendrils of surf guitar dart in and out of the choppy, hectic stomp of the rhythm section. It's rousing, painful, and over with quick, like a bar fight." - Liz Armstrong, Chicago Reader 3/30/07
"The Pussy Pirates are a musical horror comic"
-author T. Casey Brennan - August 2006
"The Pussy Pirates are impossible not to like when you see them. They're rugged and glistening, a whirlwind even in a small room. They've got the gleeful abandon of the Slits and the rock of the Bush Tetras. The Pussy Pirates shout and wrangle with their instruments like they're strange animals barely controlled. They're the sharp tang that cuts through the endless wash of mediocre bands in mediocre bars." - Josh Stiechman, CURRENT Magazine -May 2005
| | Record Label | Riot Grrrl Ink |
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