Artist: wendy and lisa

After several months of teasers, Wendy & Lisa this week released White Flags of Winter Chimneys, their first new album, not counting their soundtrack work, since 1998's Girl Bros . Of course, Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman are probably best known as members of Prince's former band, The Revolution. But the pair, good friends since childhood, have made a name for themselves as a duo since being fired from The Revolution in 1986. Though their three albums as Wendy & Lisa and one under the moniker Girl Bros. weren't huge commercial successes (though their first [...]

• Wendy and Lisa - 04 Salt & Cherries (MC5)

Choire Sicha posted an outtake from his Q&A with Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman, which ran in the L.A. Times on Sunday. In it, Sicha asked the duo—who played guitar (Wendy) and keyboards (Lisa) in Prince's '80s band the Revolution and had a heavy hand in Purple Rain and to a lesser extent Sign 'O' the Times , and who have been scoring TV shows for the past decade and a half—whether they consider themselves godmothers of lesbian chic. Sicha: Do [...]

Periodically I like to shuffle through the used bins at Amoeba in a complete hypnotic trance. During my last visit I found this gem . If you didn't hit the link, discogs says: "This CD was released as a gift at Gsus first store in Amsterdam (Holland). Limited to 1000 copies." Hot damn, I guess it's a really good find, considering it doesn't suck. Actually, its pretty far from sucking. . . One of my favorite parts of coming back from any sort of prolonged record shopping is listening to the [...]

• Wendy and Lisa - Waterfall

Play it: Carnivale - Music from the HBO Series The second (and last) season of HBO's Carnivale made it to DVD this week, so I thought I'd compile and profile music from both seasons of the show. It's a fascinating mix of early American gospel, blues, folk, jazz and old timey country music. The orginal music was composed by Emmy-winner Jeff Beal , and [...]