Loud and Tasteless

Every Thursday, AudioFemme profiles a style icon from the music world.

What to Wear to CMJ 2014

It's that time of year again: CMJ Music Marathon is upon us. One crazy awesome week of running around Manhattan and Brooklyn to see the newest, coolest emerging faces in music. The one problem? New York in October. It's getting cold, it's rainy, and you have to make it from Webster Hall to Brooklyn...

Kelly Tunney

LOUD and TASTELESSBrian Fallon of The Gaslight Anthem

Every Thursday, AudioFemme profiles a style icon from the music world. This week our icon is Brian Fallon, who embodies Johnny Cash plus tattoo sleeves. He can wear the same white t-shirt one hundred different ways, all while keeping a lit cigarette in his mouth during a photo shoot. Despite being...

Jamila Aboushaca

LOUD and TASTELESSGenesis P-Orridge

Every Thursday, AudioFemme profiles a style icon from the music world. This week our icon is self-proclaimed pandrogyne, and Throbbing Gristle founder Genesis P-Orridge, or as s/he refers to h/erself today, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge. Riffing on h/er obsession with military regalia, occultism, and...

Madison Bloom

LOUD and TASTELESSKim Gordon

Every Thursday, AF profiles a style icon from the music world. This week, check out Kim Gordon's inspiring trajectory as prolific noise musician, visual artist, and fashion designer, peruse the looks she's had over her incredible thirty-year career, and check out the looks she's helped create. As a...

Lindsey Rhoades

LOUD and TASTELESSNYFW x TransmissionNY

Generally speaking, we don't give much consideration to New York Fashion Week over here at AudioFemme. It's not that we don't love a good frock, but our budgets are more vintage (read: thrift store) than designer. Even so, those designers often draw inspiration from rock stars and rebels, and it is...

Lindsey Rhoades

LOUD AND TASTELESSLA LUZ

Every Thursday, AF profiles a style icon from the music world. This week, check out Seattleite babes La Luz, who’s pared-down, achromatic duds have always reminded me of Russ Meyer’s Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Their sound is a perfect match to that look: fuzzed out surf rock that rides between 60s...

Madison Bloom

LOUD and TASTELESSDum Dum Girls

Every Thursday, AF profiles a style icon from the music world. This week, in honor of the release of Too True, we're profiling Dum Dum Girls. Front-woman Dee Dee Penny translates Dum Dum's 60's girl garage band sound into a rocker chic aesthetic, choosing dramatic silhouettes like bell-sleeved...

Lindsey Rhoades

LOUD and TASTELESSSigur Rós

Every Thursday, AF profiles a style icon from the music world. This week, check out the beautiful boys of Sigur Ros, whose inimitably dark and mysterious ethos have ladies (and gentlemen) across the globe swooning. I've honestly never read 50 Shades of Grey, despite the swarm of girls flocking to a...

Jamila Aboushaca

LOUD and TASTELESSPerfect Pussy's Meredith Graves

Every Thursday, AF profiles a style icon from the music world. This week, check out Perfect Pussy's Meredith Graves, whose inimitable punk rock-chic has us all ready to get pixie cuts of our very own and stock up on vintage Jackie O dresses. Syracuse front-woman Meredith Graves is small yet loud,...

Madison Bloom

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LOUD AND TASTELESSKaren O. from Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Every Thursday, AF profiles a style icon from the music world. This week, we bring you Karen O, whose loud mixed patterns and punk rock glam has been setting trends for over a decade. When Yeah Yeah Yeahs released Fever To Tell in 2003, Karen O already had a reputation as one of the New York...

Jamila Aboushaca

LOUD AND TASTELESSFKA TWIGS

Every Thursday, AF profiles a style icon from the music world. This week, we bring you the ever-vibrant FKA Twigs, whose bright patterns and bold colors have us longing for warmer climes. Gloucester-born London transplant " target="_blank" rel="noopener">FKA Twigs is an anomaly on many levels. Her...

Madison Bloom

LOUD and TASTELESSCharli XCX

Every Thursday, AF profiles a style icon from the music world. This week, we're gushing over Charli XCX's gothic wardrobe. There's tons of black and velvet and we can't get enough. Charli XCX has the ability to pull off cropped tees, netted shirts and even the 90s-redux plaid skirt. She's a tough...

Kelly Tunney