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This Wednesday, May 10 on SuicideGirls Radio, hosts Nicole Powers and Bradley Suicide will be joined by LA-based singer/songwriter Miranda Lee Richards, who’ll be talking about her forthcoming album, Existential Beast.

**UPDATE**

Watch last night’s show featuring LIVE music from the beautiful Miranda Lee Richards and her accompanist Christoph Chertik here or via the player below.

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About Miranda Lee Richards

Miranda Lee Richards is a gifted Los Angeles-based singer songwriter. Born in San Francisco after the summer of love and before the dawn of disco, she grew up in an artistic and bohemian environment that has informed her adult life and work. Her parents are well-known underground comic book artists Ted Richards (Forty Year Old Hippie and Dopin’ Dan) and Terre Richards (Suzi Skates and Wimmen’s Comix) — R. Crumb is their most famous contemporary.
 
After graduating from the San Francisco School Of The Arts, she travelled to Paris to do some modeling, but soon returned to the US to pursue a musical career. A series of chance encounters with influential people began when she became friends with Kirk Hammet from Metallica who taught her how to play Mazzy Star songs on the guitar. Early demos of her songs reached the ears of Anton Newcombe, and she soon joined his band The Brian Jonestown Massacre. She sang on their early albums Give It Back, Bringing It all Back Home Again, and Stung Out In Heaven, and appeared with them in the seminal documentary DIG!.
 
In 2001, Virgin Records released her full-length debut album The Herethereafter. The album was a mix of folk, psychedelia, country and indie pop, and found fans worldwide, especially in Japan where the single “The Long Goodbye” reached the Top Five.
 
Her critically-acclaimed sophomore album Light of X, the title of which came from a dream about harnessing beams of light to travel in time, followed in 2009. The music was a progression from the template laid out on her debut album, anticipating the symphonic pop music that came later with the likes of Anna Calvi and Agnes Obel.
 
Richards’ third full-length album, Echoes Of The Dreamtime, released January 29, 2016 on the UK based label Invisible Hands Music, was recorded at her home studio with husband and producer Rick Parker (best known for his work with Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Lord Huron). It brought together eight pastoral, atmospheric epics into a work that once again garnered critical acclaim and international attention.
 
At the beginning of 2017, in the post-US election climate, Richards has delivered what is arguably her most impressive work to date. Of Existential Beast, slated for release June 16, 2017 on Invisible Hands Music, Richards states:
 
“It is a political album to the core, examining the issues of our time, but with an intent of tackling those difficult and sometimes taboo subjects in a poetic and heartfelt manner. The title is also a mash-up of terms, referencing the existential crisis that has in turn arisen. In essence, we are all still working with the animal urges of fear, competition, survival, and sexuality, which are deep-seeded and manifesting in varying ways and degrees, depending on where one is at. Perhaps a more endearing comparison would be to see this as working with our own inner child, who can at times behave like a wild beast! But like it or not, these tendencies have been revealed, within our leaders, our countries, and ourselves; it is indeed a pivotal and transformational time and there is much work to be done.”

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The World’s Leading BYOB Radio Show Is Sponsored By Mangria

“As a nightly consumer of red wine, I was shocked one evening to find I had just half a glass left in the bottle. So I did what any decent alcoholic, ex-con, American would do… I went to the fridge and the liquor cabinet, then poured, mixed and measured. Thus Mangria was born.” — Adam Carolla

SuicideGirls Radio / Carolla Drinks Offer

You can purchase all three delicious flavors of SGR’s fave luscious libation, Mangria — and the most excellent Endless Rant IPA — via CarollaDrinks.com. Fans of SG Radio can get $5 off any bottle of Mangria using this special discount coupon code: SG (unlimited use, code is good until December 31, 2017).

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by Nicole Powers

For the past three years, writer, standup comic, and former SuicideGirls’ political correspondent Dave Anthony (aka SG member FearTheReaper of Asshole Fuckface Roundup fame) has been educating his friend and fellow comic Gareth Reynolds — and an increasingly large audience — on some amazing historical characters and events your teacher somehow omitted to tell you about in class. Turns out there’s a lot of epically awesome history that didn’t make the official curriculum.

