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New Music Monday: Tkay Maidza
Australian rapper Tkay Maidza’s music hearkens to MIA and Icona Pop, has features from Killer Mike, and claims Nicki Minaj and Santigold as influences. The result is a high-energy hodgepodge, and it’s pop hip-hop gold.
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New Music Monday: Trishes
Producer and singer Trishes incorporates her West Indian roots into what she calls “indie pop with a hip-hop influence.”
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Sex, Struggle, and Mac-n-Cheese: Sex Stains Reminds Us Why We Love Punk
The new female-fronted band sings about mansplaining and misogyny with merciless energy.
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Michelle Chamuel Talks Pop Music and Identity
Michelle Chamuel is a pop singer who can still rock a button-up. Photo by Andrew Taylor.
As a fan of competitive reality television shows, The Voice offers a compelling premise: a singing competition based solely on one’s voice.
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Katy Perry's Extremely Straight Performance of "I Kissed a Girl" at the Super Bowl
Listen, I don’t expect much from Super Bowl halftime shows.
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Catch the Infectious Pop and Outspoken Honesty of Lowell
When I saw Lowell perform in a bar/sandwich shop in Portland last week, I left feeling both sweaty and lucky. The small venue had been packed with people dancing to Lowell’s catchy beats—the Toronto-based performer filled the... Read more »
New Music Overload! Here Are 20 New Feminist-Friendly Songs for May.
Musician Esme Patterson and a key collaborator.
After a whirlwind of music discoveries at South by Southwest music fest last month, I’m happy dish up this... Read more »
Black to the Future: How Women in Pop Are Carrying the Mantle of Afrofuturism
Afrofuturism is a way to project Blackness into the future—not merely as existing, but as a critical and significant part of it.
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On Our Radar: Feminist News Roundup
Here’s all the feminist news on our radar this morning.
• Three more school staffers and a volunteer coach were indicted in ... Read more »
Feminist Music Roundup: 12 Great New Songs for Fall
Autumn is a glut of new music and bands on tour, so it’s precisely zero surprising that our new music roundup for October is our longest yet. This month, we’ve got the world premiere of a new video by Julia Weldon, a song by a band called Hand Job Academy, and much, much more.
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