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Female-fronted punk + post-punk: weird, aggressive, and dark music all made by women.

Fiftysixer and Molly join La Lengua in this tribute to Mia Zapata of the Gits, who died 20 years ago this day.

Patience and Prudence- A Smile and a Ribbon
XL Capris- My City of Sydney
Trashwomen- Peter Gunn
The Comes- Wa-Ka-Me
Animals and Men- Bad Lover
SST- Autistic
Legal Weapon- No One Listens
The B Girls- Savage Fever
Chalk Circle- Uneasy Friend
DIRT- Profit and Loss
AlieNation- Palestine
Essential Logic- Music is a Better Noise
Las Ultrasonicas- Godzilla
The Ettes- A Conversation
Hans-A-Plast- Lederhosentyp
Mo-Dettes- Masochistic Opposite
Girls At Our Best!- Getting Nowhere Fast
Fastbacks- Always Tomorrow
Abe Froman- I Got Sick of Waiting For You
The Launderettes- Transition Man
Kamala and the Karnivores- Love Like Murder
The Maggots- Let's Get, Let's Get (Tammy Wynette)
The Daughters of Eve- Don't Waste My Time
Amos and Sara- Fleeced
Gore Gore Girls- Loaded Heart
Ideal- Berlin
Frightwig- I Got Lost
Dolly Mixture- How Come You're Such a Hit
The Gits- Absynthe
Jeri Rossi- I Left My Heart But I Don't Know Where
FFF- Arbeit Macht Dumm
45 Grave- Surf Bat
The Gits- Another Shot of Whiskey
The Gits- Spear and Magic Helmet
The Gits- Bob- Cousin O
The Gits- Here's to Your Fuck
The Gits- Insecurities
The Gits- Kings and Queens
The Gits- Seaweed
The Gits- Wingo Lamo
The Gits- If It All Dies Anyway

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Female-fronted punk + post-punk: weird, aggressive, and dark music all made by women.

DJ Ashtray and La Lengua co-host a "very gay edition" of Ribbon Around a Bomb for all the queers, butches, femmes, fags, lezzies, dykes, homos, Str8 girls, lovers + friends, in honor of SF PRIDE WEEKEND!

Patience and Prudence- A Smile and a Ribbon
Anti-Scrunti Factions- Boys Will Be Boys
The Outfits- I Hope I'm Gay
Nomy Lamm- Everything Is Sex
Devil's Dykes- Fruitless
Mika Miko- Sex Jazz
Las Ultrasonicas- No Quiero Un Novio
Androids of Mu- She Is a Boy
Josie Cotton- Johnny, Are You Queer?
Infect- Homofobia A
Infect- Homofobia B
Lesbians on Ecstasy- Sedition
Nervous Gender- Cardinal Newman
The Third Sex- Monster Snack
Castration Squad- Ex-Girlfriend
Sort Sol- Boy-Girl
The No-Talents- I Ain't No Wife
Ludus- Breaking the Rules
Unknown Gender- Girls-Boys
Lunachicks- Mr. Lady
Gretchen Phillips- Eau De Lesbianism
Frightwig- A Man's Got to Do What a Man's Got to Do
DIRT- Deaf Dumb and Male
The Fastbacks- Someone Else's Room
Against Me- Baby I'm an Anarchist
Tribe 8- Butch in the Street
Sleater-Kinney- Ballad of a Ladyman
Sick Sad World- PC Faggots
Huggy Bear- Sizzlemeet
Gymslips- Some Girls
Skinned Teen- Str8 Girl
All Or Nothing (H/C)- Racist, Classist, Anti-Gay Bullshit
Edith Nylon- Femmes Sous Cellophanes
The Nixe- Factory Girl
The Bags- Violent Girl
Penis Flytrap- Queen Bitch
7 Year Bitch- Dead Men Don't Rape
Aryan Disgrace- Faggot in the Family

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Female-fronted punk + post-punk: weird, aggressive, and dark music all made by women.

This week, I "went deep" with a track from Edie and the Eggs- ft. John Waters' actress Edith Massey, a 7-song set of Danish female-fronted punk, recently discovered post-punk from Chicago's Da!, and a delightfully mad tune from the beautiful women of The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black.

Tonight's list of tech difficulties: left channel failsauce for the first couple songs, and annoying feedback during one of the mic breaks.

