Tag: Alice Bag

Happy Birthday to Alice Bag!

Alice Bag deserves all the happy birthday wishes in spite of the fact that I’ve kind of dropped the ball this year posting happy birthday wishes to my favorite musicians especially since I abandoned my other blogs. So I’m not letting her down!

Y’all should check out her discography if you didn’t see my excessively detailed reviews of her albums already, and you can find her discography on Spotify, Youtube, Bandcamp, and other music streaming platforms. (But you should also buy her albums, if you can. TRUST me – they’re worth it. You will not be disappointed.) One thing I wanted to add that’s so amazing about her and her career in music: to me it seems like she’s sincerely continued the DIY tradition of punk rock, all the way up through now. Which – just saying – makes her a true representative of punk rock. You can’t say that’s not respectable…

In honor of it being her birthday, and knowing how steadfastly she supports and promotes other women musicians, I’m also listening to the band Fea for the first time, and I’ll probably continue my weekly tradition of listening to Fatty Cakes and the Puff Pastries (because I adore them and their music!). I’m not done listening to Fea’s album yet, but so far I’m impressed and I appreciate their music a lot!

So happy Alice Bag day! It’d probably also be appropriate to put a paper bag over your head and jam out to some badass punk rock (by women, for sure…or by fellow Chicanx/Latinx! I’m sure that’d also be great!).

Alice Bag albums: review

Okay, so I’ve never written an album review, or like…formally reviewed an album before. But I felt compelled to start with Alice Bag because she’s one of my heroes, and if anyone and their music needs more exposure, out of all of my faves, I think Alice is most deserving.

Though I’ve read my share of album reviews, I’m going to do something different and go track-by-track, then end with an overall summary of the album as an entity. For any reviews I endeavor to write in the future, this will be my format. (Unless I decide to be more creative and try a different approach. I might…in which case, I’ll let y’all know.)

And because this post is rather long (I’m reviewing both of her solo albums), I’m putting the important part of it under a read-more so you have a choice if you do really want to read it.

Since supporting artists is my thing (especially because I’m also an artist), you can buy her albums here (debut & second album), and/or check out the albums on Youtube (1 & 2), Spotify (1 & 2), Apple Music (1 & 2), or Amazon (1 & 2). Or, you know, just look up her music on whatever music streaming service you ordinarily use, I guess.

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