21 femme-led pop/punk recommendations from Facebook
VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOURITES! The four entries with the most votes I’ll feature in my next Bust column. Or maybe they could just give me the whole music section this time around. Some of these are fucking amazing!
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Explode Into Colors from Portland, Oregon
The Barettas from Hamilton, Ontario
Rackula from Hamilton, Ontario
Dead Reckoning from Austin, Texas
Miss The Occupier from Glasgow
Mensch from France (free download here)
Grass Widow from San Francisco
Weird TV from Olympia, Washington
Son Skull from Olympia, Washington
Holly McNish from Reading Cambridge Glasgow London (poetry)
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Can i vote for two?
If so then Miss The Occupier & The Shondes gets my vote(s)
I vote for La Sera.
Always thought The Vivian Girls over rated, but this, I like.
Both my favourite 45 0f the year, LUV by Theee Bat and favourite LP, I Wanna Go Home by Shannon & The Clams are femme fronted.
A few other female fronted favourites of the moment:
Dial (fronted by the mighty Jacqui Ham)
Micragirls
Cobra Killer
Okmoniks
Two Tears
Fabienne Delsol
Babyshakes
Momo Lamana (a two piece boy/girl gang, not strictly female fronted, but Momo, the female half does take lead on a few tracks)
Les Bellas (now defunct, but debut lp has just been posthumously released)
The Nuns (good to see them making ‘song of the day’ recently)
Girls At Dawn
Boonaaaras!!!
Werewandas
Les Terribles
Big Sexy Noise (Lydia Lunch & co)
p.s. going to see La Sera on Tueday next
P.S. Eliot
Little Lungs
Screaming Females
now updated with a different Butts clip, and a different Grass Widow clip.
(from Facebook)
Erika Meyer
Explode Into Colors broke up last spring The drummer (LS) got together with another drummer (STS) and formed a duo called STLS. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8J5BusIOwc
That Shannon & The Clams is a great tip, thanks Geoff. I’ll feature them in a future Song of the Day. I wrote a review of Dial for Plan B a while back – great band – and of course Fabienne Delsol, The Nuns, Two Tears, Lydia, Cobra Killer… look forward to checking out the others. Let me know how the La Sera gig goes. I supported Vivian Girls with The Deadnotes last year and they were killer live, total punk.
Hey ET,
Check out newcomers Hearts Under Fire from Guidford, UK.
Si
Thanks Simon, but the whole point of taking recommendations from friends on Facebook on bands is to try and avoid the music industry
morgan and the organ donors video is from one of their first shows, they just got back from their first tour and have a self-released 7″ out that you can get from k
(from Facebook)
Rosalind Blair, Tamsin Chapman, Stacey Adams and 3 others like this.
Chris Kendall
Hahaha love it! Both my recommendations made the list.
8 hours ago · Like
Chuck Warner
found the first half of these slow going… tho Racula’s hair-blower gets cowbell points (w/double credit if that’s her mom on drums). Would have liked Miss the Occupier plenty without the video (and the name ;o).
Grass Widow, I guess?
4 hours ago · Like
Laura Borealis
with all the research you’ve done, it’d be cool if you produced a girl band, and wrote the lyrics, for one album.
4 hours ago · Like
Chuck Warner
went looking for more Grass Widows. There are several black-and-white videos and they’re all brilliant (much stronger I think than this one). http://wwwhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLc0FU5JeU8 for starters…
37 minutes ago · Like
Everett True
thanks Chuck. I’ll update that one as well. Did you check out the French bands? Killer. And that poet
36 minutes ago · Like
Chuck Warner
liked the French bands quite a bit (tho could use more memorable hooks) and the poet is terrific. Grass Widow’s current label hasn’t updated their site since summer and the group page won’t load at all, but LP and 12″ are both available through Revolver/Midheaven. I’m late to the party obviously, but thanks to whoever nominated them.
La Sera just played here in SF and it was amazing. I vote for them.
And Grass Widow. I vote for them too.
updated to include new Rackula video
Rackula!
Rackula rocks!
RACKULA!!!!!
Rackula. Those chicks make my balls hide in the best way possible.
May I suggest this video for The Konki Duet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AwINwZADyc
?
The other one has sync problem.
Updated, Zoe. Thanks.
Weird T.V. I saw them live in San Jose and couldn’t pass up the show they had a day after in Oakland a sure treat!
I vote for Miss The Occupier
la sera
w e i r d t v !
Weird Tv #1
A close second would be Morgan and the Organ Donors!
WEIRD TV! Long-live Female Chicano Punks!!!
Morgan and the organ donors!
I love Morgan and the Organ Donors!!!
Morgan and the Organ Donors! MODs, doncha know!
Morgan and the Organ Donors are an awesome Olympia band that attacks my ears with raw power and sound I vote for them!
MORGAN AND THE oRGAN dONORS RULE! PICK THEM!!
Morgan and The Organ Donors are tops!
Morgan and The Organ Donors, illegal organ donations are lame!
Morgan and the Organ Donors should do this. They deserve the push.
Morgan and the Organ donors are RRRRRRRRRRRRRAD!
Sarah Utter! Wow. How are ya? Still a Mod?
S O N S K U L L ! ! ! !
heck yeah morgan and the organ donors!!!
