my band is Cat Crash and we're playing this show :) this is our first time on the west coast! i am so glad to see our friends here like Bad Static and i'm really excited to play with legends like Babe Haven and Cheap Perfume! we're playing on the Saturday!
ticket link:
https://aftontickets.com/event/buyticket/qpxvvomlxe/doll-fest-volume-five-oakland
on August 29, 2026, my band Cat Crash hosted Riot Grrrl's Not Dead Fest in Bridgeport, CT which celebrated our 3 year anniversary. It was also a fundraiser for Trans Lifeline! We raised $1K for Trans Lifeline and $150 for other LGBTQ organizations around Connecticut.
here are the 7 bands who played:
- Bad Static, NYC
- Rat Sauce, NJ
- Arms Like Roses, New England
- Lollirot, NYC
- t@b grrrl, NYC
- Commit to the Bit!, MA
and us, Cat Crash from CT/NYC/NJ :)
this is an annual event so mark your calendar for next year's on September 4th 2027!
photos by kaitlynvisuals
photos 16-19 by faye_tab
we're Cat Crash and we're very excited to be opening for Gully Boys and Pollyanna on their Big Fat Gay Tour on October 15th! All ages, The Sultan Room, Brooklyn NY!
https://link.dice.fm/SaOX1zqIP6b?sharer\_id=614f632e50c71d00017d84aa
on August 29th my band Cat Crash hosted our 2nd annual Riot Grrrl's Not Dead Fest! we raised $1000 for Trans Lifeline and an additional $150 for Pride organizations about CT. here's a write-up by Loud Women about it:
https://loudwomen.org/2026/09/07/riot-grrrls-not-dead-fest-joy-rage-and-resistance-in-bridgeport-ct/
my band is called Cat Crash and we hosted a riot grrrl festival on August 29th in Bridgeport, Connecticut!
in total we donated:
$1000 to Trans Lifeline
$50 to New Haven Pride Center
$50 to Bridgeport Pride Center
$50 to Triangle Community Center
the bands were Commit to the Bit! from MA, t@b grrrl, Lollirot, and Bad Static from NYC, Rat Sauce from NJ, and us, Cat Crash! this was a 3 year anniversary show and a hometown show for us.
we are doing this again next year on September 4th, 2027! if you missed it this year, come to the next one!!
photos by faye_tab
my band Cat Crash had our 2nd year of our festival Riot Grrrl's Not Dead Fest on August 29th! together, we raised:
$1000 for Trans Lifeline
$50 for Triangle Community Center
$50 for Bridgeport Pride Center
$50 for New Haven Pride Center
there were 7 bands in total for this night, including Commit to the Bit!, t@b grrrl, Lollirot, Arms Like Roses, Rat Sauce, and Bad Static. our band Cat Crash closed out the night and celebrated our 3 year anniversary.
photos by faye_tab
on August 29th, i hosted the 2nd year of the festival i run, Riot Grrrl's Not Dead Fest! this was a show to celebrate the 3 year anniversary of our riot grrrl band Cat Crash. we had 7 bands from all over the east coast play this festival in Bridgeport, Connecticut. together we raised over $1K for trans rights:
$1000 to Trans Lifeline
$50 to New Haven Pride Center
$50 to Bridgeport Pride Center
$50 to Triangle Community Center
the first band we had opening the show was Commit to the Bit! from Massachusetts. the band is composed entirely of teenagers who just graduated high school. they do not have a bassist so my band members and my girlfriend all learned 2 songs each off of their 6 song setlist and swapped out.
the second band was t@b grrrl from NYC. this was their first CT show and they are fantastic, riot grrrl in its purest form. the third band was Lollirot, also from NYC. they are an all-black nonbinary grunge band who take their name from the Jack Off Jill song.
the fourth band was Arms Like Roses, an emo band from New England. they are genuinely amazing so i urge you to check them out if you are into indie, emo, or post-hardcore. the fifth band was Rat Sauce, a New Jersey band that is on the rise for their sharp and witty critiques of AI and big tech. they're also just really nice people!
the sixth band was Bad Static. earlier in the night Nico from Bad Static had played bass for t@b grrrl. Bad Static is metal and hardcore influenced riot grrrl from NYC and they are going on tour throughout the country soon so check them out!