Patience and Prudence- A Smile and a Ribbon
Debils- Maso
Edie and the Eggs- Punks Get Off the Grass
Daisy Chain- Zzotto
Daisy Chainsaw- Zebra Head
Putrid Girls- 1234
Sin 34- Nothing Makes Sense

Flere Dode Pensere- Midedad
Gorilla Angreb- Astma
Sort Sol ft. Lydia Lunch- Boy Girl
Lost Kids- Skrid
Asbest- Family Care
Kalashnikov- Odelaeg Og Haerg
Electric Deads- 30 Years

Legal Weapon- Live My Way
Fastbacks- What Will They All Say?
Anti-Scrunti Faction- Resist the Lies
Da!- White Castles
Flirt- Degenerator
Sledgehammer- Paramilitary Recruits
Anti-Corpos- Meia Boca

The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black- Alaska
Conflict- Crawl Away
Gluearms- 365
Skeletal Family- Hands on the Clock
Plastix- Geschlechtsverkehr
Curse- Killer Bees
Learned Helplessness- Vegis

Nomy Lamm- The First Thing You Have to Do
Rakketax- Van Agt
25 Cents- Don't Deceive Me
Klasse Kriminale- Construito en Italia
A-Gen-53- Lila
Look Blue Go Purple- I Don't Want You Anyway
Blitzkrieg- Szene
DIRT- Dolls of Destruction
Rutto- Paha, Kuolema
Decadent- Opposition Proposition

Quick Culture- Huhnchens
Ultimo Resorte- Hogar, Dulce Hogar
The Nixe- I'm the Leader
The Disturbers- KZ Syndrome
Androids of Mu- Bored Housewives
The Spurtz- I Won't
Neo Boys- Never Comes Down

Kenicke- Classy
Chalk Circle- Subversive Pleasure
Bush Tetras- Snakes Crawl

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Female-fronted punk + post-punk: weird, aggressive, and dark music all made by women.

Punk sandwiched by disco and experimental.

Patience and Prudence- A Smile and a Ribbon
The Jellies- Jive Baby on a Saturday Night
Icon A.D.- Fight for Peace
NJF- Sitting Pretty
Hagar the Womb- What's Your Flag
The Vaselines- Monsterpussy
The Shirkers- Drunk and Disorderly
Magik Markers- Body Rot
Emily's Sassy Lime- Not in a Biblical Sense
PRE- Popping Showers
Dagowops- Shortrupp
Honey Bane- Girl on the Run
The Brat- High School
Hans-A-Plast- Rank Xerox
Big in Japan- Suicide a Go Go
The Urge- Babytalk
Naked Aggression- Anthem
Hansje- Automobile
Conflict- Human Cargo
The Bags- Nothing's Going on in Here
Stef Petticoat & Robert Crash- Schroner Fremdor Mann
The Slits- New Town (live)
Vice Squad- It's a Sell Out
Kleenex- Ain't You
Las Ultrasonicas- Vente in mi boca
Even Worse- Emptying the Madness
Triste Fim de Rosilene- O Desvelamento da Verdade
Crass- Berkertex Bribe
Sophie Mol- Meredith
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks- I Woke Up Dreaming
Jane Aire and the Belvederes- Yankee Wheels
Gymslips- Wandering Stars
Algebra Suicide- Little Dead Bodies
Pretty Fury- Orphan
Legal Weapon- No Sorrow
Pink Section- Francine's List
Tozibabe- Trash
Usch- LTO
S.I.B.- Listless
X-Ray Spex- Let's Submerge
Secta Suicida Siglo 20- Virginidad Sacudida
Johanna Went- Bad End

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Female-fronted punk + post-punk: weird, aggressive, and dark music all made by women.

After a nearly two-month break, this is my glorious return to the airwaves. Features songs about summer, and songs not about summer.

Patience and Prudence- A Smile and a Ribbon
The Welders- SOS Now
Vice Squad- Summer Fashion
Fastbacks- In the Summer
Patti Smith- Redondo Beach
The Take- Summer
Phantom Pregnancies- Heat Gun Summer
Bambix- Little Miss Sunshine
Dreamers- Gimme Sun, Boys, Rock N Roll
Nikki and the Corvettes- Summertime Fun
Marine Girls- A Place in the Sun
Beardsley- Summer Holiday
Slutever- Sun Hot
Ivy and the Teachers- The Beach
The Delinquents- Alien Beach Party
pragVEC- By the Sea
The B Girls- Fun at the Beach
As Mercenarias- Me Perco
Bizon Kids- Godsdienstwaanzin
Rubella Ballet- Me
Ruggedy Annes- Hollow Heroes
Oh-Ok- Playtime
I'm So Hollow- I Don't Know
Lili Zeller- Candeggina Burns
Ludus- Too Hot to Handle
Removers- Part-Time Lovers
U.X.A.- Social Circle
Sys of Choi- Drousy Camel
Suburban Lawns- Janitor
Ataque de Caspa- Cronica China
Max and the Make-Ups- Zerox
HEADS- No Rule
Youth in Asia- CBS
Boys Boys- Control Tower
Frigidettes- Turmoil
Zellots- Blades
Strapaze- Tage
Boxboys- Go Baby Go
Pink Military- Spell Bound
Foreign Legion- Trenchline
Household- Desperate Times
Wunderbach- Raya
Ingrid- Heron
The Doll- Desire Me

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Female-fronted punk + post-punk: weird, aggressive, and dark music all made by women.

