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How do you rate these female rock bands?
Also S&D other female rock bands.
I still love 'Pretty On the Inside' and 'Fontanelle' and have fond memories of 'Bricks Are Heavy'.

― Paula Millington, Monday, 5 April 2004 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Let's do a search and destroy of male rock bands instead.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Monday, 5 April 2004 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

any list of my fave all-men bands would have to include Led Zeppelin, who all had a y chromosome in common

― autovac (autovac), Monday, 5 April 2004 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't think i like "female rock bands"

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 5 April 2004 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

how can you tell if a rock is male or female?

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 5 April 2004 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

apparently the female ones play crap grunge

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 5 April 2004 22:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I have this ongoing argument with my fiancee - how many women have to be in a band before it can be considered a "female" band. Do more than 50% of the members have to female? What if the band is fronted by a woman but all the other members are guys? What if the band is all women and one guy, but the guy writes and sings all the material? What about duos? And if a band is "all girls" why should that make any kind of qualitative difference, anyway?

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 5 April 2004 22:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Let's do a search and destroy of male rock bands instead.

Lars, tis way too easy.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 5 April 2004 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Genesis P-Orridge and his wife are turning into each other through a series of operations, beginning with matching breast implants for their anniversary or something.

So ah, what will TG be when the do the reunion show?

Search: L7, Bikini Kill, Errase Errata, Girlschool, Gazoonga Attack

― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 5 April 2004 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Do more than 50% of the members have to female?

Maybe I'm being too simplistic, but wouldn't the definition of "female rock bands" mean that all the members have to be female? Otherwise, you couldn't call it that.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 5 April 2004 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Are there any bands that are all female except for a male singer?

― Daniel DiMAGGIO (Daniel DiMAGGIO), Monday, 5 April 2004 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Robert Palmer's!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 5 April 2004 23:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Search: L7, Bikini Kill, Errase Errata, Girlschool, Gazoonga Attack

-- Sasha

Damn right!

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Monday, 5 April 2004 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Search: OOIOO. They spit cannonballs.

Destroy: Toto Coelo. They eat cannibals.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Monday, 5 April 2004 23:45 (twenty-one years ago)

L7 never really got their due. All those records up to Hungry for Stink were good. I miss them!

Search also Kittie, Bangles

Destroy Go Gos, Donnas

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 5 April 2004 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

destroy the go gos???

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 00:01 (twenty-one years ago)

destroy the donnas???

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 00:02 (twenty-one years ago)

search kittie???

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 00:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw Kittie live and they were eerily affecting. I haven't heard their records but they publicly threatened Avril with physical violence, and just imagining that confrontation makes me feel a little funny. Classic for that.

And let us please not get into the numerous ways in which the Go Gos are total dogshit.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 00:06 (twenty-one years ago)

No please do, Roger.

― Paula Millington, Tuesday, 6 April 2004 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

How about the fact that they're terrible? How about starting there? They make the Runaways sound like the Kinks by comparison. Awful kanawful, all the way. Jane Weidlin, in addition to having the kind of face that gives me the uncontrollable urge to stab her eyes with shards of glass, is completely and utterly devoid of talent. If Belinda Carlisle weren't hot, I'd say the Go Gos are right behind Kiss and the Beasties as worst band ever.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 00:12 (twenty-one years ago)

The Runaways! Definitely a search.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 00:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Kleenex
ESG (at certain points)
The Raincoats
Dickless
Spitboy
Kreviss
Adickdid
Ut
Oiler(?)
The Need (before they decided to do a rock opera)

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 00:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Jane Weidlin, in addition to having the kind of face that gives me the uncontrollable urge to stab her eyes with shards of glass, is completely and utterly devoid of talent.

well, that says it all, doesn't it?

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Sleater-Kinney (at least in the 20th Century, though "Oh" was pretty awesome)

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Gore Gore Girls
Mr Airplane Man
The Delmonas
Sleater-Kinney
Sahara Hotnights
Lunachicks

Poison

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 00:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm hearby donating $50 to the charity of the Go-Gos choice if they stab Roger Adultery repeatedly.

