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Milan @ Nite
Vu was born and raised in Milan, Italy--the heart of Southern Europe, where culture, fashion, music & art, both ancient and modern, all collide. She works as a graphic designer for a photo agency, and besides graphics, her passion is crafting (see vuheart.com). She loves music, and grew up listening to punkrock, punk77, hardcore, rocksteady & soul; but she never stops exploring other genres. She believes music is one of the best ways to communicate what is authentic. She likes hanging out with her friends, and constantly keeping up to date with what’s going on in her city. She also travels whenever she can. Her favorite destination is California, where she found out about Cool Girls, and spent 2 years having FUN FUN FUN!!! |
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Austin @ Nite
Originally hailing from Midwestern cultural mecca Lawrence, Kansas, Caroline Casey has been a fixture of the Austin, Texas roots and 60s garage music scenes for over ten years. During this time, she has traveled the world with her rockabilly band the Casey Sisters, and her solo 60s country act, Caroline Casey & the Stringslingers. Her Austin adventures have led her in many directions-- a promoter of shows for the 60s garage and mod scenes, an interview in Grammy-nominated documentary “Welcome to the Club: Women of Rockabilly,” a spangled and jangled dancer with the Shim Shimmy Go Go Girls, a roots music historian, record collector, author for several national publications and music editor for Austin’s late, great Whoopsy! Magazine. Her obsession with old-school music draws her out to every honky-tonk and beer joint there is to be found, as well as the down-and-dirty blues bars and thriving garage parties and dive bars that embody the rebellious spirit of Texas independent music. It is this rebellious spirit that she hopes to convey to the world as our Austin-based contributor.
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London @ Nite
Mar Sellars is originally from Vancouver, Canada and currently resides in London, England. She has played in numerous bands, been a CBC radio personality for 5 years, and currently plays drums in all-girl trio, The Duloks. By day, she works in the BBC radio archives, and she also hosts her own new music podcast - www.rockonlondon.com. She regularly tours Europe and the UK with her band, has toured Germany 7 times (!) with her band, and goes to as many music festivals as possible, (9 this past summer!). She began writing her Vancouver@nite column for us 8 years ago, and began writing from London in 2005. |
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Hong Kong @ Nite
Multi-coloured hair & floral tattoos, deemed a classy rock goddess by Hong Kong journalists – bbchris grabs at life’s opportunities – one of which is to write about the HK music scene for coolgrrrls. Living a nearly vegan existence in a meat and money orientated society, bbchris will swing her Fender around town plus a handy digi-camera to bring you a taste of this fast-paced city. Bbchris conveys an explosive energy when on stage and is the most intimidating HK female musician at present. Having a Chinese mother & English father has truly warped bbchris – one of her Cantonese songs won the "Best Alternative Song" at the 2001 Golden Sail Awards – a local prestigious event organized by C.A.S.H. (Composers Authors Society of Hong Kong) – the local equivalent of ASCAP/PRS etc. – yet all the press could comment on was the leopard-skin bra she was wearing… |
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San Francisco @ Nite
Originally from Dallas, TX, Alisha is a music fanatic who loves Punk, Indie, New Wave, Rock n Roll, Dance, Electronica, Rockabilly, Psychobilly, Hip Hop, Soul, and Experimental Music. She’s been in California since 1996, having lived in San Francisco and Los Angeles. She currently works as a Bartender at a live music venue, and also does Publicity & Promotions for the Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekend www.vivalasvegas.net. She became Editor of our Coolgrrrls website in 2004, and has been a correspondent since 1999. She has a voracious appetite for discovering new music, enjoys attending special events and parties in San Francisco, traveling, and constantly meeting new people.
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Argentina @ Nite
Karina was born in Cordoba, Argentina. She first got into music as a drummer, and played for a few bands while studying Graphic Design. She moved to Hong Kong in 1996, where she worked as a designer. In early ’98 she became a lead singer in Flux, an alternative rock band that won a few band competitions in Asia, and rocked the agitated, beer-drenched pub circuit in Hong Kong. Flux moved to Melbourne for a year in 2000, and changed their name to Hyperstatic, there they recorded a single produced by Lindsay Gravina, (Nick Cave, Moler, The Living End) Karina now lives in Argentina, still sings and plays guitar in Hyperstatic with a new local line-up, and she gives you the latest news on all the cool bands and events in the wild Argentinean rock scene! |
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Los Angeles @ Nite
She's always said she is just a "nice girl from Texas" who moved to LA in her teens with a mohawk and insatiable hunger for the club scene. With the goal of becoming a journalist from a very young age, Kastle turned her passion for music and pop culture into a career. She worked her way up from fanzines to become a music and fashion editor at the Los Angeles Times online for 3 1/2 years. Her freelance writing has appeared in publications including the Los Angeles Times, Yahoo!, and Fodor’s Travel Books. She also makes occasional appearances on television and film. This Cool Grrrl never grows tired of rocking out and discovering offbeat city attractions. |
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Munich @ Nite
Comin' atchya from the magic kingdom of Monaco, Sabine is our official X-sport grrrl covering all the Euro competitions and parties, mixing and mingling with the hottest stars and pros. An avid skate, surf, and snow boarder, she hangs with the raddest agro chicks and hyper hepcats, bringing us the best of what's coming up and flipping upside down. Sabine heads the infamous Monaco Terror Squad--soon to be terrorizing a town near you!--and shares her hobnobbing, globetrotting wildside adventures from the skate punk world and beyond. So grab a board--at least your keyboard!--and come along for the ride! |
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