Civet is an American punk rock band from Long Beach, California, United States.
The self-described "femme fatale punk rock" band made a breakthrough after signing with Hellcat Records and releasing their first album under this label with the title Hell Hath No Fury.
[1] In an interview the lead singer Liza Graves said, that the name does not only represent the small cat-like animal of tropical Asia and Africa, civet, but was used after they heard it means flower in Slavic languages.
[7] In January 2011 the band announced via their Myspace page that their new album, Love & War, was to be released on 22 February 2011 with "L.A Nights" as the first single.
[9] Their musical style is compared to The Distillers, Bikini Kill, the Runaways[10] and Motörhead on rock’n’roll cocaine.