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She Mob

Not In My World

About Me

She Mob is a female operated and controlled machine whose 1999 debut album Cancel the Wedding garnered critical praise from Greil Marcus and Robert Christgau. The band is a bunch of 40-somethings that came of age in the early punk era, inspired by Rough Trade girl punk bands like Delta 5, Lilliput and Essential Logic. She Mob has been called a chick Ween, with an iconoclastic mix of real-life stories and dream-inspired multi-genre songs that alternately screech, rock, haunt, amuse and confound.She Mob's third CD, Not In My World throws down the gauntlet with expressionistic songs about rage, ambiguity, Botox, cows, fairies, death, dismemberment, bad coffee, wet kittens, stains, contempt, insecurity, expired cough syrup and the Royal Tenenbaums. Chuck Eddy of THE VILLAGE VOICE says of the album in his Eddytor's Dozen column, "Of the newer records below, the longest and noisiest and artsiest, by the lady-led Oakland trio She Mob, is also the catchiest and funniest. How often does that happen?" ("Not In My World" has cover art by Matt Waldron of irr.app.ext.)

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Member Since: 10/30/2005
Band Website: shemob.com
Band Members:
She Mob is currently compsed of Sue Hutchinson-guitar/vox, Suki O'Kane (Noodles, Moe!kestra!), Alan Korn-bass/keys (Catheads, X-tal), Lisa McElroy-drums/vox, and sometimes Jeff Hobbs-violin, horns. Suki and Sue also play together in the multiple personality disorder duo Winner's Bitch/Junior Showmanship. In live shows, She Mob is sometimes joined by Myles Boisen (Splatter Trio, Tom Waits, John Zorn) - who has recorded all three She Mob albums, Joe Rut, Val Esway, and J Neo Marvin. Diane Wallis was in the early incarnation of She Mob. A distinguished roster of musicians, filmmakers and visual artists who have collaborated with She Mob can be found here.
Influences: the true stories of our mental states/and/or the mental states of our circle of friends/family and/or current events and/or transmogrification of souls
Sounds Like: silverware being raped. (OK, that's a Will Franken line, sorry.)your screaming angers/ your sleepy dream fantasies/ your back porches/ your stained sheets/ your exhausted bubbles
Record Label: our own: bonefish music, spinster playtime
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

She Mob back in the recording studio

Suki, Sue and Alan went back into the recording studio on Saturday and lay down some fat basic footprints for three rockin' pop songs. A lot lighter and brighter than many of the songs on the last al...
Posted by She Mob on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 02:15:00 PST

Video Video

So now you can go to Davis' site and see a She Mob Video that she and Neo did of Botox Party. See Davis below. She is one of our friends.You can also go to the shemob website to get links to it and ...
Posted by She Mob on Thu, 04 May 2006 09:31:00 PST

It's a New Day, Every Day

Yes, indeedy. I just talked to She Mob drummer Suki O'Kane on the phone today, to catch up after our holiday travels. Me to North Carolina and Mendocino, she to Hawaii. It was great to catch up. I...
Posted by She Mob on Tue, 03 Jan 2006 06:07:00 PST

festival of the fans

So Death By Stork (with She Mob's Sue H., original drummer Lisa McElroy, and also Andrew Sano and Tony Remington) is playing this really fun event, the Festival of the Fans.  12 bands playing sho...
Posted by She Mob on Sun, 04 Dec 2005 02:05:00 PST

Anticipation

I'm trying to figger this blog thang out.  I thought I just posted a bloog, but I don't see it.... Anyhoo, I am very much looking forward to playing with She Mob on Nov. 9 and 12 for our cd rele...
Posted by She Mob on Sat, 05 Nov 2005 05:52:00 PST