“It doesn’t matter what you do, if you’re not a straight white male you’re going to get more harshly criticised than other people so you might as well just do whatever the fuck you want.”
Feb 12, 2012 | Categories: Interviews | Tags: Babes In Toyland, Bianca Valentino Interview, Bikini KIll, Carmine Covelli, Dan Fishback, feminism, Johanna Fateman, Kaia Wilson, Kat Bjelland, Kathi Wilcox, Kathleen Hanna, Kenny Mellman, Le Tigre, Lori Barbero, Lydia Lunch, lyrics, Michelle Leon, Neal Medlyn Wicked Clown Love, Olympia, Riot Grrrl, Riot Grrrl collection NYU, Rock N Roll Camp for Girls, Sarah Landeau, Sini Anderson, The Julie Ruin, The Kathleen Hanna Project, The Punk Singer (documentary), Tobi Vail, Young Jean Lee Untitled Feminist Show | 7 Comments »
“The music that I listen to, I feel like it’s really something that saves me. It’s escapism. It’s comfort.”
Jan 15, 2012 | Categories: Interviews | Tags: Bianca Valentino Interview, Bikini KIll, feminism, Kate Nash, Rock 'n' Roll For Girls After School Club, Ryan Jarman, sexism etc, sexism in the music industry, The Receeders, zines | 1 Comment »
I never thought we shouldn’t grow, I never thought we should repeat.
Oct 25, 2011 | Categories: Interviews | Tags: Central Park, Dakota, Fuzzbox, Galaxie 500, interview, John Lennon, New York City, Plastic Ono Band, Riot Grrrl, The Beatles, The Cranberries, Yoko Ono | 25 Comments »
We’re all secretly struggling.
Sep 19, 2011 | Categories: Interviews | Tags: Aesop Rock, All I Can Do, Bianca Valentino Interview, Buddhism, Conversations With Punx, Dave Matthews, Dave Matthews Band, Juno, Kimya Dawson, midfulness meditation, Olympia, Pablo Das, Remember That I Love You, self-esteem, self-love, The Moldy Peaches, Thunder Thighs, Walk Like Thunder | 4 Comments »
“I’d much rather have a minute of awkward silence than me asking people how their night went. Awkward silence has way more to do with the music we’re playing than casual banter”
Aug 05, 2011 | Categories: Interviews | Tags: Bob Dylan, Dan Bejar, Destroyer, interview, Kaputt, Scott Walker, Streethawk: A Seduction, Swan Lake, The New Pornographers, The Rolling Stones, Thief, Trouble In Dreams, Wallace Wylie, Your Blues | 1 Comment »
by Bianca Valentino Catcall is the latest musical project from Sydney-based musician Catherine Kelleher. Kelleher first performed as frontwoman for Australian DIY punk band Kiosk in the early 00s. Upon returning home from a 2006 Kiosk US tour Kelleher had a life changing moment (which she talks about here) and after much soul searching decided [...]
Jul 25, 2011 | Categories: Interviews | Tags: 80s girl pop, Bananarama, Bianca Valetino, Black Flag, Bratmobile, Bush, Cat Power, Catcall, Catherine Kelleher, Christine McVie, Chromatics, Dry July, Everclear, Fleetwood Mac, Fugazi, Glass Candy, Grace Jones, Hole, Homebake Festival, interview, Kim Gordon, Kiosk, M.I.A., Madonna, Michael Flatley, Molly Neuman, Nathan Howdeshell, Pam Hogg, Patti Smith, Portland, Reef, Roxy Music, Serge Lutens, Sonic Youth, Sydney, The Germs, The Go-Go's, The Gossip | 1 Comment »
Most people just turn the other way for success. I think we’ve had a career of uncompromising vision.
Jul 19, 2011 | Categories: Interviews | Tags: Alan Moulder, Angels of Light, Annie Hardy, Ariel Pink, Art by Jhonny Russell, Bianca Valentino, Born Against, Buddyhead, Captain Beefheart, Dave Sardy, Def Leppard, DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince, Giant Drag, Greg Gordon, Guns N\' Roses, Hard Rock Cafe, Icarus Line, Il Torquemada, interview, James Brown, Joe Cardamone, Los Angeles music scene, Metallica, Michael Jackson, Mike Mussmano, Music criticism, Oasis, Roar Scratch Records, Sly Stone, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Supergrass, The Beatles, The Icarus Line, The Stooges, The Strokes, Valley Recording Co., Wade Robinson, Wild Thing, Wildlife | 1 Comment »
I don’t think any of my guitar solos are any of the right notes or anything.
