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Lissy TruLLie

“I wanna punch the next guy who says that I ‘actually’ play the guitar well,” sneers Lissy Trullie. “When people are still surprised by something like that, I’m like, ‘Fuck you.’”

Trullie wasn’t always so brash. Though she’d played in various bands since moving to New York City from Washington, D.C., the longtime Germs and Ramones fan was content to stay in the shadows. “I was happy writing songs for my friends,” she says. “But people really encouraged me to sing my own stuff, so I gave it a try. I’m amazed people are psyched on what I’m doing—I still hate the sound of my voice.”

You wouldn’t know that from listening to the just-released Self-Taught Learner EP (American Myth). With help from Josh Elrod on drums and ex–Saves the Day bassist Eben D’Amico on lead guitar, Trullie serves up tough new-wave riffs and throatily sung girl-group melodies that are as effortlessly cool as her favorite black leather jacket. It’s all topped off by a jangling cover of Hot Chip’s “Ready for the Floor”—the possible reception of which has her nervous. “I’d really hate it if those guys thought my version was a piece of shit,” she says. We’d tell her it’s good, but we’re worried what she might do.