dimarts, 24 de maig del 2011

The Riot Grrrrlz

Maybe, you never heard about this band, and it's a pity 'cause they probably were one of the best punk bands ever. They belonged to a movement called Riol Grrrl. They were bands of girls that sung feminist songs, and sometimes agressive. They wanted to show that they were the same good as men were. And personally, I like more girls' rock than men's rock.

Kathleen Hanna, Kathi Wilcox and Tobi Vail formed the band. They worked together in a fanzine ( an unofficial magazine made by fans) called Bikini Kill. So they formed the band with the same name and Billy Karren joined them. They encouraged woman at they shows. Their wrote feminine-centric songs.

Tobi Vail, Kathleen Hanna and Kathi Wilcox
They released a demo cassette called Revolution Girl Style Now but their debut album was Bikini Kill EP with the indie label Kill Rock Stars. They established themselves an audience. In 1993 they made a tour in the UK and it was the subject of a documentary be Lucy Thane called It changed my life: Bikini Kill in the UK.
The Riot Grrl movement was rising, and Bikini Kill was said to lead it. They came back to the USA, they collaborated with Joan Jett and in 1996 they released Reject all the americans. These was their last album, they broke up in 1998. They started working on their own.

Bikini Kill has been an influence for many bands such as The Gossip or Jack Off Jill.





Bikini Kill rocks!


God bless music.

dimarts, 10 de maig del 2011

The savior

Let's change a little bit the music style and the age. This girl is only 23 and is known all around the world. She was born the 5th of May of 1988 and her name is Adele.



She first get interested in music when she sang a song in a school perfirmance. Then, in 2006 entered the same arts school as Amy Winehouse, Katie Melua or Kate Nash and one month later she wrote two songs and publish them in the arts school's web page and then went on tour with other musicians. In 2007 she released her first single Hometown Glory. She get so much fame in My Space, that the media focused on her, and she was contracted by an independent label, XL Racordings. With this label, she released the second single, Chasing Pavements. Her song started to sound in the radio and she won two Grammy Awards for Best New Artist and Best Feminine Pop Performance.
In total she has sold 6 million CDs.



I titled this message "The Savior" because I think that nowadays the new artists that appear are all the same and sing the same music. And they even not write their songs. It's a shame! But she has changed this streak of bad singers, she is a REAL singer has is a new soul icon. She can still save the music, so we must trust her.


Dedicated to my friend Laura:)


God bless music.

dimecres, 4 de maig del 2011

Rockin' against the world.

Zack de la Rocha and Tim Commerford met at school and they became friends because Zack taught Tim to steal food. Tim started to play the bass and Zack to play the guitar. Meanwhile, Tom Morello was learning to play the guitar too and one day he met Zack rapping in a club, and when he listened to the lyrics, he got astonished by the message. Tom already know Brad Wilk, a drumer. So they formed Rage Against The Machine. The name means "fight against the system".

Tom Morello, Brad Wilk, Zack de la Rocha and Tom Commerford.

They first played at a garage, while they started to write songs. Then, they performed in several clubs around Los Ángeles. And in 1992 they got a contract with Epic Records and released their first album, Rage against the machine.

Their fame started to spread all over the USA and they were frequently on tour, but it didn't let them to know each other and work together, so they separated for a while but finally they decided to go on. In 1995 they produced the CD Evil Empire
Afterwards, they started to make collaborations with other bands like Bruce Springsteen, Red Hot Chilli Pepper or The Prodigy.

After the release of their third album Battle of Los Ángeles, Zack announced they he would left the band to start a solo career. However, they released a cover-album called Renegades
  
They did a gig to say goodbye officially and in 2000 they broke up. But 7 years after, they re-joined and nowadays they're still together.

But what makes RATM special is that they play metal rap, there's only a few known bands that play it.

And all their lyrics are controversial and critizie the capitalism, globalization and war. They have a  radical left-side ideology and they have taken part of several events against the society.
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God bless music.