#Amy Winehouse

MUSIQUE BOUTIQUEAmy Winehouse, Tancred, and The Bangles

Welcome to Audiofemme’s monthly record review column, Musique Boutique, written by music journo vet Gillian G. Gaar. Every fourth Monday, Musique Boutique offers a cross-section of noteworthy reissues and new releases guaranteed to perk up your ears. Amy Winehouse’s sudden death on July 23, 2011,...

Gillian G. Gaar

NEWS ROUNDUPMusic Lawsuits, New Music from Marianne Faithfull and More

Music Lawsuits Spotity One of Spotify’s former sales executives, Hong Perez, is suing Spotify and her former boss, head of sales Brian Berner, for gender discrimination, equal pay violation and defamation in New York’s Supreme Court. Perez’s complaint accuses Berner of taking mens-only employee...

Tarra Thiessen

HIGH NOTES10 Female Artists Who Reference Drugs in Their Music

When you hear the phrase “sex, drugs, and rock and roll,” you usually picture male musicians: Lou Reed croaking out the words to "Heroin" or "Waiting For My Man;" The Weeknd's famously numb face; Kurt Cobain finding God in "Lithium;" The Beatles on LSD; Neil Young's coke booger immortalized in The...

Annie White