ROCKTAPUSSY featured this month in URB MAGAZINE & URB ONLINE!
Rocktapussy is more than just an amazing collaboration between two talented (and delectable) women known as DJ Mother Hubbard (Chess Hubbard) and DJ A-Cup (Jessica Gonyea). Rocktapussy is an experience - an experience involving three turntables and a microphone, not to mention 2 laptops, 2 mixers and a kaoss pad (and if you're lucky, a pick axe and night goggles).
The seeds for Rocktapussy were planted early, when Hubbard and Gonyea were still in the single digits and would sit around the sandbox discussing whether "Space Oddity" was the product of Bowie using the song's lyrics as an allegory for the arising culture of drug use, or if the song was simply meant to be taken at face value and was nothing more than a bittersweet ballad about a pilot lost in space. Since those sandbox days, Hubbard and Gonyea have been inseparable, minus a few months in the summer of 1991 when Hubbard went off to Camp Crossfade (a camp for young DJs, deep in the woods of northern Michigan) and Gonyea was dejectedly left at home to spend her days watching Chip and Dale: Rescue Rangers. Happily, the two made-up several weeks later, and they've been producing indie/electro/rock ever since.
Even before attending Camp Crossfade, Hubbard knew that being a DJ was in her blood (according to her mother, her first word was "Allen&Heath"). Furthermore, Hubbard's other love of videogames led to a guest spot on the PBS children's show Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? (Sadly, the episode was never aired in repeats due to a wardrobe malfunction on Hubbard's part while racing around the continent of South America.) When Hubbard finally became serious about spinning she was taken under the wing of J2K (Flosstradamus), who put her through extensive DJ boot camp, taking breaks only to watch Sealab and refuel with massive amounts of horchata. In 2002, Hubbard founded Life During Wartime with DJ Bald Eagle (bah-caw!), creating a dance party experience for the ages that has set up camp everywhere from Smartbar to Hideout to Darkroom.
Gonyea, a prodigy at synth, percussion and vocals, started playing the tambourine at age 8 months, despite having difficulty lifting said instrument. Gonyea's love for costume design also began at a young age, and her passion for costumes and music would converge every year come Halloween resulting in wicked DJ-themed costumes (age 10: needle; age 12: microphone; age 15: fader). In Gonyea's young life she also won the title of Miss Pre-Teen 60201, had a brief romance with Ben Savage, and, during a summer when she worked at Jamba Juice was awarded the title of "Smoothie Operator of the Month" two months in a row. Gonyea received her DJ skills by immaculate instruction and further honed those skills by transcendental meditation with the Nepalese guru known by those close to him simply as Matt. More recently, Gonyea has made a name for herself as a force to be reckoned with on the Chicago music scene.
If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire: Rocktapussy.
(Above a video of A-Cup winning 2nd Place at the Air Guitar Championships!)
Psylocke. Elisabeth Braddock Uncanny X-Men #213 (1987). Twin sister of Captain Britain a.k.a Brian Braddock. Has served as a field leader. Killed by Vargas in X-Treme X-Men #2 (2001); returned alive in Uncanny X-Men #455 (2005). Originally Caucasian but switched bodies with an Asian female assassin by the Hand which also changed and expanded her powers. Thought to be dead in New Excalibur #8, unhinged from time and currently with the Exiles. Powers: Telekinesis, immunity to any physical or mental alteration, telekinetic katana.
