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When Girls Collide is the proud parent of a new CD release. "Bent Circuit" street date 3/18/08
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Look for When Girls Collide at SXSW. ...March 16th @ Friends,Austin Texas. It's the Berkelee School of Music Alumni Stage "Rewind".
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"WGC has raw guitar, great vocals, and that punk mentality
that leaps from the speakers like a banchie on acid."
John Ziegler @ KUMD Radio
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"Wasted Ladies" is a very bizarre album that could easily be classified as psycho-circus pop for mental patients. It is sporadic, accidental and blithe - all the elements necessary to create a hit or miss album. But in Messinger's case the carefree plethora of noise works remarkably well. The album opens with three back-to-back-to-back gems surely capable of arousing the sleeping dance beast inside our loins......... The whole auditory experience of "Wasted Ladies" is the supreme ruler of Crazy Land - start to finish.
Straight jackets not included, LC Messinger continues to create and explore the outer limits of what is possible in the music industry.
......Ben Blascoe,KCSU
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Crush m Records Moves to Austin, Texas! Yeehaaa!!
And of course, When Girls Collide goes as well.
So far,Crush m studios have been located in New York City, Berlin, Hamburg, San Francisco and finally Austin.If you are in the neighborhood, drop us an email and say hello!
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When Girls Collide
Hit Me with Your Tail Wag
Crush M Records
This is music alternately bluesy, sensual,
slightly cheesy, eclectic, and plain old
weird. Berklee School of Music graduate
LC Messinger performed, produced,
engineered, mixed, and mastered every
track on Hit Me with Your Tail Wag, and her idiosyncrasies have
certainly been indulged in. Her music is quirky, strange, and highly
post-modern. Experimentation abounds as she incorporates
various sound effects both by themselves and added to her
instruments. As part of the punk and new wave-era band
Unknown Gender that helped spawn the wave of Euro girl bands,
LC Messinger has a reputation to uphold. Whatever you might
think, it’s hard to deny the intrigue of her latest release.
Possibly because it’s so odd, full of contrasting harmonies
originating from an assortment of instruments, including guitars, a
drum machine, bass, a saxophone, and topped off with sound
effects. It’s also somewhat political. “Mustang” exhibits Messinger’s
laudable passion for animal rights, “I want to give to the animals /
The respect they deserve ¼ Stop killing for sport,” she sings in a
sincere tone with her scratchy, irregular voice.
The hopelessly eclectic “Miracle” preaches, “The miracle of love
is here / Like shooting stars / It’s a miracle to me,” via Messinger’s
sultry voice. She sings with an almost naive tone against a
background of shiny riffs and ebullient distorted picking, with
sound effects that resemble a barnyard animal’s yelps.
“Imagination” brings Love and Rockets to mind as Messinger muses
in her deep voice, soft and spacey guitar picking, and subtle bass
layering emotion onto drab lyrics. Later, the introduction to “Too
Soon” sounds like a Bauhaus flashback to the 80s; only a few
seconds afterward, however, the song takes a dive into
distinguishably When Girls Collide turf.
A caveat for the adventurous listener: As I listened to this album
and spoke with a friend online at the same time, I wasn’t sure
whether I was going to have to get angry at him or if I was
misinterpreting the dialogue due to a warping in my brain caused
by the offending sounds of LC Messinger. It was the latter. And
for the all-around adventurous person, I would advise refraining
from indulging in hallucinogenic substances when subjecting
yourself to this bizarre musical experience, unless you want to
end up dancing naked in the illusory comfort of strangers. Just a
thought. – Natalia Real
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When Girls Collide,"Hit Me With Your Tail Wag" (Crush Records)
This has a kind of punk, jazz feel that is a bit hard to describe. The vocals sound almost as full and commanding as Annie Lennox and that’s quite a compliment since Annie is one of my all time favorite singers. The songs all seem to have a very funky and up front bass line that not only carry the tunes but also open things up for the guitar, vocals and keyboards. “Hit Me With Your Wag” is as danceable as it is engaging. This reminds me of the Waitresses in many ways. I think my favorite tracks from the album is “Talk To Me”, “Josephine” and “Song For Me”.
www.whengirlscollide.com
Review by J.R. Oliver
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When Girls Collide
Hit Me With Your Tail Wag
[Crush M Records; 2005; Electro-Rock]
Not since Michael Young (review here) have I seen a record cover that deceived me more and did absolutely no justice to the recording. Often, an album with excellent cover art builds up to a disappointing listen. The majority of the time the quality and style of the artwork are on a somewhat even level with the music. But then there’s the rare case, such as this, that I look at an album cover and just say “What the fuck?!” and reluctantly give it a spin and can’t believe what I hear… I could believe it if it was complete shit, but it’s not…
This time it’s the new solo effort from When Girls Collide, which is LC Messinger, former front woman of 80s Euro-Jazz-Punk band Unknown Gender. Performing, producing, engineering, mixing and mastering was all handled by Messinger. All the while, managing to 80s-future-guitar-hop-ingly rock your ass off.
Opener “Song For Me” combines crunchy, electronic, ghettoblaster shakin’ beats and 60s garage rock-ish guitars to form one of the most unique sounds I’ve heard lately. It’s like 90s electro-clash with a country twang. The following track, “Swept Away”, is an odd, but strangely pleasing, mix of old school hip-hop beats and lyrics that remind me of nothing but Sonny and Cher’s “I Got You Babe” that got a subtle dub remix, filtered through a hit of ecstasy. “Tail Wag” continues with the main constant thoughout the album, the heavy electronic framework of each track. This time with a smoother, funkier swagger.
As the album nears the halfway mark, it takes a sudden, dancy direction with the pulsating rhythm and abundance of samples and effects on “Inspector Moon”. “Talk To Me” has an early 90s throwback industrial sound and anguished vocals. There are even scattered tracks that range from down-tempo, jazzy grooves that introduce horns to new wave-ish outbursts that introduce scitars.
The consistency and quality at times waiver and ideas seem underexplored, but it’s an overall fresh sound in a vast crowd of unoriginal sounding rock bands…but seriously, that’s not the cover this record should have.
Download Song For Me
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When Girls Collide band member is engaged to Ellen DeGeneres!
When Girls Collide has signed an exclusive distribution contract with City Hall Records. The new CD,”Hit Me With Your Tail Wag”, will be on the store shelves by Oct 18th 2005.
When Girls Collide is LC Messinger, former front woman to one of Europe’s all time favorite female punk/jazz bands, Unknown Gender.
Once branded by New York City’s Village Voice as “Best Unsigned Female Vocalist”, LC Messinger and Unknown Gender were responsible for unleashing the alternative girl band movement that spread throughout Western Europe and Scandinavia.
When asked about her engagement to Ellen DeGeneres, Ms Messinger replied “ I said engaged in viewing the TV show not to Ms DeGeneres herself……………..and don’t be so ridiculous”!
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Thanks for all your support at the When Girls Collide CD Release Party. We are pleased to announce that all copies of the first pressing were sold out! The major CD release date is sheduled for sept 2005. WGC is presently in the process of replacing all the original guitar tracks with a direct out feed from a Songworks Little Lanilei amp...Yes, it's that good!
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