Dave and Gareth’s podcast, The Dollop, was first launched in April, 2014. The premise is simple: Each episode, Dave, a strange history junkie, regales Gareth with a spectacularly stupid yet true story from America’s past, and Gareth reacts with appropriate (and inappropriate!) shock, awe, and witticisms. The Dollop formula was an instant hit, and three years on it’s been perfectly condensed into a book, The United States of Absurdity. Illustrated by James Fosdike, with a forward by Patton Oswalt, the book features 29 stories found down the back of history’s dirty, messy, and rather sticky sofa.

Some of the stuff Dave uncovers is just plain hilarious, while other inglorious passages from our past vividly illustrate how things a lot of the best minds at the time thought were top notch and the bee’s knees, were in fact — with the benefit of hindsight and a little perspective — indisputably batshit crazy. (Performing lobotomies through the eye socket with an ice pick, using electroshock therapy as an anesthetic, and “curing” a president with a fever by relieving him of 7.9 pints of blood, for example.) And there’s the rub. The Dollop isn’t just enlightening in terms of mood and history, it also subtly edifies us on the fact that many of today’s newsworthy episodes, with the benefit of time and distance, will similarly seem obviously and utterly insane — if we survive long enough to see them in the rear view mirror!

SuicideGirls caught up with Dave to find out more about what we’ve been missing in the 8 years since his funny-as-fuck sociopolitical musings graced our site thrice weekly. Read the full interview on SuicideGirls.com/.

The United States of Absurdity will be available where all good books are sold on May 09, 2017. You can find The Dollop on iTunes, Podbean, Podbay, Soundcloud, and Libsyn . If you like what you hear, please support Dave and Gareth’s hilarious history project on Patreon.

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This Wednesday, May 3 on SuicideGirls Radio, hosts Nicole Powers and Bradley Suicide will be joined by Court Ordered comic, Eric Freedman.

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About Eric Freedman

Eric Freedman is a stand up comedian and one of the creators of Tomorrow’s Nobody. He has been writing and producing cartoons, sketch comedy, digital series, and more since 2001, helping create the popular cartoon series Tomorrow’s Nobodies while still in High School. His newest cartoon series Court Ordered was recently featured on Funny or Die and The Laugh Factory and stars an amazing cast of comedians. Comedy is Eric’s first love and when he was fifteen, instead of just playing with his dick all the time, he started writing jokes about it. Currently he tours the world with the band Sublime With Rome as their Road Manager, performs stand up all over the country, and can be seen in the offices of many powerful Hollywood Executives being told “No”.

For more on Eric Freedman visit:

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The World’s Leading BYOB Radio Show Is Sponsored By Mangria

“As a nightly consumer of red wine, I was shocked one evening to find I had just half a glass left in the bottle. So I did what any decent alcoholic, ex-con, American would do… I went to the fridge and the liquor cabinet, then poured, mixed and measured. Thus Mangria was born.” — Adam Carolla

SuicideGirls Radio / Carolla Drinks Offer

You can purchase all three delicious flavors of SGR’s fave luscious libation, Mangria — and the most excellent Endless Rant IPA — via CarollaDrinks.com. Fans of SG Radio can get $5 off any bottle of Mangria using this special discount coupon code: SG (unlimited use, code is good until December 31, 2017).

For more info visit Carolla Drink’s website, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

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This Wednesday, April 26 on SuicideGirls Radio, hosts Nicole Powers and Bradley Suicide will be joined by Glam Skanks, who’ll be talking about their new album, Glitter City, their new single, “Bad Bitch”, and their recent US tour and upcoming UK tour supporting The King of the Wild Frontier, Adam Ant.

**UPDATE**

ICYMI: Watch last night’s show feat. the more glam than skanky Glam Skanks here or via the player below — and if you love it, please share it! Xox

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About Glam Skanks

Glam Skanks are Veronica Volume (guitar), Ali Cat (lead vocals), Millie (bass), and Cassie (rrums). Together the quartet create a colorful audiovisual extravaganza using familiar tints inspired by T Rex, The Runaways, David Bowie, and The Sweet, with the drama of Alice Cooper and the genuine rock sensibility of Aerosmith, all wrapped up in a full-blown cosmetic Rocky Horror Show meets Hedwig androgyny.