Who's with me?

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)

jane wiedlin wrote "vacation", ef you roger adultery.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 00:50 (twenty-one years ago)

wiedlin's "rush hour" is one of the most beautiful pop songs of the '80s. ef you roger adultery.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Hating the go gos is like hating ice cream!

This is still a stupid question though.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

The way that "We Got the Beat" strips back, builds up, slams through and then STOPS at the end...fucking fuck, how many bands never ever get a moment like that right even once?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 00:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"Our Lips Are Sealed"!!!! "Our Lips Are Sealed"!!!!!!!!!!!

EF You, adultery!!!!!!!

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Jane Weidlin, in addition to having the kind of face that gives me the uncontrollable urge to stab her eyes with shards of glass

now that's a funny way to say "gives me a giant erection." oh, maybe you meant something else.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:12 (twenty-one years ago)

part of me thinks this thread is troublesome but part of me is also "woohoo!" i don't like the phrase "female rock bands" when its used to conflate all bands that are women-dominated as if womens bands are a genre. which they obviously aren't cos the music women make is so diverse. but at the same time - i can see a need for the phrase. some years ago now, i knew fuckall about rock music made by women and i was pretty starved for role models. the "female rock band" thing CAN be empowering too. does a thread about female rock bands necessarily conflate them all? does it always - in some way - ghettoize them?

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 02:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't been this unpopular since I voted for Bush

(just kidding, freaks. Even I have limits)

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 03:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Ahem, the term is "BITCH rock bands." Thank you.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 13:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I just felt this was the best way to attract attention to the subject. Women in rock (without going for the Janis,Patti angle etc) And its also so much more than Riot Grrrl.

― Paula Millington, Tuesday, 6 April 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I understood what you meant, Paula. And for what it's worth, I was never a fan of Riot Grrl *music*. I have no problem talking about women in music AS WOMEN IN MUSIC. Chrissie Hynde might roll her eyes at me, but that's fine.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

If you're the sort that is really into female rock bands, you probably started out just trying to find what you really liked. If you like one sort of genre, you think the rest are going to be just grand. When I got into a particular group, I went in search of anything related or that sounded vaguely like them. But I dislike women bands that are mostly about pushing it in my face that they are 'women' in a 'women's rock band'. Even as a woman, I find that irritating.

― Eve Atley (Kilbey1), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

which bands do that, eve?

bands that haven't been mentioned thus far - search: the slits, heavens to betsy, bratmobile, the bangles, cadallaca, look blue go purple, the trashwomen, stepford five, slant 6, the scissor girls...sure theres way more.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Search:

Donnas, L7, Lunachicks, Shaggs, GTO's, The Curse, Chubbies, Girls In the Garage collections.

Destroy:

Fanny

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 02:39 (twenty-one years ago)

destroy the donnas

I think we're gonna have a problem here

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 03:11 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a new Kill Rock Stars comp out today with the Sahara Hotnights doing "Rockaway Beach."

― Sara Sherr, Wednesday, 7 April 2004 04:07 (twenty-one years ago)

S: Amps and Breeders, Slumber Party, All-Girl Summer Fun Band, the Aislers Set, Juliana Hatfield's post-Lemonheads stuff, Velocity Girl (except for the last album)

It shocks me a little when I hear someone (mostly guys) talk about how they don't like female-fronted rock bands. That's half (or more) of the stuff I listen to on a regular basis.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 04:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Hell yes The Slits plus The Raincoats if no-one's mentioned them yet.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 04:14 (twenty-one years ago)

The Donnas range from fantastic (their cover of "Strutter" is my favorite 7") to instantly forgettable.

The singer sounds flat and out of tune (and really young) live, they must do a lot of studio work for her.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 04:19 (twenty-one years ago)

aislers set has boys in

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 04:22 (twenty-one years ago)

velocity girl: how much of their stuff did sarah actually write?

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 04:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Hole had boys throughout their existence, didn't they?

