Being human is hard.
Most people will concede that being a lady human poses its own set of unique, societally-imposed challenges. And if you take a look at our culture, it's easy to get the impression that being a lady human who plays music must be a hundred times more difficult.
On her way to Nashville, Tennessee, cruising through the rolling hills of Virginia and into Tennessee with two other singer/songwriter gals, Christy Jefferson got pulled over. The state trooper who nabbed them looked like a teddy bear. He told Jefferson that she was going a bit too fast. With nothing to lose, Jefferson cheerily responded.
"¡Hasta Los Cobra Skulls Siempre!" as the song title suggests. The Cobra Skulls' unique blend of punk, rockabilly and straight up awesomeness draw an assorted crowd of punk rockers, greasers and crusties.
Maxx Stoyanoff-Williams was a member of both The Goats and Incognegro and has long been a fixture on the Philadelphia music scene.
The front page of The New York Times boasts that the paper features "All the News That's Fit to Print," but there are some things that its editors deem too indelicate for their readers.
"Bobbie and I are still learning to play our instruments," admits Jaime Parker of the Timid Roosevelts. "With each song we write, I find that we're getting more musically complex."
RES hasn't had the chance to sit down in ten years.
The Philadelphia born singer is a blend of rock, soul and indie pop. In 2001, she released a debut album with a video in heavy rotation on VH1.
Distractions are everywhere. Relationships are impossible. Some relationships are distractions. These are the only things I am sure of right now.
"Are you ready to do Motion Capture?"
These were the last seven words I heard before finding myself dancing to an unknown hip-hop song in an effort to be immortalized in The Movements of South Street motion capture library.
Kate Collins wants to take over the world. A tattoo artist at Sick Creations Tattoo in Thorofare, New Jersey, Collins is living the life not many are able to do and is doing exactly what she's always dreamed of doing.