Hey ET, you should also check out Broken Water (Olympia) and White Lung (Vancouver BC)…x
Lust-Cats of the Gutters!
that is not the best sonskull video
check:
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-k7iAsFWqk
or
noted and accordingly amended, thanks.
I would say Hunter Valentine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFVWEgIZsLU
Thanks Corey, but see the comment I made to Simon above.
Son Skull & Weird TV
Por Vida
the mediator between the Head and the Hands is the Heart
Blood In Blood Out
Write-in vote for Shannon & the Clams! Recognize!
Purple Rhinestone Eagle (http://vimeo.com/7867969)
The Need (http://vimeo.com/13836901)
Tiny Knives (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmgCiWeUGOM)
Cat Fancy! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXwzOLkN18M)
Stag Bitten (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4NJR0M_at4)
Sex Hair (http://www.myspace.com/499485035)
Kusikia (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV06HBlmCXY)
Get Hustle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSvgSV87s4I)
Cull (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm6dkPis87U)
Palo Verde (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEJJumbpLSE)
Wild Flag (http://vimeo.com/16736333)
SON SKULL
Weird TV + Son Skull, bands of the year. For reals.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEppv2LMPwE
better version of WTV
SON SKULL
Grass Widow get my vote
What.. no Brilliant Colors (from San Francisco)? What the hell…
Well Explode into Colors need more votes on here for a start. Despite the whole disbanding malark, that “Paper” track on it’s own should be enough to sell these. I may have a Color fetish, yes… but only when their Brilliant and/or Exploding.
grass widow and wild flag plzzzzzzz
ha ha everett! i’ve always been a Mocker.. playing bass in a band called Western Hymn. come visit oly and we can play Mystery 45 again!
Son Skull. There’s no one else like Mary.
COATHANGERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WEIRD T.V.
Miss the Occupier and Peter Parker – Roz rocks! X
HUMANBEAST (Providence, RI) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LitEsUAvwGg&feature=player_embedded
BLOOD HUFF (Providence, RI) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB-5-sI50jQ
SUPERIOR HUMAN VOMIT (Providence, RI) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KehxnfpPPQU
CAVE GIRLS (Providence, RI)
BLISTER PACK (Worcester, MA) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FouWeTe_0V8
WHORE PAINT (Providence, RI) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZxN8Y79bw8
WEIRD TV & SON SKULL.
The Konki Duet
here’s a better version of our song if you want to do a switcheroo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFl_rp9P7-o
xoxo,
m.o.d.
changed, thanks.
grass widow!
Son Skull
WEIRD TV!
WEIRD TV AND SON SKULL!
mermaid riot!!!
ya! Son Skull- Mermaid riot ROCKS!
WEIRD TV IS A VERY GOOD BAND.
weird tv// lizet is foxy and a good mom
brilliant colors, EFFI BRIEST, dumdum girls, lower dens
Anna, these are all cool bands – and bands that have already been featured on this very site – but we’re voting on the 21 featured here. xx
ghost mom (portland, or)
broken water (olympia, wa)
cat fancy! (portland, or)
shannon and the clams (oakland, ca?)
monster women (eureka, ca?)
but for the ones here: weird tv!
Woah Monster Women, cool! I remember them.
I love Morgan and the Organ Donors
Weird TV
*Explode Into Colors IS NOT A BAND anymore. They got plenty of hype when they were still around. Please hype bands that could use the publicity.
I love Morgan and the Organ Donors! And sniffing glue. And my puppy.
To pit Sara Pete of Morgan and the organ donors versus Mary of Sun Skull in a vocal or soulful contest, is the equivalent of Mothra and Godzilla — Who do you wish for?
These are the forces that determine my fate – I love them both: (colon:)
P.S. Please don’t kill me —
I vote for both!!
signed, Matthew Edward Anderson
Morgan & The Organ Donors
Morgan and the Organ Donors Made me Love Rock and roll again in a Dead Moon way!!!!!
Morgan and the Organ Donors RULES!!! The Sonics? Seeds? Love? FUCK THAT SHIT–listen to the M.O.D.’s!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
morgan and the organ donors and weird tv please
Morgan and the organ donors and S Skull!!!! I Vote for them!!!!!!!!!
You forgot Slöa Knivar from Sweden
I agree with all the weird TV/son skull and would ad las senoras from spain: all girl, sorta like girls in the garage version of some old LA punk band, SO GOOD their 7″ is the best
http://lassenoras.bandcamp.com/
Morgan and the Organ Donors and Hollie McNish
WAAAAY better version of WTV video.
Check it out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEppv2LMPwE
WEIRDTV and SON SKULL, DUH.
weird TV
Weird TV & Son Skull! Bands full of babes.
Weird tv!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 20 kinds of awesome!
weird tv! WEIRD TV! WEEEEERD TEEEEEVEEEEEEE!
Weird TV!!
Definitely P.S. Eliot!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67rexdjRDqo
Mensch, La Chatte, Konki Duet, french selection rule!
sonskull forever!!!
Cream always always rises to the top! Dig the Vivs. I was the only one singing to them at pitchfork in Chicago last year. Vivian girls are tres femme.
woolf!! isn’t that irene from lesbo pig?
TROPHY WIFE. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rhq00r–WB8