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The Butchies
The Butchies were an all-female punk rock band from Durham, North Carolina, that existed from 1998 to 2005. They reunited from their hiatus to tour with Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls promoting Ray's new album in 2010. The frequent focus of their lyrical content concerned lesbian and queer themes. Made up of Team Dresch guitarist and frontwoman Kaia Wilson, bassist Alison Martlew, and drummer Melissa York, The Butchies has been referred to as "queercore crusaders". The band has been performing together since the recording of their first album, ''Are We Not Femme?'' in 1998. Since then, the trio has recorded three subsequent albums, '' Population: 1975'' in 1999, '' 3'' in 2001, and ''Make Yr Life'' in 2004. They have also appeared on a number of compilations of note, including ''Being Out Rocks'', produced by the Human Rights Campaign (Centaur Productions, 2002), and '' Fields And Streams'' (Kill Rock Stars, 2002). In 2005 the band announced a hiatus. The first three albums were r ...
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Durham, North Carolina
Durham ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina and the county seat of Durham County, North Carolina, Durham County. Small portions of the city limits extend into Orange County, North Carolina, Orange County and Wake County, North Carolina, Wake County. With a population of 283,506 in the 2020 United States Census, 2020 Census, Durham is the List of municipalities in North Carolina, 4th-most populous city in North Carolina, and the List of United States cities by population, 74th-most populous city in the United States. The city is located in the east-central part of the Piedmont (United States), Piedmont region along the Eno River. Durham is the core of the four-county Research Triangle#Office of Management and Budget Definition, Durham-Chapel Hill Metropolitan Area, which has a population of 649,903 as of 2020 U.S. Census. The Office of Management and Budget also includes Durham as a part of the Raleigh, North Carolina, Raleigh-Durham-Cary Combined Statistical Area, com ...
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Lesbian
A lesbian is a Homosexuality, homosexual woman.Zimmerman, p. 453. The word is also used for women in relation to their sexual identity or sexual behavior, regardless of sexual orientation, or as an adjective to characterize or associate nouns with female homosexuality or same-sex attraction. The concept of "lesbian" to differentiate women with a shared sexual orientation evolved in the 20th century. Throughout history, women have not had the same freedom or independence as men to pursue homosexual relationships, but neither have they met the same harsh punishment as homosexual men in some societies. Instead, lesbian relationships have often been regarded as harmless, unless a participant attempts to assert privileges traditionally enjoyed by men. As a result, little in history was documented to give an accurate description of how female homosexuality was expressed. When early sexologists in the late 19th century began to categorize and describe homosexual behavior, hampere ...
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Calling All Kings & Queens
''Calling All Kings & Queens'' is a sampler album of alternative rock songs by artists on the San Francisco, California based lesbian-feminist independent record label, Mr. Lady Records. It was released in March, 2001, following on from the label's first sampler released in 1999, entitled ''New Women's Music Sampler''. Track listing #California Lightening: "Lugosi" – 2:53 #Le Tigre: "Sweetie" – 2:45 #Navy: "Safe Harbors" – 3:13 #Amy Ray: "Lucy Stoners" (live) – 4:02 #Darien Brahms: "Whistle Boat" – 3:09 #Kiki and Herb: "I'm Not Waiting" (Sleater-Kinney) – 2:13 #Sleater-Kinney:"Ballad of a Ladyman" (live) – 3:05 #The Sissies: "Everything in the World" – 2:10 #Heart Beats Red: "Set Me Up" – 2:28 #PME: "Cherries in the Snow" – 3:38 #The Crowns: "Shallow End" – 2:36 #The Butchies: "Disco" (live) – 3:08 #Tracy + the Plastics: "Oh Maria" – 2:27 #Origami: "Nancy Drew/Lions & Tigers" – 3:05 #Shelley Doty ...
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New Women's Music Sampler
''New Women's Music Sampler'' is a sampler album of alternative rock songs by artists on the San Francisco, California based lesbian-feminist independent record label, Mr. Lady Records. It was released in October 1999. A second sampler was released in 2001, entitled ''Calling All Kings & Queens''. Track listing # The Moves: "Heavenly Creatures" – 3:29 #The Need: "Girl Flavor Gum" – 1:55 #The Butchies: "Sex (I'm a Lesbian)" – 3:03 # Retsin: "Pink River" – 2:58 #Tami Hart: "Wait for Me Now" – 4:05 # Kittypryde & Her Shadowcats: "Dirt, Baby" – 2:24 #Tribe 8: "What the Paper's Didn't Say" – 2:22 #The Haggard: "Feminist Bullshit" – 2:52 #Sarah Dougher: "Fall Down" – 3:21 #Doria Roberts: "Perfect" – 3:43 # Rubéo: "Movie Star" – 2:38 #Kaia Kaia or KAIA may refer to: * Kaia (name), including a list of people with the name * KaiA, a gene * KAIA (group), a Filipino girl group * KAIA (FM), radio station (91.5 FM) licensed ...
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Sampler Album
A sampler or promotional compilation is a type of compilation album generally offered at a reduced price to showcase an artist or a selection of artists signed to a particular record label. The format became popular in the late 1960s as record labels sought to promote artists whose works were primarily available in album rather than single format, and therefore had little opportunity to gain exposure through singles-dominated radio airplay. Most samplers showcased already-released material, so that as they sampled artists they also sampled the albums from which their tracks were drawn. The term 'album sampler' is also used in cases where an album is distributed among multiple records in case of, for example, vinyl where the maximum play time is less than the length of the full album. In these cases, album sampler titles may be added to each vinyl. Elektra Records The first record sampler was ''A Folk Music Sampler'' released by Elektra Records in the US in 1954, initially for radio ...
