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Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story [Paperback]. Get it now!


Q&A: L.A. Punk Rocker Alice Bag on Life as a Chicana Rebel and Violence Girl, her new book.

Punk literature is often given to tiresome romanticizing and rehashed clichés, but Alice Bag's recent autobiography, Violence Girl, offers a poignant, personal story from the unique perspective of a poor Hispanic woman raised in East LA. The book focuses on Bag grappling with her Chicana identity and feminist politics while fronting her seminal 1970's punk band, The Bags. In the radical punk scene of late-70's Hollywood, she found the strength to reconcile a tumultuous relationship with her abusive father and acquired skills that propelled her pursuit of political activism and teaching later in life. In this interview, Alice reflects on her early experience with punk and glam rock and analyzes the role of her book and persona in the larger feminist and Chicano movement. In the Bay Area this week, Bag will be reading and performing short acoustic sets: Jan. 11, San Francisco Public Library, Main Branch; Jan. 12: Amoeba Music, Berkeley; Jan. 13: 1-2-3-4 Go! Records, Oakland.

How has the book tour been going?
It's been great. My publisher is very small, so I book all my readings, do the networking and even have to buy my own books and then resell them to stores where I'm reading. The feedback I receive is really what keeps me going. It encourages me to book another show and drive across the country to some place I've never been before and sleep on somebody's couch so that I can read in front of strangers.



Violence Girl Trailer Survive - The Bags



What do you think of the progress that female musicians have made in the past 30 years?
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Interview w/ Alice Bag


On November 27th 2011, Alicia Velasquez "Alice Bag" of first wave L.A. punk band, The Bags gave an in store performance/reading at Dr. Strange Records as one of many stops on tour for her recently published book, Violence Girl. Afterwards, she was kind enough to answer a few questions for the Punk Globe readers.


The Bags - Survive
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The Bags - We will bury you (1978)
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The Bags are not the only musical group she's fronted:

Alice Bag on Signs of The Time
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Brief interview and profile of Alice Bag aka Alicia Armendariz on a local Los Angeles TV show. Alice talks about Las Tres, music, bilingual education and stargazing.


Alice Bag's Blog: Diary of a Bad Housewife: Wherein Ms. Bag gets to babble, babble on

Interesting posts include: Work that ho, tilling the soil of punk feminism

Beginning the world over


Women In LA Punk - Killer


Alice Bag's website. The Bags website. Wikipedia

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Clearer sound but you gotta follow the link:

Pink Band in Indian Rockers - tv series Dhoom Machaao Dhoom (DMD) (Disney)

and this is a medley of different bands including the Pink Band playing the same song and catch the girl keyboardist in the first band and the girl drummer and singer in the third! Ab Aayega Mazaa - Tantra, Pink Band, Rockstars (DMD)

The Pink Band - Ujli ujli si pehli




The sound is crap (i cannot get a clear version to save my life, the hell!?) but you can get the picture:

Pink Band - Dhoom Machaao Dhoom (Disney)



Ahhh...here's the info: Dhoom Machaao Dhoom (from Wikipedia)

Dhoom Machaao Dhoom was a Hindi programme which used to air on Disney Channel India. It premiered on January 8, 2007, with a one-hour special introductory episode, which had songs by the Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs winner, Sanchita Bhattacharya. She performed the song Aisa jadoo in the same episode. The story deals with Priyanka Sethi and the Pink Band, a band which she formed with her friends. The show used to air from Monday to Thursday at 9.30 p.m.(IST). As of April 2008, it has been replaced by another Hindi show called Sanya. Sanya was stopped due to poor ratings and was replaced by Kaarthika.[citation needed]MORE



The Pink Band is: Priyanka Sethi: band leader, lead singer and guitarist.
Kajal "KJ" Jain: Drummer
Malini "Malu" Sharma: Keyboardist
Ambika "Bikki" Gill: Tamborine
Sameera : Singer, songwriter, temp member of the band.
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The chicks behind their kits:Women rockers in India? May their tribe increase

On the international scene, female rockers have always had a niche. But try going on a quest for women in rock bands in India, and you would encounter only a few.The female vocalists, of those there is shortage. But the women who make the sound behind the vocals? Ah there you have us. Says guitar teacher Rupert Fernandes, "Female rockers are as good as non-existent. This could have a lot to do with the fact that being in a rock band involves being on the road a majority of the time, and practising late hours may not be so easy for women. Also, holding the crowd together at a rock show could get challenging."

