I first explored the realm of Sarah Dougher
after being more-than-impressed with her work in Cadallaca and The
Crabs. Sarah's voice is unusually strong, clear, beautiful, and
distinctive, and I was eager to hear more.
I enjoyed her solo release _Day One_ immensely,
falling in love with her lyrical skill, melodic grace, and
intimate production, and could hardly wait to hear more! Indeed,
The Walls Ablaze offers more of what hooked me, and actually
sounding better, if possible! Her songs on both alnums are
centered on her vocals, piano, and guitar, with percussion
provided mostly by Jon Reuter and, on a few tracks, Janet Weiss of
Quasi and Sleater-Kinney.
Despite Dougher's dabbling in various other
projects, her solo work is unique and all her own. My favorite
songs are her more upbeat songs, such as Mirror/Shield, which
should be regarded as a folk-punk-pop classic, but her range is
exquisite, from the thoughtful and hushed opener to "The New
Carissa," with gracefully gliding masterpieces like
"No-Handed" in between, along with the soulful
"What's Good is Better than Gone," written by Reuter.
Overall, The Walls Ablaze is a strong,
intelligent, and delightful album that only builds upon her
impressive debut. -- Anonymous Review
The mission of GREEN GIRL RECORDS is to promote
respect, tolerance, and celebration of diversity through creative
expression, and to create a means for making this expression
financially viable to the artist.
Heartcore Records hopes to provide another alternative venue for queer/queerfriendly artitsts to get their work available to a wider audience and to expose more people to our growing and diverse community. In the long run, we hope to become a resource guide for disseminating information of new works, projects, events, etc. for artists of all types of media. Our main focus of course is the label where we will release, as funds allow us, new and exciting music. It is the music that we have loved in our lives that got us here and we hope to do the same for some kids out there. One of our main goals is to promote the works of queers of color that have been marginalized in the queercore community. We exist and we will be heard.
Heartcore, Heartcore Records, Boys of Now, Cheesecake, Sarah Dougher, Fagatron, Fighter D, The Haggard, Highteen Boogie, International Strikeforce, Kaia, Las Nalgas, The Little Deaths, Mates of State, Milky Wimpshake, Miyax, The Panties, The Pill, Prima Donnas, Ruby Falls, Sissies, Mr. Lady Records and Videos, Ernesto Foronda, Sascha
Vukadinovic, queercore
Mr. Lady is owned and operated by Kaia Wilson
and Tammy Rae Carland.
"We started Mr. Lady for a
number of reasons, partly because we felt like there weren't
enough women &/or dyke run record labels and there are even
fewer affordable and accessible means of distributing work by
independent video artists and film makers."
The
Walls Ablaze 
