Alice Bag "Blueprint" 12" Color:BlackBlueprint is the second full length solo record by Alice Bag. Based in Los Angeles, Bag is a punk rock singer, musician, author, educator, and feminist archivist. She was lead singer and co founder of The Bags, who were among the first wave of punk bands to emerge from that city during in the mid 1970s. The songs often draw inspiration from direct observation, relating experiences that reminded the singer to remain alert and conscious of the whole
The Picture of a Man
As a whole their catalog forms a sonic journal
Eight new songs with a sense of urgency
and hope for better days
The Witness
The album features 12 songs recorded last year at Room 17 in Brooklyn with Joe Rogers and will be released via Don Giovanni Records on April 7th
with a tentative hope that the coast was somewhat clear
The sentiment of the song informed a lot of the album and eventually the name of the record itself
All lyrics written by Mark Palm
it shows: there’s some definite Murmur-era Michael Stipe and Peter Buck influence in aesthetic and songwriting
Eternally Fifteen
Ed Pettersen – lap steel guitar and Dobro