Le Butcherettes - Full Performance | WCPO Lounge Acts

Le Butcherettes issue a passionate performance and interview for WCPO Lounge Acts, including two previously unreleased songs which were later released on their 2019 album bi/Mental.

Set list:
1. "Malcolm" (previously unreleased, later released as "father/ELOHIM") - 0:48
2. "Spider Waves" (previously unreleased, later released as "spider/WAVES") - 3:48
3. "La Uva" - 8:26
4. "Sold Less Than Gold" - 12:14
interview - 14:14
5. "Shave the Pride" - 26:07

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Mexican-American songwriter Teresa Suarez Cosio made a name for herself performing splattered in blood, most often fake but apparently once a real pig’s blood at a Mexico City gig in 2009. Despite the swine flu epidemic raging at the time. Despite, well … blood.

It paid off, though, quickly leading to tours with big-name acts like The Flaming Lips, Iggy Pop and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Much of the garage punk band's inspiration, including its French-sounding name, comes from outrage about women's treatment in Mexico and the horrors of female circumcision.

"'Les' is a mangled word. The (removed] 'S' stands for the 'sex' that has been amputated, (leaving) the band name incomplete … All of this is a metaphor for female mutilation that still occurs, yet we choose to turn an eye, because it is not a reality in some people’s worlds; thus it does not exist.” Westword reports from Suarez's hometown of Denver.

It’s not all feminist angst though for 26-year-old Suarez, who performs under the alter-ego Teri Gender-Bender. NPR’s Tiny Desk describes her as a curious, engaging young woman who transforms "from a soft-spoken and insightful person into a rock 'n' roll beast on a dime." She even confessed to The Los Angeles Times that she sometimes worries fans expect ever-more-outrageous onstage antics and feels occasional “guilt that her rock ’n’ roll activism isn’t yet changing the world.”

Le Butcherettes have swapped out quite a few members and dropped three albums over the past decade, but Alejandra Robles Luna on drums and Riko Rodríguez-López on bass guitar now round out Suarez’s vocals and guitar.

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Le Butcherettes' WCPO Lounge Acts session was recorded on June 22, 2017 in the WCPO Digital Lounge in Cincinnati, OH.

WCPO Lounge Acts features intimate in-studio performances and interviews from outstanding musical artists.

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