A Demand for Racial Justice from Coup Sauvage and the Snips, Renewed and Remixed
“Our pain, our rage, our outrage, our sadness, our grief — we wanted to translate that into something celebratory.”
A Photographic Look Back At Women In D.C. Punk
Photographer Antonia Tricarico started documenting D.C.’s punk scene as soon as she moved to the District from Italy.
Polemicists in Sequin Dresses
Coup Sauvage on art, punk, parenting and Heirs To Nothing.
Premiere: Coup Sauvage and The Snips Preach For a Better D.C. on Heirs to Nothing
Enter Coup Sauvage and The Snips and their debut album, Heirs of Nothing. A DMV-born six-piece, Coup Sauvage are the disco-punks that D.C. deserves.
The Evolving Politics of Punk in the Nation's Capital
Coup Sauvage's music combines disco, hip-hop, house, electronic, and dance with a message that challenges power structures and calls for progressive action and awareness.
Track Work: Coup Sauvage & The Snips, ‘Requiem For A Mountaintop’
When the members of Coup Sauvage & The Snips get angry, they grab a microphone.
— WAMU
Brightest Young Things: Super Sampler Face/Off Interview
Up and comers? No way, LEGENDS…and if you didn’t know, I think they’ll make it clear that they own everything.
One Track Mind: Coup Sauvage and the Snips, "Sneaks"
Despite forming in April 2011, Coup Sauvage sounds like it time traveled from a 1982 regional dance TV show.
Heirs to Realness
CS+TS blends D.C.’s best musical traditions — part girl-group soul, part punk. It takes up what’s long been D.C.’s musical call to arms: calling the truth out, pulpit-style.
TVD Live: The Make-Up at the Black Cat
Coup Sauvage & the Snips are aptly described as the music of the sweaty summer street fair, the late-night club show and the over-packed house party, their sounds born from and representative of their community.