Machine Girl drop new song + video for ‘Come On Baby, Scrape My Data’
PRAISE FOR Machine Girl
“It’s hard to imagine a better soundtrack for the revolution than Machine Girl”
“Their sound is undeniably shaped by growing up with unlimited internet access, exposed to the raw frontier of image boards, shock sites, and Limewire”
“Relentlessly smashing together bits of punk, grindcore, rave, industrial, and more, the Pittsburgh duo’s maximalist music echoes the cruel momentum of the modern world”
Machine Girl’s ‘Come On Baby, Scrape My Data‘ is out now via Future Classic, buy/stream it here.
Machine Girl, the newly trio’d New York-based electronic hardcore project helmed by Matt Stephenson have dropped a new track, ‘Come On Baby, Scrape My Data’, their first new music since 2024’s uber successful MG Ultra. LISTEN HERE + WATCH HERE.
Layering a guttural bassline atop a woozy old-school computer loop, the track conjures a frenetic bounce from the depths of cyberspace. “It was written after experiencing something creepy and fucked up, either with A.I. or the surveillance state,” Stephenson reveals. “My phone knows me way too well—which is a feeling we’ve all gotten very used to within the last ten years. The song teases big tech companies, taunting them to come and try to take our data and identities.”
WATCH: Come On Baby, Scrape My Data (Official Video)
Some music moves you. Some music rearranges your DNA. Machine Girl does the latter — a full-throttle sensory overload channelled through breakneck BPMs, live drums, digital distortion, and raw, unfiltered emotion. Activating rave weapon and noise ritual equilibrium, the project has become a lifeline for freaks of every breed — ravers, metalheads, gamers, goths, industrialists. It doesn’t fit into genre. It tears genre apart and feeds it back to you, pixelated and burning.
2024’s MG Ultra incited the most enthusiastic critical applause of the band’s career so far. Pitchfork professed, “Their music together plays like the soundtrack to the final boss level of some finger-blistering bullet hell, ” and Dazed mused, “it’s hard to imagine a better soundtrack for the revolution than Machine Girl.” The subsequent tour went on to sell over 55,000 tickets, with the album garnering millions of streams, becoming one of their biggest albums to date.
This chaos isn’t just sonic – it’s communal. As described by Backseat Mafia in their review, at a Machine Girl show, you’re shoulder to shoulder with a sea of goths, e-kids, ravers, and scene hybrids who look like they know something the rest of the city doesn’t. Someone’s filming on a Nintendo DS. Someone else is clutching a Kuromi plush like a life jacket. The atmosphere teeters between rave and ritual, a kind of 8-bit summoning that bypasses logic and triggers something deeper, primal, even absurd. Every moment is overstimulation pushed to the brink – a full-body fight-or-flight experience.
That energy was on full display during Machine Girl’s recent Australian tour, a whirlwind run of sold-out shows in Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane, and a standout performance at the dystopian playground of Dark Mofo. Equal parts catharsis and chaos, the tour confirmed what fans already knew: Machine Girl isn’t just a band. It’s a system reboot.
The Machine Girl narrative bridges the divide for all types of freaks. Becoming widely known for their vitriolic, organic, massive grassroots following, developed through a sense of aesthetic maximalism, both online and BUT MAINLY off. Founded by Matt Stephenson and percussionist Sean Kelly, the union of their frenetic sound, DIY ethos and distinctly hi-fi, widescreen vision has garnered profound resonance throughout culture and across fans worldwide.
Machine Girl have become dually infamous for their cathartic, unpredictable, acrobatic performances and their uncompromising, genre-oblivious catalogue, boasting a reputation as one of the most compelling performance offerings of the underground. Kerrang! listed them as one of the “bands expanding the definition of hardcore,” and described the project as, “a particularly… ferocious breed of the electronic sub-genre breakcore that could easily pass for hardcore when they rip it live.”
In 2022, Machine Girls’ first worldwide tour hit 24 countries and 34 cities, over 41 days, with their first-ever UK and Aus runs sold out entirely in pre-sale. Come 2023 they teamed up with 100 gecs for a sold-out six-week run across the US. In the time since, as an entirely independent group Machine Girl have cultivated over 1 million monthly listeners on Spotify, culminating in their signing to like-minded label innovators, Future Classic.
Keep in touch