Ep 12 - Song 1: "Moody's Point" by Lipstick Homicide

This is me, Dan OlderMusicGeek, here on this piece...

It was Feb 5, 2011, at The Space in Ames's 3rd Anniversary Show!

Lipstick Homicide came on at 3:10 and did a short 20 minutes set! But I was blown away!

You can read about what I thought here - http://www.desmoinesmc.com/gdp-band-hype-lipstick-homicide/.

But right after the set, I went to see them. Told them they were the best high school band that I have ever heard.

They then informed that they were 22!

In my defence, Rachel and Kate are rather short!

They were selling a CD-R that featured 5 of the 7 songs that would be on their split with Billy Raygun. I, of course, was like Fry yelling at them to take my money!

"Moody's Point" was the first song on it! I loved it! I was just getting over a nasty divorce and crawling out of a mean depression where I spent WAY too much time on the couch watching TV. This song sounded like it had been written about me!

And since that time, I have been a die hard Lipstick Homicide fan. Seen them multiple times. Have almost everything they have ever put out! And they have not let me down.

Lineup:
Rachel Feldmann - vocals, bass
Kate Kane - vocals, guitars
Luke Ferguson - drums

Homepage:
http://lipstickhomicide.com/

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/lipstickhomicide

Bandcamp:
https://lipstickhomicide.bandcamp.com/

IMSC Ep 12 - Song 2: "Pop Star" by The Whoopsie Daisies

"Well, it actually started way back in West High School... Me and our guitarist, Kate, have been friends for a long time. And we wanted to start, like. a fun girly band. I don't know! We were just really obsessed with girl bands and stuff and wanted to try starting one. But I don't know! We were The Whoopsie Daisies with two other girls."
- Rachel Feldmann from KRUI's Live from 380

"Kate and I wanted to start a band together in high school when we realized we both loved and knew how to play all the songs from the movie Josie and the Pussycats. We were really into that pop punk girl band vibe and enlisted the best bass player we knew, Rachel, for the endeavor. It was really fun to be in a band with close friends. We were very silly and free-spirited. We listened to each other's ideas and tried to always incorporate them all. We played together every day and started writing originals and playing as Lipstick Homicide around Iowa City. Rachel and Kate are both amazing singers, players and song-writers. They are very dedicated to music as a craft and performance. Luke was a great addition to the band. I've never met a more enthusiastic or fun drummer. He had so many fantastic ideas that really set the band up for success. Even as high schoolers and later college freshmen, we all really put the band first. They've done some amazing things over the years and always managed to keep the original enthusiasm and friendship that made Lipstick Homicide click."
 - Parisa-Ozra Jamileh Saghah, a member of The Whoopsie Daisies and Lipstick Homicide, for this podcast

Ep 12 - Song 3: "Sister Sister" by CroKane

"I met Kate Kane in the fall of 2007 while we were both attending the University of Iowa. The first thing of hers that caught my attention were the solo acoustic recordings she had up on the MySpace. Kate is a top-notch singer-songwriter, it was obvious even back then, and I remember being real impressed that at the age of 18 she was all ready an established musician around Iowa City, both as a solo act and with her band Lipstick Homicide. I was intrigued and wanted to get to know her better, so I started pestering her, attended some of her shows, etc. I started half-jokingly mentioning that we should start a band, and I think I came up with the name CroKane before I even knew she owned a drum kit!

"Kate was pretty much the first drummer I'd played with, so I didn't have a lot to compare it to at the time. However that being said, jamming with Kate felt pretty effortless most of the time. I don't particularly enjoy writing out songs, and I've never liked rehearsing things ad nauseam. I'd much rather just improvise lyrics and riffs on the spot for a 100 different tracks just to keep the 10 good ones instead of trying to perfect the same thing over and over. I've never been that confident in my singing, especially back then, but Kate encouraged vocals over instrumentals and helped me to feel less self-conscious about it, which ultimately lead to better improvisation. Also with it just being the two of us we were able to easily sync up and follow each others playing, even more so than when I jam as duo with other male drummer friends of mine now.

