From: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org (jinglejangle-digest) To: jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Subject: jinglejangle-digest V1 #152 Reply-To: jinglejangle@smoe.org Sender: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jinglejangle-digest Friday, July 31 1998 Volume 01 : Number 152 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [MLL] hello [Rachel Kramer Bussel ] [MLL] BOUNCE jinglejangle@smoe.org: Admin request of type /\bcancel\b/i at line 4 (fwd) [Rachel Kramer Busse] Re: [MLL] hello [Siew Kum Hong/Xiao Jinhong ] Re: [MLL] hello [LMJ216@aol.com] [MLL] If I Ran Lilith Fair by Lois Maffeo [Rachel Kramer Bussel Subject: [MLL] hello The list has been rather inactive for the past few days, so I just wanted to say hello and encourage people to post. And welcome to the new people who have joined in the past few days. Where are those concert reviews? Isn't anyone seeing her shows? Well, I know some of you will be there for her Boston show on Saturday. Anyone else seeing her at Lilith? OK, I'm done, but please feel free to post about Mary Lou or anything semi-related or even non-related. As in, Elliott Smith is playing at Maxwell's in Hoboken NJ on August 12th. :) xo, Rachel ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 09:45:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Rachel Kramer Bussel Subject: [MLL] BOUNCE jinglejangle@smoe.org: Admin request of type /\bcancel\b/i at line 4 (fwd) From: Ching-yuan Hu To: MLL Subject: Rescheduling? Does anyone know if the cancelled spring tour dates for MLL will be rescheduled? She was slated to play in Iowa City back in April, but had to c*ncel out. I would still love to see her in concert, hopefully in Iowa City. Ching-yuan ____________________________________________________________________________ "...and I would be the one to hold you down, kiss you so hard I'll take your breath away and after I wipe away the tears Just close your eyes dear..." ____________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 22:15:08 +0800 (SST) From: Siew Kum Hong/Xiao Jinhong Subject: Re: [MLL] hello On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Rachel Kramer Bussel wrote: > As in, Elliott Smith is playing at Maxwell's in > Hoboken NJ on August 12th. And I'm listening to a promo cassette of his new album and it rocks. Even more so than Either/Or, if that's imaginable. I should be doing a phone interview with him sometime soon, if anybody has any burning questions to ask him, just email me. No guarantees, though. xjh "Rock and roll is here to stay _Thirteen_ Come inside where it's okay" by Big Star The Singapore Bean Asylum: http://www.pobox.org.sg/home/limabean/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 12:13:56 EDT From: LMJ216@aol.com Subject: Re: [MLL] hello i'd love to see mary lou and elliot again...if only they'd come closer to where i live. they're my favourite musicians (not to exclude belle and sebastian) LoveLisa "everyone thought she was boring so they never listened anyway" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 22:52:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Rachel Kramer Bussel Subject: [MLL] If I Ran Lilith Fair by Lois Maffeo Thought some of you might want to read this... taken from: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/categories/music-alternative/july-28- 1998-anti-lillith-article/002-0582982-0883029 OR just go to www.amazon.com and click on music and there's a link. You can also order Lois's CDs and the other CDs mentioned in her article. If I Ran Lilith Fair Lois Maffeo dreams of an alternative to the all-women concert tour. In those daydream moments when we wishfully ponder what we'd do if we ran the world, I often think of Lilith Fair. I harrumph and sigh when I think how (Missy Elliott aside) it's a pretty stodgy, middle-of-the-road affair. I mentally revamp the lineup to include a greater variety of styles, ages, and colors! I lower the ticket price in recognition of the wage gap! But mostly I would want to explode the myth that women are best at making folk-type music. Sarah McLachlan, Indigo Girls, and Suzanne Vega all make great music, but when I run the Lilith Fair, it's going to stretch the notion of women in rock. It's gonna wreck the joint. First on tap will be the Donnas, a quartet of Palo Alto, California, teenagers who put the Runaways on notice by being the snottiest, sexiest, and loudest girl punk band around. They might sleep peacefully in bunk beds beneath posters of the Ramones and Kiss, but come daylight they swagger forth in tight vinyl pants and lip gloss to declare their desire to get down, skip school, and go nowhere at hyperspeed. The songs on their LP American Teenage Rock 'n' Roll Machine are the sonic equivalent of being flipped off, so if you're sensitive about good manners, be warned. Holland's Solex are next on the bill. Along with creating sophisticated and mesmerizing music with sampler and keyboard, Elisabeth Esselink has conjured the character Solex, who inhabits each of the lo-fi trip-hop tracks on her Matador debut, Solex vs. the Hitmeister. The vocals may sound eerily childlike, but Solex is a mature woman who has kept her day job running an Amsterdam record shop in between rare live appearances and recordings. To pick up the pace a bit, let's go worldbeat. Marisa Monte remodels the music of her native Brazil by coming up with something that might be described as "alterna-samba." Her stunning voice and highly nuanced phrasing are the focal points of the recorded work she makes in association with art-damage king Arto Lindsay. The live tracks on 1997's A Great Noise indicate the joyous sense of abandon her performances generate. Prepare to kick aside the chairs to make more room to dance. There's no doubt the Lilith Fair was partially inspired by the all-girl rock extravaganzas created within the riot-grrrl movement of the early 1990s, so it's fitting to include one of its icons. Bikini Kill vocalist Kathleen Hanna takes third-wave feminism to a higher level with her new solo project Julie Ruin. Targeting the media ("Just another book about women in rock / You make me want to crochet!") and overzealous PC-ness ("Fake feminist police force / Is really bumming me out"), the songs on Julie Ruin's self-titled album range from sloppy drum-machine new wave to spare electronic vignettes that emphasize the scorch and cool of Hanna's voice. Support groups now forming in the line to the women's restroom! As the day fades into evening on my mock-Lilith stage, it's time for the sultry pop of the Spinanes. Led by indie-rock goddess Rebecca Gates, the Spinanes create smart and beautiful tunes with metal-detector lyrics that skim the sands to find the lost gold of old loves and hot crushes. Gates's voice has grown a lot sexier in the years since the band's innocent and giddy 1994 debut, Manos, as she displays on the Spinanes' 1998 record, Arches and Aisles, so now might be a good time to attempt that "stretch, yawn, and put your arm around" move on your concert date. The headliners of my Lilith Fair are Sleater-Kinney. If you haven't noticed, they have redefined rock music in a most unrock manner. They aren't defiant or brash or in-your-face. They are simply extraordinarily good at everything they do. Carrie Brownstein's complex guitar leads mesh effortlessly with Corin Tucker's fire-alarm vocals. The riff-heavy sounds of 1997's Dig Me Out will long be the standard to which other bands--male or female--strive. Sleater-Kinney have style, substance, and heart enough for three bands. They are what I hope the future of women in rock looks like. What am I forgetting? Japanese pop like Shonen Knife and Pizzicato Five? An underground hip-hop siren la Queen Pen? Off-kilter performance artists like Miranda July and standup comic Janeane Garofalo? Would drag queens count? I know, I know. I've got to relax--it's just a daydream. But hopefully it's a daydream that will someday find a home. ------------------------------ End of jinglejangle-digest V1 #152 **********************************