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MUSIQUE BOUTIQUENatalia King, Bitch, and Songs of Yoko Ono

Welcome to Audiofemme’s record review column, Musique Boutique, written by music journo vet Gillian G. Gaar. The last Monday of each month, Musique Boutique offers a cross-section of noteworthy reissues and new releases guaranteed to perk up your ears. “Well, they call me a hard-headed woman/I tell...

Gillian G. Gaar

AF 2021 IN REVIEWOur Favorite Albums and Singles of The Year

If you went into 2021 with high expectations, you weren’t alone. Even if it was hard to feel optimistic this time last year, it certainly seemed as if things could get no worse. Live music did return, after all – though with the appearance of Delta, and now Omicron, the joyful noise comes with a...

Lindsey Rhoades

AF 2019 IN REVIEWOur Favorite Albums and Singles of The Year

Lizzo press photo by Luke Gilford, courtesy of Atlantic Records. Every year I keep a running list of new album releases. The idea is that I'll have new stuff on my radar, along with a go-to playlist if I'm feeling adventurous (or bored) and want to hear something new. This year that list grew to...

Lindsey Rhoades

NEWS ROUNDUPSt. Vincent Producing Sleater-Kinney LP, Woodstock Returns, and More

sleater-kinney and st. vincent, hollywood, ca, jan 2019. photograph by jonny cournoyer New Year, New Music By Lindsey Rhoades Sleater-Kinney is in the Studio... Producing an Album with St. Vincent If this tweet didn't warm your riot grrl heart, we don't know what will. Though details are scant (no...

Lindsey Rhoades

AF 2017 IN REVIEWThe Year Sharon Van Etten Saved Me

It’s pretty much a general consensus that 2017 was an amazing year for music. It seemed like every week, a new album would emerge, challenging the way people think about and make music. But even with an endless ocean of new songs being fed to me every day, I kept coming back to the same album time...

Sara Barron

NEWS ROUNDUPRIP Charles Bradley, #TakeAKnee and More

RIP Charles Bradley Though he was able to tour up until the very end, even after battling stomach cancer, renowned soul singer Charles Bradley passed away over the weekend. He was 68. Nicknamed “The Screaming Eagle of Soul,” Bradley was inspired by James Brown from a young age but didn’t release...

Emily Daly

ARTIST INTERVIEWHuw Bunford of Super Furry Animals

“I keep forgetting I’m on a boat!” Huw Bunford, lead guitarist of Wales’ Super Furry Animals, is sitting in a booth on the Hornblower Infinity, 4 Knots’s designated artists lounge for the one-day festival on Pier 84. “Sorry, I just saw the horizon go up and down (laughs).” It is mildly unsettling...

Madison Bloom

TRACK REVIEWHeather Woods Broderick "A Call For Distance"

Heather Woods Broderick has played a supporting role for artists like Laura Gibson, Sharon Van Etten, Horse Feathers and Efterklang. Now, the Portland composer/multi-instrumentalist is releasing an album that is solely hers. “A Call For Distance” is a stand-out track from Glider. It’s a...

Emily Daly

BEST OF 2014Best Tracks from NYC Bands

There were a lot of great songs released in 2014, and many came from bands who are from New York City (or, like many of us here, just currently call it home). Here are some of the year’s best tracks from the city that never sleeps. Ava Luna: “Plain Speech” from Electric Balloon (Western Vinyl,...

Emily Daly

BEST OF 2014 ALBUMSKelly's Picks

1. Lana Del Rey – Ultraviolence I’ve been on the Lana Del Rey bandwagon ever since I heard “Dark Paradise” (we’re all just pretending that her second album, Paradise, never happened, right?). Lana delivers all of the slow-burn goodness found in Born to Die and that fans expect from a follow up. She...

Kelly Tunney

ALBUM REVIEWSharon Van Etten "Are We There"

"I can't wait 'til we're afraid of nothing," sings Sharon Van Etten, in her silvery and harmony-braided way, on the opening track of her new album Are We There. "I can't wait 'til we hide from nothing." The song-- "Afraid Of Nothing"-- has a sweeping clean-slate quality to it: it's a fresh start, a...

Carena Liptak

We've Been HadThe Walkmen's Final Show

It wasn't supposed to be about The Walkmen. What started as a fundraiser for Philly's very own High Line-esque project (known as The Rail Park and every bit as awesome) became something different entirely when Peter Bauer (The Walkmen's organist and bass player) announced last week via a Washington...

Lindsey Rhoades