Pure entertainment and bigger than life, Glam Skanks are here to light up the world with their new release, Glitter City. A rock & roll rollercoaster ride in a blazing cloud of glitter and raining feather boas, Glam Skanks are high-energy, free-spirited and lusty, with a bravado that screams Sunset Strip dreams and Hollywood nights that never end. They will wake you up, smack you down, get your heart beating, and your mascara running. Their music is drag Rock for the masses.

Following a show opening for Alice Cooper and sold-out shows on their North American tour opening as direct support for pop icon Adam Ant, Glam Skanks have been hand-picked a second time to open for Adam as part of his Anthems — The Singles tour in the UK kicking off on May 5, 2017.  

For more on Glam Skanks visit:

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facebook.com/Glamskanx/
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youtube.com/user/glamskanks

The World’s Leading BYOB Radio Show Is Sponsored By Mangria

“As a nightly consumer of red wine, I was shocked one evening to find I had just half a glass left in the bottle. So I did what any decent alcoholic, ex-con, American would do… I went to the fridge and the liquor cabinet, then poured, mixed and measured. Thus Mangria was born.” — Adam Carolla

SuicideGirls Radio / Carolla Drinks Offer

You can purchase all three delicious flavors of SGR’s fave luscious libation, Mangria — and the most excellent Endless Rant IPA — via CarollaDrinks.com. Fans of SG Radio can get $5 off any bottle of Mangria using this special discount coupon code: SG (unlimited use, code is good until December 31, 2017).

For more info visit Carolla Drink’s website, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

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This Wednesday, April 19 on SuicideGirls Radio, hosts Nicole Powers and Bradley Suicide will be joined by disco cowboy Kennedy, who’ll be talking about his brand new video single “Bareback” — an ode to his favorite concealed weapon!

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About Kennedy

Kennedy is equal parts Dr. Dre, Klaus Nomi, and Robert Evans. He developed, produced and co-wrote “10,000 Emerald Pools” on BØRNS’s debut album Dopamine (Interscope). The song was produced in a squat with no utilities in Eagle Rock, CA and was named after Kennedy’s mother’s street address in Las Vegas. Kennedy also co-wrote and produced the single “Bob Marley” for Grizfolk (Virgin Records).

As a recording artist, Kennedy’s underground club anthem Karate was featured in the viral phenomenon “Dollar Shave Club”, The Namesake, and independently sold over 45,000 copies. His viral smash video “Your Mama” had over 1 million YouTube views in a week. His songs are featured in Napoleon Dynamite, Get Him To The Greek, Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist, 90210, and Shameless.

His British band Nightbus (Island Records UK) have been feature on BBC Radio 1, The New York Times, NPR, and The Drudge Report. Kennedy’s variety show, “The Kennedy Administration” has featured guest appearances from Thomas Middleditch (Silicon Valley), Rich Sommer (Madmen), BØRNS’, and many of today’s most relevant comedians.

He led the house band at the original Largo comedy night sharing the stage with Louie C.K., Sarah Silverman, Zack Galafianakis, and many more. Kennedy formed the Silversun Pickups and traversed the globe as a Soundcloud fellowship grant recipient.

Kennedy currently lives in a tree house in Mt. Washington, CA. He drives a 1974 Dodge Dart, eats macrobiotic, and has a license to carry a concealed automatic weapon — “Bareback” of course.

For more on Kennedy visit:

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The World’s Leading BYOB Radio Show Is Sponsored By Mangria

“As a nightly consumer of red wine, I was shocked one evening to find I had just half a glass left in the bottle. So I did what any decent alcoholic, ex-con, American would do… I went to the fridge and the liquor cabinet, then poured, mixed and measured. Thus Mangria was born.” — Adam Carolla

SuicideGirls Radio / Carolla Drinks Offer

You can purchase all three delicious flavors of SGR’s fave luscious libation, Mangria — and the most excellent Endless Rant IPA — via CarollaDrinks.com. Fans of SG Radio can get $5 off any bottle of Mangria using this special discount coupon code: SG (unlimited use, code is good until December 31, 2017).

