Remember highschool? Bear in mind your or your good friend’s highschool band? Hopes had been excessive, and the world was yours…till it wasn’t. Expertise/lack of, life, and all the things else caught up, and what was as soon as a fantasy remained a fantasy.
Don’t inform that to Birthday Woman DC.
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The Washington D.C.-based teenage trio have amassed a rabid native following in only a yr. Mabel Canty (singer-songwriter) and Tess Kontarinis (drums) have recognized one another since elementary faculty. However if you wish to return even additional, Mabel’s father and bassist Isabella MacKaye’s uncle had been two of the 4 members of D.C. hardcore band Fugazi (and MacKaye’s father was within the D.C. band the Religion.)
“We grew up going to the entire similar household stuff,” Mabel says on a break day from faculty.
They contemplate one another cousins, and earlier in highschool Canty and MacKaye began hanging out. In 2023, Mabel, who began writing songs at 12, introduced what she needed to Isabella and requested her if she wished to play bass. Once they discovered Tess performed drums, they determined to kind a band.
Birthday Woman DC’s eight-song, self-titled album was launched in July 2023. It was produced and recorded by Canty’s father, Brendan, of their basement. The sound recollects the perfect parts of moody, traditional ‘90s various, and so they say they’re impressed by British rockers the Sundays. Which not many individuals say.
Simply as momentum was constructing final summer season, they needed to return to their research—Canty and MacKaye again to highschool and Tess to California for school at CalArts.
However as an alternative of cooling off, Birthday Woman DC grew to become some of the talked-about bands within the space. Provides to carry out rolled in, and so they landed alternative opening slots for rising alt-rockers Snail Mail and Timony… through the faculty yr, no much less.
“Our mother and father are so chill,” Mabel says about being allowed to skip faculty. “It’s all because of them—if we didn’t have their go-ahead, we wouldn’t have finished it.”
The trio’s new EP, Dirtier, additionally recorded with Brendan Canty within the household basement, is out now.
So what are they most enthusiastic about forward of their string of exhibits? “We’re excited to not be in class anymore!”
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