Comments on: LADYPALOOZA PRESENTS: I Went To Your Concert and There Was Nothing Going On, or, A Meditation on Dude Music

By: Warm Ghosts

Warm Ghosts — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 08:33:06 +0000

woah, it made me kind of sad that people in the post have said things along the lines of “there’s no girl bands like there were in the 90′s” when there’s ALWAYS been completely amazing female bands for a long long time at any given period, especially right NOW! Lust Cats of the Gutters! Grass Widow! Night of Joy! (to name drop a couple rad bands)

or that PJ Harvey is the only female to nail the “dark/heavy” thing. WHAT!?

as a dude, i feel like there’s so much fucking awesome female music happening RIGHT NOW.

i’d like to leave a link to a great compilation of Female Fronted Punk-Rock from 1977-89 that has so many awesome bands in it:
http://kangnave.blogspot.com/2010/02/reference-of-female-fronted-punk-rock.html

By: CelloShots

CelloShots — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:03:10 +0000

Okay, like four months late to the party but two things:

1. I am assigning this post and its sequel to my students in my Music and Gender class because they are just fucking brilliant (if I have Silvana’s permission? I asked Sady but like an idiot totally forgot to ask you!).

2. About “that Pearl Jam voice”: there’s a wonderful piece by Suzanne Cusick called “On Musical Performances of Gender and Sex” about Pearl Jam and the Indigo Girls that talks about that voice. Sadly it is not on the internet so I can’t share it here, but it is in the book Audible Traces if anyone wants to find it.

Okay, three things.

3. I keep coming back and rereading this post even months later because it is that much awesome.

By: illicit diversions › Finding a new best friend

illicit diversions › Finding a new best friend — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 22:01:12 +0000

[...] it out until recently. I started reading during Ladypalooza, more specifically, the post about Dude Music. (The rest of the Ladypalooza posts can be found on this archive page and can I just take a moment [...]

By: Axiomatic

Axiomatic — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 12:09:45 +0000

I’m incapable of describing music in terms other than “I like it” and “I dislike it” so all this talk of prefix-rock is flying right over my head, so I’ll just say that this has been very useful simply because it’s given me a lot of music to check out.

I might end up not liking it, but given the sheer volume of suggestions, odds are I’ll find something I will like.

By: Mastery Is A Feminist Issue « Hysteria!

Mastery Is A Feminist Issue « Hysteria! — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:00:19 +0000

[...] would balk at showing anyone else the secrets of their abilities. As Silvana pointed out in her Dude Music post at tigerbeatdown, guys are notorious for attempting to convince women that their tiny ladybrains couldn’t [...]

By: links for 2010-06-03 « Embololalia

links for 2010-06-03 « Embololalia — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 18:03:47 +0000

[...] Tiger Beatdown › LADYPALOOZA PRESENTS: I Went To Your Concert and There Was Nothing Going On, or, … I really, truly, believed that I sucked because I was a girl, that I must have some weird thing about me that I could just not understandhow to write songs or to play guitar or to rock out or to sing angry, because of my vagina. Dudes made me believe it. Because all through college, they refused to listen to women making music, refused to listen to women’s opinions about music, and regarded women who were really into music as “cute.” …The number one thing I learned from being in a band and hanging out with a lot of guys who were Very Serious about music is that basically the worst thing that can happen to the music you love is for too many women to like it, or for one woman that you know to like it real hard. Music that is good is not music that women go crazy for. If women go crazy for it, it must suck, because women have terrible taste and like all that chick shit and like shave their legs and stuff but oh my god it’s disgusting when they don’t. (tags: feminism gender men women female.musicians music) [...]

By: Alas, a blog » Blog Archive » Linkspam: Diverse women’s voices in rock

Alas, a blog » Blog Archive » Linkspam: Diverse women’s voices in rock — Wed, 26 May 2010 18:06:02 +0000

[...] I read all of these which are about the experience of white, cis, ablebodied women for the most part, and was inspired to do a post featuring vocal diversity among women rockers. .LADYPALOOZA PRESENTS: I Went To Your Concert and There Was Nothing Going On, or, A Meditation on Dud… [...]

By: Big Fat Deal » Fatism In The Wild

Big Fat Deal » Fatism In The Wild — Thu, 13 May 2010 11:55:04 +0000

[...] a throwaway bit, but it pissed me off. The implication that music is for men, and the casual “ha, ha, no fat chicks!” [...]

By: Angel Hall

Angel Hall — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 02:47:24 +0000

I wrote “Is it just me, or is the over-saturation of Indie Rock making the record industry even MORE male-dominated? But don’t worry ladies, if you’ve got the look you can work it” on my facebook profile and I was directed to this link by my friend. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.
As a musician who also doesn’t suck, and who isn’t comparable to Jewel, or Ani Defranco, or Patsy Cline or any of the other standard female songwriters that get used as a template for all “chick music”… I just want to get up on stage just ONCE, and not have to start playing before people start to pay attention. I will sit through some guy’s painful performance where everyone is watching respectfully, and then, when I get up, watch everyone turn away to the bar to get a drink. Why…? BECAUSE I AM A WOMAN. And then I have to “prove myself” onstage. FUCK THAT SHIT!

By: On women in music, feminism and music « The Love that is Strong

On women in music, feminism and music « The Love that is Strong — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:07:04 +0000

[...] wanted to re-post this post from Tiger Beatdown on feminism and music: Ladypalooza. I read it last week and have been stewing ever since. Silvana writes, Being a feminist who is [...]