Jenny Woolworth’s Women in Punk Blog

top: Autoclave, bottom left: Ruby Falls, bottom right: Corndolly

Recently I was asked to submit a mixtape - an actual cassette -  for a an archive project at the Double Double Land Gallery in Toronto, Canada. I immediately pulled out my box of dusty tapes looking for one I might be able to dub over and [...]

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I’m thrilled about Mother Festival - three days of wowmen’s music in London on the 20.21 and 22 May 2010. Following up on my blog post a few weeks ago I’ve now made a mixtape of some of the sounds of some of the bands (and some bands related to the bands) that will be [...]

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The Runaways film premiered last week at the Sundance film festival - it follows the titillating adventures of  teenagers Joan Jett, Lita Ford, Cherie Currie and Sandy West as they band together to form one of the greatest and sexiest heavy rock/punk/pop groups ever, all under the watchful eye of producer and svengali, Kim Fowley.
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I haven’t been very communicative lately and I apologize. Instead of continuing my rude fit of silence I’ll just let the music speak. Herewith, I announce a new series of blog entries entitled “Mixed Messages” all about narratives through mixtapes. From the trenches of my record collection I present the first in the series entitled “Girls in Boystown Take [...]

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