Laura Jane Grace ripped through four songs from the new Against Me! album Shape Shift With Me, then spoke to Adam 12 about the album and her forthcoming book ‘Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock’s Most Famous Anarchist Sellout.’ The session was presented by AT&T on Monday, September 18, 2016. More
This week is shaping up to be a real party, people. Between cinco de Mayo on Monday, the Bruins and the Habs all week, and shows from M.I.A, JaRule, and more, there’s little reason to even call this a work week. Also, side note: I wonder if JaRule still has beef with Eminem? I bet that’s working out really well for him. More
Since publicly coming out as transgender via Rolling Stone in 2012 and releasing this year’s well-received “Transgender Dysphoria Blues”, Against Me! front woman Laura Jane Grace has been incredibly open and honest of her personal experiences as a transgender woman. Today it was announced that Laura Jane will now be documenting her transition in a new AOL reality series titled, “So Much More.” The series which does not yet have a premier date, aims to elucidate misconceptions of a “community whose experiences are woefully underrepresented and misunderstood in the media.”
The Music Video Roundup brings you a handful of the most memorable videos to hit the web this week. This roundup features videos from Ex Hex, Chromeo, and Against Me!. More
Especially in its earlier days, there was something aggressively masculine about the punk band Against Me! Yes, the group preached inclusive, radical politics. Still, Tom Gabel’s screaming, jagged vocals delivering searing lines like, “Can anyone tell me why God won’t speak to me?/Why Jesus never called on me to part the fucking seas?,” called to mind the bloodied revolutionary, the punk prophet growling his heart out at underground shows in basements (which was, of course, exactly how the band built a following in the late ’90s and early 2000s). Our culture informs us from a young age that these figures (typically) are men.
That’s one of the reasons it was such a big deal when Gabel announced via a 2012 Rolling Stone feature that he would start identifying as Laura Jane Grace, that hormone therapy and electrolysis treatment would pave the way for eventual surgical transition to female. More
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Listen to Grrl Power every Wednesday and Sunday night at 9pm, only on RadioBDC. To view last week’s full playlist, click here. More