finally, our band Cat Crash closed out the night. this was basically a hometown show for us even though most of our members live in NYC or New Jersey now. we were an all-Asian, all-transgender band, with a genderfluid Indian guitarist, Taiwanese transfemme drummer, and nonbinary Chinese singer/bassist/frontperson (me). i organized the entire show under my indie collective BubbleTeaGrunge, which seeks to uplift and support femme, people of color, and queer artists. with this show, i aimed to platform as many of those people as i could. i crowdsurfed during our song You Sound Nothing Like Nirvana!
for the last song, i had all of the bands come back on stage along with anyone in the audience who wanted to join us as we all did a singalong of Rebel Girl by Bikini Kill. we had Commit to the Bit's drummer, Nico from Bad Static on bass, Arun from Cat Crash and guitarist from CTTB on guitar, and every other band and people in the room singing along.
this show had a drag king host, vendors, and a free zineswap as well. i made special zines for the event. the zines had the lyrics to Rebel Girl printed on the back to help for the singalong.
it was so special seeing all of the younger folks in the crowd during this show. during You Probably Never Will, i called for an under-21 moshpit. one family even traveled from Michigan to see this show to celebrate their child's 16th birthday!
for this show and every show, we say "fuck donald trump, fuck ice, free palestine, fuck ai and government surveillance, and fuck fascism in all of its forms." i think building community is exactly what we need to combat the rise of fascism throughout this country, and 7 bands coming together to raise money for trans youth and just having a good time together did exactly that.
photos by faye_tab
on August 29th, i hosted the 2nd year of the festival i run, Riot Grrrl's Not Dead Fest! this was a show to celebrate the 3 year anniversary of our riot grrrl band Cat Crash. we had 7 bands from all over the east coast play this festival in Bridgeport, Connecticut. together we raised over $1K for trans rights:
$1000 to Trans Lifeline
$50 to New Haven Pride Center
$50 to Bridgeport Pride Center
$50 to Triangle Community Center
the first band we had opening the show was Commit to the Bit! from Massachusetts. the band is composed entirely of teenagers who just graduated high school. they do not have a bassist so my band members and my girlfriend all learned 2 songs each off of their 6 song setlist and swapped out.
the second band was t@b grrrl from NYC. this was their first CT show and they are fantastic, riot grrrl in its purest form. the third band was Lollirot, also from NYC. they are an all-black nonbinary grunge band who take their name from the Jack Off Jill song.
the fourth band was Arms Like Roses, an emo band from New England. they are genuinely amazing so i urge you to check them out if you are into indie, emo, or post-hardcore. the fifth band was Rat Sauce, a New Jersey band that is on the rise for their sharp and witty critiques of AI and big tech. they're also just really nice people!
the sixth band was Bad Static. earlier in the night Nico from Bad Static had played bass for t@b grrrl. Bad Static is metal and hardcore influenced riot grrrl from NYC and they are going on tour throughout the country soon so check them out!
finally, our band Cat Crash closed out the night. this was basically a hometown show for us even though most of our members live in NYC or New Jersey now. we were an all-Asian, all-transgender band, with a genderfluid Indian guitarist, Taiwanese transfemme drummer, and nonbinary Chinese singer/bassist/frontperson (me). i organized the entire show under my indie collective BubbleTeaGrunge, which seeks to uplift and support femme, people of color, and queer artists. with this show, i aimed to platform as many of those people as i could. i crowdsurfed during our song You Sound Nothing Like Nirvana!
for the last song, i had all of the bands come back on stage along with anyone in the audience who wanted to join us as we all did a singalong of Rebel Girl by Bikini Kill. we had Commit to the Bit's drummer, Nico from Bad Static on bass, Arun from Cat Crash and guitarist from CTTB on guitar, and every other band and people in the room singing along.
this show had a drag king host, vendors, and a free zineswap as well. i made special zines for the event. the zines had the lyrics to Rebel Girl printed on the back to help for the singalong.
it was so special seeing all of the younger folks in the crowd during this show. during You Probably Never Will, i called for an under-21 moshpit. one family even traveled from Michigan to see this show to celebrate their child's 16th birthday!
for this show and every show, we say "fuck donald trump, fuck ice, free palestine, fuck ai and government surveillance, and fuck fascism in all of its forms." i think building community is exactly what we need to combat the rise of fascism throughout this country, and 7 bands coming together to raise money for trans youth and just having a good time together did exactly that.
