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Group members:

Sondra Menthers, guitars, background vocals
Linda Werbelow, lead vocals
Voodoo Hicks, bass, production and synthesizers
Kurt "I'm EZ" Mize, drums

Artist description: Wound Girls is a female punk/alternative band with an intellectual appeal crossing age and gender boundaries. Our lyrics are mostly political and mostly focus on feminist, anti-racist, and pro-bisexual issues. Our fans range from very young to college age and beyond. We have a strong yet seductive image.Campus Circle says "Wound comes on with a vengeance...filled with lits of attitude". Queer Magazine says "This is Sondra Menthers new band's collection of finely crafted...intelligent, feminist-minded tunes..."

Artist history: Continuing the riot girl tradition, Wound Girls is lead by former Runaways lead guitarist Sondra Menthers. Bandmembers have played with other seminal LA punk groups such as Slot Rockets, Killer Instinct, and Gash. Wound has been together 5 years. All our songs have reached the top 3 on the MP3 charts!!!!.

Albums CD EP: Out 4 Blood, 12 Song CD

Music style: punk

Musical influences: Hole, Offspring, Green Day, Soundgarden, Nirvana, B52s, Sex Pistols, Dead Kennedys

Location: :Los Angeles, CA - USA

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Review:

I listened to two songs from this up-and-coming female punk/alternative band, namely Isolationist and Damaged Goods.
They are rich with brash, in-your-face arrogance and tough girl-power lyrics.Their musical influences spring from such punk bands as Offspring, Green Day, Nirvana and Sex Pistols.

Lead guitarist and manager, Sondra Menthers blends youthful enthusiasm with blatant feminism, a very powerful and provocative combination. Widely heard on stations such as Altered States, Fetish Tunes, Razors Edge and Queer Theories, this all-girl band is based in Los Angeles, California.

Interview about the song Damaged goods:

What is this song about?
"Damaged Goods was written from personal experience that me (Sondra) had being a stripper and a Dominatrix and that Linda had being friends with a lot of strippers and porn stars and its a kind of combination of things that we have all either seen or went through or that our friends have gone through."

What perspective is it from?
"It is from the perspective of the stripper/dominatrix singing the song to the customers. 'For all you pricks...' are the guys who go to the bachelor parties, or call girls out of the LA Express for service and how we like to humiliate, beat, or diss them."

Do you have anything you'd like to say to your fans?
"We really love our fans and want you to help us overthrow authority!"

Press reviews

"..finely crafted, intelligent collection of feminist-minded tunes.." Queer - June 1999 "...a punk record full of melody, fury, insight and hope." Campus Circle,March 1998 "...Out 4 Blood starts out with a vengeance...filled with lots of attitude." Highwire Daze,February/March 1998 "...PMS-core to the Maxipad!" Censor This Issue #19~IDN - 9/5/98 ~Angry Thoreau, June, 1998 ~X-TRA Magazine - April #19 ~Pathetic Life Fanzine - Winter 1998/99 ~Far From Home - Issue #9 ~NoFi fanzine - March/April ~Manic Depressant Issue #7 ~WaxZine (Sweden) 1/99