All That's Left of Feminism Is the Dutch Treat

There's something kind of romantic and truly rebellious about a band that's gone defunct, like The Divorce or Ipso Facto. They've gotten over you Internet. There's no pushing them around anymore. No inferior albums to compare to their prior stellar work. Nothing for the armchair critics to project their own unhappiness, dangling participles and ill-formed metaphors on to.

It's even more of an FU when they break up before releasing their debut album.

By all accounts they've broken up and yet here they are this month performing the Leslie Gore remake of You Don't Own Me for Ray Ban, which they say is about "Independent women not having to be with one boy. You can have many boys." They're gorgeous: Plus a straight-up version of the song: Leslie Gore; so assertive for that era. What a badass:

Ipso Facto's members have melted into other forms such as Ketu, Florence and the Machine and Romance. Here's a song that keyboardist Cherish Kaya has done with one of The Horrors, as part of a new project called Lumina. It's a gothy cover of The Black Lips' song I'll Be With You, as well as the original:

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[stopokaygo]

Yeah, somewhere they're like high fiving and saying "how you like us now Greil Marcus?"