New Blood! MOOR MOTHER GODDESS, MALPORTADO KIDS, and HUMAN FORM
New Blood is our regular web feature spotlighting new bands from around the world!
Now check out some killer new shit…
“New Blood” is our weekly feature spotlighting new bands from around the world! See below for info on how to submit. Now, check out some killer new shit…
Band name:
MOOR MOTHER GODDESS
Date & location formed:
Philadelphia, December 2013/2014.
Moor Mother Goddess (photo by d1L0)
Reason for forming:
Wanted to start a solo project different from my band The Mighty Paradocs.
What are your lyrics about?
ABOUT BEING A BLK WOMAN IN THE PUNK SCENE, POLICE BRUTALITY, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND GUN VIOLENCE, BLACK QUANTUM FUTURISM, SYSTEMATIC RACISM.
How would you describe your sound?
Low fi/dark rap/chill step/blk girl blues/witch rap/coffee shop riot gurl songs/southern girl dittys/black ghost songs/love chants/african warrior spells/kongo hoodoo/holly hill Mississippi root jams/project housing bop/baptism jazz/Black quantum futurism/anthropology of conscience/scorpion gospel/Lima dream music/slaveship punk/soultronic beats/afrofuturist funk/death poems.
What’s in the future for this band?
Overseas tours and new zines, making more split tapes with other bands.
Reason for forming:
We also play in the more straight up punk band Downtown Boys. We wanted a new aesthetic vehicle to carry our propaganda to other worlds.
What are your lyrics about?
Our lyrics are focused around political anthemic ideas about Chicananess, identity crisis and resistance, and struggle.
Malportado Kids (photo by Jesse Ponkamo)
How would you describe your sound?
Blown out punk global bass
What’s in the future for this band?
Hopefully we are able to play shows and make recordings that help build a space for people who want it most. Hope the future is a manifestation of our greatest dreams and expression of anger meeting empathy.
Date & location formed:
Formed Autumn ’14 in London, UK. Demo was recorded in January of this year and we played our first show in February.
Reason for forming:
Falling in and out of love and hate with each other.
What are your lyrics about?
Avoiding human contact; failures of the not-so-distant future; Self-dizgust, self-congratulatory art projects; orgasms of the past, current hangovers; ripping it all up and not starting again, these are not/might well be the last days.
How would you describe your sound?
Bad-weathered/ill-tempered dark & doomy punk with a heavy derby of regional British accents. Strong West Coast influence (total WIPERS worship through to PERENNIAL DEATH) meets YOUNG GINNS or MOSS ICON, and a bit of recent Sydney scraw (OILY BOYS) thrown in there somewhere too.
What’s in the future for this band?
Unsure, we just played our best show yet supporting VEXX, but the guitarist and bassist just broke up so maybe we did too.
Do you have or know of an awesome new band*? It’s easy to submit to be in MRR’s New Blood feature — just email us the following info, and keep keeping’ it real…
1) Band name:
2) Date & location formed:
3) Reason for forming:
4) What are your lyrics about?
5) How would you describe your sound?
6) What’s in the future for this band?
7) Links and contact info:
Along with the answers please send a band photo at least 600px on the longest side (with photo credits), and a logo if you have one, to: mrrnewblood@gmail.com
*By “new band” we mean a band that formed within the past year or year and a half.