La Lengua is joined by Fifty-Sixer at our post-Listener Appreciation Party. We recap awesome shit we did over the weekend. Drag shows, live music, performance art, beer-drinking... good things, you know.

Patience and Prudence- A Smile and a Ribbon
The Welders- Debutantes in Bondage
The Brat- The Wolf
The Dishrags- Gang War
Suburban Lawns- Gidget Goes to Hell
Asbest- Stinking
Bizkids- Advertise
VS.- Leather Complex
The Delinquents- Do You Have a Job For a Girl Like Me?
Romeo Void- Fear to Fear
Chalk Circle- The Slap
Adaptors- In the Slot
Las Ultrasonicas- No quiero un novio
Huggy Bear- No Sleep
Alptraum Gmbh- Herzschrittmacher
Au Pairs- It's Obvious
Destroy All Monsters- You're Gonna Die
Abe Froman- I Got Sick of Waiting for You
The Comes- Medium
Les Calamites- Toutes les Nuits
Schund- Schund
Amy and the Angels- I Hate Being in Love
Sperma- Please Love Me Tonight
Sort Sol- Boy-Girl
Brilliant Colors- You Say You Want
Anti-Corpos- Alvo da Loucura
Teddy and the Frat Girls- Alvo da Loucura
Blessed Noise- Puta Sociedad
Frightwig- Punk Rock Jail Bait
Tarzan 5- Boys Game
Shivvers- Teen Line
DIRT- Tribal Dreams
The Raincoats- Adventures Close to Home
Ludus- Breaking the Rules
The Spurts- I Won't
Beex- My Heart Goes Beat Beat
Doll- Trash
Tozibabe- Moja Praznina
The Stripes- Tell Me Your Name
Pink Plastic and Panties- Lunatic

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Female-fronted punk + post-punk: weird, aggressive, and dark music all made by women.

La Lengua rides solo and sober, and attempts to convince you to attend RV's Listener Appreciation Party at Speakeasy Brewery. (Which was FUCKING AWESOME, btw.) I realize this is obvious since I choose the songs every week, but I don't know, I really like the songs in this episode for whatev reason. Dig it.

Suicide Squad- New Kids Army
UXA- UXA
Plasmatics- Butcher Baby
Malaria!- Your Turn to Run
Sin 34- Turn On- Tune In- Drop Out
Stay At Home Mom- Drown the Kids
Nasmak- Neckermann
Anti Scrunti Faction- Writhe Like Worms
Teddy and the Frat Girls- I Owe it to the Girls
Atztussis- Bullen
The Maggots- Let's Get, Let's Get, Tammy Wynette
Mood of Defiance- American Love Song
Gymslips- Angels
Screaming Sneakers- Violent Days
Sick Sad World- Selfish
Essential Logic- Wake Up
Avengers- Teenage Rebel
Beyond Pink- 30 Zingo
Penetration- Stone Heroes
LiLiput- Tisko
Trummerfrauen- Gelbkreuz
Softball- The Holy War
The Bags- Violent Girl
Bow Wow Wow- Go Wild in the Country
The Gits- Slaughter of Bruce
Spat- Voices
Thunderboys- Rich Bitch
Bleached- Electric Chair
Total Chaoz- Oh Beatrix
Lizzy Mercier Descloux- Rosa Vertov
Hysteria- Silent Hate
Slant 6- Babydoll
Holly and the Italians- I Wanna Go Home
Fastbacks- Says Who?
Edith Nylon- Herr Monde
Tyranna- Back Off Baby
Flowers- Criminal Waste
Tarzan 5- Boys Game
Gotterflies- Hippie
Mizz Nobody- Smittad
I Object- Teaching Revenge

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Female-fronted punk + post-punk: weird, aggressive, and dark music all made by women.

A fine assortment of obscure femme punk, including an amazing guest set of '90s material from our pal Jay.

As some point, La Lengua drunkenly tries to school you with a history lesson about the buried ships of the Yerba Buena Cove!

