Girlpool

Guitarist Cleo Tucker and bassist Harmony Tividad -- the brains behind the endearing group Girlpool -- are sure to win over ticket buyers as they plunk out catchy melodies on their sing-song ditties in concert.  The duo accomplishes a minimalistic, nursery rhyme-inspired pop-punk sound with only a guitar, bass, and their vocals.  Their sweet-sounding songs are charged with intellectual ethos, and political and pro-feminist messages are delivered through their poetic yet cutting lyrics. The resulting sound feels like a total reinvention of familiar elements,existing halfway between Nirvana’s starkest moments and The Breeders’ gleeful abandon.