DDHDBs has moved

So after four years on Blogger Ive decided to move this blog to wordpress. You can find the new and improved Dont Dance Her Down Boys here: www.dontdanceherdownboys.wordpress.com See you there,...

A Response To The New Kate Nash Song That Attempts To Explain Why People Are So Bloody Confused About It

Well, whod have thought it. Of all the pop stars to get the interwebs knickers in a twist it was Kate Nash with her new written-and-filmed-in-24-hours song Underestimate the Girl. Kates come back...

Corin Tucker Announces New Album

Ex Sleater-Kinney vocalist, Corin Tucker, has announced her second solo album, Kill My Blues will be out on 18 September. Released via Kill Rock Stars Kill My Blues is said to see Tucker return to...

**UNDER COVER** You said you were high class...

**RETROSPECTIVE** Goldie and the Gingerbreads

Goldie and the Gingerbreads were pioneers in the real meaning of the word. The band were the first all female band to be signed to a major label, paving the way for groups like The Runaways, the...

**ONES TO WATCH** M Women

M Women The internets a wonderful thing isnt it. Lets say I like sparkly, multi-coloured roller skates. Well I could search for sparkly, multi-coloured roller skates and find everything related to...

Fear of Men Release New Single Green Sea

Fear of Men have announced the release of a new 7" Green Sea on Sexbeat Records. Green Sea is a a warm, dreamy number that features a musical saw, an epic backwards guitar solo and the intimate,...

**SONG OF THE MONTH**

Marianne Faithfull was previously just a name to me. Around in the 60s. Had something to do with Mick Jagger. I knew little after that. That was all until I heard Why Dya Do It, from her 1979 album...

Micachu and the Shapes Announce New Album

Micachu and the Shapes have announced the release of their second studio album Never. Never will be released on 23 July on Rough Trade Records. The follow up to their debut record Jewellery in 2009...

**ONES TO WATCH** THEESatisfaction

I had more or less given up on hip hop for a good few years. I was taken in by the blissfully raucous noise that is riot grrrl as a teenager and since then I have found a home for my feelings and...

Sneakpeek Reveal New Song

Its a well documented fact that Dont Dance Her Down Boys are Sneakpeeks number one fan, so you could hardly be surprised that we were pretty darn happy to hear new track Another Girl To You. The...

**MIXTAPE ALERT** Treats and Sweets

This post was meant to go up around Easter, in time for the gluttonous religious event that has everyone gaining an extra 4lb by the time its over. A few weeks too late shouldnt matter too much...

Ladyfest Bristol 2012

Ladyfest Bristol UK is taking place on the 7-8 July 2012 at the Fleece. The festival features acts such as She Makes War, Gabby Young, This is the Kit and Hysterical Injury. Festival goers will...

**UNDER COVER** There is a House in New Orleans

**CLUB NIGHT** Fanny Pack- Adventures in Neon

ohSHITlondon presents... Fanny Pack | Adventures in Neon FANNY PACK IS BACK for more adventures in 90s neon!Well be kicking it at our new home, THE WAITING ROOM, (formerly The Drop) on Stoke...

Ladyfest Manchester 2012

Ladyfest Manchester 2012 have put call for donations to help raise funds for the festival. The organisers are looking for £550 to cover venue hire, promotional materials, travel expenses for...

Gaggle Announce New Album

The all girl, diy choir, Gaggle, have announced the release of their debut album From the Mouth of the Cave. The album will be released on June 4 on Transgressive Records and will be preceded by...

**GOLDEN OLDIES** Lijadu Sisters

As a connoisseur of this grand old art called music I generally think Ive heard pretty much every genre going. So you could guess when I heard about this band that were making, what the writer...

**SONG OF THE MONTH** Trailer Trash Tracys

I heard about the Trailer Trash Tracys a while ago, back in the day when I was interning at Plan B magazine. My task for the day was to find out more about a of couple of up and coming bands at the...

**UNDER COVER** Why Does The Sun Go On Shining...

**ONES TO WATCH**

With so many free mp3s flying around the internet its hard to get bowled over by the sound that downloaded itself so quickly onto your hard drive, but sometimes a song catches you when youre least...

She Bop A Lula: The Women in Pop Exhibition

©Jill Furmanovsky / courtesy Rockarchive.com Print Bank Yesterday saw the opening of a new photo exhibition that pays tribute to women in pop and rock at Strand Gallery in London. She Bop A Lula...

Le Tigre Annouces Live EP

Everyones favourite electro pop, feminist band Le Tigre have announced the release of a new Live EP. Le Tigre Live!, released on 13 March, features recordings from the bands tour in 2004 - 2005....

**SONG OF THE MONTH**

Photo: The Walrus Some songs can never run out of excitement. Some songs never grow old. Some songs can never stop filling you with joy no matter now many times you play it on the repeat (cough...

**FROM THE ARCHIVES**

Photo: Spotibot Theres not much out there on The Lookers and Sleater-Kinney supergroup Cadallaca. The group featured Corin Tucker of Sleater-Kinney fame, and owner of the best punk rock vocals in...

Riot Grrrl New York Documentary

Photo: Riot Grrrl NYC Riot Grrrl certainly coming back with avengance. If you thought the return of Julie Ruin and a Kathleen Hanna documentary in the works is mind blowing youll love this snippet...

**ONES TO WATCH**

Some bands love to seen, heard and talked about. They fantasise about becoming the next Lana Del Ray-sized internet hit and as a result they compose every aspect of their band around becoming...

Happy Anti-Valentines Day

In Memory

**MIXTAPE ALERT** This is Not a Love Song

Valentines Day is a tricky occasion for many of us to have live through. Whether youre in a relationship, happily single or its really complicated, seriously I couldnt explain to you whats going on...