"CroKane only played a handful of shows over it's 2-year lifespan, and Lipstick Homicide was always Kate's main band. I remember thinking it was funny how Lipstick would play more shows on a two week tour than CroKane would play in an entire two years of being a band. Playing on stage with Kate was pretty great for me though, nobody can say nothing when you've got a super-cool-punk-rock-chick playing drums behind you, especially when she's as good as Kate. It was a fun band while it lasted, and I always felt fortunate that Kate was willing to play with me and put up with my crap."
- Nate Croson of CroKane for this podcast

Lineup:
Nate Danger Croson - guitars, vocals
Kate Kane - drums

OurStage:
http://ourstage.com/profile/crokane

Ep 12 - Song 4: "What's Expected of You" by Kate Kane

"I met Kate in junior high. I feel like she was the first actual punk rocker that I knew in real life. Even at the age of 13 when everybody was trying to act cool and get people to like them, Kate's only concern was being herself and having her own identity. Sometimes this meant freaking people out by eating moldy chips off the floor during class or dying her hair half white and half black like Cruella Deville. It was so refreshing to meet a person that unique and carefree who wasn't even trying to be. That's just who she was!

"I remember Kate being the first one of all of us to write truly well crafted pop songs. The structure and chord changes of her songs were unbelievably hard for me to wrap my head around. I remember hanging out with her at a friend's house when she played me what I was convinced was a Beatles song, but actually turned out to be an original called 'What's Expected of You' that ended up on the Lipstick Homicide album 'Isn't It Glorious'

"She's always been one of the most positive people I know, and always brings out the best in me and anyone she meets."
- Trevor Treiber of The Blendours for this podcast

Lineup:
Kate Kane - guitars, vocals

Bandcamp:
https://katekane.bandcamp.com/

SoundClick:
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=930553

IMSC Ep 12 - Song 5: "La La (Shut Up)" by Lipstick Homicide

I just want to apologize for the awful sound quality. You can hear it better here - https://myspace.com/resistevilmusic/music/song/la-la-shut-up-12491546-12292730 - Dan OlderMusicGeek

"The movie is the 'Resist Evil' trilogy. And we're in the first one. One of the characters, Samantha, is in a band. And we play the band. She's in Lipstick Homicide. And she's our singer in the band... And there's a scene where we're all in the garage having practice. And I have a line. It was pretty great... It was like 'I'll see you in science class!'

"And we recorded a song that's going to be on the soundtrack. And it's in the movie. And it was written by Jason Hennesy from The Miracles of God. And we're pretty honored to play the song. And it was fun."
- Rachel Feldmann on "Live from 380"

"I love Lipstick Homicide. I also shot this video for them - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQn5fpAlW4w and Zach and I at Public School Records helped put out one of their records. Rachel played bass for Miracles of God at a few of our shows when she was still just a kid and Kate sang on some of my songs on this record: https://tuffjerks.bandcamp.com/album/tuff-jerks-2."
- Jason Hennesy, songwriter of "La La (Shut Up)" for this podcast

IMSC Ep 12 - Song 6: "Drunk Song" by Rachel Feldmann and Trevor Treiber

"I've been close friends with Kate and Luke since we were in a band together in 8th grade. Then we all met Rachel during our sophomore year of high school and our minds were blown. Even though it's been 10 years, I still remember the first time I heard Rachel play very vividly. It was at this thing called Jamnesty (a sort of high school talent show for bands & musicians). I went to it having low expectations as usual. Up until that point, I hadn't met anybody at my high school besides Kate and Luke that had the same attitude towards music as I did. But after I heard Rachel play, my world was instantly turned upside down. In all honesty, the band she played in wasn't really my thing. They were sort of a grungy 3 piece with the other two members being very average as far as high school musicians go. But Rachel out shined them and everybody else at that show by a long shot. I didn't know such a strong vocal delivery was capable of coming out of somebody that small. It was incredible how much passion and confidence she played and sang with even at that age. I remember thinking to myself "Fuck, we better make friends with her now before some other douchey band takes her away forever." So we did!

"Rachel is somebody who takes absolutely no shit from anybody. She has a drive that is unmatched. It was clear to me even back then that she knew exactly what she wanted to do and wasn't gonna let anything stand in her way. I'm convinced that she could have pursued any style of music and she would have been met with great success. It's just a shame that she chose the stinky poor life of a punk rocker. JK JK!

