Waxahatchee - "Lips and Limbs"

When I have more time, I'll write more extensively about Waxahatchee - as I've been planning to since I first heard her a couple of weeks ago. For now, you can read White Lung singer Mish Way's take on Waxahatchee at the Talkhouse, and I'll just add that "Lips and Limbs" makes me feel like all kinds of ^_^ ^_^ ^_^:

"How The Spice Girls Taught Me To Be a Riot Grrl" By Mish Way

I remember watching the special "Girl Power A-Z" hosted by the Spice Girls. They named Courtney Love for C and showed a clip of the "Doll Parts" video. The Spice Girls commended Courtney for her anger, "Yeah Courtney! Throw that chair! Yeah! Raw! Courtney!" They clearly had no understanding of feminist politics, post-structural analysis or the fact that the inversion of gender roles is counter-productive and binary. But did I? Fuck no. That's something I figured out third year university. Deconstructing Spice was something I would do as a woman, not a girl.

Click here to read the full article.

Free Concert Tickets = As Easy As Joining Twitter? Apparently So.

I still don't know how to use or read Twitter, but despite my social media illiteracy, I was still able to win two tickets to the Men with White Lung and Sex Church at the Waldorf tonight by retweeting @justshowsVAN. How lucky, as retweeting is all I know how to do on Twitter. That's like, 50% of Twitter anyway, isn't it? And to think, I was going to buy my ticket today ...

Twitter has also already begun paying dividends in other ways. Check out American Snakeskin, awesome New Orleans psychy-pop fuzz-punk-rock, at http://soundcloud.com/janitors_closet. Thanks, @myszkaway (Mish Way, lead-singer of Vancouver punk band White Lung and writer for Vice and hearty magazines).

Mish Way Quote

"Of all the things that piss me off, nothing pisses me off more than the term 'rock chick.' Why? Because it's 2012, that's why. The whole women-playing-in-bands thing is not shocking anymore. I hate it when people ask me what it's like to be a girl who plays 'punk' music. You want to know what it's like? ... The only difference about being a girl who plays 'punk' music is that people ask you that stupid question."

 - Mish Way, lead-singer of Vancouver punk band White Lung. More is contained in her mini-article for Vice Magazine in which she takes aim at Alanis Morissette and praises Courtney Love.