Bachelorette party for a pre-wedding party, "hen party" was used in the United States as a general term for an all-female gathering, usually held at a hostess's residence. In 1897, "The Deseret News" noted that a hen party was a "time honored idea that tea and chitchats, gossip smart hats, constitute the necessary adjuncts to these particular gatherings". In 1940 Eleanor Roosevelt was described as hosting a Christmas-time hen party for cabinet wives and "ladies of the press". The bachelorette party is consciously modeled after the centuries-old bachelor's party, which is itself historically a black tie dinner given by the bridegroom, or
The USA Is a Monster first EP and LP released on the tiny Infrasound label. The group signed to Load Records in 2003 and issued four full-lengths on the label – "Tasheyana Compost" in 2003, "Wohaw" in 2005, "Sunset at the End of the Industrial Age" in 2006, and "Space Programs" in 2008. Their last album of new material, "R.I.P.", was released on Northern Spy Records in 2010, after the band officially announced their break-up in 2009. The band released a compilation of old material entitled "Lost and Found" on cassette via Northern Spy in 2012. The USA Is a Monster The USA Is a