Patience and Prudence- A Smile and a Ribbon
Whorehouse of Representatives- Blinded by Darkness
Hans-A-Plast- Man of Stone
Petticoats- Normal
Mogel- Kanner Sa Fa
DIRT- Belfast
Headlites- Danny
Dagowops- Was Solls
Las Ultrasonicas- Que Grosero
Post Mortem- The Casualty
Honey Bane- Porno Grows
Mo-Dettes- White Mice Disco

Killer guest DJ set from Jay of Dynamite Hemorrhage:
Sally Skull - Tear Out
The Rondelles - Safety in Numbers
Golden Starlet - Boyscout Club
Spoiled Brats - Rich Kids
Bitchschool - Bitchschool
Loli & The Chones - Nazi Death Camp
Lung Leg - Theme Park
Tyrades - Detonation
Screaming Sneakers - Violent Days

Lost Cherees- Trouble
S.I.B.- Boys
Vice Squad- It's a Sell Out
AlieNation- Palestine
Ivy and the Teachers- Nervous
Lucrate Milk- Neplarelou
Sophie Mol- Uh Oh
Neo Boys- Poor Man's Jungle
Anti-Corpos- Apoia Mutua
Conflict- The Guilt and the Glory
Skinned Teen- Pillowcase Kisser
Chin Chin- Desires Only
Dybukk- Dopis
Rape Revenge- Reject Your Blood
Lydia Lunch- Atomic Bongos
Androids of Mu- Fast Car
Mary Monday- Popgun
Trash Kit- Cadets
Life in the Fridge Exists- Have You Checked the Children?
Morbid Opera- Polyester Pig
Life Cycle- Indifference
The Nixe- E.O. Twit
Penny and the Rims- Madmen

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Female-fronted punk + post-punk: weird, aggressive, and dark music all made by women.

ALL COVERS show tonight! Listen to yr fav jamz (seriously, hella classic rock + OG punk) covered by female-fronted punk groups.

Patience and Prudence- A Smile and a Ribbon
Sin 34- Uncontrollable Urge
Penis Flytrap- Queen Bitch
Jeri Rossi- It's a Man's Man's Man's World
The B Girls- Chinese Rocks
DxCxRx- Death Comes Ripping
Full of Fancy- The Needle and the Damage Done
The Raincoats- Lola
The Gits- A Change is Gonna Come
Conflict- American Woman
Bow Wow Wow- I Want Candy
Naked Aggression- Kids in America
Neonbabies- Jumpin' Jack
Vice Squad- The Times They Are a Changin'
Anarchicks- Where Is My Mind?
X- Soul Kitchen
45 Grave- School's Out
The Slits- I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Mo-Dettes- Paint It Black
Wild Flag- Beast of Burden
Free Kitten- Party With Me Punker
Grace Jones- Breakdown
The Yeastie Girlz- Orgasm Addict
Amy Fusselman- Six Pack
Animals and Men- Just One Kiss (Decidedly NOT a cover?)
Penetration- Free Money
Mary and the Boy- Milkshake
Julie Ruin- I Wanna Know What Love Is
8-Eyed Spy- Diddy Wah Diddy
Castration Squad- Bat Thing
Lizzy Mercier Descloux- Tumour
The No-Talents- My Baby's a Midget
White Trash Debutantes- Midget
Red Cross- Cover Band (Also not a cover... but it's about doing covers.)

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Female-fronted punk + post-punk: weird, aggressive, and dark music all made by women.

La Lengua rides solo this evening. Dishes on the #killerbob that Miss Deena (of Glama-rama and Miss Deena's Vinyl Escapade on RV) cut for her on Saturday. Also advises you to attend Radio Valencia's upcoming Listener Appreciation Party at Speakeasy Brewery- Sat, March 30th from 12-6 with good beer and live bands!

Patience and Prudence- A Smile and a Ribbon
Morbid Opera- Eat the Rich
Beex- He Obliterates Me
Nu Sensae- Gumbo
Oh-OK- Courage Courage
Bad Cop Bad Cop- Yeah Yeah Yeah
Chalk Circle- Easy Escapes
Unknown Gender- Little Dictator
Stepping Talk- Health and Safety
Destroy All Monsters- Alien Love Call
Young Marble Giants- Include Me Out
Chin Chin- The World's Burning
Sara Goes Pop- Fleeced
Bizkids- Shoot
Drustvo Prisjecavalaca Boljih Dana- Sexualna Ovisnost
Les Calamites- Malhabile
The Click- Fraction
Honey Bane- Girl on the Run
Horriegias- Amor Vertedero
Lung Leg- Punk Pop Travesty
Dreamers- In the Summer Night
Asbest- Stinking
Jane Aire & the Belvederes- Yankee Wheels
The Eyeliners- Won't Be Long
Punts- Shelley's Boyfriend
Mary Monday- I Gave My Punk Jacket
Anouschka Et Les Prives- Controle
Red # 9- Dependency
Animal Dance- Fake
Kleenx- Nighttoad
The B-Girls- Long Distance Love
Trash Kit- 50 ft. Woman
8-Eyed Spy- Diddy Wah Diddy
Avengers- White Nigger
Girlschool- (I'm Your) Victim
Belgrado- Zapomnijmy
X- Delta 88
Vice Squad- Resurrection

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Female-fronted punk + post-punk: weird, aggressive, and dark music all made by women.

