Austin four-piece Die Spitz emerged in 2022 like the bats that make their nightly summer flight out from under their hometown’s Congress Avenue Bridge. Ava Schrobilgen, Chloe De St. Aubin, Ellie Livingston, and Kate Halter trade off instruments and lead vocals, and their sound mixes punky alt-rock with metal and hard rock. They’ve also nailed the combo of wink and snarl perfected early on by foremothers L7—Schrobilgen’s gritty singing on “Hair of Dog” (from their 2023 breakout EP, Teeth ) even sounds like Donita Sparks. “Spitz” means “sharp” or “pointed” in German, and of course it’s also a type of dog—in keeping with that gag, Teeth is jam-packed with wild and sometimes bloody canine imagery. Die Spitz would just as soon gross you out as beat you into submission with their high-octane

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