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Le Tigre
Chicks
On Speed
Tribe 8
Date:
March 10, 2002
TWO SHOWS IN ONE NIGHT
1st Show: 5:30 PM/5 Doors
2nd Show: 9:30PM/9 Doors
Tickets:
Both Shows Are Sold
Out
$14 General Admission
Age Restrictions:
6 and over
Kitchen:
Limited
Seating: Limited |
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Chicks On Speed Records is proud to announce
the exclusive European license of "Feminist
Sweepstakes," the new album by the New York based band
Le Tigre. Le Tigre's second full-length release delivers the rollerskate
jams, sampler-punk and political dance trax you've come to expect from the
trio, and ups the ante for electro-conceptual, feminist pop music everywhere.
This time around the Le Tigre sound seems influenced equally by basement
recordings and top-forty electronic production. Sub-bass and breakbeats
figure prominently in the loud, live-show oriented song-writing on "Feminist
Sweepstakes." Kathleen Hanna, Johanna Fateman,
and new bandmember J.D. Samson each have
solo vocal moments on the album and elsewhere they gang up, finish one another's
sentences, or exchange insights. Politically complicated, feminist perspectives
inform Le Tigre's lyrical approach to their subject matter, even as the
songs occasionally veer into introspection or absurdity. Le Tigre's self
titled 2000 debut album was out on Mr. Lady
(USA) and Wiija (Europe) and has been
hailed as an underground classic all round the world:
Kathleen Hanna, in regard to her image in the media as the angry lead singer
of her former band Bikini Kill, remarks
without a trace of nostalgia, "I am interested in expanding notions
of what it is to be a political artist rather than playing into 'women-in-rock'
stereotypes of feminist rage." The band's orignal three members (Kathleen,
Johanna, and video artist Sadie Benning
who has since left the band for the demands of her independent art career)
are long-time friends who met in the early nineties, their paths crossing
when Kathleen was touring with Bikini Kill, Sadie was screening her video
work and Johanna was writing and distributing fanzines. In 1998 Kathleen's
solo recording project "Julie Ruin" was released and, although
living in different cities at the time, the three artists welcomed the opportunity
to collaborate, and convened in New York City to put together a live act
to tour the record. The project rapidly mutated into an entirely different
entity, ultimately known as Le Tigre, and they released their self-titled
debut on Mr. Lady Records and Videos. |
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