A "very special" Valentine's Day edition of Ribbon Around a Bomb.

Patience and Prudence- A Smile and a Ribbon
Sin 34- Only Love
Amy and the Angels- I Hate Being in Love
The Continental Co-Ets- I Don't Love You No More
The Dishrags- I Don't Love You
Cat Fight- Not in Love
Kamala and the Karnivores- Love Like Murder
Lucrate Milk- I Love You Fuck Off
Gymslips- Love's Not the Answer
Crass- Smother Love
Romeo Void- Loves an Illness
Y Pants- Loves a Disease
Ciccone Youth- Addicted to Love
45 Grave- Bad Love
Animals and Men- Bad Lover
Travelling- Part II Less Than True Love
The Raincoats- In Love
Au Pairs- Love Song
Chin Chin- Love Song
The Nixe- Love Song
Family Fodder- Love Song
Anti-Scrunti Faction- Another Love Song
Vice Squad- Latex Love
Penetration- Lover of Outrage
Rubella Ballet- Love Life
As Mercenarias- Amor Inimigo
Plasmatics- Dream Lover
Sperma- Please Love Me Tonight
The No-Talents- My Lovermobile
Sub Verse- Chance Romance
The Stripes- Weekend Love
Whoom Elements- Of Love
The Comes- I Love You
Nikki and the Corvettes- Back Seat Love
Algebra Suicide- True Romance at the World's Fair
Mensen Blaffen- Chagrin D'amour
The Bags- In Love with Romance
Vs.- Magnetic Hearts
Hagar the Womb- True Love and Faith
Unknown Gender- Valentino

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Female-fronted punk + post-punk: weird, aggressive, and dark music all made by women.

La Lengua and DJ Ashtray are joined by the only hippie allowed in Radio Valencia on Ribbon Around a Bomb- Miss Kim Kink. Also, it's the Chinese New Year.

Patience and Prudence- A Smile and a Ribbon
Penadas por la Ley- Manotas
Wartburgs Fur Walter- More More Anymore
The Horny Bitches- Necro Maniac
Vktms- A Woman Scorned
7 Year Bitch- No Fucking War
The Yeastie Girlz- You Suck
Wrong Kind of Stone Age- Run Amok
Bomb Shell- Condescending Boy
Kamala and the Karnivores- Bone Bouquet
Household- Desperate Times
Conflict- Listen to the Noise
Beyond Pink- Let's Go Backwards
Glass Torpedoes- Someone Different
The Pandoras- Feels So Good Inside
45 Grave- Dream Hits II
Westside Lockers- Fucshia Rayon
Johanna Went- Bad End
Pink Chanpagne- Sondagsskolehyckel
Bush Tetras- Snakes Crawl
Bow Wow Wow- Where's My Snake
Noun- Snakes
The No-Talents- Bondage Boy
X-Ray Spex- Cigarettes
Wunderbach- Raya
Wayne County and the Back Street Boys- Max Kansas City 1976
DIRT- Lunacy
Pretty Fury- Orphan
White Lung- Backhouse
The Ettes- A Conversation
Androids of Mu- Fast Car
Cheap Perfume- Ordinary Girls
East Coast Panic- All You
The Dishrags- Carry On
Blitzkrieg- Szene
Au Pairs- Monogamy
Barchen Und Die Milchbubis- Egal
Combat Not Conform- Keep Your Head
Mag and the Suspects- Erection
Swoons- My Grandpa is Joey Ramone
Big in Japan- Goodbye

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Female-fronted punk + post-punk: weird, aggressive, and dark music all made by women.

ALL SF Bay Area female-fronted punk and an interview with Mia and Deanna of Frightwig!

Patience and Prudence- A Smile and A Ribbon
Frightwig- Only You
Frightwig- Big Bang

[INTERVIEW WITH MEMBERS OF FRIGHTWIG!]

Frightwig-Punk Rock Jail Bait
Mama Mia d'Bruzzi- Ride Your Bike
Frightwig- A Man's Got To Do What a Man's Got To Do
Frightwig- My Crotch Does Not Say "Go"
VKTMS- Too Bad
The Nuns- Savage
Mary Monday and the Bitches- Popgun
Pink Section- Francine's List
VS.- Leather Complex
Lewd- Magnetic Heart
AlieNation- Palestine
White Trash Debutantes- What's a Girl to Do?
U.X.A- Sister Godfrieda
Blowdriers- Berkeley Farms
Romeo Void- Fear to Fear
Noh Mercy- Caucasian Guilt
Inflatable Boy Clams- Marin
The Avengers- I Believe in Me
Tribe 8- Frat Pig
Frightwig- Hot Papa
Frightwig- I Support You
Frightwig- Vagabondage
Frightwig- Crazy World

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Female-fronted punk + post-punk: weird, aggressive, and dark music all made by women.

