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An interview with Freezepop
Music Interviews: Mitsy Mayhem interviews Liz Enthusiasm, the singer of electro-pop outfit Freezepop. Find out more about the band that brought us zippy lyrics like "Don't play with me / I'm not your toy. / Oh, can't you see / I am not your Gameboy" (a band in-joke, since they're apparently often asked if they've made their music on a Gameboy).
Picture this: An interview with Masayuki Yoshinaga
Culture Interviews: Tokyo-based reportage photographer Masayuki Yoshinaga has recently turned his camera onto people following two underground sub-cultures of Japan: Gothic Lolitas and Bosozoku (Japanese biker gangs). Keller of EGL Magazine got to hear what he really, really thought of Gothic Lolitas.
Cause a Scene - the magazine (with mermaids in green)
Interviews: Cause a Scene magazine is free, indie, online, monthly and fashion. As well as encouraging you to buy stuff, it's big on supporting indie crafters - mixing establishment labels like Babycakes with one-off crafting beauties you've never heard of. Oh, and it loves alternative models. We chat to editor Sarah-Jane about indie crafting, the alternative modelling industry, the future of Cause a Scene and more.
Causing a scene with Cause a Scene (the magazine with mermaids in green)
Amanda Palmer: Interview with a Dresden Doll
Music Interviews: If you want brechtian punk cabaret then look no further than the Dresden Dolls, fronted by the provocative and iconic Amanda Palmer. Jillianne interviews her about busking as a living statue, the progression of her work and whether or not the women of today should chill out and drink more water.
Ethical fashionista - interview with Sim Scavazza
Campaigning: Sim Scavazza is the former Brand Director of high-street ladyfashion uberstore Miss Selfridge, so she knows what she's talking about. And if she's now joined ethical fashion emporium Adili, does it mean that ethical awareness in fashion could finally become a mainstream reality? Mookychick has a chat with Sim to learn more.
Skateboarding Moms of America!
Interviews: Barb is an old-skool skateboarder who's hung out with the Dogtown and Z Boys and set up 'Skateboarding Moms of America'. We ask her just about everything we can about skateboarding, skate betties... the lot.
Shooting hoops with Sierra Swan
Mookychick chats with Sierra Swan (punky, funky, edgy piano chanteuse who did 'Ladyland', one of the most powerful debut albums ever) about cynical fury, past and future dreams, expressing your sexuality and working with Aimee Mann...
The Barbie Art of Deborah Colotti
Since 1996 Deborah Colotti has been creating acclaimed, subversive Barbie art. Acne Barb. Barb with Pubic Hair. Amputee Barb. Japanese Barb with Freckles. Tampon Barb. Molested Barb, and more. When will Mattel finally wise up and bring out the Deborah Colotti Barb?
BECK.E's daily drawings
Take the ordinary and make it extraordinary. Now do it every day. Online artist BECK.E has built a daily art blog to get people to appreciate life's small details expressed in simple lines. "For a drawing to have life, draw life"...
PJ Harvey: How to be a cult icon
In November 2000, PJ Harvey gave Esther Haynes (editor of the once-beautiful but now-defunct 'Jane' Magazine) a crash course in how to be a cult icon. In eight not-so-easy steps. With PJ Harvey, if it's easy, it's not worthwhile...
Bodypainting: an interview
We tracked down recent award-winner Carolyn Roper, a makeup and bodypaint artist. She creates extraordinary, swirling designs that are drenched with imagination and colour and she's worked alongside pop stars and best friends. When you're a bodypainter, every day is different...
Interview with a female drug pusher
As a resident of Detroit who's as intoxicated by the 'D' as she is by her cocaine addiction, Missy X tells her side of the story as a college-attending drug pusher. She doesn't condone drugs - but although she makes her money through the black market, she doesn't condone existing drug laws, either.
Crazygirl: Flash animator, dark heart
Tiff McGinnis is also know as Crazygirl and heads her own band called, er, Crazygirl (see our Crazygirl unplugged interview). Lately we've seen an addition to her already vast portfolio of talents (singer, musician, DJ, online radio mogul...) to that of animator. Tiff's animations are fresh, funky, witty and satirical - with a heart of darkness. We asked her the lowdown on her animation style.
Check out Tiff's animations extraordinaire - and her radio show
Interview with filmographer Abiola Abrams
If you haven't heard of Abiola Abrams, now's the time. She's an absolutely lovely sweetheart. She's also a challenging film-maker whose work centres on strong portrayals of complicated women, and yet in spite of her powerful stance she's managed to work within the system and be accepted by the mainstream film world. Which isn't easy when your latest film is a piece of feminist hip-hop erotica! Find out more about Abiola's powerful stance on filmography, what it was like working with Spike Lee, and about The Goddess Factory.
Starlit interview
Starlit hail from California and loosely fit into the Industrial / Metal / Alternative genres, although as you'll see there's far more to it than that. Lead singer, the sinfully seductive Simara Rose talks to Cassandra Nilsson to answer some questions regarding herself, music, fashion and animal rights.
Welcome to the surreal art of Lilly Piri
Lilly Piri is still an art student but her floaty surreal art is super-beautiful. It draws you into a magical world of strange style with its unusual motifs of deep eyes, cute love and little animal friends (like lizards, mice and beetles). Read more...
ROBERTA GREGORY: CREATOR OF 'BITCHY BITCH' COMIC
There ain't many women in comics and Roberta Gregory is one of a select gang thanks to 'Bitchy Bitch', a selection of stories about the nicest and funnest bitchiest bitch of them all....
MOONCUP
The mooncup's a small thingy that works along the lines of a tampon but doesn't fill up the earth with nasty shrivelled cottonwool sausages - and it does a million other things too. And unlike tampon adverts it doesn't try to make you rollerblade in white behind a bunch of poodles. We track down the fabulous Kath Clements and ask her to tell us more about the mooncup mission to change the world as we know it...
NATALIE DEE
Natalie Dee's daily drawings are a major buzz on t'internet. We interview the zesty Miss Natalie Dee about swapping the dubious glamour of office work / phone sex lines for pop art fame. Huzzah!
CRAZYGIRL
The Mookychicks were lucky enough to run into the super-lovely and feisty CRAZYGIRL doing her music thang. She's not like anyone else, so check out her spilling the beans on music, style, drugs, the bitchinest bikes, iTunes playlists, changing the world and ever so much more!
Punk Rock Aerobics
What's wrong with the world? Not enough Punk Rock Aerobics of course!
Maura and Hilken woke up one day in a boozy heap and realised they'd better set up a successful punk rock aerobics class IMMEDIATELY - and thank f*ck for that!
ALTERNATIVE CAREERS
If you can't face a crap-awful life of unpaid drudgery then explore our alternative careers section. We interview a range of girls who have made it in fun, radical careers that might leave you wanting more out of life.
Sounding out the B-Girls
We heart the makers of the cult movie B-Girl (all about breakdancing) and so we found out what they think of the scene...
SPIRITUAL PATHS
In our Spirit section are a number of interviews with girls who have chosen alternative spiritual paths, from witches to tantrikas...
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