There's not much out there on The Lookers and Sleater-Kinney supergroup Cadallaca. The group featured Corin Tucker of Sleater-Kinney fame, and owner of the best punk rock vocals in the world, and Sarah Dougher and sts from The Lookers.
For a long, long time all you could find on the internet about them was a sparse wikipedia page, a few interviews and exactly three poorly shot videos of them live.
Given the lack of Cadallaca we had access to back then it comes as a bit of a shock to find that a whole setlist of the band playing live has been uploaded to YouTube.
The can be seen playing artist Miranda July's party. On one video it says it's her birthday party and another claims it is her record release party. All we can know is that it's a party and an awesome one that got Cadallaca to play. The set is separated into two parts and is available to watch below.
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 to waste £10 of you're hard-earned, or not really that hard-earned in my case since I work in media and stare at a screen for the majority of my day, money to see a truly, god-awful chick flick and receive a present that you honestly can find no use for.
It's fine if you like that kind of thing but for the cynical folk like me another second of this mindless lovefest cannot be tolerated. In the spirit of all things cynical I have whipped up a 15 track mixtape that features anti-love songs about heartbreak, cheating, lying and a whole lotta crying. That should stop you feeling lovesick.
Tracklisting:
1. February 14th- Huggy Bear
2. Beat Your Heart Out- The Distillers
3. No- Vivian Girls
4. Only Loved at Night- The Raincoats
5. I Love You Eddie- The Crystals
6. Single Again- The Fiery Furnaces
7. Love und Romance- The Slits
8. This Isn't It- Giant Drag
9. I'm Blue- Shangri-Las
10. Don't Wanna Hold Your Hand- thee headcoatees
11. A Real Man- Sleater-Kinney
12. Legs- PJ Harvey
13. I Don't Wanna Be Friends With You- Shop Assistants
14. Cheated Hearts- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
15 Girlfriends Don't Keep- Bratmobile
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) and it has been heaven.
Readers of my blog will probably know that I tend to favour artists from this splendid decade and for good reason. The 90s gave the world PJ Harvey, riot grrrl, the best rnb girl group and pop music that you could line dance to (Steps). LINE DANCING. Line dancing, why of all things did they try and impose that on us when we were merely impressionable youngsters. Anywho enjoy this mix and if I've missed out something obviously cheesy let me know.
Tracklisting:
You Oughta Know- Alanis Morissette
Bills, Bills, Bills- Destiny's Child
Words And Guitar- Sleater-Kinney
Cannonball- Breeders
Ch-Check It Out- Beastie Boys
Barbie Girl [Radio Edit]- Aqua
Feed the Tree- Belly
Straight- Veruca Salt
Meet Ze Monsta- PJ Harvey
Scooby Snacks- Fun Lovin' Criminals
Celebrity Skin- Hole
Doo Wop (That Thing)- Lauryn Hill
Are You That Somebody- Aaliyah
Bitch- Meredith Brooks
Birdhouse in Your Soul- They Might Be Giants
Here- Luscious Jackson
Mulder And Scully- Catatonia
Superball- Helium
Bright Yellow Gun- Throwing Muses
Kiss Me- Sixpence None The Richer
Pure Morning- Placebo
Parklife- Blur
Corin Tucker, former lead vocalist in everyone's favourite punk rock trio Sleater-Kinney, is releasing her debut album, 1,000 years, in October and has given us a sneak peak with the track 'Doubt'. It has all the warbling and riffage, is that a word, that we loved in Sleater-Kinney with added maturity.
Corin also talked about her love for Bikini Kill and why they were so important to girls when they first came out:
Even more than the records, the live experience of that band was so incredibly visceral. Like, I never didn't cry at their shows. Most of my friends and I would have tears streaming down our faces when they played those songs. It was a really intense time, and they were marking this space for women to say that we are these total natural forces to be reckoned with; we're sexual beings that are ready to battle for our own territory.
I've been looking forward to this summer for a while for various reasons, it's my birthday in August, but mainly because it looks like there is going to be a big ol' feminist summer of sorts.
Ladyfest Ten is well on its way with the organinsing and will be holding fundraising event throughout summer up to the festival in November. The arts collective Storm in a Tea Cup are organising various club nights, fanzine and even a record label in order to promote women in the arts. Also the UK Feminista Summer Camp weekend takes place in a couple of weeks and it looks like it's going to be good.
Here is the first part of my mixtape dedicated to our summer of feminism featuring a pleathora of great songs that have spoken to women over the years. From Lesley Gore to The Distillers women throughout history have been writing about women's issues.
We have a long way to walk till we get anyway near equality but we'll need some tunes for the journey.
Tracklisting:
1. Seneca Falls- The Distillers
2. I Am Woman- Helen Reddy
3. You Don't Own Me- Lesley Gore
4. Boys Who Rape (Should All Be Destroyed)- Ravonettes
5. Man-Size- PJ Harvey
6. Sold Out-Sleater-Kinney
7. Why Don't You Love Me- Beyonce
8. Terrorist- Heavens To Betsy
9. Ladies First- Queen Latifah
10. Respect- Aretha Franklin
Since we've all been whipped into a political frenzy what with this election that's been going on I thought I would put together a mixtape of some powerful protest songs.
Let's face it, we'll need them pretty soon.
