sweetheart redux

When I was a morose and pained teenager (as teenagers are), I was in a feminist punk band called Foxfire.  It was a pretty big part of my existence.   Tamra Lucid   from the band Lucid Nation  (our guardian angels who were always letting us share their equipment and promoting us through word of mouth) just finished emailing me a few mp3's she'd been able to create from one of our old cassettes (pardon any incorrect tech verbiage here).  My song "Earthquakes" was my favorite one to sing at shows.  Pretty much everything I had to get off my chest:  feeling ugly, not being taken seriously as a girl, being victim to a violent crime that left me jumpy to things like earthquakes -- it was all in that song.   Foxfire was a three girl band:   me,  Rhani Lee Remedes  and  Andrea Branca .   We all switched around on which instruments we played for each song; Earthquakes is A ndrea on ba...

Jean Smith and David Lester of Mecca Normal. Photos by Sean Raggett. Mecca Normal BIO : The literary rock duo of Jean Smith (vocals) and David Lester (electric guitar)  has released thirteen albums on Kill Rock Stars, Matador and K Records. Mecca Normal's 14 th  album  " Empathy for the Evil "  will be out  September 16, 2014 on M'lady's Records. There is a lot of mention in the media of a renewed interest in 1990's culture.  Do you find that to be so, and if so, does it have a direct impact on your life? JS:   It is extremely important to our intensity and longevity to feel that there is some sense of the past being both accessible and of interest to people who participated back then or to those who are just learning about the 1990s now. There were some very important ideals that originated within the D-I-Y and independent scenes that are still valid today. Women writing and performing music about their specific concerns is still...

 Hello friends, this here is #9 of the zine I published in middle school and high school, published April 1996. 

Hello Friends, this here is a scan of my teenage dream fanzine, Sweetheart #7, put out in Summer 1995. Thanks for reading!  

This was a sheet of either flyers or stickers I made in high school, little advertisements for my zine Sweetheart and for girl power.  and these: were stickers that my old friend Rhani and I made one night when she slept over.  I used to think she was a poseur so even though we had all these classes together and liked all the same music and stuff, I was always sort of reserved with her.  Then, when my first band, Lime Rickey, played our first show, I was beaten the shit out of afterwards, and most every "friend" of mine who'd been there had bailed long ago, but my mom, my old friend Matt Harrison, and Rhani, were 3 heroes who actually jumped into the middle of things to try to protect my body, and dear Rhani actually managed to cover my head from kicks for a few seconds, before she was pulled off of me and beaten up a little bit too, and after that, well -- fuck, i knew she was amazing.  obviously there weren't going to be any more Lime Ricke...