tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74480305173837817222012-01-29T19:31:05.812ZA blog run by one woman on a mission to share her love of female musicians and artists with the world.Chenilla-Ohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13448713549760446923noreply@blogger.comBlogger2741100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7448030517383781722.post-39390269297317642782012-01-24T21:19:00.000Z2012-01-24T21:19:27.630Z

Everyone's favourite boy / girl grunge duo Blood Red Shoes have announced the release of their third album today. In Time To Voices will be released on 26 March 2012, the tracklisting is below, and is currently available to pre-order via iTunes. Tickets for their April and May UK tour go on sale on Friday 27 January. You can listen to the first single from their new album Cold on Blood Red

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The Queen of genre-bending, day-glo wearing pop Santigold is back with a new album and a new video. The long-awaited follow up to 2008's Santogold will be called Master of My Make Believe. The new album is due for release this spring on Downtown and Atlantic Records. As a mini teaser, fans can download the first single from the new record from Santigold's site. If that weren't enough here's

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So it's the end of another year in music and, in my opinion, it's been a goodun'. A year that featured Peej's astounding second Mercury prize win, Beyonce winning over a cynical Glastonbury crowd with sparkly pants and a whole lotta weave during her headline set and Warpaint's dreamy debut album is a year that should be celebrated and celebrated it will be. And, yes I know there are slightly

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Bass enthusiasts Sleigh Bells have come out of hiding to announce the title of their forthcoming second album and have decided to throw a little taster our way. The Bells released a rather slick trailer video to announce their second album, Reign of Terror, which is set for release on February 13 2012 on Mom + Pop Records. Produced by Derek E. Miller their extremely enthusiastic PR described

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Short one but I had to post this mixtape since I've posted a Christmas mixtape every year on Don't Dance Her Down Boys and I'm a sucker for tradition. So here it is, Christmas. It exists. Deal with it. Tracklisting: 1. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer- The Crystals 2. Christmas is Cancelled- The Long Blondes 3. Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)- Darlene Love 4. Christmas Wrapping- Summer Camp

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A collection of short films created for PJ Harvey’s Mercury Prize award-winning album, Let England Shake, will be released on DVD it was announced yesterday. The DVD, called Let England Shake: 12 Short Films, features all of the 12 short films created by photographer / videographer Seamus Murphy to accompany every song on Harvey latest album. If that isn’t enough there is a previously unseen

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I came to this a bit late but good God I love this song. Emeli Sandé, real name Adele Emeli Sandé, is a Glaswegian Aretha in the making and the owner of the powerhouse vocals, and fantastic blonde quiff, that make this song what it is. The Song of the Month this time round has to be 'Heaven' by Ms Sandé. 'Heaven' is a string-drenched club track; the kind that you can dance around to on a

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This month's From The Archives features the legendary X-Ray Spex. Although the band had a limited back catalogue, the 1978 punk classic Germ Free Adolescents and the less accessible 1995 album Conscious Consumer, they did release a few bootlegs of their live recordings which have become increasingly hard to find over the years. But today, I give you Live at the Roxy a collection of songs

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This feature has gone walkies for what I first thought was a few months and then when I checked was actually over a year. Now I'm not exactly sure what I was doing that made me put this feature on hold for so long but I assume it had something to do with Ben and Jerry's ice cream and episodes of The Only Way is Essex, the best way to spend an evening in. I've been crap but hopefully this great

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I'll admit it, I'm not a massive film buff.  I get bored, lose interest, fail to follow the plot and more or less glaze over as soon as the movie starts. I am crap when it comes to movies but I do love soundtracks. Even in the most mainstream movies you can hear some amazing songs played at the party scene or the pivotal boy finally gets together with girl under the willow tree. I thought Mean

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A drunk guy got hold of the set list. It's an odd thought to have when you're at a gig but I'm pretty sure that's what half of the audience were thinking at Throwing Muses London gig. By using some sort of lager fueled seance the, now very drunk, audience member started repeatedly yelping the names of the Muses songs until they played them. "FISH. FISH. FISH. FISH", he screamed until it