While rock band Scribe's bassist, Srinivas,

Scribe @ Independence Rock XXII Finals


Scribe - 1234 Dracula live at blue FROG - 5th September, 2010

feels "women may be shy", Exhumation's guitarist Prashant Shah says, "There are hardly any men in the country who listen to rock these days, so women rock fans are even more scarce, let alone being band members."

But let that not fool you. Across India, female rockers are increasingly making their presence felt. Take Yasmin Kazi,

Yasmin Claire from Myndsnare



drummer of Bangalore's progressive death metal band Myndsnare. She says the initial reaction when the crowds saw her was of scepticism. '"What's a girl gonna' drum for a death metal band', they asked," she says. "Or 'What's that singer chick doing behind the kit'?" But after five years of showing the country her double bass skills, even professional drummers across the country quiver when they watch her play.

Myndsnare - Raining blood.mpg


Gino Banks, a sessions drummer, insists she is the best drummer in India for that genre.


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From Rookie Magazine's Girl Groups from around the globe:

Fire Records

Las Kellies started in 2005 when three girls met at a gig in Buenos Aires, decided to have a band together and borrowed their friend's amps and instruments. Their third album, Kellies - released by Fire Records and mixed by Dennis Bovell (see The Slits, Madness, Fela Kuti), sees Las Kellies mixing catchy garage sounds with dub and post-punk that has earned 8/10 in NME and 4/5 in BUZZ.

Singing in Spanish, English, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Catalan and French, Las Kellies spent several years ensuring their prominence on the Argentinian music scene. With their first record, Shaking Dog! (2007), they created an irresistible blend of raw, spicy rock that owes as much to old rock and roll as it does the Raincoats, which turned out to be a veritable birthday party of a record.

In 2009 their second independent record, Kalimera, was released. That same year Las Kellies took the new, tighter songs on their first international tour, Rocking the Old World, unleashing their infectious energy onto Europe with their garage rhythms, teasing impertinence and all-out fun live shows that incorporate the dress sense of Devo and the bounciness of ESG.

Las Kellies are: Ceci Kelly, guitar and vocals; Betty Kelly, bass and vocals; Sil Kelly, drums and vocals.


Las Kellies - Perro Rompebolas


Kellies Interview


Interview with the band Kellies from Buenos Aires on occasion of their concert at the ladiyfest Berlin.


Kellies - Stop (Barcelona)
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Las Kellies – The Collapse Board interview

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Las Kellies - Bling Bling
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Las Kellies: Kellies @ clunfonograma.com

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Las Kellies - Sala Alive (Valencia) - 28/06/2011
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Myspace

Bandcamp

Argentina's Las Kellies Talk New Album, List Five Great South American Bands

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via: Entertainment Weekly


Ida Maria - Bad Karma (New Single)



and

Imelda May - Johnny Got a BoomBoom




More Ida Marie:


Ida Maria - Quite Nice People (Official Music Video Premiere) Gorgeous Vid and haunting lyrics
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LADY BO, THE QUEEN MOTHER OF GUITAR

Peggy Jones, aka Lady Bo grew up in New York City, attending Manhattan's famed High School for the Performing Arts (of Fame fame) as a singer and dancer. She studied tap and ballet and trained in opera. She had been playing guitar for only 2 years when a chance encounter with Bo Diddley before a show at the legendary Apollo Theatre led to a life-changing gig as Bo Diddley's lead guitarist. Diddley was awestruck by the sight of a beautiful young woman with a guitar and struck up a conversation. When Jerome Greene (the single luckiest maraca player in the history of music) ran out to tell Bo that dinner was being served in the dressing room, Bo invited Jones in. Jones recounts in an interview with Lea Gilmore:

