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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 ROUNDUPRIP Nipsey Hussle

Nipsey Hussle Laid to Rest in LA This Thursday, funeral services and city-wide celebrations were held across Los Angeles to honor slain rapper Ermias Joseph "Nipsey Hussle" Asghedom. Shot fatally outside Marathon Clothing, a store he co-owned near the intersection of Slauson and Crenshaw in South...

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NEWS ROUNDUPSXSW 2019 is in Full Swing, New Music, and MORE

CHAI are the buzziest band at this year's SXSW. SXSW Takes Over Austin It's been a bit of a slow news week, with what seems like 9/10ths of the music industry in Austin for South by Southwest. If you haven't been, it's not structured like a traditional festival, with bands scheduled to play certain...

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NEWS ROUNDUPInternational Women's Day, Leaving Neverland, and MORE

Maggie Rogers, Mavis Staples, Phoebe Bridgers and Brandi Carlile meet at Newport Music Fest. Photo by Danny Clinch. The artists shared this photo along with messages of empowerment for International Women's Day via Twitter. It's International Women's Day! Though some form of International Women's...

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NEWS ROUNDUPPazz and Jop Lives, 21 Savage vs. ICE, and MORE

Kacey Musgraves topped the 2019 Pazz and Jop Albums List with Golden Hour. Pazz and Jop LIVES - Even if the Village Voice Doesn't When I received my Pazz and Jop Ballot in December, I couldn't have been more shocked. I'd assumed that when the Village Voice shuttered in August, the music critics' poll...

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NEWS ROUNDUPAlternative Beef, Cancel Chris Brown, and MORE

Courtney Love and Kathleen Hanna have had ongoing beef since the mid '90s. Can't We All Just Get Along? Rekindling a decades old beef, Courtney Love had some choice words for Kathleen Hanna following the news that the latter's riot grrl act Bikini Kill would play a handful of reunion shows in LA and...

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NEWS ROUNDUPParquet Courts, Bernie Sanders, and Animal Collective

Parquet Courts Debut New Songs The Brooklyn-via-Texas punks performed “Dust” and “Outside” on WFUV, and also announced an upcoming album titled Human Performance. “Dust” has a loping, cowboy Western feel, spacing tendrils of guitar riffs between suffocating lyrics: “It comes through the window, it...

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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...

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