Jul 17, 2011 | Categories: Interviews | Tags: art-punk, australian music, Ben Wundersitz, Bianca Valentino, Bjork, Bon Jovi, Boris, Camp A Low Hum, Celeste Potter, creating art, criticism, difficulties of writing music, Emilíana Torrini, Guns N\' Roses, Illustration by Jhonny Russell, interview, múm, Melbourne, Michael Jackson, Nirvana, OOIOO, Ouch My Face, Rage, rage against the machine, Regurgitator, Rolling Stone Australia, SBS documentary Go Back To Where You Came From, sexism, Shaun Tan, Slash, Song Of The Day, Steven Huf, The Arrivals, The Boredoms, The Liars, Valve | 1 Comment »
“Music is what I believe in, in the way that some people have religion.”
Jul 12, 2011 | Categories: Interviews | Tags: Adele, Bianca Valentino, creativity, Friendly Fires, gil scott-heron, Gil Scott-Heron R.I.P., I'm New Here, Jack White, M.I.A., richard russell, The Horrors, The White Stripes, Tyler The Creator, XL Recordings | Leave A Comment »
Molly Neuman is one amazing lady! — a musician, the original Riot Grrrl, business woman and so much more.
Jul 07, 2011 | Categories: Interviews | Tags: Bianca Valentino, Bratmobile, cooking, DIY, DIY business, Doctor Annemarie Colbin, eMusic, exercise, food & healing, Girls Germs zine, Greenday, interview, Lookout Records, meditation, Molly Neuman, musicians health & wellbeing, Olympia, Rancid, recipes, Riot Grrrl, Riot Grrrl zine, Simple Social Graces Discos, Simple Social Kitchen, Steady Diet of Nothing, SxSW, Ted Leo, The Donnas, The Frumpies, The Locust, The Natural Gourmet Institute, the PeeChees, Tia Foundation, yoga | Leave A Comment »
Our first show was in somebody’s basement at their parents’ house. Their parents would let them have punk shows. I don’t even know if people do that anymore?
Jul 04, 2011 | Categories: Interviews | Tags: '80s dance, basement shows, Bianca Valentino, Bikini KIll, Bratmobile, Cyndi Lauper, D.I.Y., Designer Imposter, Don’t Need You: The Herstory of Riot Grrrl, Grace Jones, Gunk zine, hip-hop, Jigsaw zine, Joan Jett, Johnna Fateman, Kathleen Hanna, Klub Kid Vintage, Lunachicks, New York City Music, New York City Police, Police Revolution Now, Poly Styrene, punk rock, punk zines, queen latifah, Ramdasha Bikceem, Riot Grrrl, Riot Grrrl zine, Run DMC, Santi White, teen punk, Theo Kogan, Tobi Vail, X-Ray Spex | 2 Comments »
I don’t view music as a competition at all.
Jun 30, 2011 | Categories: Interviews | Tags: 7 Seconds, Alan Lomax, American Idol, Art Throb, Back to the Future, Beth Ditto, Bianca Valentino, Bikini KIll, Black Eyed Peas, Black Flag, Bratmobile, Britian's Got Talent, Children of the Corn, Conversations With Punx, DIY, Everett True, Fast Weapons, Footloose, Gene Defcon, HTRK, Huggy Bear, Ian MacKaye, Illustration by Jhonny Russell, kill rock stars, Kurt Cobain, Molly Neuman, MTV, Music criticism, Nathan Howdeshell, near death experience, Nirvana, NME, Olympia, punk rock, Riot Grrrl, Rolling Stone, skateboarding, spirituality, Suicidal Tendencies, The Frumpies, The Germs, The Gossip, The Velvet Underground, Thrasher Magazine, Tobi Vail, zines | 2 Comments »
Betty’s dog Cuchufo, Scotch Pancakes and whisky, fever, the wonderful weather in Argentina
Jun 28, 2011 | Categories: Interviews | Tags: Argentina, Brigette Adair Herron, Buenos Aires, ESG, Interviews, Las Kellies, Music criticism | Leave A Comment »
You want to stay in that comfort zone. It helps you block out the world.
