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Contrary to what you may expect, the New Jersey punk rock trio Screaming Females did not take their name from their frontwoman Marissa Paternoster\u2019s propensity for delivering her lyrics in a window-rattling howl. Nope, they picked it out of a book of poetry they found in a bathroom. Yet that doesn\u2019t make it any less relevant to their ethos. Most things about the band are whimsical, including their bathroom origin story, bassist \u201cKing\u201d Mike Abbate\u2019s cannabis use, and their music itself, which consistently possesses the force of a bloodcurdling scream, even at its most restrained.<\/p>\n
Over the course of seven studio albums, the trio has continually found new ways to draw fresh sounds out of punk, rock and, occasionally, pop music. Paternoster belts and shreds her guitar with equal gusto, while Abbate and drummer Jarrett Dougherty hold down the rhythm section with bombast, giving her ample room and fuel to rocket off into space.<\/p>\n
That and more is on display in \u2018All at Once<\/a>,\u2019 the trio\u2019s latest full-length release and their most hi-fi recording yet. While they made their older records in \u201can abandoned barn on the side of a highway,\u201d as Paternoster deadpanned, \u2018All at Once\u2019 was recorded at London Bridge Studio in Washington<\/a> state, where heavy hitters like Macklemore, Alice in Chains and Pearl Jam have laid down tracks in the past. More than ever before, Screaming Females have delivered a riveting grab bag of different strains of the rock canon, from the Pixies\u2019 punching bass lines on \u201cI\u2019ll Make You Sorry\u201d to the sludgy Black Sabbath riffs on opener \u201cGlass House\u201d to a song influenced by country singer Lucinda Williams (\u201cBird in Space\u201d).<\/p>\n The music is as colorful and full of surprises as the band\u2019s (and Abbate\u2019s in particular) experiences with cannabis. Abbate, who is also the owner of the New Jersey-based State Champion Records, is an avid fan of sativas.<\/p>\n \u201cI like the daytime weed<\/a>, [not] weed that makes me want to melt into the couch,\u201d he explains. His dealer provides a variety of strains that often come from California<\/a>, but he doesn\u2019t bother to keep up with the particulars. \u201cEvery week, there\u2019s a different [strain] name, as if I\u2019m supposed to know what that means,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n Yet as a rule, the band doesn\u2019t bring cannabis on the road, so he\u2019s had to resort to some pretty extreme, and hilarious, methods to bring home the bud.<\/p>\n \u201cIn theory, it should be really easy to find pot at every city, at punk rock shows, but for some reason, I\u2019m just terrible at it,\u201d Abbate says with a laugh. For the band\u2019s spring tour, however, he and roadie Stephen Sowley hit on a brilliant idea: they created a series of 15 unique mixtapes \u2014 \u201csome of it\u2019s punky, some of it\u2019s funky, some of it\u2019s party mixes, it\u2019s all over the place!\u201d \u2014 that they would offer in exchange for pot at their shows. \u201cIt\u2019s not for sale, you can only trade marijuana for it,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n In response, Paternoster dubbed the bud-thirsty duo \u201cThe Baloney Brothers.\u201d And how are the Baloney Brothers doing, you may ask? At the time we spoke, they\u2019d \u201csold\u201d five of the mixtapes, and let one, tragically, get away. \u201cI got duped real hard at the merch table,\u201d Abbate says, with regret tinging his voice.<\/p>\n Weed has worked its way into the rhythms of touring in other equally whimsical ways as well. \u201cGetting high when I\u2019m on tour helps me with my dental hygiene because I absolutely love brushing my teeth when I\u2019m high,\u201d he quipped. \u201cSometimes on a rock \u2018n\u2019 roll tour there\u2019s not a lot of time for self-care. If I get stoned, I might brush two or three times.\u201d<\/p>\n Abbate also pointed out that while the band, which has been touring regularly for more than a decade, gets a kick out of coming to states where pot is legal, Denver<\/a> is just too much. \u201cThey can\u2019t handle their weed there,\u201d he recalls. \u201cWe\u2019ll get to the club and the sound guy will have no idea how to do their job.\u201d<\/p>\n Paternoster, for her part, is not much of a cannabis consumer. But that doesn\u2019t stop her from having an appreciation of high-quality glass; she has a particular affinity for Aaron Uretsky\u2019s koala bears. \u201cI\u2019m always bummed out that I don\u2019t smoke because I love looking at cool pieces,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019d be fun to own some but I haven\u2019t a reason to.\u201dYet even if she doesn\u2019t use cannabis, Paternoster\u2019s music creates a high all its own. On \u2018All at Once,\u2019 her gale-force vocals and Smashing Pumpkins-influenced guitar riffs pummel with gale-force strength, while a handful of tracks deliver some of the band\u2019s most nuanced and understated arrangements yet. Like a monster dab hit, Screaming Females new album more than lives up to the promise of its title.<\/p>\n TELL US<\/strong>, what would you trade for an eighth of weed?<\/p>\n Originally published in Issue 32 of Cannabis Now.\u00a0<\/em>LEARN MORE<\/a><\/p>\n The post Punk Group Screaming Females Trades Mixtapes for Weed<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Contrary to what you may expect, the New Jersey punk rock trio Screaming Females did not take their name from their frontwoman Marissa Paternoster\u2019s propensity for delivering her lyrics in a window-rattling howl. Nope, they picked it out of a book of poetry they found in a bathroom. Yet thatContinue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":29547,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[148,50,99,693,85,5279,89,215,5989],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29548,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29546\/revisions\/29548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n
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