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Cat Valley Lambast Music Industry Sexism on New Single "Manager"

With that familiar Riot Grrl verve, relatability, and...

Alexa Peters

Melbourne Punks Plaster of Paris Distill Queer D.I.Y. Ethos on Debut LP Lost Familiar

After years of thrilling Melbourne with brain-shuddering, pelvic-shaking garage rock on stage at some of Melbourne's...

Cat Woods

WOMAN OF INTERESTLena NW Brings Rap, Gaming, and the Apocalypse to Life with Nightmare Temptation Academy

Lena NW's video game/album Nightmare Temptation Academy begins with a giant trigger warning. The elements of the game the player is cautioned about include "graphic sexual cartoon violence," "glamorization of romanticizing of mental illness," "furries," "feminism," "cartoon vagina," "cartoon...

Annie White

PREMIERETrue Dreams Follow EP with Title Track from Upcoming LP No. 1

When I meet up with feminist punk duo True Dreams at drummer Hannah Nichols' Brooklyn apartment, they're wearing what they call their "uniforms": black school girl skirts, leather harnesses, and crisp white Dickies button downs, each emblazoned with half of the band's logo: Nichols' shoulder says...

Lindsey Rhoades

PREMIERELauren Eylise Documentary "The Most" Centers Female Experience

Lauren Eylise wanted to do something special for the music video for her song, "The Most." "The Most (Madonna-Whore Interlude)" comes off the Cincinnati singer's most recent album, Life / Death / Life and explores themes of shame, expression, and owning the dialogue surrounding female sexuality....

Victoria Moorwood

PLAYING ATLANTAThe Pussywillows Are Atlanta's Hardest Rocking (and Hardest Working) Indie Rock Duo

They are perfect complements to one another, standing toe to toe and...

Luci Turner

INTERVIEWMima Good "Bad For Me"

Witches talk back nowadays. Raechel Rosen, aka Mima Good, walks an interesting tightrope thematically; her music weaves together the historical oppression of women with music that more readily brings to mind a candlelit boudoir. It's the playful banter between hi-concept undertones and sexuality...

Ashley Prillaman

WOMAN OF INTERESTJacqueline Frances

Jacqueline Frances is a Brooklyn-based stripper, writer and illustrator, standup comic and feminist activist who, through her pithy, impish, irreverent and patriarchy-smashing social media content, has managed to amass a small army's worth of fans and followers of her "Jacq The Stripper" internet...

Marianne White

ONLY NOISELet Them Eat CupcakKe

You don’t have to be intimately familiar with Chicago rapper CupcakKe to glean that her work might be sexual in nature – if titles like “Deepthroat” and Cum Cake don’t tip you off, I’m not sure what will – but on Tuesday, YouTube saw fit to censor her video channel, pulling clips for the...

Madison Bloom

MORNING AFTERCoffee And Omelettes With Dahl Haus

“Hey, you’re Blaise, right? Can I talk to you outside for a second?” It's Goth Prom at Footlight and I'm ambushing Dahl Haus's leading lady Blaise Dahl with zero chill and a nervous peppiness out of place for the event. We look (unintentionally) identical; blonde hair, sheer top (can’t lose?) but...

Mary Grace Garis

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WOMAN OF INTERESTIndira Cesarine of The Untitled Space

“There is a need to reweave our nation’s social fabric as it is being torn.” This is Linda Friedman Schmidt’s poignant appraisal of Trump’s America. Schmidt is one of 80 female visual artists taking part in UPRISE/ANGRY WOMEN, an exhibition at Tribeca’s The Untitled Space gallery this Tuesday, just...

Madison Bloom

LIVE REVIEWMadame Gandhi + Fuck Rape Culture @ Baby's All Right

The evening was peppered with some remarkable acts including The Skins and The New Tarot. Amber Tamblyn offered an impassioned poetry reading while actress and rape survivor Rose McGowan gave an admirably vulnerable speech.

Madison Bloom