Brody Dalle talks about Spinnerette

This month's Harp focuses on women, which may be why I got a shot, for the first time, at an interview/feature there. I talked to Brody Dalle, who headed up the Distillers, and now has a new band called Spinnerette. She's also married to Josh Homme of QOTSA, and they have a small daughter."Don’t expect motherhood to soften Brody Dalle up. "The ex-Distillers frontwoman has been cranking out confrontational, punishing punk rock for most of her existence. Starting as a teenager in Australia, she formed the Distillers with friend Kim Chi in 1998. Two years later, the band was signed to Epitaph and ready to release its self-titled debut. After losing most of her original lineup in 2002, Dalle came back with a new band (Ryan Sinn on bass and Andy Granelli as drummer), toured the U.S. with No Doubt and Garbage and released the more nuanced Sing Sing Death House. The last Distillers album, the ravaging Coral Fang in 2003, reflected growing tensions as Dalle’s marriage with Rancid’s Tim Armstrong ended. "Yet though this final effort, on major label Sire, was more polished than earlier efforts, her work remained tough, loud, fast and uncompromising, setting unflinching observations about people on the margins to ratcheting hardcore beats. Dalle’s life, like her music, has pushed the edges—early troubles in school and at home, a teenage marriage to Armstrong, then a highly public divorce. The Distillers broke up in early 2006 and Dalle disappeared, for a while, from public life. Now, re-emerging into the spotlight, Dalle seems to have landed safely, accomplishing the kind of rebirth and triumph over adversity that many of her songs celebrate. She’s married again, this time to Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme, and she has a baby daughter, Camille, born in January of 2006. She’s started another band called Spinnerette—the name, she says, coming from her long fascination with 1960s girl groups. (The rest is here: http://harpmagazine.com/articles/detail.cfm?article_id=5738)When I spoke with Dalle, she had yet to enter the studio, so there was no music, but here's a video of The Distillers' "Drain the Blood".