After a while he opened his guitar, asked me to grab mine and play something. When I opened my case he laughed louder than anyone I’d heard before. I wanted to know what¹s funny? Hysterically he said what is that? He had never seen a Supro guitar. I said, “Now that’s a dumb question! First you probably never saw a girl carrying a guitar down the street before and want to know if I played it, did you think that was funny?” He said, “NO!” I continued, “then you insult my ax and I listen to Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell and Charlie Parker and I THINK I’ve heard of you! Do you think that’s funny?” He said, “No, but I like your attitude, let’s play something.” I said OK and the rest is history.

Lady Bo was quickly enlisted in the band as the replacement for Jody Williams who was drafted in1957. Diddley taught Lady Bo his distinctive open tuning and unusual techniques. Diddley would later remark that “she knows every move I make... she is the only one that knows the original ways...” Her unique style which is simultaneously soulful and playful, making prominent use of guitar effects, is highlighted in her composition Aztec on which she plays all guitar parts.MORE


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A few weeks ago I read Girls To the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrl Revolution (recommended, fwiw!) and so when someone on Twitter linked this video of Kathleen Hanna (ex-Bikini Kill) talking about her experience of the 90s, I had to watch it:



She talks about getting drunk with Kurt Cobain in 1990, awkward experiences as a feminist stripper, and more. Some of the stories will be familiar if you've read "Girls To the Front" but her on-stage performance is worth hearing them again.

These days Kathleen's fronting Le Tigre, an electroclash/synthpunk band well worth checking out if you don't already know them:



(You've probably heard TKO around the place... it's one of their most accessible/poppy songs, but if you check out some of their other stuff, it's more political, with a distinct feminist/LGBT/left-wing slant.)
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Someone on Twitter just linked to this article which I thought might be of interest: Guitar Gals: The Top 10 Female Guitar Players of All Time. It lists Joni Mitchell, Bonnie Raitt, Nancy Wilson, Kaki King, Orianthi, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Jennifer Batten, Mary Ford, Lita Ford, and Joan Jett.

Btw, if anyone's interested, I just created [community profile] fretfully_yours, a guitar comm for any and all guitar-related discussions on DW.
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'Hit So Hard' has Patty Schemel out from behind her drumset

Patty Schemel has played with some of the best bands of the last three decades. The out drummer has been on the kits for Hole, Bastard (a short-lived supergroup with Courtney Love, Louise Post and Gina Crosley), Imperial Teen and Juliette and the Licks. And luckily, she's brought a camera with her to recording sessions, backstage areas and into the studio. It was only right that she'd hand over the hours of footage to some capable friends (including director P. David Ebersole) to make a movie out of it.



Hit So Hard Trailer



Q&A: Patty Schemel is Alive and Kick-drumming

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New exhibit showcasing female performers opening tomorrow at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.
The hall of fame had toyed with the idea of opening such an exhibit for years, and it gained traction after Cyndi Lauper paid a visit last year and watched a film about the roots of rock, said Jim Henke, vice-president of exhibitions and curatorial affairs.

"She thought it was too male-dominated," Henke says, "and she wondered where the female artists were."
My first three rock artists (leaving out the vocal harmony people) were Fats Domino, Laverne Baker, and Elvis.
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from jukebox heroine


STEVIE NICKS, JOAN JETT, SALT-N-PEPA, PAT BENATAR: ROCK GODDESSES OF THE '70S AND '80S

Anyone wanna see whats going here and bring us word again???