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So here's the dealio, a phrase I should definitely use more often, I play in a band that occasionally plays gigs. As it happens we have one pretty soon. On Friday 11 November actually which is very soon. It's our second gig and we're pretty excited about the prospect of getting paid for gig but here's the catch. We get more money depending on how many people come through the door. We need as

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I always need a bit more riot grrrl in my life but I prefer it when it fits in with my life. Sleater-Kinney is needed when I wanna have a cry, a bit of Bikini Kill is thrown on when I'm feeling a bit more anarchic and, as of now, Throwing Up pops on my iPod when I want to have a good old scream. The band consist of vocalist / guitarist Camille, bassist Claire and long-haired drummer Ben. The

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Breeders, Breeders, Breeders. I always have time for Kim Deal and her motley crew The Breeders. I thought I had all of The Breeders material but randomly while I was on YouTube the other day I stumbled across this beauty. 'Head to Toe' is the title track of The Breeders limited edition 1994 EP Head to Toe. It was The Breeders second EP released after their successful, and most well known, album

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So you thought you knew everything there is to know about Courtney Love well think again there's a whole lot more to learn apparently since Love has announced she will be writing her own memoir. After signing a deal with William Morrow, an imprint of Harper Collins, it was announced that the Hole front woman plans to "set the record straight" with her new book. It's hard to think that there

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Today's Song of the Month features Don't Dance Her Down Boys regular Kristin Hersh. Now I post a lot about Ms Hersh mainly because she has 25+ years of mind blowing art to her name so I'm discovering new things everyday but I swear you won't be disappointed by this song. The Song of the Month is 'Sundrops' by Kristin Hersh, lead singer of Throwing Muses and 50 Foot Wave, from her debut solo

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There are so few videos of Bratmobile from this time in their career that when I found this today I knew I had to share it immediately. Great video of Bratmobile playing in Manchester in 1992. Heads up to Chunkletguy who also has some great videos of other 90s bands including Huggy Bear and Versus.

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Although I officially make the best feminist mixtapes this side of South London, don't believe me check my track record, I'll allow someone else to have a go at it. Sisterhood and all says I should doesn't it. Girls Get Busy, a feminist collective supporting female musicians, artists and writers, is searching for bands to fill up their second Chixtape mix tape. Given the brilliance of their

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I hate to admit it as a feminist, a rational human being and a lover of things coated in chocolate I have a problem with my weight. I'm a tad bigger than I should be and no amount of positive thinking can console me when I'm crying in a Topshop changing room because a pair of size 14 jeans won't fit my 'curvy' behind.* So I did the most unfeminist thing I could do along with being a serious

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PJ Harvey became the winner of the Mercury Prize 2011 and the first person to win the prize twice last night at the Mercury Awards. Beating off artists such as Katy B, Adele and Tinie Tempah Harvey won the £20,000 award with her critically acclaimed album Let England Shake an album influences by the horrors of war and the intricacies of her home England. Harvey first won the Mercury prize in

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So this Ones to Watch may be a tad premature. The only online evidence, which is the only evidence that matters, of this band's existence is a bandcamp account with three demos on it. You may think I might be rushing it a bit but wait....these demos are immensely awesome. They are so awesome they've made me use the word awesome three times in the last minute, and I hate the word awesome. Hate it

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In my humble opinion there's not enough written about The Raincoats. The post-punk revolutionaries were one of the best bands to come out of the aftermath of the London punk scene. The band broke up after the release of their third album Moving (1984) but reformed in 1994 after Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain sung their praises and offered them an opening spot on his tour. More than a decade

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At the beginning of August and I was a little too optimistic believing that it would be filled with scorching summer days and balmy evenings. In reality this summer we've had the odd sunny day but we've also had a lot of rain, grey drizzly afternoons, freezing nights and lots of riots (London went insane for a few days). Nevertheless I believe the best way for us to collectively get through

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Indie rock supergroup Wild Flag have released a trailer to announce the arrival of their debut album out on September 13th. The 'Album Trailer', a new concept for our modern times, features a variety of pretty people firing arrows off like nobody's business with Wild Flag's raucous music playing in the background. The group, made up of members of Helium, The Minders and Sleater-Kinney, have

