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December 26, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Regina Spektor
A veteran of New York's anti-folk scene, songwriter Regina Spektor makes quirky, highly eclectic, but always personal music. Born and raised in Moscow until age nine, Spektor listened to her father's ...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Florence & the Machine
Florence and The Machine is the name for Florence Welch and her cast of backing musicians. The band has received a great deal of critical acclaim since their inception and were chosen in 2008 as one o...
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December 14, 2009 | DrewsieDrewsie |
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A Feminist Analysis of "Fifteen"
Taylor Swift's song, Fifteen:
I love country music. I love it with a burning passion. And inside of my love for country music also comes a love for Taylor Swift. I like her because she is my age, he...
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December 12, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Tegan and Sara
Ask and you shall receive, FBombers...
Tegan and Sara are a Canadian indie rock/indie pop duo consisting of identical twins Tegan Rain Quin and Sara Kiersten Quin, born September 19, 1980. Both Tegan...
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December 05, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Agnes Carlsson
Carlsson was born in Vänersborg, Sweden on March 6, 1988, and began singing at a very young age. She sang solo in front of a live audience for the first time whilst still at school. She also sang in t...
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November 28, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Marié Digby
Marié Christina Digby (born 1983) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist. Digby, whose mother is Japanese and father is Irish-American, began writing songs in high school in Los ...
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November 22, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
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Lady Gaga is Confused
Lady Gaga, in a recent interview with Fuse about misogyny and homophobia:
Lady Gaga on why she's not a feminist:
Someone seriously needs to let her know that many of the values she has expressed ...
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November 21, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Meg & Dia
Meg & Dia is an American band formed in 2004. It was founded by sisters Meg and Dia Frampton, and is now a five-piece act with additional members Nicholas Price, Jonathan Snyder and Carlo Gime...
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November 14, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Ida Maria
Like the Norse warrior maiden Freya, 24-year-old Norwegian rocker Ida (eee-da) Maria is a force of nature, a goddess of love, fertility and sexual desire who led the Valkyries into battle, a fearless ...
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November 07, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Ingrid Michaelson
The other day I was listening to a radio interview with Ingrid Michaelson and it occurred to me that she is the perfect candidate for SWAS. She's funny, intelligent, real and an amazing artist. So thi...
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October 31, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Alice Ripley
Alice Ripley is one of my favorite singers of all time. I got the chance to see Next to Normal this past summer, and the entire show was insanely incredible - from the way they handled the topic o...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Kissing Cousins
Kissing Cousins front-tress Heather B. Heywood grew up in the ghetto-rural outskirts of Birmingham, Alabama in the home of her step-father, a charismatic Pentecostal preacher. Most of the congrega...
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October 18, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
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Support Women Artists Sunday (On Monday!): Chix 6
Okay, I keep dropping the ball on Sundays. It's mostly because that's when I get more than 4 hours of sleep and do work for SCHOOL (not the fbomb...school...weird).
Anyway, I've been following this ...
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October 03, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Karen O
It was as I was waiting in line at Starbucks this weekend (coffee is life), that I picked up a copy of the "Where The Wild Things Are" soundtrack. Considering that the song in the trailer was Wake Up ...
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Bust Magazine: Ellen, Alia and Teens oh my!
Every so often, a magical thing happens. I open the mailbox and buried beneath bills that have no relevance to me and the catalogues that try to sell me more useless crap, there is Bust Magazine. Toda...
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September 19, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Mary Travers
On September 16th, Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary passed away. This Support Women Artists Sunday goes out to her. I respect her not only because Peter, Paul and Mary had some bangin tunes (serio...
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Grinding
I had been at college for three days, and my friends and I were anticipating the First Chance Dance, an annual tradition meant to facilitate fun and friendship during the notoriously uncomfortable ori...
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GR!C: Day 6...Final Performance at The Metro!
Seeing your show on the marquee of a venue that’s hosted bands like The Ramones, Sonic Youth, Veruca Salt, The Smashing Pumpkins, and The White Stripes is pretty thrilling. And seeing people line up ...
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GR!C: Day 5
Xenia and I are a few minutes late today, and when we get to the cafeteria, everyone has paper taped to their backs and are running around with markers. We soon learn that you’re supposed to write on...
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GR!C: Day 4
Our song is nearly finished! Yay! We pretty much had the music down since day one, except for the last minute bass solo/bridge I added yesterday. The lyrics, on the other hand, were only finalized ...
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September 09, 2009 | Shelan O |
Feminism,
Gender-based violence,
Girls,
Media,
Violence against women
GR!C: Day 3
Our band finally has a name and a logo, which will be screened onto shirts, so each band has merch. Sweet! It had been down to Electric Field Trip or On The Fritz, but fate...took another course...(d...
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GR!C: Day 2
I’ve been moved to a new bass class, which is awesome because now I have Allison as my teacher! Allison was my drum teacher last year, and has been with the camp since the beginning, so we’re old p...
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GR!C: Day 1
I woke up at 5:40 am, raring to go. My sister, Xenia, who has been pretty low-key in expressing her enthusiasm, literally danced into the bathroom singing “Good morning, good morning, good morning to...
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Are You Ready to Rock?? GR!C 2009
Julie: Hey FBombers. This week, I'm handing the fbomb over to the super rad Shélan O. She participated in this year's Girls Rock! Chicago - a week-long summer camp program for girls ages 9-16 that mot...