Here are some of my fav songs by them:

Pat Benatar - Love is a Battlefield
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Stevie Nicks - Edge of Seventeen
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Joan Jett - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
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Joan Jett and the Blackhearts - Real Wild Child
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If you like 'em, what's your favourite songs?
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She's a bit before our time, but Lena Horne called her "the mother of us all."

There's a new biography of Ethel Waters by Donald Bogle; the New York Times has a review today.
Starting out in black vaudeville in the early decades of the 20th century, Waters originally performed and recorded the sort of bawdy come-ons (“It’s Right Here for You” and “I Want to Be Somebody’s Baby Doll So I Can Get My Loving All the Time”) that, in the hands of Waters, Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith and other women, first established the blues as popular music. Waters’s style was advanced: understated, sophisticated, dramatic without being histrionic, ideally suited to the soon-to-emerge repertory of elegiac, subtly blues-influenced pop music that would come to be thought of as the Great American Songbook. It was Waters who made hits of the future standards “Am I Blue,” “Supper Time” and “Stormy Weather” (years before it became associated with Horne).
Hope the embed works; the featured tunes are "Sweet Man" and "Dinah," but the other videos are also of interest.


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Of breasts and guitars

Well, as a guitar player, who is quite endowed on the top half, just simply playing your guitar can be uncomfortable and require some adjustments. Unless you can literally play your guitar so low that it hits your knees, you probably need to wear your guitar somewhere around your hips to waist. If you have double DDs for example, the guitar strap either has to squeeze right in between your breasts, or over one of them, causing a bit of a squish, if you will. Your breasts then are either extremely obvious with the guitar strap nestled in between them as you play, or, your breast hurts because it is being suffocated as you belt out how much you love rock and roll. It’s tough being a girl, and all we wanna do is have fun. (Sorry, couldn’t resist that.)

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Women who rock – in pictures
Strike a pose … see photographs of iconic female musicians at Snap Galleries, London, from 15 February 2011 in the exhibition The Women Who Rock
Anyone in London here thats gonna see that?
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Hey hey so do you like girl rock bands that sing in Russian? I thought you would. Let me introduce you to Ranetki!

Ranetki came about when a music label in Russia realized there was a lot of money to be made in the teenager rock music genre and for too long independent and foreign acts had dominated the emo, angry teenager demographic in the Russosphere. Ranetki were originally:

Valeriya (Lera) Kozlova, drums, lead vocals (b. 1988)
Lena Tretyakova, bass guitar (b. 1988) - a huge soccer fan, formerly won the Russian womens' soccer championship with her team.
Natasha Schyolkova, lead guitar (b. 1990) - was a figure skater from an early age but then left the sport to pursue music.
Anna (Anya) Rudnyova, rhythm guitar, backup vocals (b. 1990) - wrote most of the band's songs.
Eugenia (Genia) Ogurtzova, keyboard (b. 1990)

They were first officially signed to their label in 2005 and in 2006 released their first album, "Ranetki", here's the cover of the album.

Their most successful single to date has been "About You" ("O Tebe"):


You will note the GIRL DRUMMER WHO IS ALSO THE LEAD SINGER, the GIRLS ACTUALLY PLAYING THEIR OWN INSTRUMENTS and the Che Guevara guitar (LOL). IDK IDK they didn't make manufactured rock bands this cool when I was a kid.

moar after the jump )

Incidentally, if you're at all interested in the world of young women in a music industry largely dominated by male acts (*cough* rock music), I would strongly, highly, passionately recommend the excellent Runaways, that talks about a speicific period and industry but really is applicable to pretty much everywhere. I'll hopefully post a review of the film at some point but meanwhile let me say - IT IS AWESOME. YOU NEED TO SEE IT.
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Just bought the first years subscription to Tom Tom Mag. for the sole purpose of getting my hands on that interview with Excellent Woman who Drums Cindy Blackman. Am also eyeing those tshirts with a possessive air. What's your favorite Women rocker highlighting mags or zines or blogs or whatever media? Also, any ideas on where I should go to scan the interviews so I can put them up here?

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