OK, you got me. I'm a sucker for umlauts. Nü Sensae is a Vancouver-based boy-girl-boy trio who purport to be filed under Punk, but I'm getting a little more of a Neo-Grunge vibe based solely on Swim , the lead single from their sophomore release, Sundowning . Not that Neo-Grunge is at all a bad thing, and after a few spins of this single, I started to wax nostalgic about powerhouse Twin Cities trio, Babes In Toyland . (sigh) Where have [...]
I will be honest: I never really got into most of the more aggressive, female-led bands of the late '80s and early-to-mid '90s (whether Riot Grrl bands or those who, like Babes in Toyland, inspired them). As a young male in his teens, I probably just found them too intimidating, if not downright terrifying, which I'm sure is my loss. It's interesting to see the DJ responses to this first LP from a band that became so influential to so many. I'm sure Kat Bjelland and the gang would be glad to see the positive comments, although they'd probably have [...]
Sara Radle once fronted the San Antonio power pop trio Lucy Loves Schroeder and started her own Dallas label, Jeez Louise Records. These days, the Los Angeles transplant is on tour, promoting her... Continue reading "Sara Radle on Babes in Toyland, Playing Solo and The Rentals" >
MAGNET contributing writer Jud Cost is sharing some of the wealth of classic films he's been lucky enough to see over the past 40 years. Trolling the backwaters of cinema, he has worked up a list of more than 100 titles—from the '20s through the '80s—that you may have missed. A new selection, all currently [...]
Here's a not-so-secret fact about Minnesota music: People love to talk about how much they love the scene here. Musicians from both out-of-state and the Twin Cities have gone out of their way to pen
this is a digital version of a compilation i put together for my own enjoyment in november 1991 of some of my favourite tunes at the time. this of course was in the days before itunes and therefore the days before the shuffle button and the playlist, when you'd either have to listen to an entire album straight through or waste a lot of battery time fast forwarding on your walkman to your favourites. or you just made your own playlist on a trusty c90 instead. mostly contemporary and basically fairly predictable for a [...]
oh happy fucking monday! not sure where i got my hands on this little nugget, but its a promo that warner brothers and reprise released back in 92 or 93, i believe. it collects what were a bunch of tracks that werent commercially available at the time, but i am sure now are. so posting this one is like playing online casino games , its a crap shoot. anyway, this is what the folks that put it together had to say, at the time, about this "collectors" promo. "When you see it a few years from now, [...]
Filed under: News , New Music , Exclusive When Courtney Love was working with Linda Perry on the album that would eventually become 'Nobody's Daughter' -- though not the version produced by Perry -- the Hole singer wanted to put an all-female band together. As someone who's worked with a who's who of female artists including Pink , Christina Aguilera and KT Tunstall , Perry is the first to support woman rockers, [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , Movies While the new film, ' The Runaways ,' touches on trials and tribulations that even today's teens experience, one thing that'll set it apart is the fact the '70s all-girl band was constantly told that they just couldn't play as well as the boys could. "I didn't like being told that girls couldn't play rock 'n' roll," guitarist and ex-Runaway Joan Jett told Spinner at press event. "I'm sitting in school with girls playing cello and violin, [...]
Filed under: UK , Band of the Week You know how it is with some bands -- a series of whoops, cheers and hoopla that, once faded away, reveal a whole lot of nothing that leaves you scratching your head and wondering what all the fuss was about. And then you get someone like Brighton duo Blood Red Shoes . Having left a sizeable mark on 2008 with the combustible guitar noise of 'Box of Secrets' and a series of memorable gigs and incendiary festival appearances, the pair -- [...]
I reckon we need something loud and feisty to start off the weekend. I don't know why, it's just what I'm in the mood for. So here's an old Babes In Toyland session to blow the cobwebs out of your ears. Something they were always pretty damn good at. I remember seeing them live years ago and being astounded by how much noise they generated and how intense their performance was. They were a revelation. I was still just getting into music and up until that point, listening to mostly British indie. All [...]
Courtney Love is digging herself into a hole of controversy once more, but really are you surprised? Because we're not. It's about time the queen of alt-rock controversy got herself involved in another stint of sloshy trouble, only this time instead of drunkenly slurring her words in public, she has opted to write 'libelous tweets' about fashion designer Dawn Simorangkir , causing the designer to draw up charges against Love for her alleged malicious intent. Simorangkir submitted papers to the Los Angeles superior court claiming Love had made "menacing [...]
Babes in Toyland were not a riot grrl band. Here they perform "Ripe" in the Netherlands in 1991* or 1992. *Coincidentally, the year punk finally broke .
Anyone who doesn't know who Lori Barbero is, and what she has meant to the Twin Cities' music scene for the past 30 years is living under a rock. Her contribution runs miles deeper than just her involvement in the seminal 90's band Babes In Toyland. She spent decades nurturing local talent, as well as putting these two burgs on the map nationwide. The list of bands she's put up and fed when they most needed it should land her a spot in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame alone! I'll spare you the tales of her being front [...]
I'm not sure that Courtney Love's MySpace blog constitutes a reliable news source, but for what it's worth, she's reporting that Kat Bjelland's home is about to be repossessed, leaving her homeless. Courtney is suggesting that Ladyfest run some sort of benefit for Bjelland, which is almost as good an idea as Courtney helping out herself.
Babes in Toyland from 1992, playing "Catatonic." ( Seven videos in all from this show at this link .) Someone tells me it's footage of the band opening for Dinosaur Jr. and My Bloody Valentine at Mississippi Nights. (OMG.) That true? Also, there's some great discussion going on over at our post about L7 from Monday and Operation Ivy from yesterday . Go check 'em out. -- Annie Zaleski
From the January-February 1988 issue of Nintendo Power comes this token effort toward music journalism... (Click to be like Wham! and MAKE IT BIG!) It's written in the same hyperbolic hard-sell tone employed by the periodical to foist such quality gamepaks such as Ghost Lion and the California Raisins game onto the impressionable youth of late 1980's America, which is quite disconcerting considering the choice of artists featured. Of the three, only Debbie Gibson was an [...]
Atomic Records was packed today on this, the inaugural Record Store Day.
Shrinking Violet cuts loose with some subatomic-fu. It's always the quiet ones... (from Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #66, March 1995; by Mark Waid, Tom McCraw, Lee Moder and Ron Boyd) Atom Girl? Give me a break. Why take one of the few Legionnaires who managed to dodge the whole "lad/lass/girl/boy" naming conventions and tag her with a woefully uninspired name? Yeah, "Shrinking Violet" carries certain negative connotations, but part of the appeal of the character is how she moved beyond the meekness suggested by her code name. It's not like "Batman" or "Mister [...]
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