Phoenix Lilith Fair (stop #2 on The Go-Go’s farewell tour) ticket pre-sale for fans this Thursday at 10am through Friday 11pm!

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Sneak peek at Lady Robotika! Click on image to see bigger version or click HERE.

Issue #1 will hit stores on July 14th.

New interview with Jane & Bill about Lady Robotika over at Newsarama.com

Like two asteroids on a collision course, rocker Jane Wiedlin of the Go-Gos and cartoonist Bill Morrison of Simpsons fame have come together to tell the unlikely story of Wiedlin’s own abduction by a space tyrant wanting a private concert on his far away planet. But for rock guitarist Wiedlin, she proves able to change out power chords for power guns to resist the mad Earth-obsessed Emporer’s machinations and free the masses that he’s already put under his thumb. In the upcoming series Lady Robotika, Wiedlin assumes the title role and uses the bizarre technology that the Emporer’s minions forced onto her to fight those same villains back…Read the rest of the interview HERE.

The Go-Go’s Happily Ever After – The Farewell Tour

• July 7 San Diego, CA – Lilith Fair
• July 8 Phoenix, AZ – Lilith Fair
• July 10 Tampa, FL Tampa Bay Rays
• July 11 Myrtle Beach, SC – House of Blues
• July 14 Portsmouth, VA – NTELOS Pavilion
• July 15 Morristown, NJ – Mayo Center for the Arts
• July 16 New York, NY – Good Morning America
• July 17 Atlantic City, NJ – House of Blues
• July 19 Vienna, VA – Wolf Trap
• July 20 New York, NY – Irving Plaza
• July 22 San Francisco, CA – Fillmore
• July 24 Los Angeles, CA – Greek Theatre
• July 26 Dallas, TX -  Granada Theater
• July 27 Austin, TX – Paramount Theater

30 YEARS AFTER MAKING MUSIC HISTORY, THE GO-GO’S TO SAY GOODBYE

April 27, 2010 (LOS ANGELES, CA) – After 30 years together and a slew of chart-topping songs that defined an era, the Go-Go’s announce Happily Ever After – The Farewell Tour. Happily Ever After kicks off July 7, 2010 at Lilith Fair in San Diego, wraps up July 27 in Austin, and will include a live television performance on Good Morning America, July 16 in New York City.

In 1981, the Go-Go’s delivered Beauty And The Beat hot on the heels of their debut U.S. single “Our Lips Are Sealed.” The album garnered double-platinum status, reaching number one and becoming the first to top the Billboard charts by an all-female band that wrote and performed their own songs. 1982’s Vacation and 1984’s Talk Show continued their chart and radio successes and cemented the Go-Go’s as one of the most iconic and beloved groups of the 80s. The Go-Go’s released a much-celebrated anthology, Return to the Valley of The Go-Go’s in 1994, and 2001 marked the last studio album of new material, God Bless The Go-Go’s

Their story truly is a punk version of the American Dream. They came, they saw and they conquered the charts and airwaves with their kicky kitsch and sparkling California appeal. Their smash hits, such as “We Got the Beat,” “Vacation,” “Head Over Heels,” and the aforementioned “Our Lips Are Sealed,” along with countless magazine covers, television performances, and high-profile concert tours, turned Belinda Carlisle, Jane Wiedlin, Charlotte Caffey, Gina Schock and Kathy Valentine into certified rock stars, and five feisty role models for generations of ready-to-rock girls. From their halcyon days as America’s sweethearts to their current status as superstars who pioneered a genre, the Go-Go’s preside over an amazing three-decade reign as high priestesses of pop.

Today, with the original lineup intact, the Go-Go’s live show continues to deliver every bit of the raw energy of their now-legendary punk beginnings, tempered with the wisdom of three decades of pop perfection. Don’t miss them on this farewell tour as they celebrate with, and say goodbye to, their devoted fans, before the Go-Go’s head into the happily ever after.

