I just like this band more everyday. LISTEN to the new MEN song
SOURCE.Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
X-Ray Eyeballs
Hey! Go see my gal LIZ's (on guitar) new band X-Ray Eyeballs tonight at Glasslands, Brooklyn.
Monday, February 27, 2012
Divorce from Glasgow with little girl mosh pit
Divorce is a femme-thrash 4 piece from Glasgow. Check out the little girl at 1:35.
Sunday, February 26, 2012
kira roessler - bet you didn't know Black Flag had a female bassist
Kira Roessler, bassist for Black Flag 1983-85
above, Black Flag promo picture.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Monday, February 13, 2012
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Laughing Hyenas
Laughing Hyenas. Larissa Strickland on guitar, awesome sound. I saw this band so many times when I was a teen in the midwest and really wish I had paid more attention. Thats my lesson for today, appreciate everything while you can.
My teen student Webb Crawford plays with Debbie Harry!
Miss Webb Crawford, protege guitarist and long time guitar student, (far right with the big orange Gretsch guitar) plays with Debbie Harry at the Hard Rock Cafe with her high school class! She also performed "Stormy Weather" and "Maybe I'm Lost." Webb is truly EXCEPTIONAL on guitar, can't wait to see more of her...in front of the horns!! Yay Webb!
From Thursday, February 2, 2012.
Guitareste!!
I was thrilled to do an interview with Guitareste.com ! Check out and support her amazing blog for women guitarists.
Friday, February 3, 2012
There's still a few TIX left...
I was fortunate enough to get tickets for the premiere last night! I've been waiting a year for this, ever since I heard Neal Medlyn was working on a theatre show about the band ICP. Check it out if you can, there's only a few days left. Plus see our drummer (The Julie Ruin's own) Carmine Cavelli as the DJ. Prepare to be blown away and don't drink too much Faygo from the water cooler in the lobby like I did. Despite the Faygo sugar/stomach attack, I didn't want this show to end.
Above, clown brotherhood.
Above: I have deer in the headlight eyes! Excited to hang with Neal Medlyn, the master of this show.
Drum Contest
Check out http://www.hitlikeagirl2012.com/ contest for female drummers. Prizes include cash and drum gear.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Late and fussy
I was late on listening to Lykke Li, and while not everything released is as good as this song, there are some real beautiful parts on Wounded Rhymes. Bo-Diddly-esque beat, yeah!
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Friday, January 20, 2012
Thursday, January 19, 2012
From Flavorwire
Flavorwire's Guide to 10 Feminist Country Songs
Vintage and modern country songs are on their list, posted today. Watching Dolly Parton reminds me that I need to start practicing to be like her when I wake up in my next life. This Kitty Wells song is the second thing I ever learned on Uke, the first was a Buzzcocks song.
The Julie Ruin news....
Check The Julie Ruin webpage for news... So many songs near completion. I couldn't be more excited.
Kenny Mellman (keys/vox), me (guitar/vox), Kathleen Hanna (Lead Vox), Kathi Wilcox (bass/vox), Carmine Covelli (drums/vox)
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
The Little Girls
The Little Girls from 1982-5, L.A., a power pop street band featuring Clem Burke and Nigel Harrison from Blondie. They had two hits, "The Earthquake Song" and "How to Pick Up Girls" and opened for The Boomtown Rats, The Call, Janis Ian, The Pretenders and others.Thursday, January 12, 2012
Chickfactor
Chickfactor 20th Anniversary shows in Brooklyn and DC. See all SHOWS HERE
Photo: Black Tamborine
Photo: Small Factory
Monday, January 2, 2012
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Pedal Board gallery
I forgot that the main reason I started this blog was for collecting pedal board images. Here's a couple more, thanks to my dearest friend J.W.
Dub Trio (Dec 2011)
Women in 1978
Oh, these are all SO, SO good. This started when I posted A Taste Of Honey's "Boogie Oogie Oogie" on Dec 20, 2011 and wanted to compare it to other songs from that year. This may be my favorite posting so far. Also in 1978 Loretta Lynn wins best country artist of the year, Bee Gee's "Staying Alive" soundtrack is no.1, Nancy Spungen dies in Chelsea Hotel.
Finally, all the words to "Ring My Bell"...
Always reminds me of making up a dance routine to this with my babysitter on the beige living room carpet. Also of George Hamilton as Dracula in that Love at First Bite movie...
BASS LINE. Bass appreciation week starts now.
Watch this for the introductory guitar solo by Nancy Wilson.
When Joan Jett fronted the band, no Cherie Currie. Great song.
