ESL - Prove Me Wrong* The Sick Lipstick - Go To Bed* Language Arts - Welcome to the Words You Want in Your Life* Mika Miko - Wild Bore Matt and Kim - Cinders Sonic Youth - Little Trouble Girl Shapes and Sizes - Alone/Alive* Tanya Donelly and Dylan in The Movies - The Lovecats Screaming Females - Starving Dog Pack A.D. - Pilot's Blues* Miss Tk and The Revenge - Nowhere to Go Mirah and Spectratone International - Community The Unsettlers - No No No Yes* Teenage Fan Club and Donna Matthews - Personality Crisis X - Sugarlight Hole - Jennifer's Body The Maynards - Dance Fight* Vivian Girls - No
Mark your Calenders! International Women's Day (IWD) is fast-approaching! March 8th is the global holiday celebrating the economical, social and political achievements of women. It started off with a political and human rights theme in Russia and other Soviet Bloc countries. The theme was initiated by the United Nations and looks toward raising social awareness of women's struggles worldwide.
The celebration takes place in many different countries, who hold diverse initiatives and events that are brought about and planned by women. The global women's organization, Aurora has even created a worldwide register of all the IWD events happening. But, be sure to keep your eyes peeled and your ears opened for all of the fem-related events happening in our city!
CJAM's Women's Radio Collective will be hosting ten hours of special programming next Sunday. There will be tons of music and spoken word shows with various female hosts. All the content will be related to women's issues and kick-ass ladies, so be sure to tune in. That week, many other CJAM shows will also be featuring all-women setlists for their shows.
Sonia and I will also be hosting, "International Women's Day Jam" at Phog Lounge that night. We're gathering up all of our local lady talents for a fun night of celebration and music! With Smash The Glass coming up in just a few short weeks, we figured getting a few of the Windsor women musicians together would be a fun way to kick things off. We've got a few local favorites, as well as a few that you may have not heard yet! Joining us, we have Tara Watts, This is Me as a Woman, Steph Copeland (Perilelle), Amour Amour, Bree Gaudette, Erica Di Maio and Nicole Markham. Be sure to stop in, tune in, celebrate, etc! This is a day for the ladies!
I was going write a well thought out SECOND post on Burlesque, because myself and Kate are hosting a special edition of Genesis tonight about the topic, but then I figured you should listen for yourself tonight, and THEN I'll post all the issues we discussed.
Burlesque is a form of theatrical entertainment involving parody and exaggeration. It's rooted within nineteenth century vaudeville theater and was later resurfaced in the early twentieth century as a blend of satire, performance arts and adult entertainment.
We're going to be looking more into the origins of the art, look at why it is NOT stripping, how it can be looked at as a feminist enterprise, and highlighting some of the contemporary burlesque dancers and how it has been adapted into our everyday culture!
Be sure to tune in tonight from 8:30pm - 9pm on CJAM 91.5fm, or stream it live from www.cjam.ca
Nicole and I had a very successful show tonight! Aside from a few minor technical difficulties, everything went really well. We had no set theme tonight, instead we went through our favorite femcon stuff and shared it with the world! You can listen or download the show...here!
TRACKLIST! Cristina's picks Nicole's picks Request! * Canadian
Nanuchka - Madam Ching Catlow - Added Up * Dandi Wind - Drawing Straws * Astrid Oto - Can't Farm In The Rain Yoko Ono and Le Tigre - Sisters o Sisters Bikini Kill - Rah-Rah Replica Be Your Own Pet - Blackhole Citywide Vacuum - Sweet Kraut* Elbow Beach Surf Club - Our Hood * Yelle - Amour Du Sol Lemuria - Hours Lemuria - Mechanical Lemuria - Get Some Sleep The Bran Flakes - You Can Do Most Anything Miss TK and the Revenge - Fake Italians Aint No Stallions Stereo Total - I Love you, Ono Land of Talk - All My Friends * Jenni Omnichord - The Old Prince *
I remember seeing Jay Reatard a few months back, and some dude was was either pissed about being at that show, or just wanted to get Jay all riled up (kind like that time he punched a kid), but he went up to the stage, and placed a note next to Jay's set list that read, "Pop-punk sucks, go to hell." I laughed, but the truth is there's nothing that can make my heart skip-a-beat faster than my semi-unhealthy obsession with the energetic, jovial sound of pop punk. As cheesy as that sounds, it's totally true...but probably not exactly what you're thinking of either. By "pop-punk," I'm not referring to Blink-182, Green Day, or more contemporary mainstream stuff (though I love that stuff too), I'm talking about the likes of The Descendents, Screeching Weasel, The Queers, The Ergs, etc. just to name a few.
