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Paul 1:05 PM on October 19, 2011
Tags: Anna Calvi, , Battles, Beastwars, Best Coast, Cage the Elephant, , Cut Off Your Hands, David Dallas, Ema, , Foster the People, , Gin Wigmore, Girl Talk, , , Gotye, Kanye West, Kasabian, Laura Marling, , , Mayavanya, My Chemical Romance, Odd Future, Opossom, Pajama Club, Röyksopp, SBTRKT Live, Shayne P. Carter, Soundgarden, The Horrors, The Living End, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, , Transistors, Twin Shadow, , Washed Out, Wu Lyf,   

Visitors to our shores

I read through the bands coming to Auckland for the Big Day Out and Laneways. Many have been featured in earlier blog entries. See the list above, those in blue link through to the blog entry. It’s a pretty eclectic mix of artists. I will dig out any older mixes where these bands feature. I am not blown away by the choice but there are bands I would like to see.

There is a reasonable ‘LoFi’ turnout with Cults, Girls and Yuck, a bit of shoegazey action with TPOBPAH and Mariachi el Bronx to show what punks sound like when they go back to their mariachi roots.

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Paul 7:50 PM on July 30, 2011
Tags: Best Coast, Butterglory, , , , Follow That Bird!, , Pegasvs, , , , , , , Thunder Power,   

Nuggets 176 – Girls make noise

Nuggets 176 - Girls make Noise

 

What do Girls, Little Girls and Women have in common? Well, apart from being impossible to google, they are all bands with no female members. Mountain Men is a 4 piece female band that makes sweet Appalachian tunes. With this gender bending going down, its difficult to reliably put together a mix of female bands. Of course a mix focusing on bands with female members suggests that such bands have a sound that stands apart from bands with a gender mix. But what sound?

Weeeeeeeeeeeell that’s a difficult question that I can’t begin to answer. I can say that having a female singer is probably a good start, but then so do many bands. I also believe that I can generally tell that a band has a woman drummer , but that doesn’t always work, i.e. Comanechi whose Akiko Matsuura (more) moonlights as the drummer for Big Pink. I doubt that an all male band would sing about their pussy (as Comanechi did) or a song entitled Nestle in my Boobies (a great song from the Coathangers).

Without delving any deeper I present this mix of bands that seem to fit the bill.  The Screaming Females headline of course, Marissa Paternoster (more) is a force of nature, a 21st century Iggy Pop and a bloody brilliant guitarist. There is a Thunder Power track, I particularly like Kacynna Tompsett‘s voice, and tracks from Bethany Cosentino of Best Coast and Kristen Gundred aka Dee Dee of  Dum Dum Girls

First up, Chin Chin with a bangles-esque stomper.

 

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