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  The Fashion Slaves is a girl fronted punk rock band  birthed when Emily Jayne, the band's creator, broke her arm at an Iggy Pop concert. Her music is a delicious mix of energetic pop and creative rock with Gwen Stefani style vocals. Truth be told Emily has a lot of range and talent, previously singing and rocking out in the ska band The Uptones . But in her latest album "Go Insane" you can hear the ska and punk influence put perfectly together. Live TFS bring the rock and roll and that celebrated rock star presence. Shows begin with Emily tied up in a straight jacket, and as the show progresses she changes down to sparkly fashionable outfits.  The Fashion Slaves latest EP features a cover or re-vision of Chelsea the punk band's song "Your Toy" . After she was sexually harassed by a dickwad on BART with no help from BART staff , she was brave enough to come forward. Emily went to the local news to say "Hey, this isn't right!" On th...

 One lesson I am starting to learn when it comes to rock shows is: be ready and go or miss out. Many of the best shows I've been to were ones I was invited to at the last minute. You never know when you're gonna get or be a +1. Saturday July 27th my long time Bay Area friend Emily Jayne invited me along to The Cult show in SF at the Fillmore! I've raved before about my awesome friends, but a great trait with many of my pals is passion for music. Artistic types seem to befriend each other, and I have a colorful variety of creative and expressive friends. Emily Jayne has a band called The Fashion Slaves , which became her brain child after she broke her arm at an Iggy Pop concert.   She had previously been to an International Swingers show, where she was able to meet the band. She did her rock star thing and began to network. "I found this song by a first generation punk band called Chelsea. And I loved it. I got the band to record it. But I couldn't f...