Jun 24, 2011 | Categories: Interviews | Tags: Beat Happening, Bianca Valentino, Catholic Discipline, Celebrity Skin, Constant Comment, Courtney Love, Doll Squad, drug addiction, drug rehabilitation, Drunk In Rio, Eric Erlandson, female drummer, Frances Bean Cobain, Gina Schock, Green Eyes, Hit So Hard: The Life & Near Death Story of Patty Schemel, Hole, Kill Sybil, Kristen Pfaff, Kurt Cobain, Melissa Auf de Maur, Moe Tucker, Musicares, Musicians Assistance Program, Nervous Gender, Nirvana, P. David Ebersole, Patty Schemel, Penelope Spheeris, Phranc, Seattle International Film Festival, Sebadoh, The Decline Of Western Civilization, The Exploited, The Go-Go's | 5 Comments »
I don’t buy that whole kind of “Brisbane is shitty” thing. At the level of underground activity, I’m really positive about this place.
Jun 17, 2011 | Categories: Brisbane, Interviews | Tags: Audiopollen, Blank Realm, Brisbane, Carmen Juarez, Disembraining Machine, Institute of Modern Art, Joel Stern, Kitchen’s Floor, Melbourne, Other Film, QUT, Sky Needle, Sonic Youth | 8 Comments »
Q: What do you recall from your first ever Kleenex gig? A: Very funny – a good party. We played our four songs – over and over again!
Jun 02, 2011 | Categories: Interviews | Tags: Dogbodys, Geneva, Jean Encoule, Kleenex, Liliput, Liliput/Kleenex, Marlene Marder, Mother's Ruin, Nasal Boys, punk rock, Raincoats, Sperma, Spizz Energy, Switzerland, TNT, Troppo | Leave A Comment »
“What does it say about a place when the cultural capital you’re producing is fucking I Heart Hiroshima. That’s unacceptable.”
May 13, 2011 | Categories: Brisbane, Interviews | Tags: Brisbane, Carmen Juarez, Dew Process, Endless Somerset, Enemies List, Epithets, Have A Nice Life, I Heart Hiroshima, In Finland, Jens Lekman, Little Scout, Nick Smethurst, Paper & The Plane, UnConvention, Why? | 12 Comments »
Going into CD-R, we had this analogue mantra … no computers, no computers!
Apr 29, 2011 | Categories: Interviews | Tags: Beth Murphy, Born Again Revisited, Columbus Ohio, Dancer Equired, Dig Yourself, Guided By Voices, Logan K. Young, Merge, Pere Ubu, Siltbreeze, Times New Viking | Leave A Comment »
Treat every interview as if it’s the most important thing in the world, just for that 15 minutes or half hour or hour, even if it’s not. Boring interviews are still boring on paper.
Apr 12, 2011 | Categories: Brisbane, Interviews | Tags: Alex Grey, Andrew McMillen, Bettina Arndt, Big Boi, Brisbane, Dan Baum, Esquire, Icons, Maynard James Keenan, Meg White, Mess And Noise, Rich Schapiro, Robert Forster, The Go-Betweens, The Vine, Tool | Leave A Comment »
Patty Schemel – The Collapse Board Interview
You want to stay in that comfort zone. It helps you block out the world.
Jun 24, 2011 | Categories: Interviews | Tags: Beat Happening, Bianca Valentino, Catholic Discipline, Celebrity Skin, Constant Comment, Courtney Love, Doll Squad, drug addiction, drug rehabilitation, Drunk In Rio, Eric Erlandson, female drummer, Frances Bean Cobain, Gina Schock, Green Eyes, Hit So Hard: The Life & Near Death Story of Patty Schemel, Hole, Kill Sybil, Kristen Pfaff, Kurt Cobain, Melissa Auf de Maur, Moe Tucker, Musicares, Musicians Assistance Program, Nervous Gender, Nirvana, P. David Ebersole, Patty Schemel, Penelope Spheeris, Phranc, Seattle International Film Festival, Sebadoh, The Decline Of Western Civilization, The Exploited, The Go-Go's | 5 Comments »