Riot Grrrl is a myriad of contradictions. And that’s to the good.
Nov 01, 2011 | Categories: Columns | Tags: Al Larsen, Beat Happening, Beth Ditto, Bikini KIll, Calvin Johnson, Careless Talk Costs Live, Chainsaw, Courtney Love, Donna Dresch, Everett True, Girl Germs, Huggy Bear, Julia Downes, Kicking Giant, Kurt Cobain, Lois Maffeo, Melody Maker, Nation Of Ulysses, Nikki McLure, NME, Olympia, Plan B Magazine, Riot Grrrl, Rough Trade, Sally Margaret Joy, Seattle, Sonic Youth, Stella Marrs, Sub Pop, The Word, Tobi Vail | 1 Comment »
I never thought we shouldn’t grow, I never thought we should repeat.
Oct 25, 2011 | Categories: Interviews | Tags: Central Park, Dakota, Fuzzbox, Galaxie 500, interview, John Lennon, New York City, Plastic Ono Band, Riot Grrrl, The Beatles, The Cranberries, Yoko Ono | 25 Comments »
A rad free mixtape of MP3s from basement pop bands that don’t usually trade in the currency
Oct 14, 2011 | Categories: Columns | Tags: ADD/C, Bay Area, Bianca Valentino, Black Rainbow, Everett True, God Equals Genocide, John Mink, Landlord, Secret Punk and Basement Pop, Shellshag, Songs For Moms, Songs For Virgins, Street Eaters, Tubers | 3 Comments »
A real girl is sweaty and stinky and that’s cool.
Oct 11, 2011 | Categories: Columns | Tags: Bay Area Rock Camp For Girls, Cool Moms, Exene Cervenka, Girls Guitar School, Girls Rock, Girls Rock Boston, Girls Rock Rhode Island, Girls Rock Seattle, Joyce Raskin, Natalie Walker, Patty Schemel, Portland Rock'N'Roll Camp For Girls, Rain City Rock Camp For Girls, Rock Camp For Girls, Rock'N'Roll Camp For Girls Los Angeles Rock, Scarce | 8 Comments »
If punk was a roar of rage, industrial music was a scream of terror.
Sep 29, 2011 | Categories: Columns | Tags: Bush, Einstürzende Neubauten, Fad Gadget, Faderhead, Front 242, Front Line Assembly, Frontline Assembly, Gravity Kills, industrial music, Kraftwerk, Laibach, Ministry, NIN, Nine Inch Nails, Princess Stomper, Skinny Puppy, Smashing Pumpkins, Throbbing Gristle, VNV Nation | 21 Comments »
Clank. It’s retro-futuristic. The way music is supposed to sound in the 21st Century.
Sep 26, 2011 | Categories: Columns | Tags: 16 Volt, Abe Vigoda, Battles, Chemlab, Chris Razor, clank, Coal Chamber, Faith No More, genre, Glasser, Gusto Extermination Fluid, H3llb3nt, Marnie Stern, Motor, Nice Nice, No Mas Bodas, Ohgr, Princess Stomper, Ruby, Skinny Puppy, Slipknot, Three Trapped Tigers, tUnE-yArDs | 5 Comments »
Have you read Lester Bangs? Guess what? He was a failed musician.
Sep 20, 2011 | Categories: Columns | Tags: Abba, Everybody Loves Raymond, Fleet Foxes, INXS, Led Zeppelin, Lester Bangs, Michael Jackson, Music criticism, Music Writing, Nirvana, Outkast, The Beatles, The World's Strongest Man, Wallace Wylie | 32 Comments »
We’re all secretly struggling.
Sep 19, 2011 | Categories: Interviews | Tags: Aesop Rock, All I Can Do, Bianca Valentino Interview, Buddhism, Conversations With Punx, Dave Matthews, Dave Matthews Band, Juno, Kimya Dawson, midfulness meditation, Olympia, Pablo Das, Remember That I Love You, self-esteem, self-love, The Moldy Peaches, Thunder Thighs, Walk Like Thunder | 4 Comments »
A circle and its centre in search of a centre and a circle, respectively
Sep 15, 2011 | Categories: Columns | Tags: centre, circle, Democritus, Either/Or, Geulincx, Hat Hut, in search of, Kierkegaard, Logan K. Young, Morton Feldman, Natasha Bedingfield, Neither, Phonogenic, Pretzel Logic, respectively, Samuel Beckett, These Words, Unwritten, Watt | Leave A Comment »
This is exactly the reason why the world needs Tyler and Odd Future. Shit can’t keep rolling like this.
Sep 14, 2011 | Categories: Columns | Tags: Diamond D, Dizzee Rascal, Eminem, hip-hop, Jay Z, Kanye West, NWA, Public Enemy, Wu-Tang Clan, XL Recordings | 9 Comments »
There are tear drops on these journal pages. That’s what the smears are.
Sep 03, 2011 | Categories: Columns | Tags: Boo Frog, Erika Meyer, Eureka High School, feminism, How I Learned To Play Guitar, Music Writing, punk rock, Rosie Riveter, Seattle, sexism | 1 Comment »
They really don’t write ‘em like this anymore.
Sep 01, 2011 | Categories: Columns | Tags: Alladdin, anti-semitism, Dumbo, Gang Of Four, Louis Prima, Mumford & Sons, Phil Harris, racism, Robin Hood, Robin Williams, Roger Miiler, Roger Miller, Rudyard Kipling, Scatman Crothers, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Sun Ra, The Aristocats, The Jungle Book, Top Disney Songs, Wallace Wylie, Walt Disney | 12 Comments »
Nirvana had a bigger effect on American culture than any rock band since The Beatles. I was there, and anyone who tells you any differently is a goddamned liar.
Aug 24, 2011 | Categories: Columns | Tags: album review, Bush, Colour Me Badd, Daniel Johnston, El Cajon, grunge, Husker Du, justin bieber, Kurt Cobain, Music criticism, My So-Called Life, Nirvana, Reagan, Reality Bites, Rimbaud, Scott Creney, Shakespeare, Shonen Knife, Stone Temple Pilots, The Improbably-named CeCe Peniston, The Raincoats, Top Gun | 40 Comments »
Just thought I’d spell this out. So sexism doesn’t exist in the music industry in 2011, huh?
Aug 19, 2011 | Categories: Columns | Tags: criticism, Everett True, Krissi Murison, Let England Shake, Mike Williams, NME, Odd Future, Odd Future Wolfgang Kill Them All, PJ Harvey, sexism, sexism etc | 5 Comments »
“I’d much rather have a minute of awkward silence than me asking people how their night went. Awkward silence has way more to do with the music we’re playing than casual banter”
Aug 05, 2011 | Categories: Interviews | Tags: Bob Dylan, Dan Bejar, Destroyer, interview, Kaputt, Scott Walker, Streethawk: A Seduction, Swan Lake, The New Pornographers, The Rolling Stones, Thief, Trouble In Dreams, Wallace Wylie, Your Blues | 1 Comment »
Great rock music has less to do with ‘skill’ and ‘talent’ and more to do with a person’s ability to use music as an artistic medium.
Jul 26, 2011 | Categories: Columns | Tags: Carrie Brownstein, Chuck Berry, Dead Kennedys, Evergreen State College, Josie And The Pussycats, Olympia, Pete Seger, Ramones, Seattle, Sleater-Kinney, The Beatles, The Cramps, The Go Go’s | 26 Comments »
