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ONLY NOISELike A Summer Thursday

One of my favorite descriptions of summer, particularly its languid, melancholy months, comes from Don DeLillo’s first novel, Americana: “Summer unfolds slowly,” DeLillo writes, “a carpeted silence rolling out across expanding steel, and the days begin to rhyme, distance swelling with the bridges,...

Madison Bloom

ONLY NOISEThanksgiving Dinner

Thanksgiving is a controversial holiday with a wretched color scheme. The Hallmark credo of thankfulness is thin when stretched against this country’s historical relationship with Native Americans. The shirking of materialism is undercut when Black Friday rolls around. To many, Thanksgiving is...

Madison Bloom

ONLY NOISEBringing It All Back Home

By the time you read this, I’ll be home. Not the home I’ve made for nearly a decade – not New York home. I’ll be “home” with a big “H.” The “home” Carole King sang of in “Home Again,” the home James Joyce fled but could never stop writing about, the home of countless poems and plays. It’s not...

Madison Bloom

NEWS ROUNDUPKendrick Lamar, Brexit's Musical Consequences and More

Kendrick Lamar Releases “Humble” “Wicked or weakness, you gotta see this.” Last night, the rapper released “Humble,” a visually stunning video that features Lamar dressed as a pope and recreating the last supper, among other things. The songs itself is full of low-key bravado, instructing other...

Emily Daly

News RoundupManhattan Inn, David Bowie and Bob Dylan

AudioFemme's weekly news roundup, featuring Manhattan Inn's closing, new David Bowie, and a Hillary support song from Le Tigre.

Emily Daly

ONLY NOISELove From Afar

It is funny, and also frustrating that though all of the humanity has felt the sensation of long distance longing for another person, only a select few of us can distill that longing into an art form.

Madison Bloom

NEWS ROUNDUPNew Singles, Bob Dylan, and Mitski

There was a ton of great new music released this week. Here’s four of the best singles we heard.

Emily Daly

ONLY NOISECar Songs

Welcome to the second installment of "Only Noise," in which Madison Bloom writes a memoir with music. A mixtape is something Generation Y shouldn’t grasp the importance of. Despite the small number of people who claim to prefer the sound of tape, mixtapes today are largely leveraged as devices of...

Madison Bloom