CCC Presents Mannequin Pussy with Pom Pom Squad

The Cornell Concert Commission is excited to present Mannequin Pussy with special guest Pom Pom Squad on Saturday, January 27th in Bailey Hall! Doors at 6pm show at 7pm. Tickets start at $8!

Formed in 2010, Mannequin Pussy’s music feels like a resilient and galvanizing shout that demands to be heard. Across four albums, the Philadelphia rock band, consisting of Colins

“Bear” Regisford (bass, vocals), Kaleen Reading (drums, percussion), Maxine Steen (guitar, synths), and Marisa Dabice (guitar, vocals), have made cathartic tunes about despairing times.

Their latest project I Got Heaven, which is out March 1 via Epitaph Records, is the band’s most fully realized LP yet. Over 10 ambitious tracks that abruptly turn from searing punk to inviting pop, the album is deeply concerned with desire, the power of being alone, and how to live in an

unfeeling and unkind world. Following the 2019 release of their critically acclaimed third album Patience, Mannequin Pussy returned in 2021 for their EP Perfect. They have toured relentlessly, receiving praise for their majestic, gut-wrenching stage presence from an abundance of music journals.

Their lead single “I Got Heaven” embodies the ethos of their upcoming album. The song with its righteous lyrical blending of the sacred and profane is an unapologetic look at Christian hypocrisy. Instead of judgment, greed, and avarice, the songs on I Got Heaven ask what it really means to genuinely care about the people around you. Mannequin Pussy invites listeners to engage urgently, passionately with fundamental human questions about how to live through hair-raising sonic peaks and musical catharsis.

Pom Pom Squad is the solo grunge/rock project of Brooklyn-based artist Mia Berrin. The result of this stymying, galvanizing period—of escaping to come back—is Death of a Cheerleader, Berrin’s critically acclaimed 2021 album. This electrifying project explores contradictory tenets of 21st-century young womanhood—the carnality and the vulnerability, the sugar and the defiance. Pom Pom Squad offers a fresh and decidedly black and queer take on picking up the pieces—from heartbreak, from injustice—and creating yourself anew.

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