aaamusic | On 04, May 2012

Dana Jade releases her debut album in May via Priestess Records. While Stillman releases his debut EP Eton Mess and Canadian songwriter Donovan Woods debuts in the UK with his album The Widowmaker.

Dana Jade’s rock siren was born and raised in tropical Trinidad, and spent summers in New York with her father, soaking up a pancultural palette of influences, from riot grrrl and grunge to blues and Trinidadian rapso. As a teen, Jade found herself frustrated with the folksy acoustic songs advocated by her guitar teachers and bored with the respectable Presbyterian piano songs she was encouraged to learn at home, drawn instead to the raucous energy of the electric guitar. The rock matriarchs who’d go on to inspire her – Patti Smith, Joan Jett – were absent from Trinidadian mainstream charts, but Madonna’s subversive anthems piped out of radios abundantly, and Ciccone’s charged raunch pop afforded Jade a liberation she’d come to enjoy in a grittier, less polished form: punk rock.

Jade’s own punk rock awakening came in 1995, after seeing Courtney Love snarling and spitting her way through a Hole performance at MTV’s VMA awards.  Emboldened, Jade emigrated to London in 2002, armed with the trusty Fender Strat she’d picked up from a store on New York City’s 48th street. She found community and friendship on London’s underground club/live music scene, becoming a regular at Club Motherfucker, where she was recruited by Gaggle front-woman Deborah Coughlin. She joined the all-girl alt choir for 3 years, performing at Reading Festival and guesting on Later…with Jools Holland with My Morning Jacket, all the while committed to her solo craft, notching up a support slot for John Parish at London’s Water Rats before departing the collective in early 2012 to refine the songs that make up this gutsy, attitudinal debut.

 Press release by : Charlotte Richardson Andrews – The Guardian, Wears The Trousers, Diva Magazine

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