Just another brilliant playlist by your hosts, La Lengua and DJ Ashtray.

Patience and Prudence- A Smile and a Ribbon
Androids of Mu- Who Cares
Accident- Kill the Bee Gees
Plasmatics- Corruption
Manisch Depressiv- Zeitmaschine
The Russians- Anything She Wants
Sin 34- Forgive and Forget
Reversible Cords- Teen Orgy
Nasty Facts- Drive My Car
Legal Weapon- No One Listens
Minus Cway- Gdje Me Vjetar Odnese
Beyond Pink- Rhythm is a Hamster
LiLiput- Hitch-Hike
Morbid Opera- Polyester Pig
VS.- Leather Complex
The Bastards- Schizo Terrorist
pragVEC- Breaking Point
Bizkids- VIPs
The Delinquents- Alien Beach Party
Ghost Walks- Fallen Angel
Mars- Puerto Rican Ghost
Tokow Boys- Cobra! Cobra!
Dreamers- Gimme Sun, Gimme Boys, Gimme Rock N' Roll
Chalk Circle- High Stress
As Mercenarias- Trash Land
Conflict- Fester
Vice Squad- Nothing
Grace Jones- Warm Leatherette
Hagar the Womb- Cardboard Theatre
Frightwig- My Crotch Does Not Say "Go"
Wasp Women- Kill me / I Don't Need Your Attitude
Siege- Don't Punish Me
Headlites- Look Look Look
Penetration- Life's a Gamble
Chin Chin- Dead Life
Gash- God is Dead
Mogel- Jag Är Så Rädd
Adickdid- Eye Level
The Ankh- Before Success
Big in Japan- Suicide a Go Go
Eyes- Don't Talk to Me
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks- Burning Rubber
Snatch- All I Want

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Female-fronted punk + post-punk: weird, aggressive, and dark music all made by women.

On this week's episode, La Lengua and DJ Ashtray bring you the very best of female-fronted punk, noise, post-punk, garage and experimental music from Japan! Featuring by-the-song updates with Fruits-esque Harajuku punk style. We also heart Australia. Ashtray gives a shout-out to some of our listeners in Australia, while Lengua just shouts out Foster's beer.

Also, guest DJ Travis joins us in the studio, adding some fabulous recommendations for other Japanese music and pointing out the fact that the Sheena and the Rokkets song "Omae Ga Oshi" is actually a Stooges cover. (1970, not 1969, you PHILISTINE!)

Here's what we played:

キャ→ [Kyah!]- Slapdash
Kokeshi Doll- Koyubi
Sheena and the Rokkets- Omae Ga Oshi
The Comes- 究極
Mr. Kite- Exit B-9
ゴメス [Gomess]- 地獄へ
PTAs- Obsession
Melt-Banana- Pierced Eye
Brain Death- Personal Affair
無理心中 [Muri Shinjuu]- Shikyuu
Gas- World Peace
NoN BaNd- Dance Song
Beardsley- Summer Holiday
Zelda- [Japanese Title]
Mizutama Shobodan- A Loving Frog on the Chopping Block
Nurse- ナ－ス
Geil- Fat
Buffalo Daughter- No New Rock
Sperma- Please Love Me Tonight
The 5.6.7.8's- Gerupin Rock
New Walls- No Creation
Boredoms- Teenage Bondage
Softball- Status
Typhus- [Japanese Title]
Shonen Knife- A Day of the Factory
OXZ- Be Run Down
OOIOO- UMA
Lolita No. 18- Punk Rock Terrorist
Virgin Rocks- Get Along with You
Warriors- Born to Ride
G-Schmitt- Holy Celebration
Rap- Accident
Chance Operation- Din
Masako-San- ô±öNɦ
Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her- Sentimental Journey

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Female-fronted punk + post-punk: weird, aggressive, and dark music all made by women.

BS show- Boring and Sad. Or the S can stand for Sober, whatev. The music is FANTASTIC though!

Patience and Prudence- A Smile and a Ribbon
Penetration- Future Daze

[Female-fronted Swedish punk bloc!:]
Total Muzak- Nagonstans I Sta'n
Sju Svara Ar- Pappa
Burning Kitchen- Grabbarna Pa Fagerhult
Mogel- Hall Mig Hart
Dr. Zeke- Vild I Skogen
Kizza Ping- Den Nya
Vacum- Ar Ungdomar Manniskor?

