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the_future_modernesthe_future_modernesthe_future_modernes4 Non Blondes was an American alternative rock band from San Francisco, California,[1] active from 1989 to 1994.[2] Their first and only album, Bigger, Better, Faster, More! spent 59 weeks on the Billboard 200.[3] They hit the charts in 1993 with the release of the album's second single, "What's Up?, "[2] and Bigger, Better, Faster, More! sold 1.5 million copies between 1992 and 1994.[3]
Originally, the band was all-female, including lead singer Linda Perry, bassist Christa Hillhouse, guitarist Shaunna Hall, and drummer Wanda Day.[4] However, before the release of the album, Hall and Day were replaced by Roger Rocha (guitar) and Dawn Richardson (drums).
Lead singer Linda Perry left the band in 1994, and the remaining members disbanded shortly thereafter.[5]
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the_future_modernesThe Go-Go’s aren’t in the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame. It’s a fact repeated quite a few times in Alison Ellwood’s documentary on the titular band, and “The Go-Go’s” doesn’t just lift the veil on the Los Angeles punk band-turned-pop goddesses but also attempts to cast an eye on the misogyny of a music industry that hasn’t given the band their due. “The Go-Go’s” lit the world on fire, and while Ellwood’s documentary might not do the same thing, it’s a great crash course.
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The band members that comprised the original Go-Go’s lineup were teenage girls looking to avoid conforming to the norm. Lead singer Belinda Carlisle was a perky blonde cheerleader who had no problem cutting her hair short and dyeing it black. The core group of bandmembers all saw themselves as misfits, in spite of their looks, and as they navigated a punk landscape that thrived on non-conformity the band soon realized they were at a disadvantage.
As the band recounts their travels to Europe, they found themselves performing in a series of clubs frequented by white supremacists. To hear them tell it, it was a horrifying nightmare of being spit on, berated and ridiculed, not just because they were Americans, but because they were women. Ellwood doesn’t focus overtly on sexism, but leaves it on the margins. Whether being told to bare their breasts at a show or teased up to be beauty queens in their music videos, The Go-Go’s were always aware of how they were sold as sex objects. The lack of respect from the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame almost reinforces that without strictly saying it.
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Of course, the arrival of fame changes everything, and it does take “The Go-Go’s” down a familiar, VH1 “Behind the Music” path. Carlisle and Jane Wiedlin are the most recognizable members of the band, with Charlotte Caffey being credited as songwriter for most of their material. But where “The Go-Go’s” sticks out is in the names you don’t know, like drummer Gina Shock. Shock steals every interview she does with her tough talk and uncompromising attitude. Shock discusses being one of the oft-forgotten members of the band, as drummers often are, but her eventual fallout from the band showcases how much in-fighting was taking place behind the scenes.MORE
the_future_modernesMembers
Nakano Miho – Vocals/Guitar
Araya Tomomi – Guitar
Oda Mamiko – Bass
Ishikawa Minako – Drums
Former
Okuyama Reika – Drums
Ishibashi Wakano – Keyboard
The original five band members were high school students in Sapporo when they formed the band in 2009. They changed drummers in 2017 and their keyboardist left in 2018. (official site: drops-official.com)
At the moment Drop’s style seems to be changing, though one consistent in their music is that is their sound tends to evoke styles of the sixties and seventies. The song in the above video —こわして— has a loose, grungy, rough-edged sound reminiscent of Patti Smith’s 1976 punk ballad Pissing in a River. Drop’s latest release —毎日がラブソング—is an upbeat song that feels much more ‘pop’. The new style is more accessible, but the arrangement, particularly the horn parts, still has a retro feel, which is a signature feature of band’s sound. When introducing performers they admire, the band members tend to name-check performers from bygone eras (e.g. Little Richard, Elvis, The Beatles, Chet Baker, Link Wray, Earl Palmer, Janis Joplin) or performers who have stylistic roots in the past (e.g., Tom Waits, The Black Keys). These influences come through in the the retro feel of many of the band’s songs.
the_future_modernesFERN PLANET (ふぇるんぷらねっと) is a two-piece Japanese rock band signed to HEAD LINE.
SERINA – Vocal, Guitar
Yamaguchi Meiko (山口メイ子) – Bass, Chorus
the_future_modernesBeatrice Kristi Laus (born 3 June 2000), also known as Bea Kristi or professionally as beabadoobee[13] (/biːbəduːbiːˈ/),[14] is a Filipino-British indie singer-songwriter. Since 2018, she has released 5 extended plays under Dirty Hit, and has supported The 1975 on both their Music for Cars Tour and their Notes on a Conditional Form Tour in 2020. As of March 2020, Beabadoobee has over 300 million accumulative streams on Spotify. She was nominated for the Rising Star Award at the 2020 Brit Awards, and was predicted as a breakthrough act for 2020 in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2020.
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Laus was born in Iloilo City, Philippines on 3 June 2000 and moved to London with her parents at the age of 3.[3][4] She grew up in West London listening to OPM (original Pinoy music) as well as pop and rock music from the 1980s. While she was a teenager, she listened to indie rock including Karen O, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Florist and Alex G.[9] She attended Sacred Heart High School for her high school education and Hammersmith Academy for her sixth form education.[citation needed] Kristi spent seven years learning to play the violin, before getting her first guitar second-hand at the age of 17.[5] She taught herself how to play the instrument using YouTube tutorials.[9] She was inspired by Kimya Dawson and the Juno soundtrack to start making music.[4]
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Kristi has cited Elliott Smith, The Mouldy Peaches, Pavement, Mazzy Star, The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel and Daniel Johnston as her musical influences.[12][4] Kristi has told Vice that she plans on making film soundtracks in the future, as they heavily inspired her to make music.[4] On her background and using YouTube to find success, she said:[35]
My very traditional Asian family had the classic way of thinking: ‘play an orchestra instrument’ or ‘be a doctor’. Today, people start off making beats on a laptop, but hopefully I encourage young people to pick up the guitar and rock out! YouTube tutorials are a great way to develop your own style, and go at your own paceMORE
For Bea Kristi, her whole 2019 has been a dreamlike story, ripped from the pages of a music nerd’s fan-fiction. But the difference? Bea doesn’t have to wake up, because this is her real life now. “It’s like, ‘What the fuck!’” The Philippines-born, west London-raised 19-year-old giggles over the phone from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Currently mid-way through a US tour with bedroom-pop artist Clairo, it’s clear that Bea - better known as Beabadoobee - is also aware of how ridiculous the past year has been.