@bubbleteagrunge on instagram to see more shows like this
photos by faye_tab
this song came out on wednesday! it's called I Need to Radically Change My Life in the Next 24 Hours Or I'm Ending It All and it's by my band Cat Crash!! i've had people saying they would rather i post a video so you can hear what we sound like rather than just photos, so here you go!!
we're currently on tour! today we are in greensburg, pennsylvania
rest of the dates:
8/22 - Kalamazoo
8/23 - Chicago
8/24 - Minneapolis
8/29 - Bridgeport, Connecticut
see you there?
this song is called I Need to Radically Change My Life in the Next 24 Hours Or I'm Ending It All. in 2019 i had a manic episode where i changed my name, my gender, my hair, and asked out my same-gender best friend of four years all at the same time. i finally wrote about the experience in song form
we're Cat Crash and we're traveling the country to knock yr socks off!
Cat Crash's Not Dead Tour (Leg 1):
8/19 - AS220, Providence, Rhode Island
8/20 - Dubois-Robeson People's Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
8/21 - Green Beacon Gallery, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
8/22 - The Potato Sack, Kalamazoo, Michigan
8/23 - Subterranean, Chicago, Illinois
8/24 - PILLLAR, Minneapolis, Minnesota
8/29 - Riot Grrrl's Not Dead Fest, The Stack, Bridgeport, Connecticut
I booked this entire tour myself! We do not have a booking manager or a label or any management at all other than me, the frontperson/singer/bassist. This entire tour is going to be self-funded, if anyone would like to support us but can't make it out to the show, our Bandcamp is catcrash.bandcamp.com
On another note, we are looking for a place to crash on the night of 8/21 after our Greensburg show and on 8/24 after our Minneapolis show! There are 5 of us. Please reach out if you can accommodate (I will ask you to verify your identity first, I know Reddit is not a safe place to ask strangers to sleep over).
We're an all-trans riot grrrl band in a country that is becoming increasingly more transphobic and conservative every day, any and all support is highly appreciated even if it's just a nice comment <3 have a lovely day and I hope to see you at a show!
we're Cat Crash and we're traveling the country to knock yr socks off!
Cat Crash's Not Dead Tour (Leg 1):
8/19 - AS220, Providence, Rhode Island
8/20 - Dubois-Robeson People's Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
8/21 - Green Beacon Gallery, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
8/22 - The Potato Sack, Kalamazoo, Michigan
8/23 - Subterranean, Chicago, Illinois
8/24 - PILLLAR, Minneapolis, Minnesota
8/29 - Riot Grrrl's Not Dead Fest, The Stack, Bridgeport, Connecticut
I booked this entire tour myself! We do not have a booking manager or a label or any management at all other than me, the frontperson/singer/bassist. This entire tour is going to be self-funded, if anyone would like to support us but can't make it out to the show, our Bandcamp is catcrash.bandcamp.com
On another note, we are looking for a place to crash on the night of 8/21 after our Greensburg show and on 8/24 after our Minneapolis show! There are 5 of us. Please reach out if you can accommodate (I will ask you to verify your identity first, I know Reddit is not a safe place to ask strangers to sleep over).
We're an all-trans riot grrrl band in a country that is becoming increasingly more transphobic and conservative every day, any and all support is highly appreciated even if it's just a nice comment <3 have a lovely day and I hope to see you at a show!
my riot grrrl band, Cat Crash, is going on tour! i booked this entire tour entirely by myself, we are a DIY band without a label or management. i book, promote, and manage everything myself. ticket sales have been horrendously slow so if you can buy a ticket in advance, please do!
on August 29th, my band is celebrating our 3 year anniversary of our first ever concert. we are hosting Riot Grrrl's Not Dead Fest, a 7 band festival with bands from NYC/NJ/MA/CT to represent where we're all from. every band is femme-fronted and queer!
we are donating 1/2 of ticket sales to Trans Lifeline and other LGBTQ youth organizations across Connecticut! in Connecticut, hospitals have just agreed to stop providing gender-affirming care to minors. we feel it is especially important to support and uplift trans youth during this time.
here are our upcoming tour dates:
CAT CRASH'S NOT DEAD TOUR
PRESENTED BY BUBBLETEAGRUNGE
all dates are all ages!
