Candy Ass Records is an independent record label run out of Portland, Oregon by Jody Bleyle, formerly a member of the band Team Dresch and, at present, a member of the queercore group Family Outing.
Jody Bleyle is interviewed in the documentary film She's Real, Worse Than Queer speaking about Candy Ass Records and the release of Free To Fight, along with Alice Stagg, who contributed several segments on self defense on the recording and accompanied Team Dresch on the tour promoting the release.
Candy Ass also co-released, with Chainsaw Records, the first Team Dresch LP, Personal Best, in 1994 and the band's second LP, Captain My Captain, in 1995. Jody Bleyle also released recordings by her other band Hazel.
After the release of Free To Fight, the label also issued several follow-up singles by various artists under the same name as the original compilation and dealing with the same issues. The first release, called Free To Fight ..1, was a split single with Sleater Kinney and Cypher In The Snow accompanied by self defense tips.
Aside from these endeavors the label has also released recordings by many other artists, such as The Lookers (with Sarah Dougher), Vegas Beat, and Cypher In The Snow.
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*** THE VEGAS BEAT***
DEEP BLUE
(Candy-Ass)
Like fellow Oregon lesbian rockers Team Dresch, the Vegas Beat appropriate the DIY spirit of straight-white-boy punk for their own empowerment and, more important, amusement. The similarity shouldn't come as any surprise to fans who have been following the rocky saga of Team Dresch over the past year, which has seen the group's unstable line-up shift to include guitarist Amanda Kelley and drummer Marci Martinez. And, yes, Kelley and Martinez have also been moonlighting as the singing/songwriting force behind the emotionally charged, muscular melodicism of the Vegas Beat.
The duo clearly have a sexual-political agenda, which pretty much comes with the territory for dyke punks and gives their songs the kind of earnest edge that was once the domain of the boys in the DC punk scene (Minor Threat, Rites of Spring, Fugazi). The mid-tempo strum-and-drone guitar-bass-and-drums of "Cyst" is played against a background tape of what sounds like a radio talk-show host commenting on the evils of homosexuality. But elsewhere Kelley and Martinez opt for personal introspection over political agitation, and for the classic combination of brisk beats, bristling hooks, and frayed melodies over either.
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The label is best known for the 1995 release, in collaboration with Chainsaw Records, of the double LP compilation Free To Fight. Featuring all-women bands and musicians such as The Third Sex, Rebecca Gates of The Spinnanes, Fifth Column, Containe, Heavens to Betsy, Excuse 17, Lois, Cheesecake and Team Dresch, all contributing songs dealing with women's safety, defence against harassment and rape and pertinent topics surrounding these issues. The recording also featured self defense instructions which were included in a 75 page illustrated booklet accompanying the LPs/CD. As well, the booklet contained a great variety of other contributions from women such as bell hooks, Sue P. Fox and others, in the form of stories, practical advice and poems, all dealing with self defense.
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