http://musosguide.com/finally-punk-casual-goths/5538

By Greg Salter

INTERVIEW WITH PART TIME PUNKS DJS

Q: Are there records you love that you just can't get people into?

B: Something I play a lot but I don't know if people react to—except Jim Smith from the Smell likes it!—is this band Finally Punk from Austin. They kind of remind me of Mika Miko—but they're different. Weirder.
M: That Klaus Nomi record—maybe if people are really intoxicated at like ten til and they just heard Bowie or Sparks. I'm obsessed with indie pop—jangly twee wimpy shit, which Ben only recently started biting on—and some people don't like it. To a lot of people it all sounds the same. But the fact is Part Time Punks is at its best when it's at its most schizophreudian—

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Not your typical girls: Skadden (singing) and Ortuño at SXSW.
by Shelley Hiam
Finally Punk – composed of Veronica Ortuño, Elizabeth Skadden (a former Chronicle intern), Erin Budd, and Stephanie Chan – is a sight to behold live, switching instruments after every song (which are typically under a minute), screaming unintelligible lyrics about manatees and pregnancy, and generally sounding like the Slits screwed and chopped through helicopter blades. (Multitasking is not a problem: three of the four are also in the Sixties girl group the Carrots, from which FP was birthed.) They're part of a girl punk revival (which could include San Antonio's Girl in a Coma, L.A.'s Mika Miko, Portland's New Bloods, and Philly's Bad News Bats, among others) that's born of the white-hot fire of both Olympia, 1991, and England, 1979.
"I don't know that much about riot grrl, but I feel like the new crop of bands take more from the art rock girl bands of the late Seventies/early Eighties than maybe riot grrl did," Skadden says. "Bands like We've Got a Fuzzbox, Pink Military, Pink Section, I.U.D., Student Nurse, the Slits, Lilliput, Inflatable Boy Clams, Reversible Chords, the Foams..."

"I definitely believe that riot grrl is relevant to culture today," Ortuño adds. "I think some people hear the term and get the wrong idea of what it stands for. It's like an automatic notion that it's "anti-males" or something. There are a lot of males who support the idea of "pro-female" as a form of expression. A lot of my personal influences are predominantly female musicians, but my idea for Finally Punk is to learn my instrument and have fun with my friends. If I had to put it any way, I see us more as an existential punk band fronted by women."

Still, humor is a big part of the punkistentialists repertoire, as heard on the baffling thrash of "Missile" (a song whose chorus - "What the fuck, Missile? What the fuck?" - has been sung to me on three separate occasions when I mention the band) and the jam "Boyfriend Application."

"I made up that term randomly when I wrote the song and then found out that back in the days of chat rooms and makeoutclub.com there really were such things," Skadden recalls. "Who knew?"

She goes on to say the questions could include "Do you have a job?" and "Are you 30 and working in a coffee shop?"

Finally Punk take off for a Midwest/West coast tour in early June, and the mixtape will be in full effect.

"Last summer we jammed several mixtapes that Catherine from [tourmates] Kiosk made. That's where I first learned about that Aretha Franklin song 'I Idolize You,'" Skadden recalls. "Bikini Kill and Bratmobile keep me awake on overnight drives. The other girls are really into Mariah Carey for some reason, so we are probably in for some more Mariah Carey sing-a-longs, which is my own personal hell but they really enjoy."

Catch Finally Punk tonight at Beerland with the Strange Boys and Olympia's Old Haunts, as well as a Tuesday night house party with the Silver Daggers and Total Abuse, 2515 Pearl St.

Finally Punk- "Henry" EP

I read something recently that Tobi Vail wrote about this band, where she said that FINALLY PUNK is the sort of band that BIKINI KILL was trying to insipre with "all that riot grrl stuff." Which begs the question...if Tobi Vail thinks you're cool, does that mean everything to you (i.e. me)...? Hailing from Austin, TX, FINALLY PUNK is a bunch of teenage (?) girls playing destructive, falling-apart garage music that reminds me of a more abstract MIKA MIKO, or maybe of some of the brattiest, most obnoxious British riot grrl bands, like LUNG LEG or the PHANTOM PREGNANCIES or something. The DIY spray-painted EP covers (which, as an aside, smell so strongly of chemicals that I feel kind of high) and shit-fi weirdness of this band also satisfies the inner DOOR AND WINDOW fan in me. I have to admit that anyone looking for the more raging, straightforward aspects of BIKINI KILL might be put off by this band's anti-pop sensibility, but I for one am way into it. They are totally ridiculous and unabashed and convincing, with their deconstructed rock 'n' roll riffs, exuberant energy, and wild vocals. I guess that answers my question: Tobi hearts FINALLY PUNK, and so do I. And so should you. (GN)

We've currently finished recording 6 new songs with Adam Jones, and we'll continue to write more songs whenever Elizabeth gets back from Germany later this month.

Future releases include: UK comp., a split 7" with fellow hardcore punx TOTAL ABUSE, and hopefully more! SUMMER TOUR 2007!!! WoooOOOoo.

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and NY Night Train

various live

here is @Cleveland, OH
we start at 9:42
If you have any videos/pix of us on tour, please email them to finallypunkis@yahoo.com.
Thanks bunches to those people who have already posted pix!!
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p.s. you can see some of our pix here http://www.flickr.com/photos/skadden/