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NEWS ROUNDUP#GrammySoMale, The Superbowl, Sh*tholes and More

#GrammySoMale Despite a bombastic performance from Kendrick Lamar, a rallying #MeToo speech from Janelle Monae, and an incredibly emotional Kesha moment, last Sunday’s Grammys disappointed in a giant way. Hip-hop got shut out from the major categories again (this time by Bruno Mars) and women were...

Jasmine Williams

NEWS ROUNDUPThe Grammys, New Study on Gender Disparity in Music and More

The Grammy Awards On Sunday night, the music industry’s most momentous ceremony returns to New York City after ten years in Los Angeles. The 60th Grammy Awards will be held at Madison Square Garden and this year the pressure is on for the Recording Academy to prove that they are still relevant...

Jasmine Williams

AF 2017 IN REVIEWOur Favorite Albums and Singles of the Year

While there's been many a jaded thinkpiece about the import of music critics (usually begging the question What are they good for?) and the ubiquity of year-end lists can feel shallow at times, we can't stress enough the importance of what it means to share music among friends. It's a huge part of...

Lindsey Rhoades

NEWS ROUNDUPNorthside Festival, Metal + Politics and More

via NorthsideFestival.com In Case You Haven't Noticed, Northside Is Happening You may have already seen 20 amazing shows! Or you may be like me: someone who bought tickets to one event and won them for another, but went to neither because they managed to get deathly sick in June (thanks, universe)....

Emily Daly

ONLY NOISETeenage

“Teenage, teenage/I want a car, I want a girl.” It’s 10am, and the 1979 hit “Teenage” by L.A. punks The Weirdos rotates maliciously in my head. I meant to wake up hours ago, but the weighty fuzz of last night’s beer kept me tucked in. “Teenage, teenage/Don’t wanna work, don’t wanna go to school.” I...

Madison Bloom

NEWS ROUNDUPSXSW's Deportation Clause, Rihanna and More

SXSW’s Troubling Deportation Policy Yesterday, artist Told Slant announced he was canceling his SXSW performances after discovering the something alarming in the artist contract - there's a clause stating that "foreign artists" performing on certain visas may not participate in unofficial showcases...

Emily Daly

TRACK OF THE WEEKSon Lux and Lorde

Last year, producer/composer Ryan Lott, aka Son Lux, released his amazing full-length album Lanterns to immediate praise. How’s now returning with Alternate Worlds, an EP of four of Lanterns’ songs reimagined and reinvented. The tracks are all worth a listen, but Son Lux’s collaboration with Lorde...

Raquel Dalarossa

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

A Year in ControversiesHow the Think-piece Shapes Music Criticism

In the age of the ubiquitous think-piece, here's another, and this time, it's about think-pieces. In 2013 what think-pieces mean is that no one is about to get away with anything. You're a white girl who twerked in a music video? You're a white girl trying to criticize consumerism by skewering the...

Lindsey Rhoades