Break out your black eyeliner, dust off your Docs, and take your post-punk art-rock femisist on for a spy finding adventure that time travels from the 80s to now
Featuring artists like:
• Malaria! • Peaches • M.I.A. • Amyl and the Sniffers • Duran Duran • Beastie Boys • Stereolab • Brazilian Girls • Chicks on Speed • Crash Course in Science
About this Playlist
Lipstick Fallout is the ultimate feminist super-spy playlist where grit meets style, 80s europop hooks up with heavy metal, punk guitars twist around synths, big hair and black eyeliner fuse into fetish, and inner city boomboxes battle it out with underground radio in front of and behind the Iron Curtain.
This playlist is packed with tracks to plant you firmly in the later end of the cold war, but you’ll find echoes of an older past to inspire flashbacks and uncover new music to flesh out cool characters, as well as settings beyond European borders. Create your ultimate supervillain. Imagine the most suspect Deep State governments. Dig into a dark web that only your heroine can infiltrate.
Caution: Lipstick Fallout is female-centric. This playlist contains a heavy dose of killer bands and musicians with voices so nuclear that they might rock you into oblivion!
When my mother wasn’t walking around the house belting out early 60s’ girl-band lyrics, she was collecting compilation albums, specifically from K-Tel. She may not have had the most refined taste, but she enjoyed variety, or at least that’s what I recall. I poured over them all, preferring some sounds to others. And when I found the perfect song, I’d play it over and over until ready to perform my latest theatrical dance incarnation.
With my family all gathered on floral grey sofas in our basement apartment, I’d set the vinyl on the turntable of a brown fibreboard stereo and not-so-carefully lower the needle. It would pop, screech, and crackle before any music spilled from the weaved-wheat speakers. My toes would press, lift, and sweep through the blue-green shag carpet, my arms would flail, and the music would bass and treble through my soul.
I’m no longer that 6-year-old doing private-audience interpretive dance routines, but my passion remains just as intense. I have no special superpowers as a curator — just my love of sounds and lyrics that transport, transform, move, and make your body groove.
French Touch plus a bit of Filtered and Disco House, featuring artists like: Le Knight Club, The Buffalo Bunch, DJ Falcon, Daft Punk, Modjo, Benjamin Diamond, Todd Edwards, Junior Jack
Join Jane as she robs the rich during a heist at the Grand Prix in Monte Carlo…, featuring artists like: Friends of Dean Martinez. The Peach Kings, Combustible Edison, The Fall, Messer Chups, Pine am, Fat White Family, April March
Must…go…faster…, featuring artists like: Kasabian, Moby, Eagles Of Death Metal, Bass Drum Of Death, Dua Lipa, Queens Of The Stone Age, Soundgarden, Fatboy Slim
A little bit of this and a little bit of that…, featuring artists like: Nightmares On Wax, Seal, CHIC, Wham!, Jimmy Castor Bunch, New Order, Judge Dread, Incredible Bongo Band
