- 21. Does "The U.S. vs Billie Holiday" Give Holiday’s Legacy The Justice It Deserves?
- (Movies)
- ... Holiday’s life story to the big screen certainly isn't the first. That accolade goes to the 1972 film Lady Sings the Blues, a very loose adaptation of Holiday’s 1956 memoir of the same title. While the ...
- Created on 04 March 2021
- 22. Andra Day Reveals Why She Required Months of Forced Rest After Making The US vs. Billie Holiday: BUST Interview
- (Movies)
- ... on to read Holiday’s memoir, Lady Sings the Blues, which deepened her fascination with the complex singer. She would sometimes style her hair in a bun and adorn it with a large gardenia—Holiday’s trademark ...
- Created on 01 March 2021
- 23. Genya Ravan’s “I Who Have Nothing” Melds Gold, Gravel, And Guts
- (Music)
- ... the family restaurant, a.k.a. “Uncle Louie,” brought Goldie further into the seductive world of rhythm and blues and soul. “Uncle Louie bought me my first radio and my first record, LaVern Baker. I don' ...
- Created on 05 February 2021
- 24. 10 Famous Bisexual Women from The Past to Know Now For BiVisibility
- (Feminism)
- ... a relationship with Mercedes de Acosta, a Cuban lesbian playwright. 10. Bessie Smith Bessie Smith, also known as the “Empress of the Blues, was credited for making blues mainstream music in the 1920s. ...
- Created on 05 October 2020
- 25. You Go Girl: Why Traveling to Atlantic City during COVID Felt Safer Than Staying Home
- (Living)
- ... to return to the Jersey Shore (assuming New Jersey’s COVID transmission rate stays among the lowest in the nation at around 2%) the next time the quarantine blues become too much to bear. That being said, ...
- Created on 28 September 2020
- 26. Mexican-American Sister Trio Tiarra Girls Talk New Cover Single "Can't Stop The World," Heritage, The Pandemic, and Proudest Moments: BUST Intervi
- (Music)
- ... have created their own brand of music, taking inspiration from Latin, pop, rock, blues, dance, mariachi — you name it. With gigs including the sought-out SXSW musical festival and Trans-Peco Festival, ...
- Created on 22 September 2020
- 27. Danny Denial's Third Record Tackles Anxiety, Community, And Heartbrea
- (Music)
- ... This article originally appeared in the Fall 2020 print edition of BUST Magazine. Subscribe today! More from BUST Real Clothes' Experimental Album, "Precaution," Is Perfect For Quarantine Blues and ...
- Created on 18 September 2020
- 28. Set Your Spooktober Off Right With These Queer And Women-Centered Virtual Literary Events
- (Books)
- ... Bluestockings Feminist Book Club! October 4th, 2:30-4:30 P.M. Bluestockings is an independent bookstore, café, and activist resource center, located in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Their Feminist ...
- Created on 16 September 2020
- 29. Real Clothes' Experimental Album, "Precaution," Is Perfect For Quarantine Blues and Escapism: BUST Intervie
- (Music)
- Crescendos cascading in your ears, shrills of keys playing, ensemble of drum beats and eerie vocals rack up in your brain. No, you’re not on acid and listening to your popcorn ceiling telling you that ...
- Created on 04 September 2020
- 30. How Much Do You Know About Big Mama Thornton? Take The BUST Pop Quiz!
- (Music)
- An incredible rhythm-and-blues singer and songwriter, Big Mama Thornton recorded multiple hits in the early ’50s that have been credited with helping to jumpstart the decade’s new music craze known ...
- Created on 03 August 2020
- 31. The Band Formerly Known Lady Antebellum Is Suing A Black Singer For The Name Lady A (And We’re Tired of Performative Allyship)
- (Music)
- Lady A, the band formerly known as Lady Antebellum, is currently suing a Black blues singer, Anita White — who has also gone by Lady A for over 20 years — after they could not come to an agreement over ...
- Created on 09 July 2020
- 32. BUST's 10 Best Bets For Summer 202
- (Entertainment)
- ... A Different War Out May 29, A Different War is an album bursting with soulful blues rock, delivered with steely confidence by singer-songwriter Danielia Cotton. Whether she’s wailing Janis Joplin-style ...
- Created on 30 June 2020
- 33. 16 LGBTQ+ Movies Directed By Women Of Color To Watch This Pride Month
- (Movies)
- ... Prime. 7. Bessie (2015), directed by Dee Rees Bessie is a biopic about iconic blues singer Bessie Smith. It explores her life as she goes from a struggling singer to a successful and household name. ...
- Created on 23 June 2020
- 34. Les Amazones d'Afrique Use Music To Fight For What Matters On "Amazones Powe
- (Music)
- ... also nods to roots rock (“Red”), jazz (“Rebels”), and blues (“Fights”), but even with such a range in style, the common elements are unique, powerful voices and an even more powerful call to action. (5/5) ...
- Created on 15 May 2020
- 35. Shelby Lynne's Eponymous Album Is A Soulful Reviva
- (Music)
- ... "Strange Things," blues ballad "Weather," and the upbeat groove of "Don’t Even Believe In Love." The musical arrangements are kept simple and sparse, showcasing Lynne’s vocals, which range from soft and ethereal ...
- Created on 17 April 2020
- 36. Pale Lips Challenge You To A Dance-Off In New Music Video For “The Kids”: BUST Premiere
- (Music)
- ... the blues. A cocktail of Ramones-style humor, Undertones sweetness and Nikki and the Corvettes sass, Pale Lips may have whipped up the cure to our collective couch potato malaise. Hunker down, crank it ...
- Created on 02 April 2020
- 37. In Honor Of Hulu's “The Great,” Here Are Some Other Women In History We'd Love To See Onscre
- (TV)
- ... the first ever woman elected to Westminster Parliament. I think that pretty much sums up why we need to see her on the little screen. Saoirse Ronan, where ya at? Gladys Bentley This blues singer and ...
- Created on 25 March 2020
- 38. On La Santa Cecilia's Seventh Album, The Band Goes Deeper Than Eve
- (Music)
- ... You When You’re Down and Out,” reminding us that in the blues, you’re never really alone. (4/5) By Mary Kinney La Santa Cecilia was released October 18, 2019. This article originally appeared in ...
- Created on 27 February 2020
- 39. Nike Releases Official Olympic Skate Uniforms And We Want In
- (Style)
- ... direction, coloring the fits in vibrant greens, blues, yellows said to be inspired by the country’s landscape. Brazil’s women skaters will be wearing colorful tanks and leggings while the men will wear ...
- Created on 25 February 2020
- 40. The New Moon Is Entering Aquarius – Here's What That Mean
- (Living)
- ... Adieu, hometown blues. Aquarian waters want us to ditch whatever mechanism keeps making us look back – whatever’s preventing us from clearing a path for a solid future. Today’s new moon has something ...
- Created on 24 January 2020