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If you could artificially create a band that could fulfil my every needs Japanese Voyeurs would most definately be the end result. They have everything I need; distorted guitars, check. Riot grrrl-esque vocals, check. Lyrics that beat you around the head till you're numb, check and check. Not to say that Japanese Voyeurs are in anyway artificial or manufactured. You can't put this kind of

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For the amount of words I devote to Kill Rock Stars artists you would think I had some kind of back door deal with them. Maybe one that involved lifelong free entry to every show by a Kill Rock Stars artist. Obviously I don't have that but I wouldn't say no if it was offered you know what I mean hint hint nudge nudge. The latest Kill Rock Stars band to grab my attention are Thao and Mirah a duo

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This long neglected feature is making it's come back today folks and I've got a great song that's been going around in my head for a while. The song that has tickled my fancy for the last couple of months is 'I'm Not Stupid' by Cat's Eyes.  Cat's Eyes are a boy girl duo consisting of unlikely musical allies Canadian classically trained soprano Rachel Zeffira and The Horror's frontman Faris

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50s Musicians There are exactly 200,153 songs about girls names and that's a fact I mean don't research it, don't look it up, you can't find it on wikipedia but it's true...ish. Whatever the actual statistic is I know it's pretty high. Call me a feminazi but I find that many songs about women written by men tend to fall into two camps. Women are either portrayed as either the temptress seducing

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spit. presents ENVY and BELLATRIX Friday 15 July 2011, 5:15pm The Front Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall spit. launches its inaugural show on 15 July at the Southbank Centre, with performances from Envy and Bellatrix. As part of the Southbank Centre's Intelligent Movement festival (in association with Channel 4's Street Summer), spit. presents a free event showcasing some of the most exciting

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Along with listening to amazing artists, meeting other like minded bloggers and sitting around eating bonbons all day getting requests from PRs is one of the nicer things about running a small music blog mainly because it makes you feel like you're one of the big boys (or perhaps big girls). Now a blogger's relationship with PRs is a tricky one. You can get sent the worst music made by the most

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Well I'm a bit late on this one but I could not resist commenting on my girl B's new girl power single 'Run The World'. The song, which is a little heavy on the Major Lazer sample, is a feministy number that claims it is fact the ladies that run the world and dem menz need to keep up with us girls before we leave them behind. This is not the first time Beyonce has sprinkled her tunes with a

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Don't Dance Her Down Boys has gone on a bit of a hiatus as you can tell but we're back up and running and to kick things off here's the Song of the Month. This month's post is all about the Queen of the Blues and her amazing number 'Voodoo Woman'. The power in this song and Taylor's voice completely blew me away when I first heard it. I can imagine PJ Harvey doing an amazing cover with her white

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Copyright Mcargobe's Blog Room This month's mixtape is inspired by the feelings we have thinking of those that we despise the most. Yes we're done with the lovey, dovey crap over here, blind hatred is what fuels us creatively. We've all met them, whether they were rude, crude, aggressive, calculating, deceptive or just you're straight forward liars the memory of them sticks around with you for

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In my travels across the interweb I stumbled on this amazing footage of a full Bikini Kill concert from their Reject All American tour in 1996. It features a great performance from the band and a awkward scene at the beginning when Kathleen realises she is being filmed. Any footage of the band is pretty hard to find so finding a whole filmed gig is a pretty rare so enjoy and there will be more

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It wouldn't be Don't Dance Her Down Boys without regular updates from the K.Hanna camp would it. Remember that Kathleen Hanna documentary that we told you was being made a couple of months ago well now it's moved closer to being seen by our very eyeballs. The film, directed by Sini Anderson of Sister Spit fame, now seems to have the working title of The Punk Singer which seems apt. It will also

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So I suppose by now everyone has heard the tragic news of Poly Styrene's death. Poly Styrene was the lead singer in critically acclaimed punk band X-Ray Spex. Poly died after the breast cancer she was battling spread to her spine. Although her battle with cancer was announced a few months ago no-one could have guessed how advanced it was since Poly was promoted her latest album, Generation

