Pom Pom Squad is the musical project of queer, multi-racial artist, Mia Berrin. Born in New York and bounced from town to town through her childhood, the project was born from a feeling of displacement. As a young black, Puerto Rican, woman growing up in predominantly white spaces, she found an escape through her love of music and film. Consuming everything from the candy colors and synth-pop of Heathers to the pastels and gloomy mellotron of The Virgin Suicides; John Waters’s campy, sleazy take on suburbia to David Lynch’s surreal one – and in the process, gained a particular appreciation for the heady mix of music and visuals.

Starting in the New York DIY scene as a grunge act, Pom Pom Squad has since developed a unique sonic tapestry, incorporating Berrin’s love of modern pop, lofty orchestral arrangements, and confessional songwriting.
Pom Pom Squad’s album ‘Death of a Cheerleader’ may have been heralded as one of 2021’s standout indie rock debut records, but with ‘Mirror Starts Moving Without Me’, released in 2024 on City Clang, the band is vehemently disavowing the expectations laid upon them, delivering a body of work that self-examines one’s own limits of identity… before taking a massive sledgehammer to any walls boxing them in.
“Pom Pom Squad is at their best when they come out swinging… Snarling hooks and chugging guitars still anchor these songs and feel more revved up than ever before.” – Rolling Stone