Photo: Riot Grrrl NYC Riot Grrrl certainly coming back with avengance. If you thought the return of Julie Ruin and a Kathleen Hanna documentary in the works is mind blowing you’ll love this snippet of the the riot grrrl scene in the early 90s. Grrrl Love and the Revolution: Riot Grrrl NYC, released in 2010, … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: February 2012
Ones to Watch | Household
Some bands love to seen, heard and talked about. They fantasise about becoming the next Lana Del Ray-sized internet hit and as a result they compose every aspect of their band around becoming ‘searchable’. Google groupies is what they are. Fortunately some bands are going against the SEO grain, like Household and their entirely un-googleable name. Try searching … Continue reading
Happy Anti-Valentine’s Day
In Memory
Mixtape Alert | This is Not a Love Song
Valentine’s Day is a tricky occasion for many of us to have live through. Whether you’re ‘in a relationship’, ‘happily single’ or ‘it’s really complicated, seriously I couldn’t explain to you what’s going on between us if I had a million years’ everyone wants to know what you’re doing for Valentine’s Day. Are you going … Continue reading
Retrospective | Pylon
A welcome return for Golden Oldies here on Don’t Dance Her Down Boys and the first band to be featured are Pylon, the Athens, Georgia new wave band that were a huge part of the Athens post punk scene. Pylon formed in 1978 when guitarist, Randell Bewley, bassist, Michael Lachowski, and drummer, Curtis Crowe, came together … Continue reading
From the Archives | Breeders
A little treat for any Deal enthusiasts out there, here we have a very early Breeders demo from 1988. The demo features a collection of songs that would later be straightened out and cleaned up to appear on Pod, Last Splash and the Pixies second album Doolittle. It’s interesting to listen to the beginnings of songs … Continue reading
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