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With the vast array of twee, girl group bands popping up every few minutes it's hard to believe that one group could stand out from the rest. Fortunately one band has done exactly that and made a song that puts them head and shoulders above the other pretenders. Soda Shop are a Brookyln two piece comprised of Maria Usbeck from Selebrities and Drew Diver from Horse Shoes.  They make sun-drenched

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The 80s is a decade that was tarnished with day glo clothes, electro and big, big hair. It's hard to look back on those days and remember that some amazing bands came from that decade. Young Marble Giants, Throwing Muses, Au Pairs to name a few are some of the classic bands that emerged from the neon decade. Here's my definitive list of the best of the alternative 80s, as always if I miss

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Here at Don't Dance Her Down Boys we love everything 90s. I love the clothes, the TV and, most importantly, the music. I honestly believe The Fresh Prince of Bel Air was the best TV show ever and I can't get my day going without listening to Throwing Muses 'Shimmer'. Given that I clearly have 90s related issues it's always a sweet relief when I discover a new 90s band to add to my already

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Vivian Girls front woman, Cassie Ramone has been pretty busy lately. Along with preparing for the new Vivian Girls album she's also been working over the last year on a side project with Kevin Morby guitarist/bassist called The Babies. Morby has taken over on lead vocals and song writing with Ramone on lead guitar and backing vocals. The pair started writing songs as flatmates to pass the time.

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This month's Golden Oldies take us back to the the 70s no wave movement in that backstreets of Paris where Lizzy Mercier Descloux developed her sparse, minimalist, free-flowing rhythms. A precocious and intellgent teenager Descloux moved to at the age of 18 where she hung out with Patti Smith and Richard Hell who based a character in his novel on her. Hell described Descloux as seeming to "come

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Ladyfest Manchester plans to mark the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day. Themed around The Slits (in memoriam of Ari Up, who sadly died last year) we are privileged to have original Slits member Viv Albertine. Headliners are Manchester band, Hooker. The event will also feature DJs, an online collaborative zine, comedy, acoustic acts and a special Ladyfest quiz! £5 in advance,

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Women of the World Festival Conference11 – 13 MarchWOW – Women of the World launches its first year with speakers from across five continents. It brings together amazing stories of triumph, action, challenge and enterprise from girls of 14 to women of 80. Musicians, lawyers, scientists, members of the clergy, journalists, politicians, community activists, gardeners, school girls and cocoa

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In the last few weeks the 90s has taken over my life even more than it usually does. At the end of February I DJed at a 90s night in north London and at the beginning of April I'll be djing at another night in Dalston (I know I'm in demand at the moment). As a result I have been indulging in the coolest and cheesiest parts of the nineties (you'll know what I mean when you listen to the mixtape

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Courtesy of Larry Strung Photography Garage rock. It's a rarely used term in music journalism these days, the last time the phrase was used so liberally was back when The White Stripes and The Strokes were in their hey day, i.e the good old days. Since then garage rock has gone underground. Distressed by how we neglected it so when the 80s/electro revival came around a few years ago it vowed

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Over here at Don't Dance Her Down Boys we're coming to realise that we are a tad Hersh mad. Everything she has ever done is up on here so this post this going to be quite predictable but oh well. Last week Hersh debuted the first song from 50 Foot Wave's upcoming album With Love From The Men's Room. 'Radiant Addict' is a punky little stomper of a tune. Thundering bass, killer drums and

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Bassists are an overlooked group in general. You can barely hear them over everyone else's showing off event hough they're the ones keeping the rhythm going and keeping the song in check. I wanted to pay some respect to the lady bassists out there since they have a tough job but they still go out and do it well. Here is Don't Dance Her Down Boys definitive list of the most amazing female

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FANNY PACK: An evening of 90s music and culture DJs from Ladyfest Ten, Girl Germs and the girls are unite for a one-off evening of pure nostalgic indulgence. We'll be bringing you all the best tunes from the 90s, including the finest of guilty pleasures, dance-routine classics and songs you never realised you knew all the words to. Put on your smartest shellsuit and shake your fanny pack to:

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Radical Act is a documentary film made way back in 1995 by film maker Tex Clark. Although it was made 15 years ago it has only just seen the light of day thanks to Million Movies A Minute. Featuring interviews with Kathleen Hanna, Gretchen Phillips, Melissa York and Toshi Reagon to name a few Radical Act explores how sexual and gender identity impacted and informed the work of female musicians.

