Chick Habit consists of two cool chicks playing music by other cool chicks and talking about how cool chicks are. It started out in 2007 under the name Trompe le Monde, but back then we were just mucking around, playing various subgenres of alternative rock and talking s**t for two hours. Over the last couple of years, the show has progressed into something more specific. We became increasingly fr
ustrated with the lack of representation of women in the music industry, and the manipulation of women to fit a certain image created by the dude bros in charge. ‘Women in Rock’ became a subgenre of rock itself, played sporadically, as a novelty, “it’s good to see the girls having a go”. We play primarily women artists, not to simply level the imbalance, but to explore the variations and incarnations of “Girl Music”, to reclaim “Girl Music”, not as a category, but as a symbol of the creativity and artistry born from resistance. We reckon girls make great music because they have to work so damn hard to get it heard, and to get it taken seriously. We try to unhinge any reductive ideas about gender within the music world, and to break down restrictive ideas about what women should sound like, look like, and act like. Some of the artists on regular rotation at Chick Habit HQ are Chastity Belt, Terrible Truths, Loose Tooth, Wet Lips, Tacocat, La Luz, Beaches, Sleater-Kinney, Cable Ties, Magic Dirt, Hole, Mazzy Star, Shopping, Two Steps on the Water, Nina Simone, Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings, Emma Donovan, Sampa the Great, Tkay Maidza, AhMerAhSu, Grimes, Warpaint, Best Coast, Bikini Kill, The Slits, X-ray Spex, The 5678’s, Empat Lima, Shrimpwitch, Poppongene, Hideous Towns, The Pink Tiles and Wet Lips, amongst so many others. We love soul songstresses, punk rockers, and have a particular soft spot for the 90s. Tune in Fridays 5-7pm, 97.1fm or webstream at 3mdr.com
