The second single from Aloe Blacc’s forthcoming Good Things is a 7-inch of “Femme Fatale”, Aloe Blacc & Truth+Soul’s take on the Velvet Underground classic. The instrumental is on the flip side of this heavy 7-inch slab of vinyl.
Friday June 25th, 2010, a day to remember for the rest of our lives. And who is this “WE” that I speak of well part 1 of WE is myself Jazzlyn Kirkland a GrungeCaker and part 2 of WE is my assistant Laicee Chandler a Raver, I like saying WE sorry. Moreover, here’s what happens as we go on an adventure to The 2010 Electric Daisy Carnival: The largest annual electronic music festival in the U.S. (Note to Reader: I have NEVER attended a rave or anything near a rave in my entire life, So this will be interesting).
The Municipal Art Society of New York (MASNYC) + Design Trust For Public Space panel discussion with special guest Tim Gunn of Project Runway June 8, 2010. MAS fights for intelligent urban design, planning and preservation through education, dialogue and advocacy. For more information, kindly visit http://designtrust.org/ and http://mas.org/
Love always changes shades of colour. Red, blue, green or maybe peachy keen are the most viable ones to me. Red is an exciting, sometimes dangerous one. Blue is the all to often sad one. Green is the sometimes jealous one. Peachy keen is the rare one. Too good to be true almost!
The Like are set to release their sophomore album ‘Release Me’ – produced by Mark Ronso, Alex Greenwald, and the soul and studio sophistication of the Dap-Kings’ Tommy Brenneck, Homer Steinweiss, and Victor Axelrod – on June 15th (Downtown Records). The album came to life at Dunham Studios in Brooklyn. The girls stepped into another time – recorded only on analog equipment, used gear from the sixties, and let go. Drummer Tennessee Thomas adds, “Before Mark, we recorded everything nit-picky and perfect, track by track. But on those great 60′s records, thoe mistakes were some of the best parts of it. Mark shouted at us – it was chaos a lot of the time ? but it absolutely brought us together as a band. We recorded for six days with Mark ? and we got nine songs. Then we did four days with Alex Greenwald and the Dap-Kings. It was miraculous.”
Other than the nostalgic images and videos from the 90s, the idea of who Courtney Love really is as an individual escapes me. I just watched this short clip below on Courtney and I cannot wait for the premiere. In the video below, Courtney discusses her pain, her anger, her fame, her band Hole, heroin usage, pregnancy, her critics, Trent Reznor, and Rohypnol. I love her voice. Watch the 2-hour episode with me on Monday, June 21, 2010 8pm via http://grungecake.com. This interview will air via VH1.
Members Only: A GrungeCake Party will take place on Monday, June 28, 2010 and Tuesday, June 29, 2010 (both events) begin at 6pm and end at 9pm. Entry fees are collected each day. Live music-performances, finger foods and drinks will be served. We encourage you to network and be a part of art history. This event will be filmed. If for any reason you do not want to appear in the video, you will be able to fill out our disclaimer at that time. Thank you.
A resident of Portland, Oregon, she is a close friend of Scissor Sisters lead singer Ana Matronic, and considers her favorite song to be “Oh Bondage, Up Yours” by X-Ray Spex. She courted mild controversy in 2006 when, during an interview for NME magazine, she claimed to have eaten squirrels as a child, saying that “people in Arkansas just do – they’d think you were a freak if you ate squid there!”
Ditto is known for her noticeable stage dances and her unique and revealing image. She classes herself as a punk, and thus does not wear deodorant or shave under her armpits, having once remarked that “I think punks usually smell”. She has been lauded for her support of positive body image, despite comments from doctors that she may be causing harm to public health by normalising obesity. She also formerly contributed an advice column on body image to The Guardian newspaper.
In February 2009, she was featured in London as the cover model for the premiere of Love magazine with prominent public advertising. On July 9, 2009, Beth’s fashion collection for the UK retailer Evans was released for sale, both online, and in selected stores across the UK.
Ditto on the premiere cover of London’s Love Magazine. She has been an outspoken advocate for large women being body-positive and has been regularly photographed as an editorial model. Ditto, who is lesbian, is well known for her outspoken support of both LGBT and feminist causes.