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March 27, 2010 | Jessie W |
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Pixie Lott
Victoria Louise Lott, better known as Pixie Lott (a nickname given to her by her mother because she was an extremely little baby), is one of the new and upcoming pop singers of today. This young and c...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Marina and the Diamonds
Marina Lambrini Diamandis (born 10 October 1985), better known by her stage name Marina and the Diamonds, is a Greek-Welsh singer-songwriter. She rose to fame after reaching number two on the BBC ...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Little Boots
Victoria Hesketh (born 4 May 1984), known professionally as Little Boots, is a British electronic musician. She sings, plays synthesizers, the Yamaha tenori-on and the stylophone. She was the form...
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A Generation of Prosti-tots
Last year, I worked at an after-school day care center for kids in preschool-6th grade. Basically, after a long day at school, I hauled my ass to work where for 3 hours I was surrounded by a bunch of ...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Rilo Kiley / Jenny Lewis
Rilo Kiley
Rilo Kiley’s audiences have a strong tendency to fall in love on the spot. Perhaps it’s their beaming faces or laid-back, admirable West Coast attitudes. Or maybe it’s just their uncan...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Sia
Sia (full name Sia Furler) hails from the famously laid-back Australian city of Adelaide. Boasting a powerful, soulful voice, she worked the Adelaide jazz circuit during the '90s as a vocalist for...
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Taylor Swift: Not A Feminist's Dream
Inspired by AutoStraddle's article.
Now, let me begin by saying I don’t hate Taylor. She plays her own instruments, writes her own song (a fact that at times is painfully obvious) and if she learned ...
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GRITtv Interviews Kathleen Hanna
I love Kathleen Hanna and Bikini Kill. A lot. So when I saw this very recent interview with her, considering she doesn't do that many, I knew I had to share! She talks about zines v. blogging, the Wil...
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February 20, 2010 | Julie Zeilinger |
Media
Support Women Artists Sunday: Kimya Dawson
Kimya Dawson was born and raised in Bedford Hills, NY. After meeting Adam Green in a record store in upstate New York, the duo formed a band called the Moldy Peaches. They began playing the anti-folk ...
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February 13, 2010 | Julie Zeilinger |
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Jaymay
Jamie Seerman is an American folk singer-songwriter from New York. She performs under the name Jaymay. She grew up on Long Island and in 2003 after graduating from New College of Florida, she coul...
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Chicago Girls Rock
It's no surprise that I love music and especially take great interest in promoting women in the music industry. So when I got this email about an upcoming event in Chicago (I wish I could go!) I knew ...
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February 06, 2010 | Julie Zeilinger |
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Petracovich
Based out of San Francisco, Petracovich is Jessica Peters with an old-world version of her family name. Her great-grandfather came to the US from Russia at the turn of the century, and one of the ...
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January 30, 2010 | Julie Zeilinger |
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Eliza Doolittle
Eliza Doolittle - strong of opinion, smiley of face, loud of tights - is the freshest girl on the block. London born and raised, she knows about the stresses of modern city life, teenage aggro, old so...
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The Oxymoron of Being BOTH a Female Musician & a Feminist
AKA: Do I Really Have to Put a Paper Bag Over My Head Just to Get You to Listen to What I Have to Say, Rather than Stare at My Ass?
I remember a few years back, I received the biggest insult of my l...
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January 23, 2010 | Julie Zeilinger |
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Elle King
So I came across Elle King this week pretty unexpectedly by browsing through Jezebel. And...well, you'll see.
The fashionable 19-year-old Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter’s piercing voice and heartfel...
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January 09, 2010 | Julie Zeilinger |
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Support Women Artists Sunday: La Roux
La Roux are an English Electropop/Synthpop band made up of singer Eleanor Jackson and synth player, co-writer and co-producer Ben Langmaid. Jackson describes their respective roles as "very much a hal...
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January 07, 2010 | Kate S |
Arts and culture,
Media
Monster
there was never a pat from dad
there only was a slap on the head
unconditional love that lasted a blowjob
a dollar bill measuring her worth
how many men does it take to crush a girl
millions could ta...
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January 02, 2010 | Julie Zeilinger |
Media
Support Women Artists Sunday: Kate Nash
Nash was born in Dublin, Ireland, to an English father and Irish mother, on 6 July 1987. She grew up in Harrow, North West London. Nash became interested in music in childhood. She learned how to play...
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December 26, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
Media
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 ...