Tracklisting:
1. New Kicks- Le Tigre
2.Viva La Persistence- Kimya Dawson
3. Pull Up The People- M.I.A
4. Trophy Wife- Partyline
5. Combat Rock- Sleater-Kinney
6. Keep On Livin'- Le Tigre
7. People Have The Power- Patti Smith
8. Fuck Or Kill- Peaches
9. I Wanna Know What Love Is- Julie Ruin
10. Standing In The Way Of Control- Gossip
11. Her Jazz- Huggy Bear
12. Systematic Death- Crass
13. The Gap (Between The Rich And The Poor)- You Say Party! We Say Die!
14. Fortunate Son (Creedence Clearwater Revival Cover)- Sleater-Kinney
14. Declare Independence- Bjork
"We spent 11 years committed to [Sleater-Kinney], heart and soul. To get back into it we have to be in that place where we can immerse ourselves fully. I think it will happen. We have to loop around, and we're at the far end of the circle, away from the band, but I think we will come back and revisit it. And hopefully that record will be sometime in the next five years."
This is just a maybe. A HUGE maybe. But nevertheless, in my mind I'm already up front, at the Sleater-Kinney gig, crying at the sheer spectacle of the moment.
For a sooner SK fix, Corin's album is due to drop later in the year on Kill Rock Stars and Carrie revealed that she has formed a new group with, drum roll, Janet Weiss.
There you go. Two big scoops of Sleater-Kinney related gossip all in one go.
"Are women happy consuming or being happily consumed?"
The issue of consumerism and how it negatively effects women in particular has been around for decades. X-ray Spex and The Slits were singing about it the seventies and The Gossip carried on that trend in the present day with their homage to Poly Styrene, 'Spare Me From The Mold'.
I really think consumerism is a particularly nasty evil in our world. I know I get too addicted to shopping to the point where I begin to think I'm incomplete if I don't buy that new bag or whatever.
So this mixtape is a compilation of what I think are some of the best songs about consumerism.
Tracklisting:
1. Spare Me from The Mold- Gossip
2. Everything- Sleater-Kinney
3. Art-I-Fical- X-ray Spex
4. Shopping Girl Maniac- Voodoo Queens
5. Spend, Spend, Spend- The Slits
6. Shop For America- Bratmobile
7. Teen Tighterns- Huggy Bear
8. Germfree Adolescents- X-ray Spex
9. Fairytale in the Supermarket- The Raincoats
10. Viva La Persistence- Kimya Dawson
11. Ghost of Corporate Future- Regina Spektor
12. Pop- M.I.A.
13. Aerobicide- Julie Ruin
Here's my mixtape for my new blog Wordy Rappinghood. I made this because I've become obsessed with making mixtapes, I'm three simultaneously right now.
The dictionary corner mixtape features songs about the beauty of language, words, how they sound and how we write.
I hope you like it cuz you're not getting another one. This will become the theme tune for Wordy Rappinghood. Oh, by the way can you guess what the first track is?
Tracklisting:
Wordy Rappinghood- Tom Tom Club
Hubcap- Sleater-Kinney
Consequence of Sounds- Regina Spektor
Four Letter Word- Gossip
Word Up!- Cameo
A Little Word in Your Ear- Tom Vek
Losin' Ground- PJ Harvey & John Parish
1000 Words- Those Dancing Days
Words and Smiles- Tiger Trap
Word Up ft. Ghostface Killah- MSRTKRFT
Words and Guitars- Sleater-Kinney
This should have been published awhile ago, technically last year, but who cares since when were there rules for this end of the year lists. Who says they actually have to be made at the end of the year.
Here my recap of the last decade in music. I think it's been a good'un myself.
1. Fuck The Pain Away- Peaches
2. Big Exit- PJ Harvey 3. Bootylicious- Destiny's Child 4. Keep on' Livin- Le Tigre 5. Combat Rock- Sleater-Kinney 6. Crazy in Love- Beyonce 7. Maps- Yeah Yeah Yeahs 8. TKO- Le Tigre 9. The Beer- Kimya Dawson 10. The Fox- Sleater-Kinney 11. Single Again- The Fiery Furnaces 12. Back to Black- Amy Winehouse 13. Lust in the Movies- The Long Blondes 14. Declare Independence- Bjork 15. Paper Planes- M.I.A 16. Animal Imagination- Glass Candy 17. Where Do You Run To- Vivian Girls 18. Transformer- Marnie Stern 19. Golden Phone- Micachu 20. Shelter- The xx 21. Zero- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Here is the second mixtape for don't dance her down boys. This mixtape is for those who love heavy heavy riffs and the girls that rock them out, enjoy x.x.x.
Track list: 1. Speak To Me Bones- Land of Talk 2. The Fox- Sleater-Kinney 3. Broken Plates- Magenta Lane 4. Meet Ze Monsta- PJ Harvey 5. Hit It Hard- Peaches 6. 22- Magneta Lane 7. Boys Wanna Be Her- Peaches 8. I Wish I Was Someone Better- Blood Red Shoes 9. This Is Not For You- Blood Red Shoes 10. Harder (Live)- PJ Harvey 11. My Dick Sux- Giant Drag 12. Jonah Ray is A-Okay (But That's All Hearsay)- Giant Drag 13. Into You- The Bangs 14. We Want More- The Bangs 15. Pretend We're Dead- L7