Barb Wire and the Fences- Can't Take It
X-Ray Spex- Warrior in Woolworths
Tozibabe- Moja Praznina
Shivvers- Teen Line
Sally Skull- Mean Woman
Boxboys- Go Baby Go
Commercials- Simon

Livin' Sacrifice- Fuck Off
Sofa Head- Invitation to Dinner
Removers- Only a Fool
SIB- Boys
Unwarranted Trust- Honour's Calling
The Lepers- Flip Out

Alienation- Palestine
Non Band- Duncan Dancin'
Alternative- Seen Through Tear-Filled Eyes
Questions- Take a Ride

[Depressing pre-teen girl poetry bloc!]
Vivi- Little Girls Don't Grow Up Hating Their Body; They Grow Up Hating Themselves

The Brat- Attitudes
The Fastbacks- What Will They All Say?
The Rezillos- It Gets Me
Sara Goes Pop- LuLu on the Rocks

[Ridiculous anti-love bloc, including a funk track from '73 'cause I do what I want!:]
Amy and the Angels- I Hate Being in Love
Lucrate Milk- I Love You, Fuck Off
Crass- Smother Love
The Dishrags- Love is Shit
Cat Fight- Not in Love
Animals and Men- Bad Lover
The Raincoats- Go Away
The Gymslips- Love's Not the Answer
Betty Davis- Anti Love Song
Las Ultrasonicas- No Quiero un Novio
Anti-Scrunti Faction- Another Love Song
Teddy and the Frat Girls- I Owe It to the Girls

Violators- The Fugitive

+x+Ribbon Around a BOMB+x+
Female-fronted punk + post-punk: weird, aggressive, and dark music all made by women.

This show started as a fantastic idea (“Hey, let’s invite a bunch of our friends and fellow DJs to hang out in the studio, dance, drink, and bring their own records to play.”) It quickly devolved into an obnoxious shitshow of wastedness. Microphones were knocked over, a physical fight broke out between Ashtray and I. Dead air. Dramatic telephone crisis. 33 v. 45 RPM crisis. “Fat Mike can blow me!” All are things that happened. Sorry / NEVER SORRY.

Here's what was played:

Patience and Prudence- A Smile and a Ribbon (RAB Intro)
Anti-Scrunti Faction- Daddy’s Little Girl
The Brat- High School
Putrid Girls- 1234
Las Ultrasonicas- No Quiero un Novio
Tyranna- Back Off Baby
VKTMS- Hard Case
Frightwig- Only You
The Avengers- I Believe in Me
Mo-Dettes- White Mice
The 5678s- Bond Girl
The Gits- Another Shot of Whiskey
45 Grave- Partytime
Mary and the Boy- Bobby Peru
Hagar the Womb- Dressed to Kill
Honey Bane- Boring Conversations
Cristina- La Poupee Qui Fait Non
Big in Japan- SCUM
As Mercenarias- Policia
Trashwomen- Justine
Delta 5- Mind Your Own Business
Life in the Fridge Exists- Have You Checked the Children?
Mydolls-Christmas Day
The Bastards- Impossibilities
DJ Ashtray- Dead Air
Family Fodder- Debbie Harry
Brain Death- Personal Affair
Vice Squad- Last Rockers
The Nixe- Boring City
Tabea and Frider Butzman- Still Nacht Goes Disco
Pink Military- Wild West
Reversible Cords- Rabble Rouser
Lizzy Mercier Descloux- Fire
ESG- Dance
Ludus- Breaking the Rules
Sort Sol (with Lydia Lunch + La Lengua)- Boy-Girl
Screaming Sneakers- Violent Days
Cristina- Jungle Love

+x+Ribbon Around a BOMB+x+
Female-fronted punk + post-punk: weird, aggressive, and dark music all made by women.

In which DJ Ashtray unknowingly gets La Lengua unnecessarily fucked up via the Turk. Now she knows what “proof” is. Highlights: Harry Crews, Go-Gos, and Rubella Ballet (aka “the song that started it all” or “why La Lengua is obsessed with making that BYOU!! sound.”) Practice being assertive. RIP Sarah Kirsch.

