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Amy Kasio

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Be on the lookout this year for the new album! In the meantime enjoy some old school tracks.
Amy Kasio is a queer friendly, equal rights advocate for people of all ethinicity, sexuality, gender (which amounts to more than the traditional female/male roles of our society!), shapes and sizes that will rock your ears with distorted casio and your eyes with visual mini movie creations on projector for your keyboard pleasure!
For booking please send a myspace message or email [email protected] with details.
Listen to me here also:
Amy Kasio on MP3.com .
Amy Kasio on PureVolume.com .
How I do what I do: I use a casio CTK-495 (a very basic casio) and plug it into my DOD VGS50 guitar pedal and tweak the sounds to make the casio sound really distorted. I then sing into my DOD VGS50 guitar pedal and my Digitech RP200 guitar pedal (usually this one) to make distorted vocals. I record everything in Ntrack Studio on my computer. I started doing this in my bedroom May 2002 because I didn't have any "real" equipment. I love how it sounds. Lately I have been making music with computer based programs and I am on the quest to master Reason. All of my new songs were written on my computer, no casio lately!
I am one half of the synth band Art and Lies . I love my band.
I have played guitar for 12 years, but it's not where my heart is right now. Maybe one day I will record those songs. I write mostly lullabye, put you to bed types of songs. I am self taught and I can play almost any song by ear.
I run the page Girls You Need To Hear which I update every weekend with four new songs from female musicians I think need to be heard. I focus mostly on queer electro, but do not limit it to that.
I recorded a song with Gina Young and Argyle Miss, it's about cat allergies and is my "rap" debut. CATS
Amy Kasio has toured with Team Gina and shared the stage with: Team Gina, Katz (Athens All Boys Choir), Nicole Reynolds, Kayla Brown, Kin, Marla Hooch, Cathy Cathodic, The Reputation, Partyline, Love or Perish, Nomy Lamm, Gina Young, The Shondes, Nicky Click, Lollypop, Astyplaz, Early Girl, Stella By Starlight, Del Cielo, White Chapel, Travelogue, 20goto10, Trillit, Blush, Theo and the Skyscrapers, Argyle Miss, Audio Porn and performed at Feed Us Records in Cleveland, the Ohio Lesbian Festival 2006, and Olympia's 2006 Homo A GoGo which also featured: The Gossip, Lesbians on X, Robosapien, Addicted2Fiction, Nicky Click, Bitch, Tender Forever, Amy Ray, Twin, Swan Island, Xiu Xiu, Lovers, Katastrophe, Gina Young, Vaginal Davis and many others!
I apologize if it takes me awhile to accept your friend request, I check all the profiles!
Send me a message to buy my Lick My Key EP with a money order or cash for $10, shipping included in that! If you are overseas please email me to buy the CD!
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Member Since: 10/31/2004
Band Website: amykasio.com
Band Members: Amy Kasio featured in the August 2007 issues of Go magazine!

Amy Kasio made all the music on her casio keyboard on the cd "Lick My Key" All new songs are created with Fruity Loops and Reason.
Influences: Half Seas Over, Jacqueline Bon Bon, The OG Panty Complex, lofibri, Peaches, 80's music, synth pop, Miranda July, Anna Oxygen, The Blow, Beth Ditto, Madonna, Jen Wood, Mirah, The Microphones, riot grrrl, kathleen hanna, Le Tigre, Julie Ruin, tracy and the plastics, the faint, the gossip, bjork, space ballerinas, glass candy, pj harvey, yoko ono, bikini kill, bratmobile, cold cold hearts, bitch and animal, cibo matto, janet jackson, veruca salt, juliana hatfield, Ladytron, Liz Phair, missy elliot, the pixies, sleater-kinney, TJO, tori amos, Kate Havnevik, diamonda galas, nagisa soldier, firefox ak, the knife, annie, coco rosie, azure ray, new kids on the block, Risky Business Soundtrack, but i'm a cheerleader, fannypack, ladytron, leslie and the ly's, Lisa Papineau, new order, soldout, tender forever, the organ, xiu xiu, feminism, I read a lot of books, music has always been my main passion, it's very theraputic, I have also played guitar for 12 years now.
Sounds Like: In the vein of Peaches, Le Tigre, Half-seas-over, The Blow, Bis, and Anna Oxygen, lo fi, keyboard rock, dance party, B-52's, cibo matto, debbie gibson no tiffany...no debbie, jacqueline bon bon, janet jackson - no my first name ain't amy, it's lil A, lil A gets nasty, julie ruin, the og panty complex, tracy and the plastics, lil a gets nasty, queercore

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do my riot grrrl crossword puzzle

Yes Yes Yes! I really made a crossword puzzle about riot grrrl bands!! Clues are song lyrics!http://www.armoredpenguin.com/crossword/Data/2008.04/ 2922/29225201.505.html
Posted by Amy Kasio on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:00:00 PST

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Posted by Amy Kasio on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 02:18:00 PST

Download new song with Argyle Miss!

ARGYLE MISSAMY KASIOSHAKE THATUP NOWCHECK IT OUTwww.myspace.com/argylemiss
Posted by Amy Kasio on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 04:58:00 PST

Amy Kasio in Go Magazine

Check out Amy Kasio in the August issue of Go Magazine's section called "Out Artists on the Rise" (along with a lot of other amazing female musicians)The direct link:http://www.gomag.com/article/out_a...
Posted by Amy Kasio on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 05:51:00 PST

NEW SONG - SPACE DISCO

..> Amy Kasio on guitar and vocals, Jasmine on drums, bass and synth! Written and recorded in one night. :)YES! I am finally playing some rocking guitar! Thanks to Jasmine for her catchy drum pla...
Posted by Amy Kasio on Fri, 18 May 2007 11:12:00 PST

NEW SONG - FREAK ME (silk cover!!!!!!)

This is my amazing new band called Pump Up The Jams! Two queer girls covering all your favorite early 90's hits into electro dance hits! Stay tuned for so many more songs. Download and circulate. The ...
Posted by Amy Kasio on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 11:00:00 PST

Kasio interview with the Lakewood Observer

Go pick one up in Lakewood, it's free! It's also on the internet: www.lakewoodobserver.com But here it is for your instant gratification. Keyboard Crusader: An Interview with Amy Kasio by Bob Ignizio...
Posted by Amy Kasio on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 01:31:00 PST

new song up WIPE YOU AWAY! collab with Nagisa Soldier!!

This is in introduction to a new project I am working on with another electro girl, she has a project she is doing called Nagisa Soldier which you can hear:www.myspace.com/nagisasoldier She is f...
Posted by Amy Kasio on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 09:09:00 PST

NEW KASIO SONG UP! This Feeling

Come take a listen! It's the first song in my player and it's called "This Feeling".I have moved away from using the casio keyboard in the past year and even more in the past few months. I am really i...
Posted by Amy Kasio on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 05:41:00 PST

Thank you Chicago!

Thank you to everyone in Chicago that invited me, helped me and made the show happen last weekend. It's always nice to hang out in Chicago even if this trip was too short. Good friends, good food, goo...
Posted by Amy Kasio on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 01:38:00 PST