With their second full-length album City Gurl arriving November 7, 2025 via Get Better Records and Insecurity Hits, Brooklyn’s Frida Kill continue to fuse feminist fire, garage grit, and post-punk attitude. They’ve already teased the release with a fun video featuring friends spending the perfect day at the iconic Rockaway Beach. As City Gurl approaches, the band gives us sharp glimpses into their influences, style, and connection to New York. The City Gurl record release party will take place on November 9 at Main Drag Music. 📷: Steve Perry
★ City Gurl will be released next month. What are some New York scenes that scream “City Gurl” to you?
Maria Lina: Protesting the genocide. Standing up to I.C.E agents. Tickle-back shots (tequila + pickle back), making out at a dive bar after taking them, vinyl DJs, curly hair, big boobs, platform boots, black clothing.
Gaby: Running for the train, sitting on a stoop, moshing at a DIY show.
★ What does City Gurl say about where Frida Kill are right now?
Lily: In the year after releasing our first record, while the city shook off the COVID era and tried to fight off the oncoming era of political oppression, this is where we were at. I retreated into my room, listened to a lot of post-punk and darkwave, rediscovered my electric cello, and wrote “The Crowd” and “Burn It Down”. I went off on capitalism and wound up with “Inevitability”. “Every Way” actually almost made it onto the first album, back when I was struggling to navigate disclosure while dating, but I needed to mature a bit to finish writing it, and I liked the cello for it.
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★ Which album made you say, “I want to make music”?
Maria Lina: The Bricks Are Heavy – L7.
Gaby: Le Tigre – Le Tigre.
Jeanette: No album in particular. Living in New York surrounded by DIY bands made me realize that if my friends could do it, I could too.
Lily: Literally every album I’ve ever listened to, but I definitely started guitar with Patti Smith’s Horses and Sonic Youth’s Goo.
★ Who are some of your favorite bands in the Brooklyn/NY scene?
Maria Lina: Desert Sharks, Spite Fuxxx, Eevie Echoes, TOWER, Josephine Network, Milagro Verde, Substitute, Nite Music, Ace Bandage, Brook Pridemore, Tony & The Kiki, Radar, Shilpa Ray, Mala Vista, 95 Bulls, TVOD, Witch Slap, Shadow Monster, Leathered, Nevva, Ousternash, Nihiloceros, Short Porch.
Gaby: Red Tank!, Spite Fuxx, Depresion Tropical, Desert Sharks, TVOD, Winter Wolf, Evie Echoes.
Jeanette: Rebelmatic, Red Tank, Genuine Connection, Eevie Echoes, TVOD, 95 Bulls, Spite Fuxxx, AVSE, Depresion Tropical, MAAFA.
★ Every artist has one story that sounds fake when they tell it. What’s yours?
Maria Lina: I once ate mushrooms before a set, and the writing on my set list completely disappeared. I had no idea which song came next.
Gaby: Once, WE got kicked out of a pool after hours while on psychedelics.
Jeanette: The weirdest stuff always happens when we leave the city. Everything goes sideways when you can’t find seltzer water, a bacon-egg-and-cheese, or a decent bagel.
Lily: I impaled a live rat stepping out of my car in three-inch heels. I paused to observe the frankly SHOCKING amount of blood, then played a highly compartmentalized show. Poor rat.
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