Patience and Prudence- A Smile and a Ribbon
DIRT- Maneater
Genocide Exit- Dream Song
Sacrilege- Dig Your Own Grave
Electric Deads- 30 Years
Sin 34- Not
Bound and Gagged- Clutter
The Stripes- Weekend Love
Pink Plastic and Panties- Late Night Lovers
Neo Boys- Under Control
Lost Kids- Alle Taller
Harry Crews- Man Hates a Man (and live between-song histrionics)
Rubella Ballet- Death Train
Lost Cherees- Sexism’s Sick Part I
Lost Cherees- Sexism’s Sick Part II
[Assertiveness Practice]
Belgrado- Visions of Massacre
Anti-Dogmatkiss- Estado de Caos
Frightwig- Vagabondage
Banjax- Lust
Dago Wops- Big Mac
The Go-Gos- Robert Hillburn
Les Calamites- Teach Me How to Shimmy
The Tragics- Mommi I’m a Misfit
Verdun- Securite Anti Liberte
The Urge- Baby Talk
Decadent- Opposition Proposition
Dolly Mixture- Dream Come True
Las Ultrasonicas- El Rock Nacio Conmigo
Hagar the Womb- Truth
XL Capris- My City of Sydney
Naked Aggression- Revolution on the Way
VKTMS- Too Bad
The Maggots- Let’s Get Let’s Get Tammy Wynette
Your Funeral- I Wanna Be You
Eatliz- Spliff
Whoom Elements- Men in the Politics
Plasmatics- Test Tube Babies
White Trash Debutantes- Boys and Booze
Mary Monday- I Gave My Punk Jacket to Ricky
Dawn Patrol- What You Going to Do With Me
The Reactors- WW4
The Bags- Disco’s Dead

+x+Ribbon Around a BOMB+x+
Female-fronted punk + post-punk: weird, aggressive, and dark music all made by women.

Holy awesome, you guys, this podcast is punk as FUNK. Ian (of Ian's Disco Breakdown) filled in for me from about 10pm-10:45pm. When I arrived at the station, I was so hot for those fine 99+ZE disco beatz he was spinning that I decided to keep it going with a whole 2-hour show of dance-y disco-y tracks. Hella ESG. Enjoy Edition 25 AKA the day that Ribbon Around a Bomb sold out.

xo
La Lengua

From Ian:

ESG- Earn It
ESG-ESG
ESG-Hey!
Liquid Liquid-Cavern
Was (Not Was)-Wheel Me Out
Ian Dury-Spasticus Autisticus
Coati Mundi-Me No Pop I
Talking Heads-Pull Up The Roots
Gichy Dan-Cowboys & Gangsters
Vicky "D"-This Beat Is Mine

La Lengua takeover:

Pink Military- Wild West
Bush Tetras- You Can’t Be Funky
ESG- Dance
Au Pairs- It’s Obvious
Ludus- Little Girls
Essential Logic- Brute Fury
Ana Housen- Professionals
Delta 5- Colour
X-Teens- Anyone Can
Pylon- Volume
Maximum Joy- Stretch (Disco Mix)
Girls At Our Best!- Go For Gold
Anorexia- I’m A Square
Dolly Mixture- Been Teen
Rip Rig and Panic- Bob Hope Takes a Risk
Vital Disorders- Prams
Family Fodder- Savoir Faire
Ciccone Youth- Addicted to Love
Vivien Goldman- Private Armies (Dub Mix)

+x+Ribbon Around a BOMB+x+
Female-fronted punk + post-punk: weird, aggressive, and dark music all made by women.

Drunk and punk: the usual.

Patience and Prudence- A Smile and a Ribbon (Intro)
Infect- Homofobia
The Comes- Medium
FUAL- Beautiful Princess
Vs.- Magnetic Heart
8-Eyed Spy- Love Split
No Bone- Bicycle
Devil's Dykes- Fruitless
Amy and the Angels- I Hate Being in Love
Gorilla Angreb- Soldat til Leje
All Girl Summer Fun Band- Charm Bracelet
Conflict- Listen to the Noise
Bizkids- Something Going On
Chalk Circle- Easy Escapes
Pink, Plastic and Panties- Bla-Bla
Unit 4- Rules
[3-second recording of DJ Aistray creepy laughter]
Johanna Went- Mosquito
The Ankh- Before Success
Ludus- Too Hot to Handle
The Petticoats- I'm Free
Tribe 8- Butch in the Street
Gotterflies- Hippie
Hagar the Womb- Cardboard Theatre
Androids of Mu- Pretty Nun
Phobia- Pretend You're Not Crazy
Edith Nylon- Hydrostle
The Nixe- Mentally Disturbed
Egoslavia- Girls Without Trying
Bright Girls- Hidden From History
Not Moving- Behind Your Pale Face
Vice Squad- Coward
The Pandoras- Nobody
Lucrate Milk- Kick Your Ass
The Gymslips- Valley Girl
Y Pants- Love's a Disease
Enemy- Want Me
Fastbacks- Never Heard of Him
Suicide Squad- New Kids Army
Hans-A-Plast- Man of Stone
Barchen Und Die Milchbubis- Egal
A-Gen-53- Lila
Trummerfrauen- Gelkreuz
Plastix- Geschlechtsverkehr
Malaria!- Your Turn to Run
Sporten Ar Dod- En Pistol Och Glass
Your Funeral- Handsome Young Man
Vktms- Midget