Little Hag is working through their issues and has a 3rd album to prove it, out now on Bar/None Records. “Now That’s What I Call Little Hag” aptly showcases the wide ranging songwriting of Avery Mandeville that takes aim at men and The Man, as seen on FX’s Resident Alien, Rolling Stone’s Best of SXSW 2025, Vevo’s DSCVR Indie and Pride: DSCVR Future Icons. They’ve performed their powerful feminist anthems at The Echo with Naked Giants, Feile Na Greine Festival in Limerick, and at The Stone Pony in their hometown of Asbury Park with Bright Eyes, Alex G, Interpol and Spoon. Narc Magazine says “fans of opinionated, unflinchingly explicit, female-led punk rock should jump straight into this one."

On the new record, they rage against capitalism when things go awry while working at a Jersey bar in “1000 Birds.” Avery skewers an ex in “Would It Kill You?” and “You Blew It!” but she can also turn the lens around and scrutinize herself (“God I'm So Annoying,” “HHSTTHN”). The songs “All 3” and “Oops!” ponder the private vs. the public persona, while “Suck Out The Pain” imagines a way to surgically remove heartache. Finally, she finds new love on the sappy sapphic track “King Cake.” Oh yeah, there’s also an ode to her vibrator (“The Machine”) that might just be a metaphor for the coming AI revolution. 

Little Hag was formed in 2016 in the suburbs of central Jersey by Mandeville, guitarist Matt "Fern" Fernicola and drummer Owen Flanagan; joined in recent years by bassist Mitchell Warren-Devlin and keyboardist/vocalist Cara Introcaso. Fern and Avery came up together in the open mic scene, eventually hosting their own at the legendary Inkwell Coffeehouse in West Long Branch where they worked on what would become Avery’s debut self titled material. After signing to Hoboken’s Bar/None Records in 2020, they released Whatever Happened To Avery Jane, a compilation of older tunes with the new summer bummer pop single “Tetris” about the mortifying feeling of COVID induced lust. Then came the truly messy, NSFW heavy hitters on 2021’s Breakfast EP, an unholy trinity of "Piss,” “Blood" and "Cum.” Their following sophomore LP Leash was abrasive and daring, calling out a variety of shitty dudes - exes, alcoholics and old man stalkers - and the ugly ways we self sabotage.

For Now That’s What I Call Little Hag, Mandeville got out of Jersey to clear her head after a breakup. She quit her job and went to Durham, NC to visit friends and write a song every day for the month of January before settling into her new home in South Philly, recording with engineer Mark Watter (Alex G, Liz Delise) at Headroom Studios and Erik Kase Romero (The Front Bottoms). Little Hag are self-proclaimed bitch rockers who deliver undeniably modern earworms with infectious live energy, unabashed audacity and a penchant for the uncomfortable and taboo. 

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