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Drawings, zines, photography, graphic design, sculpture [click pics for full image]… a few samples of new work for the show at Satellite Studios on Friday.

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1. World of Dreams – The Cake
2. Sally Go Round The Roses – Grace Markay*
3. Hide & Seek – The Feminine Complex
4. What A Way To Die – The Pleasure Seekers
5. Twilight Dreamer – Earth & Fire***
6. Little Sadie – Trees**
7. Beauty – Mad Curry***
8. Tuesday – Birtha
9. Hard Chargin’ Woman – Zephyr
10. Lottery – Rochelle Rosenthal & The Kickball Queen
11. No Warmth In My Life – Room***
12. People On The Highway – The Pentangle*
13. Number 33 – Jan & Lorraine**
14. God Bless The Child – Fifty Foot Hose**
15. Evening’s Child – Savage Rose***
16. Port and Lemon Lady – Goliath***
17. I Am And So Are You – Affinity***
18. Eli’s Coming – Affinity***

One of my many pipe dreams is to establish and all-girl psychedelic rock band. For now, a mix will have to vicariously suffice. It proved to be quite a challenge to compile, leaving out the “givens”: Janis, Grace, The Velvet Underground, etc. Sure, there were a ton of all-girl garage bands but an all-girl psych rock band was really hard to find. I guess I could’ve listened to more garage acts for nuances of psychedelia but I just got kind of exhausted searching for appropriate material. Also, the portrayal of many garage bands as novelties rather than rockers really bothered me. Not that these ladies didn’t rock out, but the wolfish selling of “gee whiz, a hot all-girl band” and/or the implied smirk “aw, girls trying to play guitars & drums, ain’t that cute” tainted the sound for me.

Once I threw out the all-girl criteria, I discovered a wealth of interesting vocalists, from jazz-influenced to folk to pop, and several albums worth some quality headphone-listening time (specifically Earth & Fire, Goliath, Savage Rose, Mad Curry and my favorite, quite possibly the best thing I’ve heard in awhile, Affinity [except for the lame cover of "All Along The Watchtower"]). This is by no means a de-femme-itive list; I’m barely delving into the niche. Gonna listen to this mix and the albums from each band a whole lot more because when I really like a song, I have to listen to it about a million times in a row before moving on to new material. Please leave a note if you have further thoughts or suggestions!

*via Spisce Animals
**Featured on The Black Months and Wyldeflowers mixes previously compiled
***via this person’s list of Post-Psychedelic Proto-Progressive Female Vocalists. I didn’t get to listen to everyone on here, but definitely some cool finds.

I don’t have a iPhone and didn’t care too much about owning one, till some of my favorite bloggers and tweeps starting using Instagram earlier this year. Now I want one specifically to use that app! But alas, such a purchase is not in my financial future, so I will just have to ignore my obsession.*

When hipstamatic was all the craze last year, I recall coming across debate in the photography community about the further demise of “analog” photography through hipstamatic’s shortcut of mimicry of lenses and development processes. What I didn’t hear much of was these apps’ mimicry of photographic prints, and not even fine art lab-created prints, but drugstore and 1-hour photomat snapshots of the mid-to-late 20th century that serve as a visual reference point for most people, whether as lived memory or family history. Do we still inherently long for arts/culture/folklife/documentation solely produced and exhibited in the digital realm to be rendered physically? Why?

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*King Of The Hill, Season 1, Episode 5: “Luanne’s Saga”

HANK: Luanne, sometimes life throws you a curve ball. Now there’s two ways you can deal with it. You can cry — and that’s the path you’ve chosen — or you can not cry.
LUANNE: How do you not cry?
HANK: Well, instead of letting it out, try holding it in. Every time you have a feeling, just stick it into a little pit inside your stomach and never let it out.
LUANNE (trying it): Are you supposed to have a pain under your rib?
HANK: Yes. That’s natural. The body doesn’t want to swallow its emotions. But now you go ahead and put that pain inside your stomach too.
LUANNE: I think it’s workin’, Uncle Hank. I feel sick, but not sad.

Not your run-of-the-mill “ladies of the 80′s”! A mix of energetic ItaloDisco and sweet Euro synth-pop. Be sure to watch the youtube links too, you won’t regret it!
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1. Upside Down – Vanessa (recommended youtube-ing)
2. Shine Up – Doris D And The Pins (recommended youtube-ing)
3. Menhungry – Maxine Dee
4. Instant Love – Sylvia Love
5. Color My Love – Fun Fun
6. Touch – Lori & The Chameleons
7. Kamikaze Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide – Rettore (recommended youtube-ing)
8. Get Back – Cockroach (yup, a Beatles cover)
9. Tenax – Diana Est
10. Telegraph – Orchestral Maneuvers In The Dark (ok, so I snuck a dude in here, but he sounds so much like Debbie Harry! besides, it was the 80′s – not much difference back then)
11. Danger – The Flirts
12. Money Money Money – Michelle
13. Light Up My Heart – Angie St. Philip
14. I’ve Got To Find A Way – Zena Dejonay
15. In The Evening – Sheryl Lee Ralph (who was also a cast member of It’s A Living as well as many other TV shows and Broadway musicals over her long career)
16. Going Crazy – Lily Ann
17. Nobody Else – Karen Silver
18. Dancing Hour – Christine
19. Follow Me – Amanda Lear (recommended youtube-ing)