"It goes without saying that her songwriting is not something to be fucked with. It's kind of funny because I don't even really like modern pop punk these days, but every time I hear one of her new songs, it instantly restores my faith in the genre. It's a good thing that we grew up together and were close friends, otherwise I would have turned into a super obsessive Lipstick Homicide fan that followed them around to every show screaming their lyrics back at them on stage and slobbering and shitting all over myself. Actually, that life doesn't really sound too bad."
- Trevor Treiber of The Blendours for this podcast

Lineup:
Rachel Feldmann - vocals, guitar
Trevor Treiber - guitar, vocals

KRUI's "Live from 380" featuring Rachel Feldmann and Trevor Treiber:
https://krui.wordpress.com/2009/05/04/lipstick-homicide-acoustic

Everybody Nose on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/everybodynoseband

Everybody Nose on Bandcamp:
https://everybodynose.bandcamp.com/

Lipstick Homicide on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/lipstickhomicide

Lipstick Homicide on Bandcamp:
https://lipstickhomicide.bandcamp.com/

The Blendours on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/theBlendours

The Blendours on Bandcamp:
https://blendours.bandcamp.com/

IMSC Ep 12 - Song 7: "Empty Gun" by Petit Mal

"Grace Locke Ward and Chris Ford formed Petit Mal in 2004 in Iowa City, Iowa. As a four-piece, which includes Rachel Feldmann on bass and vocals and Adam Havlin on drums and vocals, the band cites influences ranging from stoner metal icons The Melvins to fabulous Jewish Elvis himself Neil Diamond. This gamut produces a sound purely Petit Mal - anchoring compelling melodies to gigantic unyielding riffs for heavy poppy rock revelry."
- from their Last.fm page

'Petit Mal’s latest, Bless Your Little Heart, is a collection of 10 scrappy tunes following in the footsteps of fellow Iowa alt-rockers House of Large Sizes. The saccharine sweetness of the album’s title is almost nowhere to be found. If you want Care Bears and greeting cards, you best look elsewhere. If you like your alt-rock served with a heaping helping of snarls, “yeah”s, and “hey”s, well then, bless your little heart."
- John Schlotfelt for "Little Village" magazine

Lineup:

Grace Locke Ward - guitars and vocals
Chris Ford - guitars, bass, and vocals
Rachel Feldmann - bass, guitars, and vocals
Adam Havlin - drums, guitars, and vocals

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Petit-Mal/103233861792

Bandcamp:
https://publicschoolrecords.bandcamp.com/album/bless-your-little-heart

IMSC Ep 12 - Song 8: "Suck My Nuts" by Everybody Nose

“Everybody Nose is a band that is me, Trevor who used to play guitar in Lipstick Homicide, Luke who is in Lipstick Homicide, and our friend Molly who has been my good friend since elementary school. Luke and Trevor and sometimes me and sometimes Kate were a band called The Sequels several years ago and we’d just play at talent shows and maybe at UAY (United Action for Youth in Iowa City) once or twice. Just recently (June 2010) we wanted to start playing some old sequels songs as well as some other songs that me and Trevor wrote together. We just recorded last week and posted them on the internet. The purpose of the band is for our own fun. Most of our songs are about silly things.”
- Rachel Feldmann from Free Music Archive.org

Lineup:
Trevor Treiber - Vox/Guitar
Rachel Feldmann - Vox/Guitar
Molly Enochson - Bass
Luke Ferguson - Drums

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/everybodynoseband

Bandcamp:
https://everybodynose.bandcamp.com/

IMSC Ep 12 - Song 9: "Wish I Was Kelly" by Lipstick Homicide

Don't really have anything at all to say about this song! Never heard before I found the video. If anybody knows anything about this song, feel free to write it in the comments! - Dan OlderMusicGeek

Lineup:
Rachel Feldmann - vocals, bass
Kate Kane - guitar, vocals
Luke Ferguson - drums

Griffle TV channel on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/user/griffletv

Lipstick Homicide on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/lipstickhomicide

Lipstick Homicide on Bandcamp:
https://lipstickhomicide.bandcamp.com/

IMSC Ep 12 - Song 10: "Burning Bridges" by Lipstick Homicide

"A chance to fall in love with the sweetest pop-punk trio in America. Listen to while driving and gulp back tears."
- from Public School Records page for "Stop, Runk and Roll"

Lineup:
Rachel Feldmann - vocals, bass
Kate Kane - vocals, guitar
Luke Ferguson - drums

Home page:
http://lipstickhomicide.com/

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/lipstickhomicide

Bandcamp:
https://lipstickhomicide.bandcamp.com/

"Stop Runk and Roll" on Bandcamp:
https://publicschoolrecords.bandcamp.com/album/stop-runk-n-roll