I was just going by female-led/fronted.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 04:24 (twenty-one years ago)

ahh

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 04:33 (twenty-one years ago)

bikini kill also had a boy guitarist

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 06:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Search:
L7, Hole, Team Dresch, YYYs (?), Slits, Raincoats, Bikini Kill Le Tigre, Erase Errata, Babes In Toyland, PJ Harvey (band?), Breeders (so much better than Pixies!), Uzeda(?), Jack Off Jill, Rasputina, Bleach...

― mei (mei), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 07:03 (twenty-one years ago)

See, this is where I start to get annoyed. Because, really, *WHAT* do L7 and Slumber Party have in common, musically, apart from having women in the band? Who in their right mind would link, say, Rage Against The Machine and Olivia Tremour Control? You just wouldn't. The genres aren't even close.

― Super-Kate (kate), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 07:04 (twenty-one years ago)

"Because, really, *WHAT* do L7 and Slumber Party have in common, musically, apart from having women in the band?"

Would it be inappropriate to point out the obvious?

― Dave M. (rotten03), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 07:05 (twenty-one years ago)

hey kate i asked that question further upthread: does a thread about women bands NECESSARILY conflate them, genrewise. i would say not always. i don't think this one does. hopefully no-one on this thread is under the illusion that womens rock bands are a genre.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 07:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, to respond to your answer, Di, I think yes, it *DOES* ghettoise them, and there's no getting around that.

― Super-Kate (kate), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 07:20 (twenty-one years ago)

C90/S&D: Mid-late '90s girl-pop/alternapop is a thread about a genre.

This thread ... it bothers me, because I've spent too long trying to break out of that ghetto.

― Super-Kate (kate), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 07:22 (twenty-one years ago)

a lot of people who get pigeonholed into a genre don't like that either. see every second dunedin sound band that claims there is no such thing as the "dunedin sound". not that i'm agreeing or disagreeing, just throwing it out there. anyway, i'm interested in this discussion, i'm really trying to figure out where i stand on the matter, i feel kinda pulled in both directions.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 07:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Search: The Butchies

Destroy: Peaches

― Lewis J. Bateman (Lewis Bateman), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 07:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Being pegged as belonging to a genre based on something that you choose, such as your music sound, or your image, or even, slightly more spurious, your location - I can understand that.

Getting pegged as a genre because of your gender is as wrong as getting pegged as a genre because of your race. It's just not on. I know it happens in both cases, but I still don't think it's right.

― Super-Kate (kate), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 07:58 (twenty-one years ago)

i have been pigeonholed, musically, because of my gender. in my first band, i used to get dipshits coming up to me after gigs, telling me "oh you sound just like seven year bitch!" in reality, we had more in common with the birthday party than with 7 year bitch. but most people weren't that stupid. and i don't think that anyone on this thread is saying that erase errata and the bangles are musically similar.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 08:02 (twenty-one years ago)

search and destroy: british bands vs american bands

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 08:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, Di, but I think that threads like this *do* contribute to the myth that female bands are part of some small "other". Most people *are* that dumb. And even music obsessives who should know better continue to do it.

― Super-Kate (kate), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 08:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyway, I'm not arguing with you, Di. I've wasted too much of my life arguing this topic and I'm just sick of it.

― Super-Kate (kate), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 08:10 (twenty-one years ago)

nobody cares what i think but i find all-male and all-female bands really pretty damn boring as a concept.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 08:16 (twenty-one years ago)

kate i haven't really chosen a side of the fence. perhaps its something i would have to go through to understand. i just wouldn't want to deny any woman (or anyONE) the empowerment of knowing that there are women bands out there of diverse genres to choose from. there was a time in my life when i needed to know that. threads like this help, in that sense, but i can see the limiting interpretations that people might make. heh, maybe i just want it both ways, when the reality is i can't.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 08:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry Super-Kate I wasn't trying to say that all female bands sound the same or anything, and I understand where you're coming from but most bands do seem to be males only or a token female bass player. I was just simply wanting to know female bands/bands with female singers/songwriters etc because it's an anomaly within rock and I wanted to find out about bands i've never heard. Who are the ones to check out and who to avoid.
Theres plenty of female pop stars but why is there so few among rock? Do record labels not sign female/female fronted rock bands? Because there must be plenty of them.

