Whirr dropped from Run For Cover Records for transphobic tweets
San Francisco shoegaze/rock band Whirr are currently under fire for recent transphobic comments made on Twitter, mostly regarding punk band G.L.O.S.S. who released a relentless ripper of a demo EP at the beginning of 2015.
Since Whirr's tweets made the rounds, Run For Cover Records, a label Whirr has worked with on at least a few releases, announced that they would no longer be working with the band due to their behavior. You can see some of Whirr's tweets and Run For Cover's response below.
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Lol @ G.L.O.S.S
— Whirr (@free_whirl) October 17, 2015
@toothlessmile there is literally nothing not hilarious about that “band”.
— Whirr (@free_whirl) October 17, 2015
@samufiser misogyny is hating women. g.l.o.s.s. Is just a bunch of boys running around in panties making shitty music.
— Whirr (@free_whirl) October 19, 2015
They also touched on suicide…
@elohellie lol attempting suicide. If you're gonna do it, do it right the first time.
— Whirr (@free_whirl) October 20, 2015
@elohellie @ShieldExhile nah, that's an actual stance on suicide. My mom commited suicide why can't all these trans kids get it right?
— Whirr (@free_whirl) October 20, 2015
Whether or not it was all the tweets bringing the situation to their attention, RFC acted:
We as individuals and as a label are accepting of all people and require the same from the bands and people we work with…
— Run For Cover (@rfcrecords) October 20, 2015
We will not be working with Whirr from this point on and do not support that behavior in anyway. We will post a full statement tomorrow.
— Run For Cover (@rfcrecords) October 20, 2015
G.L.O.S.S. is awesome and crucially important and we need more bands like them.
— Run For Cover (@rfcrecords) October 20, 2015
Naturally, Whirr got a ton of hate tweets; some harsher than others. They retweeted probably all of them… Here is just a fraction to give you an idea.
Whirr retweeting all the bad things people are saying about them just further proves the point that they're fucking assholes.
— olivia⛅️ (@saehaven) October 20, 2015
I hope you all get robbed and beat up for this shit https://t.co/vZlzi5uDWc
— nonstop nutting (@emoXdad) October 20, 2015
I will honestly beat up the members of whirr. Whip their asses like their ashamed moms should have done long ago
— whirr = caca (@yannickpb) October 20, 2015
I hope your fucking van flips off the highway @free_whirl
— P. (@peterxbruh) October 20, 2015
Whirr is a garbage band full of garbage scumbags
— Kenneth (@CoffeeEyes17) October 20, 2015
@parrot_flies I don't want to be affiliated with whoever the fuck supports whirr. not only is their music shitty but so are they
— sarah with the H (@parrot_flies) October 20, 2015
Can Whirr be set on fire
— ADULT MOM (@adultmomband) October 20, 2015
Honestly its fucked up that people have been supporting Whirr prior to this violence, they've ALWAYS been fucked up.
— ADULT MOM (@adultmomband) October 20, 2015
G.L.O.S.S.'s vocalist fired back at Whirr with some acerbic tweets of her own:
@free_whirl I just made a Twitter solely to fuck w/u �� #thisisthesingerofgloss #willactuallyeaturliverwithfavabeans
— SadieSwitchblade (@trannyterrorist) October 20, 2015
@free_whirl r u just sad u missed the boat on punk and play music for people with Macklemore hair who blog about bacon-infused bloodymarys?
— SadieSwitchblade (@trannyterrorist) October 20, 2015
@free_whirl “boys in panties” > boys with clean flannels and backstage laminates who hate women because they know women are superior to them
— SadieSwitchblade (@trannyterrorist) October 20, 2015
@free_whirl your band is nothing but background music for Pitchfork-reading GoogleGlass enthusiasts and NPR liberals
— SadieSwitchblade (@trannyterrorist) October 20, 2015
@free_whirl when ur listening to Mumford&Sons in the Sprinter van on the way to SXSW pour out a craft beer for me plz
— SadieSwitchblade (@trannyterrorist) October 20, 2015
