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"DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND, HUH-UH, JENNA RIOT"

DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND, HUH-UH, JENNA RIOT
(High Dive) Most happening Seattle ladies between 19 and 30 go through a phase in life I refer to as "All Tomorrow's Parties." Are you on a first-name basis with the kids at Atlas and Red Light? Does your posse contain at least two drag queens and two drug dealers? Were your last three sexual partners musicians? Does the gigantic knockoff bag you're lugging around contain underpants and a toothbrush? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, get your slutty, fabulous ass to the High Dive tonight and meet your new electroclash goddess, Jenna Riot. MA'CHELL DUMA LAVASSAR

- The Stranger


"Meet Jenna: A Riot for the senses"

Meet Jenna: A Riot for the Senses
Posted by MA'CHELL DUMA LAVASSAR at 01:42 PM


Generally my sense memories have direct associations with past events. For instance, whenever I have a good bowl of borscht, I’m automatically transported to my Ukrainian grandma’s gold-hued kitchen in 1980. The same could be said for my musical sense memory. When I hear the Waylon/Willie/Jesse/Tompall record Wanted! the Outlaws,
Instantly I’m 5 years old on my dad’s lap, half asleep at one of my folks’ frequent parties, with the sweet smell of ‘70s-era grass and incense floating past. These vivid and intense moments must exist to ground us in the present and remind us of our past.

I had the strangest, strongest sense memory when I stumbled across amazing Olympia post-riot princess Jenna Riot. Her uber-cool tracks from the upcoming EP, Girl You Look Expensive, sent me into sensory overload. As I heard “Lipstick Lakes” my mouth filled with the taste of dangerously cheap champagne. By the time I got to “Double Feature” my nasal cavities were assaulted by the pungent smell of generic pine cleaner, sex, and stale booze found in the “mostly girls” bathroom at FoXXXes in 2000.

If you attended that now mythic club on the right night, you would have seen the best of Seattle high gutter fashion, watched the depraved and wonderful Jackie Hell film Meat In my Spagetti-Os, heard seminal performances by artists like the Need, the Gossip, and Tracy + the Plastics, danced your ass off to Le Tigre, Pulp, and Peaches, and hooked up with your choice of vice by night’s end. The glamorous Ms. Riot’s sound is a sexy, smartly tuned hybrid of everything fabulous about the aforementioned music and aesthetics—the same vibe that’s been carefully flirted with by bands like the Fitness and Mon Frere. Jenna’s electroclash dance riot perfectly captures the DIY, queer-friendly, avant-garde spirit honed by Pho Bang hosts Jackie, Ursula, and DJ Baby J. It’s a spirit that just happens (for me, anyway) to smell like generic pine cleaner, sex, and stale, stale booze.


You can check out Jenna Riot here, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkfHp0svOlc
or the High Dive, Monday, October 23, 2006.

- The Stranger


Discography

"Girl You Look Expensive" Ep OUT NOW

Limited Addition 7" picture disk feat. Joey Casio Scream Club, Heidi Mortenson, Nuclear Family, Huh-Uh and more!!! OUT NOW

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Feeling a bit camera shy

Bio

Jenna Riot's favorite things are: tough queer femmes, big hair, fishnets, stilettos, gaudy jewelry, and Crunks Not Dead Records. She is a busy bombshell! Not only does she work hard fixin’ up beats & heartthrob bruises, she is also co-designer of Double Trouble Design. (www.doubletroubledesign.net). In her free time she is a promoter, in which she books shows and events for up and coming queer bands.

Jenna Riot's album "Girl You Look Expensive" will be coming out on Crunks Not Dead Records October 2006." Girl you Look Expensive" features
producers like Ben Adorable, Cindy Wonderful, Katastrophe, Sexy Sushi, Diamond Beats and Valentine St. James. Jenna Riot's album also features
guest stars like Joey Casio, Amber Bayer, and Erin Putnam (of Delta Dart
& Black Lake) Take a vacation to the lipstick lakes and sip on a lip-gloss cocktail in your best bikini to this album!
Her lyrics indulge in views of modern feminism, best friends forever, traditional vs. modern, femme paradises, butch/femme dynamics, raunchy & glam.

“If you want to know what its like to be an electro-glam, beauty bunny, with something smart to say... then listen to "Girl You Look Expensive".” -Crunks Not Dead Records

"Girl you look expensive brings the rebirth of ‘Riot’. Who knew radical
politics could be so sexy? She manages to have a distinct sound while
embarking on a variety of styles. She’s electro-punk, sassy and classy
While soulfully serving up Riot and Blues"
- Cindy Wonderful (Scream Club)

Jenna Riot's songs commence a whirlwind of queer femme fantasies & paradises. Jenna Riot pours her heart out into song and experiments with different sounds from different producers, in addition to producing her own beats.

Jenna Riot's live performances fill up audiences full of the hottest queers in the Pacific Northwest, San Francisco (Bay Area) and Los Angeles. Jenna has performed at events such as Jakes on 4th’s Homo a Go Go 2006 show, in Olympia Washington, in which she opened for bands Scream Club, Twin, and Fierce Perm.

You can find tour dates, blog updates, and other fresh MP3's at:
www.myspace.com/jennariotmusic