London Sessions

Teri Gender Bender

Le Butcherettes, Zapopan, Mexico

What's the matter with kids these days? Not content with just making an ungodly noise, they also model themselves on Sylvia Plath, formulating ideas of female identity that are equal parts fun and bloodthirsty. We're not talking about NYC (where shadows of Lydia Lunch and Patti Smith still linger), but the back roads of Zapopan, Mexico, where Teresa Suarez aka Teri Gender Bender conceived Le Butcherettes. She's played with just about every Mexican band worth mentioning, while Jack White's The Dead Weather invited her to open their Mexican shows, and Omar Lopez Rodriguez of The Mars Volta agreed to produce the first album. What can you say? The kids are all right... and they know their history, too. From blues staples through seedy indie classics to sleazy psyched up 'billy, this is the fertile dirt that sprouted La Bender.