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BEST OF 2015The Year In Lyrics

Words are pretty weird. One alone is easy to understand, almost impossible to misinterpret. But string a bunch of them together, and it gets more complicated (as well as beautiful, descriptive, romantic or hurtful). One line can make you remember a song forever, or dismiss it entirely. Out of all...

Emily Daly

BEST OF 2015Our Favorite Frontwomen

Lukas Keapproth/AMERICAN-STATESMAN 2015 was a great year for women in music. Specifically, for women who front a band as both a singer and guitarist. While we've reached a point where it's not totally necessary to point and shout every time we find an amazing band led by a female musician (it's...

Emily Daly

CMJ 2015Top 10 Parties Not To Miss

Unless you've been living under a rock or completely off the grid since fall started, you know that CMJ, possibly the best festival for discovering new music, is taking over NYC next week. There's no way to see everything, but here's some CMJ parties you definitely cannot miss (including ours):...

Emily Daly

PLAYLISTThe Best Shows You Haven't Missed This Summer

It's already August, and if you're like me, a certain kind of panic is starting to set in: Summer is almost over! The descent into crippling cold weather will begin soon! Well, the first day of Fall is September 23rd, which means there's still over a month left for rooftop parties, iced coffee, and...

Emily Daly

PLAYLISTThe Top Acts To Catch At Northside Festival

Hey Brooklyn! What are you doing next weekend? Really, the only acceptable answer is seeing at least one of these bands at Northside Festival, which runs from June 11-14 and hosts shows in venues from Acheron to Warsaw. The schedule is packed with amazing artists, and to help you choose which shows...

Emily Daly

BEST OF 2014 LADY FRONTED POP ACTSRaquel's Picks

1. Jenny Lewis - "Head Underwater" One of the best tracks off of one of the year’s best albums, “Head Underwater” is a doozy of a pop song. Lewis sings conspicuously dismal lyrics (“My own mortality, I contemplated”) over a bubbly, dynamic beat (that she also produced herself), creating interesting...

Raquel Dalarossa

BEST OF 2014 ALBUMSKelly's Picks

1. Lana Del Rey – Ultraviolence I’ve been on the Lana Del Rey bandwagon ever since I heard “Dark Paradise” (we’re all just pretending that her second album, Paradise, never happened, right?). Lana delivers all of the slow-burn goodness found in Born to Die and that fans expect from a follow up. She...

Kelly Tunney

A History of Siren Fest and 4Knots

The fourth annual 4Knots Music Festival is slated to wash ashore at South Street Seaport this Saturday, July 12th, and we couldn't be more excited. The festival, curated by The Village Voice, gets better each year, with Dinosaur Jr., Mac DeMarco, Re-TROS, Dead Stars, Those Darlins, Speedy Ortiz,...

Lindsey Rhoades

10 Weird and Wonderful Things I Found in Academy Records' Dumpster

On Thursday the crew charged with clearing out the old Academy Records Annex location on N. 6th tossed a bunch of "unwanted" records into a dumpster, prompting Brooklyn's vinyl enthusiasts to descend on the rejects. I jumped in, quickly found myself covered in hot pink paint, and dug until I found...

Lindsey Rhoades

AudioFemme's Best of 2013

From elaborate roll-outs to surprise releases, 2013 was a banner year for comebacks, break-outs, break-ups, and overnight sensations. The fact that the most oblique content could cause rampant controversy to reverberate through the blogosphere turned every song into a story and made every story...

Lindsey Rhoades

PLAYLISTChristmas Songs That Don't Suck

Anyone who's worked in retail can tell you what a headache Christmas carols can be. You're working eight hour shifts surrounded by irate customers who forgot the meaning of holiday cheer in a rush to get presents for their shitty boyfriends and picky sisters. These people have no regard for the...

Lindsey Rhoades

YEAR END LISTTop 10 Album Covers

Let's all just agree to agree that hip hop as a genre won the album cover contest this year, okay? Much of the new heavy metal out this year bore covers that ran the gambit between overstatedly woodsy to just plain inexplicable, and pop albums favored stark, angular glamor shots and occasionally...

Carena Liptak