Local Teen Girl bands in NYC

By Elyse Inamine

Local teen girl squads!

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  Supercute

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  Care Bears on Fire

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  Toy Sugar

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Supercute

Care Bears on Fire
Bratty lyrics and electric-guitar riffs define this pop-punk, all-girl group from Brooklyn. In fall 2010, the band dropped their EP Girls Like It Loud, which tackles teen troubles and promotes girl power. Preteen punkers will know their angsty anthems from popular Nickelodeon shows like True Jackson, VP and Victorious.
Hear their tunes! Download “ATM” and “What I Could Be” on iTunes.

Supercute!
The psychedelic indie trio, led by Rachel Trachtenburg of the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, sings about hula hoops and boys (catch 15-year-old crooner Jack Skuller’s cameo in their music video for the tune “Not to Write About Boys”). After performing at this year’s SXSW in Austin, the sugary-sweet songstresses will jet off to London in the summer, where they’ll lay down some tracks with Brit indie-pop darling Kate Nash.
Hear their tunes! June 11 at 3pm at Googie’s Lounge on the Lower East Side; June 15 at 6:30pm at St. Marks Underground Theater in the East Village; and June 17 at 6:30pm at Vaudeville Park in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Toy Sugar
Don’t let their giggly, high-school girl personas fool you. These city teens morphed from music junkies to sophisticated rocker chicks after a week at the Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls. They’ve even opened for indie punk bands like Titus Andronicus and Kathleen Hanna from Le Tigre.
Hear their tunes! June 18 noon–6pm at the Rockstock and Barrels fest in Rockaway Beach, Queens, and June 21 5–8pm at at Brooklyn Junior in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.