Sheena Ozzella fronts Buffalo, New York pop punk band, Lemuria along with Alex Kerns and Jason Draper. They've been around since the fall of 2004, leaving a lasting impression on all of their audiences. They have two full-length releases on Asian Man Records and their catchy, sing-along sound, mixed with Sheena's super cute, girly voice has instantly made them one of my new favorites.
Their two LPs include, The First Collection, which has all of their tracks from previous EPs and splits compiled onto one convenient album, and Get Better which is their newest effort, released in 2008.
Get Better takes the best parts of rough-edged pop-punk and washes them with little bit of indie rock into something catchy, earnest, believable. Sappy, a bit off-kilter, and unrefined rough around the edges, this shouldn’t work but it does. Get Better is unpolished and better because of that.
The female/male dual vocals of Sheena Ozzella and Alexander Kerns are filled with tension and are the “it” factor that makes this album totally amazing. Kerns vocals are subdued and restrained while Ozzella’s are much brighter and way more in-your-face and together (especially when harmonizing) it is so f’ing good that I’m struggling for words to describe this.
I agree. If you like pop-punk remotely, or even if you're into indie pop, girl vocals, whatever, there is something in this album that everyone can get into. The other night, Janine and I went up to London to go to a show. We we're in a room with around 80 people. Give or take 20 we're female. It's SO great to see a woman fronting such a male-dominated music genre, and doing such an awesome job while she's at it.
This video is pretty low-quality if you actually want to check out what they sound like. BUT, this video shows them in all of their punk glory. Tons of sing alongs. Tons of stage dives...and tons of high-fives. You can also see how much Sheena rips at guitar. I'd suggest checking out to their myspace for better recordings, OR you can tune in to Milk and Vodka tomorrow night (Monday, February 16th) from 5-6. Nicole and I are going through some of our favorite femcon for the show, and I'll slip in a few Lemuria tracks for all of your listening pleasure. LISTEN! www.cjam.ca
Two new shows with rotating themes and female DJs!
The music show, Milk and Vodka, which I've mentioned in a couple of my previous posts, airs on Mondays from 5pm to 6pm.
If you missed the two shows I briefly highlighted earlier, fear not! You can still check out the archived versions of The Slits episode that Nicole and I collaborated on, or today's Crass show, that I hosted with Jill.
There is also a new spoken word show, Genesis, that will be highlighting different women's issues on a weekly basis. You can catch it Wednesday nights from 8:30pm til 9pm.
On this week's installment, Nicole and her friend Rachel will be discussing menstruation, which is always a fascinating topic that I plan to look into more in a later post! They're also featuring an interview with University of Windsor Women Studies professor, Nancy Gobatto. Ashley also wrote a very informative post about the Diva Cup in her blog, No Soap For Sale, that I recommend everyone checking out!
If you want more information on CJAM's Women's Radio Collective, you can visit their brand new Blog, that actually has zero information up currently (because it was just created today), but soon enough it will be OVERFLOWING with copious amounts of fem-related content, show updates and the like!
If you're interested in becoming a member of the Women's Radio Collective, you can sign up on the CJAM bulliten board, which is located in their lobby (which is located in the basement of the CAW)!
Dedicated to all the women musicians, writers, zinesters, photographers, cinematographers, artists, crafters, designers, publishers, whatever! You name it. Some you've heard of, some you have not. They're all doing their part in keeping "grrl culture" and "DIY ethics" alive and strong in our society and deserve to be recognized! Welcome to an up-to-date blog about girl related issues as well as an homage to all the strong, fierce, artistic women of today.
The founder of Wake-Up-Grrl. She holds a B.A. in English Language and Literature from the University of Windsor, and is currently working on her M.A. in Literatures of Modernity at Ryerson University. She drinks copious amounts of coffee, takes way too many photographs, is an active collaborative artist with Broken City Lab, and is interested in the theories and politics that are intertwined within feminist, underground and community culture.
JANINE
Newly contributing to Wake-Up-Grrl, Janine has her M.A. in English Language and Literature from the University of Windsor, and is hoping after much time spent on applications, that she will be back in school to begin PhD work next fall. She's interested in popular culture, loves to travel, and can find the cute in anything. She remains an active part of the University of Windsor's Feminist Research Group and is interested in how a feminist rhetoric intersects with past and present womens' lives.
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