Dickless

Dickless
Left to Right: Jana McCall, Kerry Green, Kelly Canary, Lisa Smith. Photo by Charles Peterson, 1991
Left to Right: Jana McCall, Kerry Green, Kelly Canary, Lisa Smith.
Photo by Charles Peterson, 1991
Background information
OriginSeattle, Washington, United States
GenresGrunge, punk rock, funk rock, riot grrrl
Years active1989 (1989)-1998
LabelsSub Pop Records
Past membersKelly Canary[1] (vocals)

Megan Jasper[1] (vocals)
Jennie Trower (bass)
Jana McCall[2] (bass)
Kerry Green[1] (guitar)
Lisa Smith (drums)

Lisa Buckner[2] (drums)

Dickless was a Seattle-based grunge band[3][4] signed to Sub Pop records in 1990.[citation needed] Dickless is notable for their unique raspy/screamy vocal style.[5][6] During their first few years, their loud and abrasive sound was new and unusual for an all-female music group. Simultaneously, their short discography included song titles and a song cover, "I'm a Man" by Bo Diddley, that were blatantly ironic given their abrasive sound and female members.[7] The band name itself is meant to be satire.[8] The group's period of activity coincided with the emerging "Riot grrrl" music culture.[9]

  1. ^ a b c Mark Yarm (13 March 2012). Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge. Three Rivers Press. pp. 187, 99, 185. ISBN 9780307464446.
  2. ^ a b "Dickless myspace page". myspace.com (photo). Retrieved 12 May 2013.
  3. ^ Everett True (2009). Nirvana: The Biography. Da Capo Press. p. 278. ISBN 978-0786733903.
  4. ^ Wm. "Miniskirt mob: Dickless". Lamestain HQ blog. blogspot.com. Archived from the original on 24 October 2013. It used to strike us as silly to see the term "grunge" applied to slick, carefully marketed, radio-ready bands like Stone Temple Pilots and Blind Melon, because Dickless embodied grunge better than perhaps any other band from that era, and nobody would consider them slick or ready for radio.
  5. ^ Phil West (19 January 1996). "music Recviews: TEEN ANGELS Daddy (SubPop)". Austin Chronicle Corp. Archived from the original on 15 May 2013. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
  6. ^ "Dickless myspace blog: Lisa's Dickless trivia". myspace.com (blog). 27 July 2006. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
  7. ^ Art Chantry. "perfect: dickless world". madamepickwickartblog.com. Archived from the original on 17 May 2012.
  8. ^ Mark Yarm (26 February 2011). "excerpt from interview with Kelly Canary". grungebook.tumblr.com. tumblr.com. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
  9. ^ Marisa Meltzer (2010-02-15). Girl Power: The Nineties Revolution in Music. Macmillan. p. 42. ISBN 9781429933285.