For more info visit Carolla Drink’s website, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

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This Wednesday, April 12 on SuicideGirls Radio, hosts Nicole Powers and Bradley Suicide will be joined by Jade Howard and Dennis Hamlin of the LA-based band 222, who’ll be returning to our studio to talk about their new album and upcoming tour.

**UPDATE**
Watch last night’s show feat. the triumphant return of Jade Howard and Dennis Hamlin of 222 here or via the player below. The duo last visited our studio in June 2016 — yes, SuicideGirls Radio had them on BEFORE they were KROQ famous!!!

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About 222

The hooks keep coming—and so do the left turns—on the new and second album, I’m Not Trying To Be You…Just Kidding I’m Trying To Be You, by the Los Angeles-based 222. Creatively blending alternative rock, rooted in the ‘80s and ‘90s, with modern dance flares throughout the eleven tracks, the co-ed duo of vocalist Jade Howard and vocalist/guitarist Dennis Hamlin create a sound that’s both irresistible and mysterious.

I’m Not Trying To Be You… is the follow-up to 222’s debut album 2015’s Libretto. That album’s first single “One Night Stand” earned them airplay on Los Angeles tastemaker radio station KROQ, among other radio outlets. Their provocative self-produced videos for “One Night Stand” and “Headcake” are vivid mini movies; they can be seen—along with the “Fair Weather Send Off” lyric video—on 222, their YouTube channel. 222 recorded, and arranged all songs on I’m Not Trying To Be You… — as they did on their debut Libretto — and recorded in their home studio.

“Jade and I have extremely similar taste which makes it a very simple, easy process,” says Dennis. “I write, arrange, and play all the instruments on the album and run it through Jade’s filter. She gives me her opinions/ideas and we change whatever needed resulting in 222. Jade and I have been friends for a long time; we know each other very well and almost always agree on what the music should be. Live, the ferocious Tosha Jones plays the drum parts and came into the band a fan so she too has very similar taste so it just works. Because of that when we all add our own personalities into the live aspect it only gets better.”

The prolific songwriting team of Jade and Dennis draw their musical inspiration from books, movies and life experiences. On the new album, they dive deeper into song concepts while keeping the emotional element sourced from personal places. “Our life experiences definitely play a big part in our songs,” says Dennis, who also produced the album. “Even on the more extreme ideas, there is usually some sort of home ground from which they came.”

“The title track ‘I’m Not Trying To Be You…’ is about Jade and I moving out to LA from our small towns and being around each other so much that we actually start becoming each other, says Dennis. “I feel that describes how this album differs from the first in the way that the writing is sort of a sequel to Libretto; it just flowed naturally from the last one but there is definitely evolution happening.” Jade adds, “We have gotten to the point where we don’t have to talk. We just start doing the same thing or get ready to go somewhere together.”

222 are psyched to bring the new songs on the road and kick them into an even higher gear. The band is committed to deepening their bond with fans and garnering new ones. Asked what they’d like to overhear one fan talking to another right after a 222 show, Dennis says, “Refreshing to see someone doing their own art and not following a trend. And they’re fucking amazing!!”

For more on 222 visit:

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The World’s Leading BYOB Radio Show Is Sponsored By Mangria

“As a nightly consumer of red wine, I was shocked one evening to find I had just half a glass left in the bottle. So I did what any decent alcoholic, ex-con, American would do… I went to the fridge and the liquor cabinet, then poured, mixed and measured. Thus Mangria was born.” — Adam Carolla

SuicideGirls Radio / Carolla Drinks Offer

You can purchase all three delicious flavors of SGR’s fave luscious libation, Mangria — and the most excellent Endless Rant IPA — via CarollaDrinks.com. Fans of SG Radio can get $5 off any bottle of Mangria using this special discount coupon code: SG (unlimited use, code is good until December 31, 2017).

For more info visit Carolla Drink’s website, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

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This Wednesday, March 29 on SuicideGirls Radio, hosts Nicole Powers and Bradley Suicide will be joined by Minnesota hip-hop artist Mod Sun, who’ll be giving us the behind-the-scenes gossip on his new album, Movie.