Jane and Margot (circa 1978)

Photo by Connie Clarksville

The Go-Go’s Jane Wiedlin and Bill Morrison get celestial with LADY ROBOTIKA

JANE WIEDLIN (The Go-Go’s) and BILL MORRISON (Bongo Comics) blast off this July with the out-of-this-world space adventure LADY ROBOTIKA from Shadowline and Image Comics. Scribes Wiedlin and Morrison get an assist by TONE RODRIGUEZ (Shadowhawk), who works with Morrison on the art.

“I never meant for it to be like this,” exclaims Wiedlin. “One minute I was just another hard-workin’ guitar slinger, ripping out power chords while traveling the hinterlands with my band, The Go-Go’s. The next, I was blasted into a crazy adventure in Space, with powers far beyond a damn fine F chord and some nice sexy stage banter. But hey, it’s a big Universe out there, and someone’s got to save it. Guess that someone is ME.”

Morrison adds, “I heard someone say ‘Lady Robotika is bigger than Jesus!’ I certainly didn’t say it. I would never say something like that. I’m going to Hell, aren’t I?”

“LADY ROBOTIKA is pure rock and roll,” says Shadowline Publisher Jim Valentino. “Loud and proud of it! This is the space adventure for rock stars.”

In LADY ROBOTIKA, aliens from a distant planet abduct rock star Jane Wiedlin and force her to play a concert for their Earth-obsessed emperor. During the trek back to their planet, the aliens implant Jane’s body with nanobots. But their plan to turn her into one of their cyborg slaves backfires when Jane learns to control the nanites within her and becomes the super-powered cyborg liberator, LADY ROBOTIKA!

LADY ROBOTIKA #1, a full-color 32-page comic written by Jane Wiedlin and Bill Morrison with art by Bill Morrison and Tone Rodriquez, will be available for $3.50 in stores July 14, 2010.

More info HERE.

Lady Robotika comic hits shelves July 14th!

More information HERE.

Here’s the first of the photos from the Kansas City session Jane did with photographer Dusti Cunningham of Diablo Divine Photography.

outfit by WaspCreations.com

Check out this one of a kind Lady Robotika Action Figure by Cliff Robinson

Have an exceptional piece of Lady Robotika related artwork? Submit it HERE and we’ll showcase it on the Lady Robotika website.

Billy Bunker review of Jane’s cover of “Foggy Notion” for the American Velvet tribute album.

Confession time:  I am not a fan of the Go-Go’s.  Don’t care why.  Life is short.  This Jane Wiedlin character doesn’t have any of that poppy glitter at all, and I’d just as soon dispel the nasty rumors about her Go-Go gestation.  I feel a little dirty listening to Wiedlin’s version of Foggy Notion.  Was that song always about S&M?  I was much younger when I heard the original.  There’s a simple sense of wild-eyed excitement and drama in that Jane’s cover of Foggy Notion that brings out the delicious sense of dangerous appeal I hadn’t sensed in that song before.  The arrangements on this album are whip smart, and this cut is a good example.  There’s an elemental solo on acoustic in the middle of the tune that feels like thinking things over.  So maybe the singer will take the straight and narrow, and listen to the voice of Mommy, back off, and walk away, but NAAAAH!  The next verse lights up a little mischievous twinkle in the eye like a gal who knew all along there was no stopping now.

P.S. The original version of “Foggy Notion” ends in a repeat of the name “Sally Mae” which has never been explained to me. Jane does something astonishing by substituting “Billy Joel” for those repeats. I have no clue what that means in the original or this version, but I think it’s brilliant. Somebody please explain this to me! Hey Jane, what up? That sort of fearless irreverence is something the original Velvets would love. If I were Billy Joel, I’d be flattered probably a little disturbed.

P.P.S. Just got an email from Jane Wiedlin:
“Hi Billy,
Billie JOE, not Billy Joel!!!!!!!
Laughing my ass off,
Jane”
So I have to do my best Emilie LaTella and say, “Never mind,” and thanks for the correction, Jane. This is too funny not to leave in the review.

You can read the full album review HERE.

The FOGGY NOTION song and the AMERICAN VELVET album is now available for download HERE.
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