I'm so excited that Royal Thunder is releasing its album, CVI, TODAY. The positive reviews are already everywhere on the internet and it's no surprise considering the greatness of the previous self-titled EP. They're one my favorite bands in the recent female psych/doom/stoner revival♥
Another amazing brand for fancy scarves is Antagoniste. I discovered this company on the Mise En Cage E-store. It is super high quality and the patterns are very original.
If I win the lottery, I would definitely buy this beautiful and well executed Maison Martin Margiela shirt.
I'm not a fan of the Nasty Gal brand image but I do love this bag. I would never spend more than 100$ on it but still, it is really cool.
And since I'm totally in favor of total look, I would consider wearing those cute and simple Keds shoes.
I would never finish a fashion article without a pair of stilettos. So, here is a wonderful pair of shoes by Giuseppe Zanotti. The shape is perfect and it would fit very well with this vintage black Gianni Versace skirt. More amazing GV vintage stuff here.
Thank you so much to Riot Grrrl Berlin for putting together 8 hours of good grrrly music for free. This is fucking awesome! You can grab everything by clicking here. There are 3 compilations at the moment but new ones will be published and the creators are opened for submissions!
Talking about rough girls, I've been told that Firefox: Confessions of a Girl Gang by Joyce Carol Oates is going to be adapted for the second time. Let's see if how the new version by Laurent Cantet will compete with the old one by Annette Haywood-Carter...
If you haven't seen the first version.. IT'S TIME!
Synopsis:"She's a Punk Rocker
U.K." is a documentary by and about punk rock women. Punk women changed
the public face of females. It was very universally empowering for
women. The story of punk could almost be a women's liberation story.
Documentary director and punk rocker Zillah Minx reveals the true punk
rock history from the women who were there. This documentary tells the
story directly from the punk women who created the punk scene in UK.
These are the punk women on the streets of the UK. Before the Sex
Pistols appeared on TV and revealed an underground punk world, to the
public. These are the women punks who shocked the world. This is their
story of being punk told in an oral history format. The film features a
multitude of famous women punk rockers.
The list of the people involved in the project is CRAZY: Poly
Styrene of X-Ray Spex, Vi Subversa of Poison Girls, Eve Libertine &
Gee of Crass, Gaye Black of The Adverts, Michelle of Brigandage,Ruth
& Janet of Hagar The Womb and journalists, authors and photographers
Julie Burchill and Caroline Comb and more. This film includes
interviews with the following women & rare footage of their 1980 s
live punk gigs. Poly Styrene: Lead vocalist, X-Ray Spex. Gee Vaucher:
Art Work, Crass. Eve Libertine: Vocals, Crass. Gay Black: Bass Player,
The Adverts. Vi Subversa: Lead Vocalist & guitarist, Poison Girls.
Julie Burchill. Author, Journalist. Lou Moon: Lead Vocalist, Evil I.
Caroline Coon: Manager, Slits & The Clash, Journalist/Artist Zillah
Minx: Lead Vocalist, Rubella Ballet Michelle: Lead Vocalist, Brigandage
Helen Of Troy: Actress and Vocalist, FU2 Justine: Violinist, Grechen
Hoffner Olga Orbit: Keyboards, Youth in Asia Nettie Baker: Author. Ruth
& Janet: Vocalist & Guitarist, Hagar The Womb Rachel Minx: Bass
player, Rubella Ballet Kara Minx: Child ballet dancer, Rubella ballet
Mary: Bodyguard to Poly-Styrene.”
I also want to express my eternal love for Poly
Styrene and Ari Up. They were and will always be a great source of inspiration. Amazing people.
I recently discovered the artist Chromium Dumb Belle and I absolutely LOVE her work. It is glamourous, dramatic, baroque and mysterious. I can feel the beauty and the mystical of Jules Cheret in her art. I'm so happy when I find passsionate people like her on the internet and I always take a chance to promote them. Her official website is currently under construction but you can have a look at her blogspot and her tumblr - beautiful pictures and great source of inspiration.
Recent work
She kindly accepted to fill in a portrait chinois for my blog and here are the results:
- a fabric?
- a gesture/position?
-a negative feeling?
- a positive feeling?
- a color combination? Black and gold, white and white... bloody reds with inky blues
- a brand? No thanks... neither as a company or the kind on someone's bottom or forehead...
- a precise date? The 12th of Never
- a historic period? Every day
- a school subject? Drama
- a performance artist? Kazuo Ohno
- a painter? Max Ernst
- a man? Sergei Paradjanov
- a font?
- a taboo? So tricky
- a religious figure? By Leonor Fini
- a body part? Hands
- a forgotten object? I would forget what i was if i were a forgotten object
- a bad habit? All of them
- a piece of jewelry?
- a music video? Henry Cow - No More Songs
Thanks to Chromium Dumb Belle and see you readers, xx
Found on fuckyeahfemmes, Riot Acts is a documentary film by Madsen Minaxabout trans and gender variant musicians. AKA a TRANSFABULOUS ROCKUMENTARY.
Featured interviewees include Anderson Toone, Lipstick Conspiracy,
Katastrophe and Trannysaurus Sex (San Francisco), Basic Fix (Portland),
Ryder Richardson (Seattle), Tough Tough Skin, and Venus Demars
(Minneapolis), Adhamh Roland (St. Louis), Ryka Aoki De La Cruz (Los
Angeles), Jessica Xavier (Washington, DC), The Shondes and Novice Theory
(Brooklyn, NY), The Degenerettes (Baltimore), Systyr Act (Boston), The
Cliks (Toronto), and Coyote Grace (Sonoma County, CA).
"(Riot Acts) beautifully traces the meaning of 'transition' in terms of bodies, voice, humor and grace. A must see film!" Jack Halberstam, Author of In A Queer Time and Place and Female Masculinity
Of course, we all love Ghost World. But come on, I was a goth kid and that's why I will always prefer Ginger Snaps. Freaks vs Popular girls, lycanthropy, neo metal ost, beautiful Katharine Isabelle... what's not to love?
Also, I love making lists and sharing them with my friends. So, here's my current "to watch list"... see the images, click on the numbers.
1. Vengeance & The Panther Queen led by the wild Tara McCormack. I came across that band this morning and was totally amazed. 4 pieces of in your face punk music below!
2.Black Moth whose album, Killing Jar, is out today is another awesome band to watch out. Beautiful and dark grunge/stoner music with a talented female vocalist. Also, they have a brilliant artwork made by Vania Zouravliov♥
3. I just discovered Awakening: Females in Extreme Music, a 90's metal compilation featuring the great Runhild Gammelsaeter on its beautiful artwork. I can NEVER get enough of these ladies. Can be found here - the songs are not always good but still, it's interesting. By the way, if you like punk/metal and female vocalists, don't forget to check out this radio/podcast website owned by Lilith Von Fraumench.
4. Nothing new but, as a teenager, I was a HUGE Kittie fan. I listened to their first album a million times to be honest. I was so happy to see that a youtube user posted a 60 minutes doc about them from their DVD Spit in the eye. In case you want to turn back time... this is the right video. I am still looking for a Kittie tee shirt from the first/second album era.
5.I'm definitely looking for The Year of My Japanese Cousin featuring L7 bassist Janis Tanaka and 7 Year Bitch singer Selene Vigil. The film
also starred Muffs drummer Chris Crass and Northwest rock
engineer Kurt Bloch.
6. I hate hunting but I'm totally into those bands at the moment...
