
Fallopian Rhapsody
The Story of the Lunachicks
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The Lunachicks
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Jeanne Fury
Dive into this no-holds-barred group autobiography of the critically acclaimed feminist punk-rock group, The Lunachicks - featuring never-before-seen materials from the band's private archive.
Fallopian Rhapsody: The Story of the Lunachicks is a coming-of-age tale about a band of NYC teenagers who forged a sisterhood, found salvation, and fervently crashed the gates of punk rock during the '90s, accidentally becoming feminist icons along the way. More than that, this is a story about the enduring friendship among the book's three central voices: Theo Kogan, Sydney Silver, and Gina Volpe. They formed the Lunachicks at LaGuardia High School (of "Fame" fame) in the late '80s and had a record deal with Blast First Records as teenagers, whisked into the studio by Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore.
Over the course of 13-ish years, the Lunachicks brought their brand of outrageous hard-rockin' rebelliousness around the world countless times, simultaneously scaring conservative onlookers and rescuing the souls of wayward freaks, queers, and outcasts.Their unforgettable costume-critiques of pop culture were as loud as their "Marsha[ll]" amps, their ferocious tenacity as lasting as their pre-internet mythology. They toured with bands like the Go-Go's, Marilyn Manson, No Doubt, Rancid, and The Offspring; played the Reading Festival with Nirvana; and rocked the main stage at the Warped tour twice.
Yet beneath all the makeup, wigs, and hilarious outfits were three women struggling to grow into adulthood under the most unorthodox of conditions. Together onstage they were invincible B-movie superheroes who kicked heaps of ass - but apart, not so much. Depression, addiction, and identity crises loomed overhead, not to mention the barrage of sexist nonsense they faced from the music industry.
Fallopian Rhapsody is a bawdy, gripping, warts-and-all account of how these city kids relied on their cosmic creative connection to overcome internal strife and external killjoys, all the while empowering legions of fans to shoot for the moon.
For fans of Carrie Brownstein's Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, Kim Gordon's Girl in a Band, and Chrissie Hynde's Reckless, Fallopian Rhapsody is the literary equivalent of diving headfirst into a moshpit and slowly but surely venturing up to the front of the stage.
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Pretty Entertaining like the Lunachicks
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Love the LuNaChiCks!
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Amazing music by amazing artists telling there sometimes crazy life stories.
Love it!
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Killer!
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This book made feel things I haven’t felt in many decades
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In the end I'm amazed at the power of friendship and that the writers and reader survived.
and I hope X found a way out.
A butt trumpet of a book !
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After reading this & listening to the Audiobook (which is so cool as each member reads their own part) yet again I am urged to take my hat off and bow/curtsy.
To hear them talk about their lives & all of the things endured, gained, lost, taken away...etc
In the end their friendship endured through all of it. The result is an amazing read & even better listen of the best coming of age story I had the pleasure of reading.
Hands down the best Memoir I have ever read!
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Hella!
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You don't have to be a fan to enjoy this book!
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Comically candid
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