Prolific punk icon, singer/songwriter, musician, author and feminist, Alice Bag will release her new album Sister Dynamite, May 8 on In The Red Records. Throughout the album, Bag reveals her incredible ability to turn nuanced political statement into impossibly catchy punk songs. Sister Dynamite takes its title from a sublimely epic tribute to women fighting for equality everywhere. Released today alongside a supercharged music video starring Kristine Nevrose in the title role and directed by Marise Samitier (who also directed “Sorry” in 2016 and “Se Cree Joven” in 2018), the album title track is a revolutionary rallying cry of support as we do our part to raise each other up during these uncertain times.
“‘Sister Dynamite’ was in some ways inspired by AOC and all the women who took over the House of Representatives, and watching them walk up in their white suffragette outfits,” says Bag. “I think the more this administration tries to hold women down, the more and more empowered we become, and the harder we’re going to fight back.”
With its breakneck velocity and galvanizing melodies, Bag teamed up with her core group of musicians to achieve the album’s kinetic sound. Co-produced by Bag and her longtime collaborator Lysa Flores (who plays rhythm guitar and sings backing vocals on several songs) at L.A.’s Station House Studios, Sister Dynamite finds features guitarist Sharif Dumani and bassist David O. Jones with Candace P.K. Hansen and Rikki “Styxx” Watson trading off on drums, each lending her distinct musicality to the album’s potent rhythms.
Her third solo effort, the album marks a thrilling return to the full-throttle punk that Bag pioneered with her legendary first-wave punk band, The Bags. While maintaining a “communicate not indoctrinate” line of thought when it comes to her songwriting, Bag hopes that the songs on Sister Dynamite might help to build the profound sense of solidarity she experienced back in the original L.A. punk community. “What I love about music is that you’re first drawn to it because of the sound and the way it hits you on an emotional level,” says Bag. “Usually it’s only after you listen a while that you start asking, ‘What’s that line about? How does that connect to me?’ So if someone comes away from this album feeling they got some fun and excitement from singing and dancing along, but also felt like they found something that philosophically connects with their own lives, that would mean a lot to me.”
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