The Butchies are three cool women from Durham, NC who make fine power pop. The trio nods to the old school punk rock of The Ramones, Blondie, Patti Smith, 999, etc... while still sounding very right here and now. This 2004 recording boasts ten totally inspired tracks kicking off with a bona fida single, Send Me You, featuring a chorus that you won't soon forget. Other standouts include the urgent title track, the classic indie-rocker She's So Lovely" and the haunting slow-down of Everything & Everywhere. Accentuated by undeniably eletric, not-to-be-missed live shows honed over much time spent on the road and a great new long player, The Butchies are a force to be reckoned with.

Make Yr Life is the fourth and final album released by lesbian queercore band The Butchies and the first to be released on the Yep Roc Records label, rather than the group's previous label, Mr. Lady Records. The album has a more polished, commercial sound than the band's previous albums, Are We Not Femme?, Population: 1975 and 3, and earned The Butchies more recognition than they had previously enjoyed. However, it was the last album released before the band announced a 'hiatus' that has yet to end.

The first track on the album, "Send Me You", was featured in a series two episode of The L Word, although it did not appear on the series soundtrack.

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Artist/Band Information

The Butchies are a lesbian queercore band from Durham, North Carolina, that existed from 1998 to 2005, and are currently on a hiatus.

Made up of guitarist and front-woman Kaia Wilson, bassist Alison Martlew, and drummer Melissa York, The Butchies has been referred to as "queercore crusaders." The band has been performing together since the recording of their first album, Are We Not Femme? in 1998. Since then, the trio has recorded three subsequent albums, Population: 1975 in 1999, 3 in 2001, and Make Yr Life in 2004. They have also appeared on a number of compilations of note, including Being Out Rocks, produced by the Human Rights Campaign (Centaur Productions, 2002), and Fields And Streams (Kill Rock Stars, 2002). In 2005 the band announced a hiatus.

The first three albums were released by the now-defunct Mr. Lady Records, run by Kaia Wilson and Tammy Rae Carland. It was named after Wilson's first solo LP, Ladyman, created after leaving Team Dresch. The label also released the first two Le Tigre recordings. Make Yr Life was released by Yep Roc. The track, "Sex (I'm a Lesbian)" appeared on Mr. Lady's 1999 sampler album, New Women's Music Sampler. In 2001, a live rendition of the track, "Disco", appeared on another sampler album, Calling All Kings & Queens.

Kaia Wilson had previously performed in Adickdid and the queercore band Team Dresch, appearing on their first two albums, Personal Best and Captain My Captain; Melissa York was also in Team Dresch, playing drums on the second LP and, prior to that, performing in two hardcore punk bands, Vitapup and Born Against, before the two women joined with Alison Martlew to form The Butchies.

The Butchies also played on the 2001 Amy Ray (of the Indigo Girls) album Stag on Daemon Records and backed her up on tour.

Discography

;Albums

*Are We Not Femme? (1998, Mr. Lady Records)

*Population: 1975 (1999, Mr. Lady Records)

*3 (2001, Mr. Lady Records)

*Make Yr Life (2004, Yep Roc Records)

References in Popular Culture

*The band was named in the 1999 Le Tigre song "Hot Topic."

*The song "Send Me You" of the album Make Yr Life was featured in a season two episode of The L Word.

See also

*List of all-women bands

References

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