“Tracy City is both a fictional band in an experimental feature film screenplay, and also a very real trash rock lesbian presence in present day hyper-gentrified New York City, produced by legendary NYHC producer Don Fury (Agnostic Front, Gorilla Biscuits). Think Bush Tetras meet the Pandoras by way of Gary Numan.”
EPK (electronic press kit) – Tracy City
“Whereas youth culture used to be the button on the bomb that is radical revolution, now, social change takes second place to likes and curated self-love. But that doesn’t mean there’s no hope — or that there aren’t still people, like artist Katrina del Mar and her band, Tracy City, saying ‘fuck you’ no matter what.”
“Tracy City set the tone with raw punk venom. Fronted by the electric Katrina Delmar, a force of nature in her own right. She doesn’t just sing; she commands, flipping between fiery defiance and wicked cool with ease…She brought the kind of layered intensity you can’t fake. A true punk polymath throwing gasoline on the night’s first fire.” – Pat Rogers NYState Music
“All this experience has boiled down to del Mar being a formidable lead singer, even if she’s too humble to admit it or claim her band is kind in tolerating her. “I know I’m not a good singer, but I have a little bit of style and performing is fun for me. I recognize it as a form of generosity to give a good show,” she said.”
“On its surface, New York band Tracy City’s new single “Luddite” is a poignant rock anthem for the fed-up working class in the digital age: “I’m a Luddite, I don’t log on,” sings lead vocalist Katrina del Mar. Deeper listens reveal a rock-solid resolution to self-preservation as everything around us changes, whether for better or for worse.” – Michael Love Michael, Paper Magazine
“Slag, who’s been performing since she was 14 …. recalls a little hazily. “I’m not sure if the rumors are true about opening for the Dead Kennedys and GBH, but then again I’ve seen flyers for shows I played that I don’t remember at all,” Slag tells PureHoney. “I was on a lot of drugs in the 80’s but I know for sure we opened for 7 seconds!” – Abel Folgar
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“…a garage rock band, Tracy City, which happens to be made up entirely of lesbians and self-proclaimed perimenopausal Riot Grrrls.” – Jade Mosely, BUST
“There’s a lot going on in Katrina Del Mar’s head. Take the time she was driving from a funeral in Louisville and passed a sign for a town called Tracy City. “I’ve never been there, but in my mind it’s a sad little place full of girls named Tracy, who are a combo of Ramona the Pest and a Riot Grrrl, full of adolescent longing and anger, ready to beat you up,” Del Mar says. “I thought it would be a great name for a band.” Now Del Mar fronts a combo named “Tracy City,” and it’s just the latest step in her artistic development.” – Bob Krasner, AM New York / The Villager.
Tracy City, a female foursome led by East Village resident Katrina Del Mar. Their energetic punk inspired rock won over many new fans including DeRito, who called their set “freaking amazing!” –Bob Krasner, The Villager “One Way or Another”
Meet Our Fav New NYC Band: Tracy City Through brash, pounding singles, like their debut, “Love,” Del Mar, along with guitarist Monica Falcone, drummer Genny Slag and bassist Liz Velic, deliver their subversive take on everything from politics, to friendship, to loss, all with their own kind of queer punk rock spirit that makes you question whether it’s truly young people that will save us from ourselves. I mean, who said women over 40 can’t fuck things up?”