8/19 - AS220, Providence, Rhode Island
8/20 - Dubois-Robeson People's Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
8/21 - Green Beacon Gallery, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
8/22 - The Potato Sack, Kalamazoo, Michigan (DM @thepotatosack_ on Instagram for address!)
8/23 - Subterranean, Chicago, Illinois
8/24 - PILLLAR, Minneapolis, Minnesota
hope to see you at a show! def come say hi. more tour dates announcing soon!
this was at a gay drag wrestling event. we were the band for the night! we're Cat Crash
pics by jck.online
on Bandcamp Friday, revenue share is waived so artists keep all the profits! what do you plan on picking up?
Seven bands gather at The Stack in Bridgeport to show the world (and Connecticut) RIOT GRRRL IS NOT DEAD for the second year in a row!
Seven bands
BANDS:
Cat Crash (NYC/NJ/MA/CT)
Bad Static (NYC)
Rat Sauce (NJ)
Arms Like Roses (CT)
Lollirot (NYC)
t@b grrrl (NYC)
Commit to the Bit (MA)
Hosted by drag king Oliver ThePlace
Doors at 4
Music starts at 5 PM
Zineswap + vendors
There will be food available!
Advance tickets available on Eventbrite!
Tickets will also be available at the door for $20 if the event does not sell out in advance.
1/2 of ticket sales will go towards the bands and the other half will go towards Trans Lifeline and other CT LGBTQ organizations.
ticket link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/riot-grrrls-not-dead-fest-tickets-1985639310630
Hello! This is Cecil from Cat Crash! On August 29th my band is hosting our annual Riot Grrrl's Not Dead Fest, an all-femme fronted 7 band festival with 1/2 of the proceeds going towards the band and the other half going towards Trans Lifeline and other LGBTQ organizations around Connecticut!
This show is in Bridgeport, Connecticut and is also our anniversary show. All ages, all are welcome to come, no one turned away for lack of funds!
bands:
Cat Crash (Us!) - riot grrrl power pop
Bad Static - riot grrrl with metal influences from NYC
Rat Sauce - punk from NJ
Arms Like Roses - emo from CT/New England
Lollirot - black nonbinary grunge from NYC
t@b grrrl - riot grrrl from NYC
Commit to the Bit - post-hardcore teens from western Mass
ticket link:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/riot-grrrls-not-dead-fest-tickets-1985639310630
if you can't make it out to Connecticut, we're going on tour!
8/8 - Syracuse, NY
8/14 - Glassboro, NJ
8/16 - Brooklyn, NY
8/19 - Providence, RI
8/20 - Philadelphia, PA
8/21 - Greensburg, PA
8/22 - Kalamazoo, MI
8/23 - Chicago, IL
8/24 - Minneapolis, MN
9/4 - Burlington, VT
9/25 - Westfield, MA
10/9 - Washington DC
10/10 - Columbia, SC
10/11 - Atlanta, GA
10/12 - Orlando, FL
10/25 - Lowell, MA
Hope to see you at a show! Come say hi!!
Riot Grrrl NYC x BubbleTeaGrunge presents, "HOW TO START A RIOT GRRRL BAND... and everything else in life," a do-it-yourself guide on how to start your own riot grrrl band in the modern era! Presented by Cecil Q. Yang of the band Cat Crash, featuring members of NJ-based bands Rat Sauce and Cherri Blu, as well as NYC locals Bad Static. More special guests to come!
All ages!
Free!
At the upstairs gallery at Unruly Collective in Brooklyn!
200 Cooper Street, Brooklyn, NYC
Followed by an after punk show at Purgatory (21+) with bands Cat Crash, Rat Sauce, Bad Static, and Cherri Blu.
Follow @riotgrrrlnyc and @bubbleteagrunge for more meetup details and more events
partiful RSVP link: https://partiful.com/e/35JOJ9vwzyxZKu261mRS?c=MCfUm4s5
Riot Grrrl NYC x BubbleTeaGrunge presents, "HOW TO START A RIOT GRRRL BAND... and everything else in life," a do-it-yourself guide on how to start your own riot grrrl band in the modern era! Presented by Cecil Q. Yang of the band Cat Crash, featuring members of NJ-based bands Rat Sauce and Cherri Blu, as well as NYC locals Bad Static. More special guests to come!
