Spinnerette
is an American alternative rock band, consisting of Brody Dalle, Tony Bevilacqua (both former members of The Distillers), Jack Irons (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam, Eleven) and Alain Johannes (Queens of the Stone Age, Eleven). Dalle announced the emergence of the band in March 2007. [1]
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History
The band was signed to
Sire Records before negotiating their way out of their record contract.
[2] They have released one demo song on their website called "
Case of the Swirls". The band is now signed to
Anthem Records.
[3] In early January 2008, a 'mash-up' of material Spinnerette have been working on appeared on their official website and official MySpace page. A full album was released June 17, 2009.
On August 8th 2008 a blog was posted on the band's MySpace announcing that fans can now hear the first song from the upcoming album via the band's official website. The song is called "Valium Knights". More recently, Brody played a live version of "Driving Song" with
Queens Of The Stone Age as a backing band for the
Natasha Shneider benefit concert. Lyrics for the song have been posted on Spinnerette's MySpace page.
Through their newsletter sent out to mailing list subscribers in October 2008, and later on their web site
[4] that Spinnerette was to perform several dates throughout October with the following lineup:
- Brody Dalle on vocals and guitar
- Tony Bevilacqua on guitar
- Bryan Tulao on 'more guitar'
- Nicole Fiorentino on 'badass bass' and
- Dave Hidalgo Jr. on drums
Live and Studio Lineup
Brody Dalle has stated in an interview that there will be a different line-up when she tours the album. "Spinnerette isn't a band, it's me and whichever musicians I want to work with at the time."
[5]
The current lineup is unknown, as there is no mention of
Alain Johannes or
Jack Irons, supposedly considered bandmates, in recent interviews.
Spinnerette released a digital EP
Ghetto Love
, via their official website on December 11th, 2008. It features four songs: "Ghetto Love", "Valium Knights", "Distorting a Code", "Bury My Heart" and a video of "Ghetto Love" directed by
Liam Lynch.
Two of these tracks, "Valium Knights" and "Ghetto Love", have been featured at
Marc Jacobs' 2009/2010 Fall ready-to-wear fashion show.
Brody posted a reply on her twitter that the video for "Baptized By Fire" would start shooting on May 23, 2009.
On May 27, 2009, the following was posted on the band's website: "We are stoked to announce that we’ll be joining the Leeds &
Reading Festival line-up this year. Spinnerette are playing 28 August at Leeds and 29 August at Reading, on the same day as our friends the
Arctic Monkeys and
Eagles of Death Metal."
Current Lineup
- Brody Dalle - Vocals, Guitar
- Tony Bevilacqua - Guitar
- Alain Johannes - Guitar, Bass
- Jack Irons - Drums
Touring Band
- Brody Dalle - Vocals, Guitar
- Tony Bevilacqua - Guitar
- Bryan Tulao - Guitar
- Vincent Hidalgo - Bass
- Dave Hidalgo Jr. - Drums
Discography
- Ghetto Love EP (2008)
- Spinnerette (2009)
Singles
- "Ghetto Love"
- "Sex Bomb"
- "Baptized by Fire"
References
- NME article discussing the emergence of Spinnerette
- Brody Dalle dumps major-label deal
- The debut of Spinnerette
- http://spinnerettemusic.com/node?page=11
- http://www.teletext.co.uk/planetsound/interviews-features/ec56ca7e2194e97be31869e071c937c4/Brody+Dal