Episode #20 Bonus Interview w/ Lori Jean, Musician and Survivor

Just because the episode's over, doesn't mean the cultural conversation has to end.

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The ladies of The Vodka Press sat down to interview Lori Jean - a musician, advocate for women (esp. women who have suffered from abuse), and survivor of a truly heartbreaking abuse herself. Lori Jean draws inspiration from her own past trauma as well as from the issues of others, turning them into beautiful music.

You can listen to the interview below:


To find out more about Lori Jean, you can visit her website lori-jean.com. You can listen to one of Lori Jean's songs here; to find more, visit her iTunes page.

Drink Recipes for Episode #15: Lady Gaga inspired cocktails and The Patti Smith

During EP #15, I recommended a Lady Gaga inspired cocktail and one of TVP's own concoctions, The Patti Smith.

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I have a correction to make regarding one of this week's drink recommendations: Zoe Grimm sampled one too many cocktails for this week's EP of The Vodka Press. When I recommended a Lady Gaga inspired drink, I confused the names of two cocktails - I gave the recipe for Born This Way but referred to it as the Edge of Glory. Both drinks taste great, so I'm listing their respective recipes.

Born This Way (according to mirror.co.uk)

• 1.5 oz Belvedere Citrus vodka
• 1 oz orange juice
• top with soda

Edge of Glory (according to mirror.co.uk)

• 1.5 oz Belvedere vodka
• ½ oz elderflower liquor



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• top with soda

While doing research for drinks this week, I discovered that there are many - how do I put this nicely? - fruity and/or blah drinks named after female musicians. So we created a hot & sweet drink in honor of the great Patti Smith.

The Patti Smith

• 1½ pt Stoli® Hot
• ½ pt Triple Sec
• squirt of lime juice
• rim glass w/ pepper

Wicked Find for Episode #15: The Deli Magazine

Kit Bangles's Wicked Find for this week's EP is The Deli Magazine (thedelimagazine.com).

By Kashirin Nickolai [CC-BY-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

According to their mission statement, "The primary goal of The Deli is to expose local musical artists that have not yet reached a level of international fame: this is why all of our printed articles feature only up and coming bands and singer-songwriters (while our websites also cover the most popular breakout bands)."

This is great spot to discover new and/or local indie musicians in your music scene. Check out the New England page here.

Episode #15: The Link List

Links We Referenced During Episode #15: Oh Lorde It's The Music Episode

• The Lights Out band site: www.thelightsout.com
• Why Musicians Must Embrace Spotify And Pandora by Steven Bertoni on forbes.com
• 7 Reasons Why No One’s Coming To Your Shows by Ari Herstand on digitalmusicnews.com 

By Metalheart (Own work) [CC SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

• Upside Down: The Creation Records Story on netflix

• Iron Maiden Using Music Piracy to Drive Concert Ticket Sales by Kevin Rutherford on billboard.com
• Why is the music industry so cross with Google? by Stuart Dredge on theguardian.com
• In Music Piracy Battles, Lyrics Demand Respect Too by Ben Sisario on nytimes.com

By Nat Ch Villa (Flickr: [1]) [CC BY-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

• Female pop artists may get the magazine covers and headlines, but men get the sales by Jim Farber on nydailynews.com
• Here are the Highest Paid Musicians of 2013 by Alex Young on consequenceofsound.net