Crocodiles are a two-piece from San Diego, USA formed in 2008 playing lo-fi new wave, featuring former members of The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower. They have released a 7” on Zoo Music, and a split 7” on Art Fag records with Dum Dum Girls and Graffiti Island. They released their debut LP entitled “Summer of Hate” in April 2009, and released their sophomore album “Sleep Forever” on Fat Possum records in the fall of 2010.

Tweens are very much their own band, bratty and precocious, sincere and genuine. The band’s name conjuresjust the right image: screaming hordes afflicted with Beatlemania, teenyboppers out for a good time, the underage, over-the-top punks in Ladies and Gentlemen: The Fabulous Stains. Think of cheery kids at their most excited, but juxtaposed with lyrics about bad boyfriends and unrelenting independency. Tweens are not a riot grrrl revisionist band, but they are a ferociously honest one.