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Homance - \hō-ˈman(t)s noun/intransitive verb - Describing a strong, vibrant, non-sexual friendship between two women. So me and a bunch of well cool girls are putting on a film night about girl friendships called, wait for it, True Homance. Now after I laughed for about 45 minutes at the word homance I actually realised it's a idea that does not get widely acknowledged. Women are set up

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If some artists released a highly sexualised song and called it 'S&M' they probably would have shied away from any more double entendres, PVC references or phallic metaphors in their video but not Rihanna. The lady of the leather whip has wriggled into her PVC pink dress and tied and gagged up her minions and made them dance around in her Cbeebies version of a porn film. It's all a bit

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Originally published at The Girls Are “It’s hot in herrre” as the plaster-wearing rapper Nelly would say. But it’s not his motley crew of rappers and big-butted girls turning up the heat – it’s Boston based duo SPF 5000 that are making us all sweaty. Made up of vocalist/songwriter Amy Douglas and producer Rob Phillips, SPF 5000 stands for “scuzzy, pop, fulfilment” and that is certainly what

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Yes February is the month when everyone truly loses their minds and starts humping the nearest lamppost confusing the soulless act with love (I'm bitter). Since this month will be filled with sickly sweet valentines mixtapes, eurgggh (I'm VERY bitter), I thought I'd give my own take on love and offer up a mixtape of what I believe to be the most creepy, obsessive love songs around. This really

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I've started reliving my teenage years and have begun listening to early Sugababes again. After the numerous lineup changes, fights, bitching and bullying the Sugababes are only a shadow of their former selves. In my opinion they lost it when Mutya left, she definitely was the spark that made the band. 'Freak Like Me' has been on rotation on my iTunes and it looks like it's gonna stay there for

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Mixtape Alert is back. It's been awhile due to 8tracks deciding to completely change their site and partly due to those frantic curve balls life likes to throw at you sometimes. The intense, high energy pop songs of the sixties girls groups have rarely been repeated in pop history mainly because it's so hard to top them. From The Supremes breathy, girlish vocals to The Velvelettes fun-filled,

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When Rihanna started out way back in 2005 the fresh faced Bajan teenager could have easily suffered the same fate of 99% of young female singers. After the one hit and ok tour they hit the ripe old age of 24 and are resigned to a life working in the local Tesco’s. Scanning through a packet of custard creams whilst reminding the kids “You know I used to be somebody once”. It wasn't just luck

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So I'm late on the bandwagon with this one but cut me some slack, I'm juggling a lot of balls at the moment. To be honest I'm battling with a whole basket full of balls all ready to drop at any second but enough about my life let's get back to blogging. Warpaint, Warpaint, Warpaint. Those are the only words that have been able to slip through music journalists lips these days after being

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In the last few months despite lowering funds in the old bank account I've still found myself on numerous occasions perusing the rails on Oxford Street. When I'm there, it usually happens whenever I walk into New Look, a certain song breaks through the usual chart drivel and stops me in my tracks. For months I only knew it as my shopping song, now I've found out what it is. 'Katy on a Mission'

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You probably heard the best music news this year already but if not I shall enlighten you. Riot Grrrl legend Kathleen Hanna has announced she will releasing new material under the name The Julie Ruin. Hanna made the announcement whilst performing at her own tribute show, a fundraiser for the upcoming documentary about Hanna's life. Hanna said: "Thanks you so much for coming. This is a really

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Yay It's the big day and the end of Don't Dance Her Down Boys countdown to the greatest Christmas songs ever. Number one on the list is the brilliant, Phil Spector produced classic Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) by the wonderful Darlene Love. Well it's been a long month I'm sure you'll agree with me that it's been worth it. Merry Christmas, see you after the big day.