Wouldn't it be nice one day if women in rock could be mentioned in music magazines without reference to their beauty(or lack of ) and judged purely on musical merits?

― Paula Millington, Wednesday, 7 April 2004 10:03 (twenty-one years ago)

If this was a thread about political music then both Billy Brag and Public Enemy would get a mention because from a certain point of view they're in the same genre. I know people whose taste cuts across 'musical' genres and is based on other things, like politics in the above example.

I also know people who favour bands fronted/dominateed by women. There are a lot of people who like, say, Peaches and Sleater-Kinney because they present a strong female voice.

You can be a Metal band AND a Female Rock Band, or a Political band AND a Female Rock Band. Bands can be in more than one genre!

― mei (mei), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 10:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I probably should clarify. I realize it's not the bands themselves that, as I indicated, 'push it in my face that they are women in a women's rock band'. It's the record companies that market them that have a tendency to do this. I think what's occuring is that they are trying to market them in some 'niche' because we as people have a tendency to love categories, because it helps us organize the chaos of our lives. How did Kim Gordon or Courtney Love get their monikers as Riot Grrls? Someone's got to start the rumor.

As for who does this, think Indigo Girls, the promoters of Lilith Fair, those who marketed the Donnas and the Runaways (Kim Fowley on the latter?).

― Eve Atley (Kilbey1), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 12:43 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm bumping this thread, cos a) the discussion was productive b) i'm hoping nicole will come back and clarify why she thinks its a stupid thread c) to answer this question: Wouldn't it be nice one day if women in rock could be mentioned in music magazines without reference to their beauty(or lack of ) and judged purely on musical merits?

hell yes... and theres a distinction between discussing a musician's image and evaluating them on how they measure up to whatever the music writer's standards of beauty happen to be.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Thursday, 8 April 2004 23:28 (twenty-one years ago)

destroy: the bangs

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Thursday, 8 April 2004 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

i like the bangs!

good bands not mentioned yet: the rondelles, chicks on speed, the spice girls.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 8 April 2004 23:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Are there any bands that are all female except for a male singer?

At certain times, The Honeymoon Killers... if you allow the lead singer a guitar.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 8 April 2004 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

justyn! are you on AIM?

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Friday, 9 April 2004 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Are there any bands that are all female except for a male singer?

For the first album at least, the Mysteries of Life, who were a great little band.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 9 April 2004 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

hell if chicks on speed count, search electrelane too.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Friday, 9 April 2004 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Search Electrelane!
somebody destroy Peaches, and fast

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Friday, 9 April 2004 03:32 (twenty-one years ago)

big ups to Di for big upping the Scissor Girls.

― hstencil, Friday, 9 April 2004 05:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Wouldn't it be nice one day if women in rock could be mentioned in music magazines without reference to their beauty(or lack of ) and judged purely on musical merits?

NO ONE is judged purely on music merits. If they were music mags would have no photos, interviews, biographies or any reference to equipment or indeed musicians!

― mei (mei), Friday, 9 April 2004 06:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Fluffy rocked the casbah.

I remember reading an article about them on tour, wondering if a girl band might have a diferent ethos, or whatever. But no, it was taking drugs, drinking pints, shagging, and not ironing your clothes all the way, just like the bloke bands.

― Baravelli. (Jake Proudlock), Friday, 9 April 2004 07:24 (twenty-one years ago)

The Nymphs! I loved Imitating Angles

― Daniel (dancity), Friday, 9 April 2004 08:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember reading an article about them on tour, wondering if a girl band might have a diferent ethos, or whatever

well its going to depend on the band, isn't it? not all guy bands do that whole rock n roll bullshit.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Friday, 9 April 2004 10:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Fair enough. Embrace didn't even drink, and where are they now? (Oh, I know; they've made a comeback as Keane.