The whirlwind the singer now finds herself in began around two years ago when, aged 17, she got kicked out of school. Feeling lost and not really knowing what she wanted to do, her dad decided to buy her a guitar because she seemed “really bored” all the time. Teaching herself how to play, she first learnt Sixpence None the Richer’s ‘90s classic ‘Kiss Me’, and subsequently wrote her first original track ‘Coffee’ - a hushed, emotional bedroom-pop bop that ended up going low-key viral.
“At first, I just thought that songwriting was cool and then, when we released it, we had a lot of people saying that they liked it. People were recognising me on Instagram and were like ‘Hey, you’re that ‘Coffee’ girl?’ And I was like, ‘What the fuck, I’ve never worked as a waitress?!’” she laughs. “Then I was like, ‘Oh fuck, they’re talking about my song!’ That was really cool and motivated me more to do it because people were interested and enjoyed it. You know how everyone has a ‘thing’? Well, I didn’t have have a thing and then I realised that this is my thing!”MORE
the_future_modernesthe_future_modernesGuitarist Yoshi and vocalist Rami formed Aldious in Osaka in June 2008.[3] The name Aldious was created by Rami shortening the phrase "Ultimate Melodious."[8] In November they took part in the compilation album Red Hot Burning Hell Vol.16,[9] soon after which guitarist Ruki and bassist Sawa left. In January 2009, Toki and Kaze joined as guitarist and bassist respectively, later the band released their debut four-track EP Dear Slave on November 7.[9] Kaze left in December, and drummer Aruto joined in January 2010. March saw the return of Sawa on bass and around this time Aldious formed their own record label, Bright Star Records.[9] Their first single "Defended Desire", released July 7, reached the number 4 position on Oricon's Indies chart and number 49 on its regular chart.[9][10] In April, Bright Star became a sublabel of Spinning and the band released their debut album Deep Exceed on October 13, 2010.[3] It reached number 15 on the charts.[11];MORE
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the_future_modernesMitski Miyawaki (born Mitsuki Laycock; September 27, 1990) is a Japanese-American singer-songwriter. Mitski self-released her first two albums, Lush (2012), and Retired from Sad, New Career in Business (2013), while studying at Purchase College's Conservatory of Music. After graduating, she released her third studio album, Bury Me at Makeout Creek (2014), through Double Double Whammy. It was followed by Puberty 2 (2016) and Be the Cowboy (2018), released on Dead Oceans.
...While growing up she moved frequently due to her father's work with the United States Department of State, living in thirteen countries—including Turkey, China, Malaysia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo—before eventually settling in the United States.[3][4][5] Mitski says she was eighteen when she wrote her first song.[6]MORE
the_future_modernesSkating Polly is an American rock band formed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, in 2009. The band was founded by multi-instrumentalist step-siblings Kelli Drew Mayo (born March 29, 2000)[1] and Peyton Mckenna Bighorse (born July 11, 1995),[2] who were 9 and 14 years old respectively. Kelli's brother Kurtis Lee Mayo eventually joined the band to play the drums so that Peyton and Kelli could focus on guitar and bass respectively. The band is noted for their alternating instruments among each member, poetic lyrics, intense live shows, melodic arrangements, and an eclectic array of songs that vary in style from riot grrrl to grunge to piano-based indie pop. MORE
the_future_modernesBig Joanie is the sort of band you get to a show early for. In the past three years, the London-based group has self-released three rough-hewn EPs on their own imprint, Sistah Punk, each one featuring songs that blend tangling post-punk guitar lines, spit-shined hooks, and a “sprinkling,” Chardine says, of black liberation politics. Their most recent EP’s knotty title track, “Crooked Room,” took inspiration from a lecture by Seattle-born writer Melissa Harris-Perry, who compared life as a black woman in a white patriarchy to trying to find a true vertical in a room where all the angles are out of whack. “That’s exactly what it is,” Steph Phillips, Big Joanie’s lead vocalist and guitarist, says when we meet in a cozy cafe near South London’s Caribbean Brixton Market. “[Society] distorts the world around us to try and make us see things not as they are, or to try and make us fail.”
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On stage, Steph has a serene focus and a deep, assured singing voice. But she admits to a natural reserve, explaining that she lived vicariously through the riot grrrl music she devoured as a teenager in the middle England town of Wolverhampton. “As a very shy person, I loved hearing someone else stand up for themselves,” she says. A couple of hours away across the Midlands, the outgoing, quick-to-laugh Chardine grew up nurturing a love for Nirvana in Kettering, the town “where all the fucking government parties do their research for middle England.” In London, bassist Estella Adeyeri was listening to British alternative radio station XFM — “back when it wasn’t just blokey music,” she says. MORE
onyxlynxthe_future_modernesthe_future_modernesthe_future_modernesPunk 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.
What do you think of the progress that female musicians have made in the past 30 years?
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the_future_modernesOn 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.
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Gino Banks, a sessions drummer, insists she is the best drummer in India for that genre.
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