JUILLET 2010 PAR GALS ROCK

GIRLS GET BUSY

"In this new century we’re still learning what outsiders’ voices sound like, and what we can say or whom we can reach by being (and supporting) women working outside major label and corporate censorship. No matter how varied the music or how much more there is to come, the lessons to take away from these women’s work begins with what makes them better role models than those floating around in the mainstream abyss : their resistance to self-censorship. Regardless of what bikini-addled, smiling, submissive, starved, or eager-to-please decorations are held up as talented or worthy, there are far more interesting, engaging, and inspiring women –we just have to keep making the space, and praising each other for stepping into it. The truth is that emotionally expansive women who frown, yell, or demand more for themselves may never gain mainstream acceptance. But there is always something deeper out there, in the art that counters popular culture’s shallower tendencies. These transgressive voices will always be marginalized by lack of equal time and voice, in print, onscreen, and onstage. But we just have to keep looking for them.

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Anyone can learn an instrument, sing a song, create a magazine or a film, write, paint, sculpt, take pictures, start a smart, successful, socially conscious business, and make greatness out of one lonely little vision. Fame, beauty, and money are fleeting, but truepunkrocksoul can last forever. "

Conclusion de « Cinderella’s big score – women of the punk and indie underground », de Maria Raha.

Playlist "GALS ROCK VERY BEST OF JULY" /

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Free Kitten : Bananas

Luise Pop : Feminist Terrorists

Mary Timony : New Song

Lapin Machin : Sunglasses

Chromatics : Hands in the Dark

Jessie Evans : Let me on

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