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Care Bears On Fire
12+ albums
pop punkriot grrrlGarage Rockfemale vocalistsso bad ass its not even funny
about
Care Bears on Fire is a Brooklyn-based band featuring Sophie Kasakove (guitar & lead vocals), Izzy Schappell-Spillman (drums & backing vocals) and Jena Gilbert-Merrill (bass & backing vocals) who label themselves as pop-punk, with alternative and garage elements mixed in. To-date, they have released two EPs and two full-length albums. Formed in 2005 when Sophie, Izzy, original bassist Lucio Westmoreland, keyboard player August Rosenthal, and guitarist Michael Kokiko were all classmates at Park Slope's Berkeley Carroll School, the band settled on the name Care Bears on Fire as they liked the idea of mixing something sweet with something edgy. In 2006, Michael and August both departed due to creative differences, before the band managed to get its first big break when New York Magazine did a profile about them in the Summer of the same year. Following the article's publication, the "power-trio" shot into the limelight with outlets such as Spin magazine labeling the group "key players in the burgeoning New York kid-core scene". They went on to release their debut EP, Confuse Me, via Beautiful Records at a show in 2006, which swiftly sold out and paved the way for things to come. In February 2007 as the buzz about the band began to grow, the aspiring trio made their Manhattan debut at Pianos, in an event which, despite not being advertised as an all-ages show, featured a crowd who were much older than each of the band's members. Shortly after, they began working on new materia