Friend of mine went back stage after an Iron Maiden gig, and they were drinking orange juice. (Iron Maiden, that is, not Embrace.)

― Baravelli. (Jake Proudlock), Friday, 9 April 2004 11:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Scrawl - though they haven't been all female for about a decade now.

― mike a, Friday, 9 April 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

the 5,6,7,8's!

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Sunday, 11 April 2004 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

If it's any consolation, I sure would lump together Rage Against the Machine and whoever the fuck that other male band you said were!

I think alot of the stuff I listen to is sort of androgynous.

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 11 April 2004 10:23 (twenty-one years ago)

S: Shonen Knife

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 11 April 2004 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

search: lacuna coil,drain sth, kidney thieves,phantom blue,lennon,otep,kittie,and paz lenchantin. paz lenchantin was the bass guitarist for a perfect circle and then zwan. she is really amazing.

― Shalaigh Cantrell, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 06:41 (twenty-one years ago)

The Bangs are responsible for destroying 1) my hearing and 2) the overdrive channel on my Marshall.

And Ronan, there's a difference between "androgynous" and "anonymous".

Just to irritate me on the "equal treatment of genders" wow, that was sure a narrow definition of "boyband" on the C4 docu last night. I wish we could apply that sort of micro-genrefication when talking about "girlbands".

― Super-Kate (kate), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 07:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Some more, many seconded, thirded, or whatever...

Search: Ut, Slits, Dickless, Snatch, Raincoats, 5678's, Shonen Knife
Destroy: Kittie, Girlschool

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 12:20 (twenty-one years ago)

How do you know what I'm even talking about??

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't. You are wrong because you are you. ;-)

― Super-Kate (kate), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 13:05 (twenty-one years ago)

GAH!

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)

hey ronan, can you tell me what you mean by androgynous, and how the artists you like fit that description?

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 22:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Are the Bangles a "ROCK BAND"?

― Dean Clark, Saturday, 17 April 2004 22:51 (twenty-one years ago)

six years pass...

Patty Schemel (Hole, Kill Sybil) Documentary Forthcoming
February 11, 2011

In 2007, Patty Schemel, former drummer of Hole and Kill Sybil, among others, approached Christina Soletti with 40 hours of footage on Hi-8 tape shot during her tenure in Hole in the ’90s. Schemel, concerned that the tapes would soon disintegrate, apparently sought to have the footage transferred, but Soletti found the footage “fascinating” — enough so to propose the idea of a documentary.

The result is entitled Hit So Hard: The Life and Near-Death Story of Drummer Patty Schemel. As of February 9th (as reported by Spinner), the filmmakers — Soletti, Todd Hughes, and P. David Ebersole — were seeking fan funding through Kickstarter; however, their original goal of $15,000 has been reached. After reaching the $15k in a week’s time, they are now seeking to raise $25,000. No date has yet been set for the release of the documentary.

The documentary will apparently focus on Schemel’s time as the drummer for Hole, as most of the footage she produced is from that era. Schemel, however, has a long history in the Northwest punk community, as well as on the national music scene — prior to Hole, she performed with Kill Sybil and Doll Squad, and has since performed with Juliette and the Licks. (Also, unbeknown to most, she performed for a short time with our very good friend Raegan Butcher in the band Pale & Skinny. Verbicide’s parent company, Scissor Press, released a super-limited edition CD of their discography, and it features Patti’s earliest known recordings, dating back to 1986. Only 200 CDs were pressed, so if you want a copy — *plug plug* — you can pick it up here.)

Also included in the documentary are interviews with her family, Hole bandmates, Nina Gordon (Veruca Salt), and Kate Schellenbach (Luscious Jackson, Beastie Boys). Rare footage of Kurt Cobain is also included.

For more information, visit the documentary’s official site: www.pattydoc.com. Here’s a trailer, prefaced with an appeal for funding from the filmmakers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4ANYA3nvKE

-Verbicide Magazine

― NYCNative, Friday, 11 February 2011 20:44 (fourteen years ago)

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