Admit it, the coolest thing your high school band ever did was tape a cover of “Creep” using your dad’s webcam. Doesn’t seem that cool now, does it? Certainly not as cool Fly Girlz, a group of teenage MCs who recently made an album with Nathan Corbin (aka Zebrablood) of synth-noise band Excepter.

Tonight DC-based record label Sockets, who released the CD, titled Da’ Brats From Da’ Ville, will be celebrate the record with a dance/listening party at Red Lounge. The ladies themselves probably aren’t going to be in attendance, give that it’s a school night. But DJs from Fatback will be around to blast the Fly Girlz’s music along with some other fine tunes.

Fly Girlz Listening Party @ Red Lounge
2013 14th st.
9 pm.

Sockets, the local record label that has released works by Hume, Little Women, and Extra Life (and, in the interest of full disclosure, myself, albeit a while back), recently posted a Spring mixtape on its freshly redesigned website.

All sorts of good stuff here, most of surprisingly melodious, from Nick Rivetti (aka Ricky Rabbit of Food For Animals) ambient gurgling, to Chris Grier’s (Kohoutek, To Live and Shave in LA, Ultimate VAG) SYR-worthy guitar playing. Most of all, I’m enjoying Excepter’s minimalist remix of Brooklyn’s Zs, which whittles the normally raucous band down to a muted throb.

Here’s the tracklist:

1. Chris Lynn
2. Phat Daughter String Quartet
3. Fly Girlz
4. Nick Rivetti
5. Chris Grier
6. FFFFs
7. ZS (Excepter Remix)
8. Extra Life
9. Layne Garrett