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Le Tigre
Le Tigre (, ; French for "The Tiger") is an American electronic rock band formed by Kathleen Hanna (of Bikini Kill), Johanna Fateman and Sadie Benning in 1998 in New York City. Benning left in 2000 and was replaced by JD Samson for the rest of the group's existence. They mixed punk's directness and politics with playful samples, eclectic pop, and lo-fi electronics. The group also added multimedia and performance art elements to their live shows, which often featured support from like-minded acts such as The Need. History 1998–2000: Formation and ''Le Tigre'' Following the breakup of Bikini Kill in 1998, Kathleen Hanna released a solo album under the pseudonym '' Julie Ruin'' and moved to New York, where she wanted to perform ''Julie Ruin'' songs live. Not wanting to perform the material alone, she recruited Johanna Fateman, whom Hanna had known since meeting at a Bikini Kill concert several years prior. Sadie Benning, who had helped Hanna make a music video for the ''J ...
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Tammy Rae Carland
Tammy Rae Carland (born January 27, 1965), is a photographer, video artist, zine editor, current provost at California College of the Arts (CCA), and former co-owner of the independent lesbian music label Mr. Lady Records and Videos. Her work has been published, screened, and exhibited around the world in galleries and museums in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Berlin, and Sydney. Early life Carland was born in Portland, Maine in 1965. She grew up with 4 siblings and was raised by her single mother. She was the first in her family to graduate from high school. Zines, videos, and music In the late 1980s, while she was studying photography at The Evergreen State College, Carland co-founded the independent art gallery Reko Muse (a.k.a. wreck-o-muse) in Olympia, Washington with fellow photography student, Kathleen Hanna and another friend, Heidi Arbogast. They formed a band, Amy Carter, who performed during art exhibitions. Kathleen Hanna often did spoken word performances at ...
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Kill Rock Stars
Kill Rock Stars is an independent record label founded in 1991 by Slim Moon and Tinuviel Sampson, and based in both Olympia, Washington, and Portland, Oregon. The label has released a variety of work in different genres, but was originally known for its commitment to underground punk rock bands and the Olympia area music scene. History Sampson and Moon initially started the label because, in Moon's words, "I just wanted to put out my friends' records because nobody was putting out my friends' records. And to put out spoken word 7-inch records." KRS-101 (the label's first release) was in fact a split 7-inch spoken-word record with Kathleen Hanna and Slim Moon; other "Wordcore" releases followed. The first major release was a compilation of Olympia-area bands simply titled ''Kill Rock Stars'' (''Stars Kill Rock'' and ''Rock Stars Kill'' would follow in the same compilation series) and featured Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, Unwound, Nirvana, Mecca Normal, Heavens to Betsy, The Nation o ...
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Human Rights Campaign
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is an American LGBTQ advocacy group. It is the largest LGBTQ political lobbying organization within the United States. Based in Washington, D.C., the organization focuses on protecting and expanding rights for LGBTQ individuals, most notably advocating for same-sex marriage, anti-discrimination and hate crimes legislation, and HIV/AIDS advocacy. The organization has a number of legislative initiatives as well as supporting resources for LGBTQ individuals. Structure HRC is an umbrella group of two separate non-profit organizations and a political action committee: the HRC Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization that focuses on research, advocacy and education; the Human Rights Campaign, a 501(c)(4) organization that focuses on promoting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) rights through lobbying Congress and state and local officials for support of pro-LGBTQ bills, and mobilizing grassroots action amongst its members; and the H ...
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Being Out Rocks
''Being Out Rocks'' is a compilation album released October 11, 2002 by the Human Rights Campaign, in collaboration with Centaur Entertainment. Its release coincided with National Coming Out Day; "Being Out Rocks" was also that year's theme. The album features a cross-section of LGBT and gay-supportive straight artists. The release was accompanied with signing events at the Times Square Virgin Megastore in New York City and at the HRC Action Center & Store in Washington, D.C. Track listing # Sarah McLachlan – "Angel" (5:32) # k.d. lang – "Summerfling" (3:49) # Cyndi Lauper – "Shine" (3:46) # Rufus Wainwright – "California" (3:20) # Ani DiFranco – "In or Out" (3:06) # Janis Ian – "Society's Child" (3:39) # Sam Harris – "First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" (4:22) # SONiA – ''Me, Too'' (4:52) # Suede – "Remember Who You Are" (3:24) # Catie Curtis – "Kiss That Counted" (3:24) # The B-52's – "Topaz" (4:22) # Bob Mould – "Soundonsound" (4:08) # Queen – "Is Thi ...
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Make Yr Life
''Make Yr Life'' is the fourth album by the American lesbian queercore band the Butchies, released in 2004. It was the band's final album. Production The album was produced by Greg Griffith; the band worked for two and half years on the songs, and spent 10 days recording them. The Butchies set out to make a poppier album. The band had been playing "17" in concert for years, and recorded the song after it had become a fan favorite. Critical reception ''The Washington Post'' thought that "such thumping new songs as 'Trouble' and 'She's So Lovely' demonstrate that the band has lost none of its swagger, but overall this disc is the band's poppiest outing." '' The Advocate'' declared that "Kaia Wilson, Melissa York, and Alison Martlew are undisputed masters of the two- to three-minute power-punk anthem." The ''Orlando Sentinel'' concluded that "even when the lyrics lean toward melodrama, Wilson's slashing guitar combines with the rumbling rhythms of bassist Alison Martlew and drummer ...
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