Fangirl Yaye Discovers Brechtian Punk Cabaret

I love EVERYTHING about The Dresden Dolls! A power duo; female (Amanda) and male (Brian). Bold, idiosyncratic song structures. Equally cheesed off, irreverant, edgy and hilarious. These are my kind of peeps.

WARNING: This video contains adult language, some naked bottom and a dollop of pubes. Oh yeah, there is also pseudo slo-mo violence (god, I love the way Brian runs in slo-mo). I HIGHLY recommend watching ANY of their other videos; they're all just brilliant!!!

P.S.: "Spencer" refers to Spencer Smith, the drummer for PANIC! at the Disco.

The Fangirl Strikes Again...Meet Lolly Jane Blue

To see this video ("Worms") the way it REALLY should be viewed, go to www.lollyjaneblue.com. It's simply stunning!

Fangirl Yaye Discovers Eleni Mandell

A few weeks ago, I came across this video of Eleni Mandell live at The El Ray Theatre. I saved the page as a Bookmark so I could check her out when I had more time. Well, I have three major presentations due Monday, so naturally, I have wisely chosen today to follow-up.

I went by her website, her MySpace page, and watched a few of her videos on YouTube, and I have to say, I am really digging her! Retro, yet fresh; derivative, but she spreads it around enough to keep things interesting. She reminds me alternately of Suzanne Vega and Leonard Cohen, which often results in a Nick Cave-i-ness with a periodic vocal dollop of Bjork. Excellent all around.

I thought at first that she might be French or Canadian, because of the song above and her many Canadian tour dates. However, in visiting her site bio, I have discovered that she bought her first album on Melrose, experienced her first real kiss on Van Nuys Boulevard (standing in front of Straw Hat Pizza, no less!), and fulfilled a teenage dream by working with DJ Bonebrake of X (the significance of which I do NOT need to explain to Tallulah!)!!

HOME GIRL!

More Gravel, Less Shame

So, back when I was thinking of a Shame Party trifecta, I thought I'd move into the Joy zone and post Ani DiFranco's "Shameless," but since I'd already screwed up my ill advised theme, I decided to just post "Gravel." Ani is ALWAYS best LIVE!!!



What a wee bundle of bliss!

What's a party without the opiates?

Okay, I was going to post Morphine's song "Shame" - just keeping with a theme, peeps -- but I couldn't resist "Buena." Tasty, tasty, tasty!!!!!

PJ Party

Her music remains surprising and satisfying. Yaye lurves PJ!!!!!



P.S. -- If you want to watch any of You Tube's other PJ clips, I recomment PJ with Bjork doing "Satisfaction" and PJ with Nick Cave doing "Henry Lee" (never were two skinny, black haired, pasty-faced musical geniuses more perfectly matched!).