Celebrating feminist art in all its funnest and finest forms! BBQ! 5pm-7pm & Featuring: These Are Powers Katie Stelmanis MNDR (playing and special DJ set) Ghost Bees *BUST Magazine* will be giving out their current issue! With reading by special guest Jessica Hopper from her new book, The Girls Guide to Rocking

These Are Powers are a Brooklyn and Chicago based trio featuring Anna Barie (vocals, electronics), Pat Noecker (prepared bass, vocals), and Bill Salas (electroacoustic drums, vocals). Pummeling their way through live performances, These Are Powers use club beats, found sounds, pulses, and blips, to create a chaotic collage of vibrations.

Jessica Hopper, Author of The Girls Guide to Rocking, is an instructional/inspirational book for young women on how to start a band, record, books shows and everything they need to know to realize their music dreams.

Armed with a keyboard and backed by a wall of pre-assembled midi madness, Katie Stelmanis' music is endlessly evocative, with strong and scattered beats riding alongside dense synth melodies and vibrato-laden vocal swoops.

The Ghost Bees are a manic-baroque-folk duo from Nova Scotia, angel-voiced twin sisters.

It’s tempting to picture currently-NY-based producer/vocalist MNDR 24-7 surrounded by hotwired gear, Frankensteinian drum machines and patched together pedals, a sort of musical robot extension of her arms—her crystal-clear pop voice and gleaming beat sequences just invokes that shit. “Fade to Black” is a total iPod burner, completely anthemic in a song-of-the-summer style with an outburst chorus that evokes the bigness of “Kids in America” or Pat Benetar’s “Invincible”—which is not to say it’s retro, just that it makes us want to walk down the street with our crew, amassing unrelated passersby until we have like a Puerto Rican Day Parade-sized posse following us down Madison, all singing the chorus of this in unison. So maybe MNDR is secretly Ferris Bueller? Listen to it on her MySpace, along with another epic, the wobbly new “Jump In.” -Julianne Escobedo Shepherd