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: vocalist and guitarist Karyn Kuhl, bassist Alice Genese, and drummer Tia Sprocket. One reviewer identified the band with the

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." A critic described their appearance as "defiant women who wear their love of making heavy loud noise like a badge of honor." The band never achieved mainstream success. They played at the

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'' Drummer Tia Sprocket left the band in 1998, and Karyn Kuhl left by 2004, dissolving Sexpod.

Discography

*''Home EP'' (1994) *''Goddess Blues'' (1997)

References

{{Authority control All-female punk bands Punk rock groups from New Jersey LGBT-themed musical groups Musical groups established in 1994 Musical groups disestablished in 2004 Musicians from Hoboken, New Jersey