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Material Girls, Atlanta's Fabulous Drag-Punks, Force A 'Residual Grimace'

Material Girls' <em>Leather</em> comes out July 2.

' glam-soaked, goth-smeared rock and roll struts and stumbles like a fish-netted pair of legs breaking in new heels. The drag-punk last year via Henry Owings' venerable Chunklet label housing four songs dripping in danger and sweat, like a whiskey-swigging partying with . It's music for the darkly lit corners of a humid night.

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