girlsgetbusyzine:

If you’d like to contribute any art/words/photos/drawings/whatever to Girls Get Busy #14, email girlsgetbusyzine@gmail.com - DEADLINE 16TH SEPTEMBER.

Please reblog!

buscateunnovio:

joan jett + cherie currie (the runaways)

buscate un novio is on tumblr! of course they are, probably everyone else already knew this *feels silly*

girlsgetbusyzine:

Pussy Riot

The formation of Pussy Riot in Moscow last September was not a culmination of long-harboured musical ambition, songcraft or that strange alchemy of notes, lyrics, personalities and desire that sometimes spawns a rock ‘n’ roll band; rather it was reactionary – a furious two-fingered salute to Vladimir Putin’s decision to return to the presidency, a protest writ large in music and femininity.

Pussy Riot are an all-female punk band. More, they are part of an increasingly vocal young-and-disgruntled generation in Russia, railing against political corruption, the state’s monopoly on the media and the culture of illegal protest (to name but three sizeable gripes) and finding novel ways to display their dissent: the Blue Buckets group have run over official cars while wearing buckets on their heads; the art collective Voina painted a 65-metre phallus on the drawbridge opposite the Federal Security Service headquarters in St Petersburg, and activists in the Siberian city of Barnaul circumnavigated the protest laws by assembling a crowd of small placard-wielding toys.

via Pussy Riot’s Kremlin protest owes much to riot grrrl.  guardian.co.uk

No idea how accurate, but the article does cover Pussy Riot and their riot grrrl influence in way that’s not patronizing to the notion of women’s protest music. Awesome that they’re gaining attention after homophobic and racist Russian artists have been given state art prizes.

I’d LOVE to know what their views of Putin are, beyond the western riot grrrl comparisons, but being monolingual in English with a bit of Spanish = unable to translate any of their interviews on You Tube.

Liz Phair - Flower - Girlysound [by snesjenn]

Poly Styrene interview 1978 (by chatham43)

i cant believe the interviewer asks her about wearing braces and compares her negatively to Linda Ronstadt. OTOH discusses her approach to style and punk being as derivative as any other genre, which was a big part of her appeal re: not being sidetracked by the more insular ‘uniform anti-conformism’ aspects of punk.

hassibah:

So I had no idea that somebody uploaded the full bbc doc with Poly Styrene after she died.  To watch later.

ditto, never seen it in full before.

(via Girls Rock Rhode Island | Pikaland)

Girls Rock! Rhode Island is a program that seeks to help girls and women to empower themselves through music, and they just published Women Who Rock Coloring Book. The book celebrates a variety of female musicians, from those who paved the way to the ladies who are influencing today’s vibrant music scene. An eclectic mix of performers are represented in its pages, including Cyndi Lauper, Patti Smith, Nina Simone, Yoko Ono, Joan Jett, Esperanza Spaulding and many more.

karaj:

girlsgetbusyzine:

Lisa Crystal Carver (born 1968), also known as Lisa Suckdog, is an American writer known for her writing in Rollerderby^. Through her interviews, she introduced the work of Vaginal Davis, Dame Darcy, Cindy Dall, Boyd Rice, Costes (her ex-husband with whom she performed Suckdog), Nick Zedd, GG Allin, Kate Landau, Queen Itchie & Liz Armstrong to many. A collection of notable articles from the zine was published as Rollerderby: The Book.

She started touring with the performance art band Psycodrama when she was 18 years old. It was also at this time that she became a prostitute, which has been a major theme in her writings over the years^.  She began touring with Costes a year later, and would also tour without him when he was in France. She toured the U.S. and Europe six times, the last time in 1998.

Carver is the also the author of Dancing Queen: a Lusty Look at the American Dream, in which she expounds upon various relics of pop culture past, including Lawrence Welk, roller rinks, and Olivia Newton-John. In 2005, Soft Skull Press released her newest book, Drugs Are Nice, detailing her early childhood and later romantic relationships with Costes, Boyd Rice and Smog’s Bill Callahan. In addition to writing her own ‘zines and books, Carver has also written for various magazines (including Peter Bagge’s comic book Hate) and kept a fictionalized journal about her sex life for the website Nerve. Although Carver no longer writes her journal for the site, she is still a semi-regular contributor. The online Journal at Nerve was subsequently published in book form as The Lisa Diaries: Four Years in the Sex Life of Lisa Carver and Company.

lisa carver! i looooooove lisa carver. the series of posts we did about her on 90swoman was one of my favorites. dancing queen is required reading for anyone who wants to be happy. she is like the nietzsche of the 90s or something. 

Rollerderby! I’ll never forget that item about little girls pony fantasies. Rollerderby was the most likely 90’s cultural artefact I owned to be borrowed/stolen by women friends into riot grrrl who are just young[er] enough to look on something a mere decade ‘before their time’ with erotic nostalgia.

pluseyes:

Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton, first artist to record “Hound Dog”, prodigious blues performer, namesake of the Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls.

(via loveandzombies)

konekotablets:

“Herstory Repeats:” Kathleen Hanna
Old Dominion University Norfolk, VA
March 30, 2011

I love you for posting this!

via Poly Styrene, Lost & Found - Page 1 - Music - New York - Village Voice)

It was meant to be a delicious comeback for the transgressive girl whose defiant 1977 single, “Oh Bondage! Up Yours!” fired up Afro-Punk, riot grrrl, and every punk worth their peroxide.

Instead, the return of Poly Styrene became one of pop’s most poignant ironies. Generation Indigo—a bubbly, cuddly, insightful record, her first in seven years—was released on the day her death was announced last week.

The loss of 53-year-old Poly Styrene six months after the death of 48-year-old Ari-Up, the dreadlocked singer-songwriter of the Slits, is a reminder: how few were those brave women who shattered all pre-existing models during U.K. punk’s first wave.

This ragtag crew was the first self-determined generation of women musicians, and their influence is incalculable; today, their giddy progeny have stormed the malls with their camouflage, neon fishnets, and combat boots worn with gowns. And while their sounds may resonate differently, today’s alpha women—Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj, Pink—still ride the whirlwind of independent female energy that shook mid-1970s London.

A nice article, but I didn’t know she’d died. About to cry now.

women in punk (via zhoel13)

The ‘Women In Punk’ segment of  Don Lett’s  Punk Attitude documentary.

“Punk rock gave me a platform to put a band together, and do it my way. And that was good for an 18 year old kid, at the time I think it was pretty much unheard of for a girl, at that age, not to just be a groupie in somebody’s band” - Poly Styrene of X Ray Spex.

Also Ari Up, Roberta Bayley, Chrissie Hynde etc…artists from that nascent era of UK/USA punk

Mambo Taxi “Do You Always Dress Like That …” (via halfsquirrel)

Nostalgia = pointless. Internet facilitating access to cute grrl songs = goodness

“Q:Do you always dress like that, in front of other people’s boyfriends?

A: Well, if you can’t stand to see me like this, why dont you go away!!”

The Slits - In Conclusion

Ari Up [far left] with Neneh Cherry and other members of The Slits and Rip, Rig and Panic before they all got famous. 

Linked interview with Tessa Pollitt of The Slits, on how connecting with the Cherry family also connected The Slits to jazz influences [re: Up’s involvement in jazz and dub that gets overlooked sometimes for her fame as an early punk artist]