B+TEC= the new rocking ep by Bitch's band, Bitch + The Exciting Conclusion.
"B+TEC" (say 'be tech') is Bitch + The Exciting Conclusion's first recording together as a band. They made it in the winter of 2007 in their hometown, New York City. It can be said this marks a real creative leap for the band, who has been touring together since Bitch's last release, "Make This/Break This." (Kill Rock Stars 2006) Four or five tours and many towns later, the three variables that make up our favorate equation are back with a fresh and completely rocking 5-song EP. Put this on and prepare for the perfect love-revenge, and inpiration, independence, and commitment to commuity.
Ferron's new record "Boulder" was produced by Bitch and includes performances by Ani DiFranco, The Indigo Girls, Samantha Parton (Be Good Tanyas), JD Samson (Le Tigre) and many others... Read more about Boulder and the Ferron project
Songs:
1) Souvenir
2) Never Your Own
3) Already Gone
4) Girl on a Road
5) The Cart
6) It Won't Take Long
7) Shadows on a Dime
8) Our Purpose Here
9) Highway
10) Misty Mountain
11) Shady Gate
12) In The Meantime
Make this/Break this
A note from Bitch about her album, Make this/Break this, released October 10, 2006.
The themes of the album (formerly called "Almost to the Water") are around the complex relationship of nature vs. urban life. The highway vs. water. The two worlds that I am stretched between. There's also a lot of heartbreak. Personal heartbreak, and also heartbreak about my country and how our government Is robbing so many people, including us, of so many freedoms that are inherent in all human life.
This album came to me in a moment of inspiration that led me to travel far away from my own reality and crack open my guts and see what was there. Make this/Break this, the album that got started by a $30 phone call from Bulgaria to my friend Wayne in New York City. I asked him if we could do it in his small but awesome home studio. Yes came out of his mouth before I even started to tell him what the songs were about. Then, I got my friend June Millingtion (of 70's Fanny fame) to produce the record.
I feel so proud to share these songs with you. Look out for it soon. And spread the word like butter.
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1. unstick
2. two girls strong
3. almost to the water
4. Make This Break This
5. the timer song
6. Rise
7. witches
8. Aileen Wuornos
9. 40 billion light years
10. wish the sunrise would
11. stone
12. Train Station/Beograd
13. Landmass
14. The most powerful thing that ever happened in the entire world
Be-Sides (one take wonders and poems) self-released, Capital B Records, 8/04
This record is definitely lo-fi, and was whipped out by Dutchboy and me in the summer. We had all this material recorded, some from early "Almost to the Water" sessions, some from Liz's and my first rehearsal, some from some live appearances in my hometown that Dutchboy captured, and some cuts are me left alone in his studio just hangin' out with the Mike, making up songs and reading poems. Some of the stuff was so timely for the political agony we're experiencing, we just wanted to get it out there to inspire the revolutionary fire.
songs:
1. Rise
2. Get Together
3. Cat's Kills
4. My Clit
5. Red Roof In
6. Copying Me
7. Hope We Do
8. Aileen Warnos
9. Nana
10. I Wanna Do This
11. Pennsylvania
sour juice and rhyme Righteous Babe Records - 7/03
We asked June Millington to produce it. She was in the band Fanny in the sixties, is an incredible guitarist, and has produced like 30 records or something. We went and lived at her house in the hills of Massachusetts, took over her bedroom and made it a studio for three straight months. I lived in my rv outside. We had a fireplace in the room with us. It was three months of recording, mixing, and experimenting. It was a really great thing that we had access to the studio pretty much all the time (since June is an official rock 'n roller and never sleeps..) Melissa York, the drummer from The Butchies, and Evelyn Harris, the incredible singer who used to sing with Sweet Honey and the Rock, both lent their talents to this record. There's even an appearance of Wayne on it, in the piece called WTC, it's a tape that me and Animal made right after the World Trade Center was hit.
songs:
1. pac man
2. croquet
3. dog grab dog
4. you left out
5. 1/2 naked
6. feminist housewives
7. don't do crystal
8. secret candy
9. betty ford
10. wtc
11. searchlight
12. farm prayer
eternally hard Righteous Babe Records - 9/11/01
An incredible chance to work with one of our heroines, Ani Difranco. We made half of it with her and this kid Goatboy in her studio. I had just written the words to Scrap Metal. We made it a song in a day. Ganja, Best Cock, Boy Girl Wonder, and Traffic, all were captured there. Recorded The other half with this guy Wayne, who we had just met back then, and would soon become a major character in this Sparkly Queen's world. We always swore from album one that we would have some kind of ode to the sparkly queen on all our records. By the time we got to Wayne's, we still had not written another ode for her. One night in the studio, Animal was playing around on a keyboard he had set up there, and made this crazy beat that felt like a symphony being pushed through an enema bag, and she started chanting that "All Hail Ye Sparkly Queen" and I ran into the other room, grabbed one of my journals, and found the poem I had written for the Queen, and so the song was born.
songs:
1. best cock on the block
2. traffic
3. scrap metal
4. boy girl wonder
5. pissed
6. passports
7. blah do blay
8. sparkly queen areola
9. six states away
10. ganja
11. mother's day
12. 33 zen lane
13. miss me my dear
what's that smell? 4/99
Released on our own, out of the back of our van and the sheer eggs of will in 1999. We did it on analog. A few of the songs were written on the spot. We were caffiened and rained up in Seattle. We were so thrilled to be comitting our songs to tape. And there's the not-so-secret-secret-bonus track, The PusSy maNifeSTo.
songs:
1. ovumture in Areola minor
2. by morning
3. scorpio-lite
4. climbing
5. push the system
6. black eyed girl
7. when i see you
8. i lie still
9. twinkle
10. heavy in love
11. drag king bar
12. stretch
13. climbing reprise
Ferron's new record "Boulder" was produced by Bitch and includes performances by Ani DiFranco, The Indigo Girls, Samantha Parton (Be Good Tanyas), JD Samson (Le Tigre) and many others...
