JD Samson.If Behind the Music is to be believed, rock musicians spend all their downtime bedding models and ingesting narcotics narcotics n. 1) techinically, drugs which dull the senses. 2) a popular generic term for drugs which cannot be legally possessed, sold, or transported except for medicinal uses for which a physician or dentist's prescription is required. . But not JD Samson JD Samson (born August 4 1978, Cleveland, Ohio) is the stage name of Jocelyn Samson, a member of the feminist electropunk band Le Tigre. Samson grew up in the Cleveland suburb of Pepper Pike, Ohio and attended Orange High School. She came out as a lesbian at age 15. of Le Tigre. In between recent tour dates, she also completed the debut release from her other band, New England New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought to have been so named by Capt. Roses, Face Time With Son. New England Roses--also featuring Brendan Fowler Brendan Fowler (born 24 March in Berkeley, California) is a musician, best known for his work under the moniker BARR, based in Los Angeles. He is a regular performer at The Smell, a DIY music venue. and Sarah Shapiro--started after the trio left Sarah Lawrence. Initially, their plan was to rerecord Tracy Chapman's entire 1988 debut, but that concept was jettisoned in favor of a mix of indie-rock originals (the queer-friendly "Kids in the City") and skewed skewed curve of a usually unimodal distribution with one tail drawn out more than the other and the median will lie above or below the mean. skewed Epidemiology adjective Referring to an asymmetrical distribution of a population or of data covers: George Michael's "Faith," "Dancing Nancies" by Dave Matthews Band, plus "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution." "The idea of this band is coming together, and enjoying making music... and songs that, maybe, people are embarrassed to like," admits Samson. Cutting Face Time--recorded piecemeal over three years--was markedly different from Samson's other gig. "Le Tigre is a band full of perfectionist per·fec·tion·ism n. 1. A propensity for being displeased with anything that is not perfect or does not meet extremely high standards. 2. control freaks--and we like it that way--whereas Sarah and Brendan are really loose. It's been a good experience for me to operate in both worlds." Meanwhile, Le Tigre has just issued This Island Remixes, eight reinterpretations of tracks from their last album. In exchange for a Junior Senior remix, Le Tigre appear on the Danish duo's new disc, "We had such an amazing experience with them," says Samson. "It was fun to just be completely directed by somebody else." In December she's publishing a 2006 calendar, photographed on a 10-day cross-country road trip. The subject? Gay and lesbian RV parks. The resulting photos, Samson says, reflect the diversity she encountered. "It was incredible to be in a different place every day. One night we'd be singing campfire songs, and the next we'd be dancing to techno at a bear gathering." |
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