In SPIN‘s new festival-based video series, “Walk With Me,” we take a stroll through festival grounds, cities, venues and more with some of our favorite artists. For the first episode, we went for a quick walk around Coachella with Missy from Mannequin Pussy to chat about the band’s two-year wait to perform, discuss punk rock at […]
Welcome to the second edition of Difficult Fun! Each month, SPIN will spotlight the best punk on the planet and discuss it here, with the ambition of challenging preconceived notions of what the four-letter word actually means and, ideally, entertaining readers in the process. Purists, piss off! Everyone else, enjoy. Another month, another round of […]
Since 2019, the Philadelphia-based punk band Mannequin Pussy has been operating on another level. They began working with prolific emo producer Will Yip, moved to Epitaph Records, and garnered widespread acclaim for their third record, Patience. COVID-19 may have slowed their momentum, but the now-trio of vocalist-guitarist Marisa “Missy” Dabice, drummer Kaleen Reading, and bassist […]
After Patience released during the summer of 2019, Mannequin Pussy seemed poised to become the next big thing in punk. The Philadelphia band with a name that no one could forget saw their stock soar for the rest of the year after their first release on Epitaph Records, with sold-out shows across the country and […]
The indie-punkers in Mannequin Pussy are back with a follow-up to 2019’s Patience, and by the sound of the new EP’s first song, they’re picking up right where they left off. The five-song venture is titled Perfect and set to release via Epitaph on May 21, and it figures to be a major release for an excellent […]
Rock is obvs not dead but it’s not hard to see why people always say it is, almost wishfully. For decades, the most commercially viable (and even critically bolstered) rock was dominated by white dudes, which is troublesome considering how many of its pioneers, including the dearly departed, radically queer genius Little Richard, were not. […]