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hazel , team dresch 1990s sub candy ass pop , kill rock stars , chainsaw , solo_singer vocals , drums , bass guitar punk rock jody bleyle 1.jpg jody bleyle
 jody bleyle musician , songwriter , record producer
jody bleyle

jody bleyle is an american musician , songwriter and independent record label owner .
jody bleyle first gained public attention in the pacific northwest music scene of the 1990s , in the portland , oregon -- based band hazel .
the group , formed in 1992 , released two albums on the sub pop label , to critical acclaim .
jody bleyle played drums and sang for the band .
in 1993 , bleyle teamed up with donna dresch and kaia wilson to create the band team dresch , in which she played guitar and sang .
the group 's first release was a single on the kill rock stars label , which immediately garnered them much attention and they quickly became one of the defining bands of the queercore scene .
their first lp , `` personal best '' , was co-released on both dresch 's label chainsaw records and bleyle 's label candy ass records .
candy ass records went on to issue recordings by a number of bands including hazel , cypher in the snow , and new bad things , but is best known for the 1995 release of the double-album compilation `` free to fight '' .
`` free to fight '' was a multi media project incorporating both recordings by artists such as lois maffeo , excuse 17 , heavens to betsy , fifth column , and bleyle 's own band team dresch , as well as a seventy-two-page booklet featuring writers and artists such as bell hooks , bridget irish , and roberta gregory .
the recording and booklet featured self defense instructions for women , and team dresch toured with instructor alice stagg , who demonstrated defensive tactics onstage before the band performed .
jody bleyle was interviewed for the film `` she 's real , worse than queer '' by lucy thane , in which she speaks about her record label and in particular , the `` free to fight '' project .
this recording was later followed by a `` free to fight '' split single by the bands sleater-kinney and cypher in the snow .
in the late 1990s team dresch broke up after releasing a number of singles and another lp , `` captain , my captain '' .
after the breakup , bleyle joined with tamala poljak of longstocking and whitney skillcorn of the little deaths to form the band infinite xs .
in 2002 , the group released a recording on chainsaw records .
also in the early 2000s , bleyle began performing with her brother in the group family outing .
the band played at the `` homo-a-gogo '' festival in olympia , washington in 2002 .
in 2004 and 2005 , bleyle recorded and toured with amy ray for her second solo release , `` prom '' , playing bass .
bleyle did n't play the third leg of the tour because her partner , actress nina landey , was pregnant .
their first son twylo was born in july 2005 and their second son , lucian , in 2007 .
in 2004 , the group lesbians on ecstasy released their first album , `` lesbians on ecstasy '' featuring a revamped version of the team dresch song `` screwing yer courage '' , retitled `` summer luv '' ; jody bleyle remixed this version for the followup lesbians on ecstasy album entitled `` giggles in the dark '' , released in 2005 .
in the summer of 2004 , team dresch reunited for a concert at the biannual `` homo-a-go-go '' festival .
afterwards , the band members decided to reunite for a series of concerts and team dresch has been touring and recording again since then .
