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A bona fide rock star, yes if youve seen her perform, that much is undeniable, just a genetic fact but not the sort whos merely mastered the cosmetic arts of the calling. At the tender age of 22, the volatile Die Mannequin frontwoman has already weathered more pure, textbook rock n roll experience than dozens of leather-and-tattoos poseurs twice her age.
Her story will, no doubt, be elevated to legend when the faith extended her way by countless music-industry believers over the past few tumultuous years finally bears fruit in the form of the widespread notoriety they feel she deserves. It will probably get in the way of the music, which is as one listen to Die Mannequins full-length Warner Music debut, Fino + Bleed, will tell you as visceral and honest and full-on as any art one might expect a decade of premature hard living to yield. It will probably be an easy fallback theme for reams of music-press copy to come, to the point that we all get sick and tired of hearing about it and she gets sick and tired of talking about it. It will probably be wielded against her in ways we cant yet imagine. It will, in short, be something that Care has to relive for the rest of her career.
So be it, though. This is where the girl comes from, and shes not about to pretend otherwise. It shaped the person she is and, in turn, it shapes the music she and her band make, has lent crucial fire to the blazing metallo-punk screeds that propel Fino + Bleed. And that music as everyone in her corner has attested for so long that Care Failure herself now invokes the word sardonically and rather wearily is real, plain and simple. Confrontational, confused, angry, indignant, uncommonly attuned to the wrong that besieges our daily existence and, in the midst of all that, deceptively vulnerable, to boot. Messed up. Real.
To scenesters in Die Mannequins native Toronto, Fino + Bleed has been in the works for something like forever. And, in many respects, it has Care was literally plucked from the streets by former EMI Publishing Canada president Michael McCarty and vice-president Barb Sedum at 17 and given the sort of time to develop within the music-industry infrastructure once accorded the likes of Bruce Springsteen and R.E.M. but is now supposedly a thing of the past.
Her rock n roll destiny was already set in motion long before, however, from the time an innocent young sprout from the suburbs named Caroline Kawa abandoned the piano lessons her parents encouraged her towards as soon as I could sit on a bench for an old acoustic guitar she found in the basement at age 10....
....read Die Mannequin's full bio at diemannequin.ca
Record Label:
How to Kill Music
Label Type:
Independent
Band Members:
care failure. (vocals/guitar) - anthony "useless" bleed (sparkling bass)
Hometown:
Toronto
Country:
Canada
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Die Mannequin - Do It or Die
Well I got this:
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I find that wierd that WMG Warner Music Group would force YouTube to remove that video since your the one that made it and posted it here. Can you do anything about that?