Music
BitchTapes: Record-breaking Women in Music History
You need this excellent mix of record-breaking women in music history!
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Blood on the Tracks: Buffy Sainte-Marie On the Power of Native American Music
“Power in the Blood” is perfect protest music.
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Brooklyn Personified: Young M.A Tells “Herstory”
Despite her controversial themes, Young M.A is a reverb of the cipher, a new rung of New York’s hip-hop greats.
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The Powers That Be: Bold Sexuality Takes Center Stage In “Good Booty”
Ann Powers wants us to think more deeply about race, sex, and music.
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BitchTapes: Go Back to Bed
It’s a holiday weekend, and the beginning of summer. But it’s ok if all you want to do are listen to these quiet songs and get back under the covers.
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Building a Music Legend: A Review of Jesca Hoop's "Memories Are Now"
Jesca Hoop’s penchant for the ephemeral and the innate resonate on Memories Are Now, which is a brave, bold experiment in texture and vocal range.
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BitchTapes: What'd I Miss?
This week’s mix is all music from the past year that passed us by when it first came out, but is front and center in every mixtape we’re making this spring!
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New Music Monday: TOMBOi
TOMBOi spend their non-music-making hours mentoring LGBTQ youth, and their music-making hours creating and holding space for their queer peers. Their sound is ethereal electro-pop, but the work they’re doing is deeply grounded.
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