Mix Tape of the Week 07/01/2010 - Feisty Females of Music

07/01/2010 - Feisty Females of Music

A selection of my favourite female vocalist fronted groups.

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Track List :

Crystal Castles - Alice Practice

The Canadian duo of producer Ethan Kath and cacophonous Alice Glass make up Crystal Castles. Rushing violently into the experimental electronic music genre Crystal Castles combines discordant melodies with Alice's screaming vocals.

Alice Practice was the pair's first single, secretly recorded by the sound engineer as Alice was performing a mic check in their first studio session. 

CSS - Music Is My Hot Hot Sex

CSS, short for Cansei de Ser Sexy (lit. I got tired of being sexy), are a brazillian new rave band from Sao Paolo. Consisting of six talented members, fronted by the dazzling Lovefoxxx, they are not only well known for their own songs but remixing many others.

Music Is My Hot Hot Sex gained unlikely success when used in an unofficial iPod advert released on youtube, leading to the song reaching #63 in the US charts.

Feist - My Moon, My Man

Feist, the stage name of Leslie Feist, is a prolific Canadian singer-songwriter also well known for her work in the indie rock supergroup Broken Social Scene. While most well known for her song '1234' due to it's use in multiple adverts, Feist also has four successful albums and multiple awards to her name.

My Moon, My Man's music video, showing Feist and others dancing on the moving walkway in an airport,  was filmed in a single continuous shot

Dragonette - Take It Like A Man

Formed in 2005, Dragonette is a four-piece led by singer-songwriter Martina Sorbara and bassist and producer Dan Kurtz (who also produced Feist's first album). While Dragonette have never reached mainstream success in the charts they have a small fanbase and have garnered success in their native Canada.

Take It Like A Man's video is based on the film Boogie Nights, full of thinly-veiled references to sex like lifting weights and squirting syringes.

Metric - Gold, Guns, Girls

Metric are a long-running four-piece indie rock band from Toronto, formed by multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Emily Haines and guitarist James Shaw in 1999. Metric's members, especially Emily and James, feature prominently in other Candian indie groups such as Broken Social Scene and Stars.

Gold, Guns, Girls has featured in numerous television programmes, including Gossip Girl, Entourage and Grey's Anatomy.