WHORE PAINT Streaming New Track “Dogs”

Celebrated Providence, Rhode Island underground rock band, Whore Paint, will release its new album, Ultra Sound, on November 27th via Translation Loss Records. The new track, “Dogs”, is streaming below.

Boasting a powerful sound the trio describes as “a riff rock / no wave / crooner shred hybrid”, Whore Paint creates unapologetically wild primal dark rock that lunges and jerks with a fiery post-punk spirit. Recorded at RI’s Machines With Magnets studios (Battles, Empty Flowers, Six Finger Satellite), Ultra Sound is the follow-up to the band’s 2013 LP, Swallow My Bones, a recording that was hailed as “mind melting” by The Big Takeover.

Whore Paint – Hilary Jones (guitar), Meredith Stern (drums) and Rebecca Mitchell(vocals) – formed in 2010 when Mitchell and Stern were working at as220, a Providence non-profit community arts center. Jones, who holds a PhD in Behavioral Science Psychology with a focus in Gender and Multiculturalism is the Executive Director of “Girls Rock! RI”, where Mitchell also teaches and serves on the board. Working with young girls and music, and previously as a sexual violence prevention educator, Jones found a need for alternative examples for young women. “By portraying power in our music and performance, we are hoping to provide an alternative example to the current script that girls are experiencing in the rest of culture,” says Jones.

Citing shared influences including the likes of Nick Cave, Lydia Lunch, Danzig, the Golden Girls, Girls Rock! students and Dolly Parton (“Anybody that thinks they have to swear and act like a dick on stage to get noticed needs to just meditate on Dolly for a few hours,” Mitchell notes), the band released its first EP, Menarchy, in 2011 to rousing response. But it was the group’s 2013 full-length, Swallow My Bones that fully galvanized the trio.

“We find ourselves aligned in many ways: ideologically, aesthetically, politically, and musically,” states Mitchell. “Being women is one of many things we have in common. It basically rules.” Now, with the impending release of Ultra Sound, Whore Paint is set to deliver its strongest statement of intent to date. The record is a furious recording that delivers the same effects as the band’s searing live sets: domination and devastation of its audience, leaving mouths agape, eardrums split and ideologies flexed.