BLARE N. BITCH
“You’re Gonna Need Somebody on Your Bond” sounded like an old-time blues number, with a strong-throated black background singer doing a duet with Deviants frontman Mick Farren.
But it turns out I was wrong about that: The singer in the duet (who is quite white) is actually the lead vocalist for the alternative rock band Concrete Blonde, Johnette Napolitano. Napolitano and another member of Concrete Blonde, Jim Mankey actually contributed quite a bit to the Dr. Crow album: Johnette Napolitano is one of the background singers on the album called the Deviettes – along with Blare N. Bitch of Betty Blowtorch – and Jim Mankey played bass on their version of the Beatles' classic "Strawberry Fields Forever".
(August 2013)
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Lightening the mood some, Betty Blowtorch is an all-woman punk rock band that is more like this month’s UARB than anyone I have talked about so far. Allmusic described the band like this: “Strutting with the guts of Joan Jett and harsh vocals of L7, this hard rock four-piece is truly individualistic and unafraid to be disruptive. Bianca Butthole (bass/vocals), Sharon Needles (guitar), Blare N. Bitch (guitar), and Judy Molish (drums) follow Hollywood’s heavy metal/glam rock scene with a passion for sexed-up anthems of fantasy, and have been honing their nasty rock ways since the late ’90s.”
(June 2016)
