- 21. Lower Dens' Fourth Album "The Competition" Wins It Al
- (Music)
- ... From Evil, there’s never a note or a riff out of place. The band’s fourth album, The Competition, maintains this sense of absolute order but finds the group taking its sound to more expansive places than ...
- Created on 08 September 2019
- 22. Pip Blom's "Boat" Is Soft Yet Stro
- (Music)
- ... beats sliced by sharp grunge riffs. Blom’s lead vocals are soft yet strong. No, not like a deodorant commercial, but more like a daisy growing through cracks in the sidewalk—green, gritty, and bound to ...
- Created on 31 May 2019
- 23. Week Of Women: May 24-30, 2019
- (Entertainment)
- ... today. Out May 28, and check out our interview with West here. Stay Sexy and Don’t Get Murdered by Georgia Hardstark and Karen Kilgariff Hardstark and Kilgariff, whose hit podcast “My Favorite ...
- Created on 23 May 2019
- 24. Lauren Ruth Ward Shares Her Favorite Spots In L.A. And Debuts New Video, "Hungry Barber
- (Music)
- ... Griffith Park and Trails Cafe. When I first moved to LA, I joined an acting group and we’d meet at Trails in the morning to read lines. It was a “winter” month. The California weather really got me. There ...
- Created on 25 April 2019
- 25. Abjects Refuse To Hold Back On "Never Give Up
- (Music)
- ... “Mañana” nods enthusiastically to the Monks. Elsewhere, buzzing, tense riffs are reminiscent of the Cramps with pleasing chord progressions by way of the Buzzcocks. “Dream Song” shines with irreverent ...
- Created on 21 April 2019
- 26. Ex Hex Are Tearin' It Up On Tour
- (Music)
- Ex Hex were in fine form Thursday night when they blew the roof off of The Bowery Ballroom in NYC. Performing songs from their first album Rips as well as from their new release It’s Real on Merge ...
- Created on 11 April 2019
- 27. Taraji P. Henson On Committing To Her Relationship, Ignoring Her Age, and "Seeing Her Money
- (Entertainment)
- ... out there. Where’s the Black Harry Potter?” By Sabrina Ford Photos by Shaniqwa Jarvis Styling by Jason Bolden / Hair by Tym Wallace Makeup by Ashunta Sheriff Cover fashion credits: anushka Suit; ...
- Created on 24 March 2019
- 28. Ex Hex Goes Big With "It's Rea
- (Music)
- ... record starts strong with “Tough Enough,” which features lead singer/guitarist Mary Timony’s signature tight riffs. As with their 2014 debut, Rips, the D.C. trio evokes ’70s rock bands like the Runaways, ...
- Created on 20 March 2019
- 29. Patty Griffin's Tenth Studio Album Chronicles Sickness And Recover
- (Music)
- PATTY GRIFFIN Patty Griffin (PGM Recordings/Thirsty Tiger) Singer-songwriter Patty Griffin has just released her 10th studio album eponymously titled Patty Griffin. Since her last release, 2015’s Servant ...
- Created on 08 March 2019
- 30. Cordell Jackson Was The "Rock'N'Roll Granny" Who Made Music Hist
- (Music)
- ... and early '90s, when she gained young people’s attention when a music video for her surf-rock hit “The Split" was featured on MTV. She also starred in a Budweiser commercial in which she out-riffs Brian ...
- Created on 14 February 2019
- 31. A Goodbye To Debi Martini of the Red Aunts
- (Music)
- ... dueling guitar riffs ricochet back and forth like bullets. But this is no cliché cock-rock pissing contest. Instead, the Red Aunts are a unified front battling the conventions of society and rock'n'roll ...
- Created on 22 January 2019
- 32. The History Of The "Confidence Man
- (General)
- ... as “a director of the Standard Oil Company.” To some, he was introduced as Mr. Griffiths. To others, he was introduced as Mr. St. Elmer. In both cases, he was presented as an American “oil king.” Reporting ...
- Created on 08 January 2019
- 33. 21 Albums To Hibernate With This Winter: Playlist
- (Music)
- ... over a killer guitar riff. The self-proclaimed “radical indigenous queer feminist” does this often on her debut, switching between riot grrrl and Earth mother, her vulnerability always on full display. ...
- Created on 28 November 2018
- 34. The Breeders, Kembra Pfahler, Neneh Cherry, And More Played The Netherlands' Le Guess Who? Festival 2018
- (Music)
- ... repetitive refrains and varying vocal tones. But there’s also skronking guitars and discordant riffs that conjures up similarly turbulent bunch Duds, which is wholeheartedly welcome. Emel Mathlouthi ...
- Created on 27 November 2018
- 35. Brock Turner's Latest Appeal Is Total Bullshit, And Nonconsensual "Outercourse" Is Still Sexual Assau
- (Feminism)
- ... trying to overturn now is his status as a registered Tier 3 sex offender for life, meaning new neighbors will be notified when he moves to their area and that he will have to reregister at his local sheriff’s ...
- Created on 31 July 2018
- 36. BUST's 10 Best Bets For Summer 201
- (Entertainment)
- ... 30. 4. Kathy Griffin “Laugh Your Head Off” Tour Tyler Shields Irreverent comic genius Kathy Griffin has been touring the world for the last year since an infamous anti-Trump photo shoot mired her in ...
- Created on 31 May 2018
- 37. Celebrate Americana Music and The Women Who Make It In Brooklyn Next Week
- (Music)
- This coming Wednesday, female artists from Jade Bird to Lola Kirke will be performing at the Music Hall of Williamsburg to raise funds for the Americana Music Association. The association, also ...
- Created on 03 May 2018
- 38. What The World Needs Now Is L7
- (Music)
- ... I asked the class if they had ever heard L7, a band that inarguably subverted rock normativity and gendered expectations with their androgynous style, attitude, and of course riffs, in the 1990s. Not one ...
- Created on 24 April 2018
- 39. 19 New Albums To Listen To This Spring: Playlist
- (Music)
- ... the band’s attention to emotional minutiae remains as intense as ever, especially on songs like “Can I Kiss You?” and “Lean In When I Suffer.” Come for the riffs, stay for the lyrics that are so relatable ...
- Created on 05 April 2018
- 40. Sister Rosetta Tharpe Is The Rock & Roll Pioneer Everyone Should Know About
- (Music)
- ... place in the Griffith Stadium in Washington D.C. and it was packed to the gills! For those who couldn’t make the day, a recording was released pretty much immediately. Though the publicity was huge, ...
- Created on 05 March 2018