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Probably the sexiest song about Santa ever made, the late Eartha Kitt's version of Santa Baby knocks the socks off every other version, including Marilyn's, in my eyes. The 1953 Christmas song was orginally recorded by Kitt and has been covered by numerous others including Madonna, the Sugababes and, oddly Taylor Swift, I bet you good money our wholesome Ms Swift didn't even understand most of

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Number three on the list it's my old friends Karen O and the gang, ok they don't actually know me..yet, with their amazing Christmas tune 'All I Want For Christmas', not related to the well known Mariah Carey tune, number 4 on our list. This is a stand out tune, one I can listen to any time of year.

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"He's gone 2000 miles/ It's very far" One of those Christmas songs that you hear every year but never really know who it's by or even what it's called. It's such a classic I'm just going to stop talking and listen to Chrissie sing "The children were singing/ he'll be back at Christmas time."

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Only five more days to go till Christmas and we're nearly at the end of our countdown to the greatest Christmas songs of all time. It's like those Channel 4 Greatest shows but ... better. At number five is a tune I know a lot of people will pretend to hate in public but when they reach the safety of their bedrooms or lose their ambitions in the shower that's when they show their real feelings.

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Only one week to go are you sick of Christmas yet before it's even begun, cuz I'm not and for those of you that are on the same page as me here's the ultra cool Raveonettes with their ultra cool santa related tune. It sounds like a Christmas rave in a snow globe. All mysterious and twinkling riffs with bounding beats.

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Present face is something we've all had, admit it. Garfunkel & Oates have just put it in a very comical form for us all to enjoy. Focusing on the more awkward part of Christmas day G&O hate getting dodgy gifts and don't want to stay quiet anymore. I love the idea of present face being a worldwide expression.

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A new song Christmas song for this list has been offered up by the amazing Beach House. Earlier this week they released 'I Don't Care For The Winter Sun' for free on their website as a thank you to devoted fans. This is classic Beach House with added snowflakes and winteryness. I Don't Care For The Winter Sun

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Tracey Thorn entertains us on this sombre cover of 'Sister Winter' by Sufjan Stevens. The track has a lot of meaning to Tracey as it was recorded around the time Tracey's mother passed away earlier this year. Close your eyes and let the track take you away Sister Winter- Tracey Thorn

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This really needs no introduction. Classic.

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Cocknbullkid went a bit quiet for a while but now she's back with a new album, single and Christmas song to boot. 'Amazing Dave' is a pretty interesting reworking of a church choir classic with added weirdness, if that's even a real word. For those of you who liked to day dream about being a popstar during Sunday School. Amazing Dave- Cocknbullkid

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The song of the month is one that you've probably already heard before but I still have to post about it. I know technically a ten-year-old should not be able to make a hit song good enough to rival Rihanna but stranger things have happened. I've fallen for the kooky hairstyle and shrunken Lady Gaga clothes of Willow Smith. The coolest ten year old in the world has already raised the bar for

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I really don't have to say anything for this one, it's just a classic. You can't go wrong with The Crystals anyway.

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Today's modern Christmas carol is from the lovely Imogen Heap. 'Just For Now' from her second album Speak For Yourself. I love her perspective on the little different parts of Christmas that make it the best and the most annoying day of the year. Just for now get me outta, get me outta here...

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Das Wanderlust are no strangers to the odd Christmas song. As well as recording a riot grrrl cover of the classic 'Santa Claus is Coming To Town' they have also released this sweet little tune. 'Someone To Pull Crackers With' features harmonious, choral like vocals and a little drummer boy-esque drum beat that lines the track. I think I just felt about 50% more Christmassy, if that even is a

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Today's song is probably one that you hear at this time of year every time at many a shopping centre across Britain. If you're a bit slow like me you will probably have not even realised who it's by or what it's even called. 'Christmas Wrapping' by the 80s new wave band The Waitresses is an upbeat, jolly song about this time of year. It was considered a modern classic Christmas song in it's

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Here's Kate Bush's festive number called 'December Will Be Magic Again' complete with Kate wide-eyed and writhing around on a red wicker chair in matching red pyjamas. Not the most obvious video for a Christmas song but it works.