Unusual song by Siouxie. Just can't get enough of this.
In my heart I'm into glam rock the most.
Carol Kaye
Friend her on Facebook and see the fabulous lessons she posts daily (HERE). She is a role model teacher and one of the greatest bassists ever.
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
3 Movies from 20 years ago that Still Hold Up
Here are 3 women-based comedy/dramas from 1991-2 that I watched over the holiday break on late-late night cable. These movies were well cast, chockfull of important women issues, and fully (I swear!) worth re-watching.
A real "Rockford Peach"
A League of Their Own (1992) starring Lori Petty, Geena Davis, Tom Hanks, Madonna. Directed by Penny Marshall.
Taglines: "There's no crying in baseball!" and "A women's place is on home, first, second, and third."
Madonna was at her apex of super-stardom here, yet cast as a co-star. Thats why all the posters show her bigger than Tom Hanks, or sometimes just her with a baseball bat. This is the fictionalized story of the real Rockford Peaches, one of the All-American Girls Pro Baseball Leagues (1943-1954) that existed while men were off fighting the war. Tom Hanks is the consistently hungover coach who learns to curb his drinking for the sake of the women's team and finds a friend in the do-gooder Dottie, the team catcher (Geena Davis). His spitting physical comedy here is at its best and quite possibly the last really funny role he's played. The women play ball with fury all the while knowing that inevitably the men will be back and Women's Baseball will sadly soon come to an end. There's a real Girls-Rock-Camp feel to the characters - all the women work their way into a boy's club, all are dedicated, hard hitters, and most are loud yet vulnerable. The ending is a bit of a mixed bag bummer (looking back when they're older in 1988) but in all its silly, fun, retro, and totally inspirational.
Thelma and Louise (1991) starring Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel, Brad Pitt. Directed by Ridley Scott.
Tagline: "Someone said get a life... so they did."
Don't let The Simpson's parodies of this or the general saturation of "2 women in a Thunderbird convertible on a nihilistic road-trip" stop you from watching this movie again. Try to watch it as if you've never seen it before. When this movie came out, we thought women's roles in cinema were going to change forever, that this would clearly rewrite women's characters in to multi-dimensional rebels and leading roles ...but its easy to see that it didn't change as much or as often as we thought. Geena Davis stars again, this time as a housewife who barely escapes a violent act, and learns to live for the first time as a fearless, gun holding yet politely feminine outlaw (manners count!). Susan Sarandon, always amazing, is scared, trapped, fighting, and beautiful all at the same MOMENT. Harvey Keitel is not at his best, but then again, this isn't his most ambitious role. Brad Pitt always plays a perfect dumb blonde with humor. Raw, enlightening, scary, ultra modern.
Death Becomes Her (1992) starring Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, Bruce Willis. Directed by Robert Zemeckis.
Tagline: "Some people will go to any lengths to stay looking young."
This story of 2 L.A. women obsessed with looking young is just as poignant today, if not MORE, then ever. Meryl Streep plays a character who has consistently stolen Goldie Hawn's men since they were kids, then goes on to steal her husband (the bumbling DUD of a man Bruce Willis). And c'mon, Meryl Streep can do no wrong, she is always fabulous, so watch it for that alone. This is some serious silliness and some seriously early CGI...but it works. Full on comedy/90's slapstick. The problem is this: we laugh at these women who will do anything to hang on to firm butts, wonder-bra chests, and perfect skin.. but, because of Isabella Rossellini's insatiable sexiness as the head mistress of anti-aging, who can blame them for wanting it? I might want the youth-serum too if she's selling it. In a nut-shell its funny, light, smart, & cringeworthy.
Friday, December 23, 2011
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
A Taste of Honey - watch that BASS hand...
R&B/Disco band "A Taste of Honey" (1971-82) from Los Angeles were Janice Marie Johnson (bass) and Hazel Payne (guitar), as well as Perry Kibble (keys) and Donald Johnson (drums). As any bassist knows, its not so easy to sing and play at the same time - especially over disco rhythms and riffs.
I saw this on VH1 Classics about 15 years ago and have been searching for a video of it ever since. Her bass hand and style really blew me away. I remember sitting on a couch at a friend's apartment on Bowery and seeing this, both of us saying "whoa" at the same time. And I never forgot it after all these years. Thanks to the internet, I was able to find out that it was "A Taste of Honey" and here it is.
Girls Rock Coloring Book -whatta gift?!
Check out the insides HERE! .....And is that a little girl with a Warlock Guitar stepping on a pedal?!
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