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Since their debut album Sin Sin Sin came out this year, L.A./Guadalajara garage rock band Le Butcherettes have been carving a niche for themselves on stages north and south of the border. Line-ups shift with this band but tempestuous frontwoman Teri Gender Bender (AKA Teresa Suaréz) is always front and center. In our exclusive live video with Le Butcherettes we captured her confrontational performance in New York City’s intimate Dominion NY.
The Mars Volta founder Omar Rodriguez-Lopez (who signed Le Butcherettes to his label) played bass, joined by Lia Braswell on drums, while Ms. Gender Bender channeled fearsome rock-eras from Patti Smith to Karen O. while peppering her lyrics with literary references. It was a Dia de Los Muertos to remember. - Above is an interview with Teri & Omar Rodriguez Lopez and below are three songs including : Sick Of You, Henry Don’t Got Love & All You See In Me Is Death.
Omar Rodriguez Lopez and Teri Gender Bender of Le Butcherettes video interview with Australian Musicians Magazine.
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Teri Gender Bender & Lia Braswell of Le Butcherettes in their trailer at Coachella.
Inside a small trailer backstage at Coachella yesterday, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez was trying to cool down after his first performance of the day, and the dressing room wasn’t much cooler than the triple-digit heat outside. Rodriguez-Lopez pulled double duty on both festival weekends in Indio, California, playing lead guitar with the reunited At the Drive-In on the main stage just hours after a full set on bass with Le Butcherettes, the fiery garage-punk band whose next album he is currently producing in Los Angeles.
Rodriguez-Lopez is a full permanent member of Le Butcherettes, and during the trio’s raging 45-minute set, he stood back with a smile as Guadalajaran singer-guitarist Teri Gender Bender roared through anxious pop hooks with sharp edges, at one point tossing a big Casio keyboard into the moshing crowd. New drummer Lia Braswell slammed a heavy beat from stage left and fans waved Mexican flags, as they would again later for At the Drive-In. Soon after, Rodriguez-Lopez sat with Le Butcherettes for several rounds of bottled water and talked with Rolling Stone about their busy Coachella week.
Is playing two sets a day a challenge?
Rodriguez-Lopez: No, it’s a blessing. Go play music all day? I should be so lucky. Last weekend we played, then we cooled off, we ate, and then just when you really feel like you’re winding down, “Oh, it’s time to play.” It’s perfect.
As many times as we’ve heard Morrissey exclaim through multiple songs and various PETA campaigns that meat is, in fact, a murderous act, it’s hard to ignore how cool of a stage prop it can actually be. I mean, who doesn’t like a severed, bloody pig’s head in conjunction with their favorite band? Since 17, Teresa Suarez, aka Teri Gender Bender, founder and guitarist of Mexican garage Punk band, Le Butcherettes, has been using blood and gore for her live performances for reasons that extend far beyond the grotesque, and into the ideals and ethics of the importance of the feminist movement.
With Sylvia Plath, Kathleen Hanna, and Chilean musician and artist, Violeta Parra as ongoing influences. Teri, now 23, has evolved from her days as a teen armed with a guitar and a bloody apron, into a woman who refuses to lose that fiery, teenage angst that continues to spread the word of feminism to whomever is willing to give a shit. Having already completed her sophomore album with fellow band members Lia Braswell (drums), and bassist/The Mars Volta , At The Drive-In guitarist, Omar Rodriguez Lopez, Le Butcherettes’ newest record will be less blood on stage mixed with literary references musically than their debut, SIN SIN SIN, but more references and possible inspiration from living life in a new country on Cry Is For The Flies. We interviewed Teri to find out what’s what.
VICE: You recently played Coachella. How was it?
Teri Gender Bender: It was crazy. We played around 1:55 pm, so it was really hot. I think that the set went by swell. Lia [Braswell, drummer], and Omar [Rodriguez Lopez , who’s on bass now, were fine, the heat didn’t affect them, but the heat got to me. I had a migraine the whole festival and I couldn’t even watch any bands, I had to go lay down in the van and ended up throwing up the whole time, and it happened both weekends.The heat was just terrible. But it was great. I’m not complaining.
Le Butcherettes took over Santos Party House in New York on November 1, kicking off a month-long headlining stint through the east coast before they embark on a December tour opening up for Iggy & The Stooges. On board for all the dates are Lia Braswell on drums and The Mars Volta’s Omar Rodriguez-Lopez on bass, who also produced and played bass on Sin Sin Sin, the band’s debut album, released on his label earlier this year. But the main force behind Le Butcherettes is a stunning and intense brunette who goes by the name Teri Gender Bender.
Teri Suarez was born in Denver to Mexican parents and relocated to Guadalajara during her teen years after the death of her father. In Mexico, shellshocked by the discrimination and sexism she experienced from both men and women, she immersed herself in women’s studies and discovered female musicians such as Bikini Kill and Le Tigre, who set her on a path to make her own statements through music.
By Ivan Fernandez
Mexico City’s Le Butcherettes made their second appearance in Los Angeles this past Tuesday as the opening act for the Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Group at the Troubadour. The trio led by vocalist/guitarist Teri Gender Bender brought their well-documented onstage antics and treated the packed house to a preview of their upcoming debut album Sin Sin Sin to be released in January 2011.
“We’re born of sin and we’re meant to feel guilty about our virtues,” she said of the album title as we sat by the merch booth in the front bar and watched the Rodriguez-Lopez Group perform on a television screen. “If we’re good at something, they teach us to do it for the greater good or for the love of someone else. There’s a wall of strict religious traditions and prejudices.”
All music written and arranged by Omar Rodriguez Lopez
Lyrics and vocal melodies by Teri Gender Bender
Engineered by: Omar Rodriguez Lopez, Marcel Rodriguez Lopez and Jon Debaun
Mixed by Jon Debaun
Mastered by Pete Lyman
Omar Rodriguez Lopez : Sequences, Loops, Synths, Rhodes ,Bass, Guitar.
Teri Gender Bender: Vocals
Live & programmed Drums by Marcel Rodriguez Lopez
Artwork by : Sonny Kay
Management by Cathy Pellow / Sargent House