All ages!
Free!
At the upstairs gallery at Unruly Collective in Brooklyn!
200 Cooper Street, Brooklyn, NYC
Followed by an after punk show at Purgatory (21+) with bands Cat Crash, Rat Sauce, Bad Static, and Cherri Blu.
Follow @riotgrrrlnyc and @bubbleteagrunge for more meetup details and more events
partiful RSVP link: https://partiful.com/e/35JOJ9vwzyxZKu261mRS?c=MCfUm4s5
it's not punk to be transphobic. i'll be the first to say that "punk" being = to "morally good" is laughable. in my view punk is counterculture, and there is nothing more "in with the culture" right now than transphobia. transphobia is more mainstream than ever with trans people getting legislated out of existence, historians are calling it an "anti-transgender genocide." so when i see people who call themselves punk and frequent "punk" spaces like r/punk being openly transphobic or covertly transphobic by downvoting and hating on every band posted here with trans members, it makes me sad but also makes me wonder about the cognitive dissonance involved with claiming to be counterculture while also working so closely with the machine you're doing its job for it.
so anyway, i'm going to list some punk bands that you've probably never heard of (unless you're involved in their local scene) that have trans members, make trans rights a big focus in their music, and/or are trans fronted!
- Eevie Echoes & the Locations
NYC-based, majority-trans members and black-femme fronted, makes queercore music honoring queer history and their current oppression, check out "Dead Elders" and "I JUST WANNA PEE"
- Jack Flowers & the Petaltones
NJ-based, synth-pop/electronic punk, transfemme fronted with an album called "girl clothes" about transitioning, check out "slur" and "the internet"
- Bad Static
NYC-based, riot grrrl, makes intersectional riot grrrl music that is determined to improve upon the mistakes of riot grrrl in the past, guitar player is transfemme and dating the lead singer, check out "Sapphic Lipstain" and "Anatomy Autonomy"
- Sex Van Floor Plan
State College PA based, all transmasculine riot grrrl, just released their new self-titled EP, check out "afab" and "pay2play"
- Pinkshift
Baltimore-based. Okay, I know Pinkshift is more mainstream than the other bands listed but I am adding them here because not many people know Pinkshift is nonbinary fronted! I see them listed among female-fronted punk bands all the time, which is not true, Ashrita is nonbinary, and has also spoken out about losing opportunities ever since coming out as NB because of the industry's failure to categorize them. They're like the coolest band ever, all of them are people of color, so if you haven't heard their music already check it out, I recommend starting with their Saccharine EP and then listening to the rest of their music because all of it is good
- Crush Fund
NYC-based, all transfemme dance punk trio. check out their debut album, "GO!" dropping 7/31!
- Film & Gender
Western Mass based, highly political bass + drum duo, puts on the best live shows, check out "T4T" and "F.W.A.G."
- tricktheriddle
NYC-based, witchpunk, they've posted a bit here on this sub! just released their new album "a chance encounter with the everpresent"
- Lollirot
NYC-based, black nonbinary grunge trio, they have one song out called "Dear Diary"
these are only a handful of bands i can think of that are transgender and proud of it! i tried to include bands that are usually forgotten from these types of lists. i've played with all of these bands before in my own all transgender riot grrrl trio Cat Crash-- (i'm opening for Pinkshift twice this weekend!) and i actively listen to all their music so i know they're good and they are good people.
if you are in the Bridgeport area/live along the metro north/CT rail line, on August 29th I am hosting our 2nd year of "Riot Grrrl's Not Dead!," an all-femme fronted 7 band festival highlighting bands with people of color, transgender people, and queer people. 1/2 of the proceeds will be donated towards Trans Lifeline! "Trans Lifeline is a grassroots hotline and microgrants 501(c)(3) non-profit organization offering direct emotional and financial support to trans people in crisis – for the trans community, by the trans community" [from their website].
here is the link to donate to Trans Lifeline if you're not in the area and can't go to the fest!
https://give.translifeline.org/
i hope you find new music you like and new trans people to support!