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About Girls Get Busy
Product Description "Girls Get Busy" is the second album the highly influential and well respected pioneers of the Riot Girl movement Bratmobile has released since reforming in 1999. "Girls Get Busy" is a testament to the tremendous growth in songwriting and musical vision of the Brats during the past three years. Combining biting political commentary with humor, irony, emotion, and new wave punk rock, this is a record of our times. Songs like "Shop for America" and "United We Don't" comment on the state of the US post 9/11, while "Shut Your Face" discusses the issues around the disappearance of Washington intern Chandra Levy. Musically, this time around the Brats took it to the limit, adding bass and keyboards to their trademark simple catchy punk formula to create a truly beautiful record. About the Artist Bratmobile is an American punk band. Growing from the rich NW and DC underground and influenced by indie pop in the US as well as Britpop, girl groups, grunge, and punk rock, Bratmobile was a first-generation Riot Grrrl band. Formed when University of Oregon students Allison Wolfe and Molly Neuman collaborated on a noted feminist fanzine, Girl Germs, Bratmobile played its first show as a two-woman act at Olympia's North Shore Surf Club on Valentine's Day, 1991 with Molly and Allison sharing duties on guitar, drums, and vocals. During spring break 1991, Allison and Molly went to DC to follow Beat Happening and Nation Of Ulysses on tour and try to work on a new form of Bratmobile. Beat Happening's Calvin Johnson had previously introduced Molly to nascent guitarist Erin Smith from Bethesda, MD during the Christmas holiday in December, 1990 at a Nation Of Ulysses show in Washington, DC. Smith was the author of the much-revered TV pop culture fanzine Teenage Gang Debs when Allison and Molly asked her to jam with them. It clicked, and in July 1991 the trio played their first show as a 3-piece with Molly Neuman on drums, Erin Smith on guitar, and Allison Wolfe on vocals. They were just in time to play at the historic International Pop Underground Convention in Olympia Washington, becoming the only band to appear twice. From their first shows, Bratmobile was considered an exciting and important addition to the fertile early 90's NW scene. "We were incredibly lucky to feel support and encouragement from our favorite bands like Bikini Kill, Nation Of Ulysses, Beat Happening, and Fugazi" says Neuman. From 1991-1994 Bratmobile released a classic album,"Pottymouth," and an EP, "The Real Janelle," on Kill Rock Stars Records, as well as a Peel Session recording before the intense media scrutiny and inner pressures of the Riot Grrrl movement hastened the band's breakup in 1994. "We were young, inexperienced, and highly opinionated. I think people often expected too much from us, and we expected a lot from ourselves and each other. We just couldn't be all the different things that people expected us to be." says Wolfe. For five years, the Brats honed their skills in other bands and developed their lives with other pursuits. Neuman moved to the SF Bay Area and began working at East Bay punk record label Lookout! Records, for which she now acts as general manager and co-owns. She also played in The PeeChees and The Frumpies and continued to perfect her stylish, powerful drumming; Allison Wolfe moved to DC, and she and MD-based Erin Smith started a new band together called Cold Cold Hearts. Allison's feminism and activism found many significant outlets and Erin's guitar playing grew more accomplished and technical while always staying true to her minimalist pop leanings. Then in 1999, the three women decided to reunite for a low-key show in Oakland's Stork Club. "I didn't know what we'd had until it was gone. When we got back together, we realized that we had always missed playing together and nothing else was ever quite as special as playing in Bratmobile," says Smith. The chemistry was right, and the band was relaunched. In 2000, Br