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About Mod Sun

29-year-old Mod Sun is emerging as a pillar in the hip hop scene of Minnesota. With an uncanny ability to tinker with the boundaries of creativity, Sun has emerged as a rising star in the congested world of rap.

Born in Bloomington, Mod Sun developed a strong adoration for everything music related. At a young age, he clung to The Allman Brothers, Bob Dylan, Blink 182, and Charles Hamilton as his sources of inspiration. With two supportive parents sprinkling huge doses of hope and love, Mod grew increasingly obsessed with the idea of one day chasing his dreams.

With an expansive musical palette that consisted of rock and hip hop, Mod Sun became a multi-faceted star in both arenas. At 17, he dipped his hands in the rock world when he joined the local band Four Letter Lie. His journey with the group allowed him to experience tour life for the very first time. Then, at 20, the precocious musician flexed his talent on the drums when he joined his next band Scary Kids Scaring Kids.

Due to his ability to wow the crowd as a drummer, the group allowed him to serve as an opener for their tour. Despite a few rough performances, Sun realized his potential to shine as a solo act. The high of performing in places like Australia and New Zealand was too much for him to overlook. Because of that, he drifted away from the rock world and pursued rap full-time. With no help on the production front, he released his first mixtape, I’ll Buy Myself in 2009.

“The reason I didn’t start putting out Mod Sun music earlier is because I always wanted to step away from the drums. The only reason I didn’t earlier is because I knew no one in Minnesota that made beats. I knew nothing about making beats. So, I had to figure out the program and learn how to make my own beats. The first song I ever recorded rapping is on that album.”

With a voracious appetite for success, Mod churned out five more mixtapes and three EPs before releasing his first album Look Up in 2015 with Rostrum Records. Laced with refreshing, mood quenching songs like “Free Love”, “Goddess”, and “My Hippy”, it was easy to see why Mod won over Benjy Grinberg – the President of Rostrum Records.

The day I signed to Rostrum, I threw a pool party at my house in North Hollywood – the original Hippy Hideout. That’s where we were at when I signed my contract. I had the whole team over. It all started a month prior to that day when I signed the contract at my house, as well. Benjy – the owner of Rostrum – came over to my house in North Hollywood. We sat down and listened to Look Up . Out of all of the songs I played, Benjy stopped me at ‘My Favorite Shirt Is My Skin’ and he made run it back. That’s what did it for me.”

After showcasing his artistry with some of Billboard’s biggest darlings in G. Eazy and Machine Gun Kelly on his debut album, Mod realized for his second go-around that evolution would be essential. With the world becoming a drearier place, his sophomore album Movie will be the project to not only re-instill that much needed happiness to smile again, but to illustrate his growth as an artist.

With Bobby Johnson, Arthur McArthur, and Don Cannon playing instrumental roles in crafting Mod’s new sound for Movie , the Minnesota star will be swimming in new waters creatively for his second album.

“The shit we did together is something totally brand new for me. That’s kind of the basis of the new album. It’s kind of in a way a reinvention of what I’ve been doing with a concept I’ve been working with this whole time,” says Sun.

He adds, “I have a new song on this album called “Beautiful Problems” with Maty Noyes and Gnash. We have a song together that’s seriously going to be on every radio station. It is really going to be. The reason all of that is possible is because I’ve stepped out and took a risk on trying new things.”

Mod Sun will be heading out on a national tour on April 4 to support the album. Dates can be found here: bandsintown.com/modsun

For more on Mod Sun visit:
modsunmusic.com
facebook.com/modsun/
twitter.com/MODSUN
instagram.com/modsun/
soundcloud.com/modsun

The World’s Leading BYOB Radio Show Is Sponsored By Mangria

“As a nightly consumer of red wine, I was shocked one evening to find I had just half a glass left in the bottle. So I did what any decent alcoholic, ex-con, American would do… I went to the fridge and the liquor cabinet, then poured, mixed and measured. Thus Mangria was born.” — Adam Carolla

For more info visit Carolla Drink’s website, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.