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Punk royalty Viv Albertine is back to show the youngun's how it's done when it comes to and all things festive. After seeing Viv in all her glory at Ladyfest Ten I couldn't wait to devour all of her solo work in one almighty gulp, so you'll probably understand why I'm so happy she has recently released a christmas song. 'Home Sweet Home (At Christmas)' is basically a re-recording of an

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Cocknbullkid, aka Anita Blay, aka pop's new saviour, has been off my radar for a while after astounding me with the brillant 'There's a Mother in Our Bed' way back in 2007. News on the grapevine says Blay will be releasing a new single soon as a prelude to a full length album, no more single yay, in April next year. 'Hold On To Your Misery' is apparently an 'anti-anthem' song that was

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Hello world, here's the next instalment of Don't Dance Her Down Boys Does Christmas and today it's all about Ms Gaga and her lovely 'Christmas Tree' or rather who's under it. Oh yes Gaga has managed to take the wholesome and completely non sexual image of a christmas tree and turn it into a sordid, innnuendo ridden ditty. A great one to play in front of Grandma, she won't even notice it's

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Open the door of the indie advent calender to find today's christmas song. Dear readers, I never got over the break up of The Long Blondes, their songs were indie pop perfection why did they have to leave me, as a result I've offered up there take on a christmas song. If Christmas to you is just another day, you hate merriment, joy and are just a general grinch when it comes to anything

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Since I'm having a little trouble with 8 Tracks I can't make my usual mixtapes each month. Until I find a replacement, or 8 Tracks gets it's act together, I'm just going to post a new Christmas song each day till Christmas Day. I've been racking my brains for some good ones and I think I got a few you'll love. For now here's Black Christmas by the genre defining punk rock heroine Poly Styrene.

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Wild Flag (L-R Carrie Brownstein, Mary Timony, Janet Weiss, Rebecca Cole) Ok this is nothing new but I thought I'd post about Wild Flag. The all girl (or woman) super group was announced months ago and they have already begun their first west coasts American tour but it still think I really need to push home the point that they are just blowing my little noggin (first and last time I used the

Chenilla-Ohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13448713549760446923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7448030517383781722.post-18681000214725694152010-11-25T19:57:00.000Z2010-11-25T19:57:47.885Z

I love this song but can't find any information on the vocalist Sandra Melody. If anyone knows anything about her I will repay you in gumdrops and fruit pastilles (I'm so poor).

Chenilla-Ohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13448713549760446923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7448030517383781722.post-4992999940705806052010-11-25T18:07:00.000Z2010-11-25T18:07:46.443Z

Well it's been a good year for Kathleen Hanna lovers. This summer saw the opening of the Bikini Kill archive blog detailing the lives of the 90s band like a diary from Hanna herself, the Le Tigre: On Tour documentary showed in London this Autumn, news that there will also be a Kathleen Hanna documentary and now...gasp...a Kathleen Hanna tribute show. If there is anyone from punk history that is

Chenilla-Ohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13448713549760446923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7448030517383781722.post-61257253218314039292010-11-10T20:53:00.000Z2010-11-10T20:53:04.863Z

This November Don't Dance Her Down Boys will be dedicated to Ladyfest Ten, the global arts festival that celebrates women's creativity and counter culture. This month's mixtape has a selction of the best grrrl bands paying the festival this weekend giving a little taster of just how mind-shatteringly amazing our programme is. We've got MEN, La La Vasquez, Nicky Click, Vile Vile Creatures, Lady

Chenilla-Ohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13448713549760446923noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7448030517383781722.post-30570676510904584002010-11-08T09:00:00.000Z2010-11-08T09:00:05.045Z

So I was browsing YouTube the other day and I managed to stumble across one of the best singers I've heard in a while. While watching some videos of the 'Girls To The Front' launch party, which is an amazing book by the way and if you haven't already you should get a copy, I noticed there were some videos of some bands that played the launch. Then I clicked on Tami Hart playing a song called '

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