Bikini Kill

Sequin-Wearing, Beyoncé-Obsessed GANG Play Nice With Everyone

Picking up the phone at her South Philly home, GANG singer Amanda Damron says, sternly, that I've interrupted her while she was watching the Beyoncé documentary on HBO. There's a brief, awkward silence, then she bursts into laughter. "It's OK, I probably know everything that's in it, I'm obsessed ... More >>

Dear Fan Landers: Desperately Seeking a Booking Agent and Un-flakey Bandmates

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

Dear Beloit College: 1994 Was Also A Good Year For "Women Of This Generation" To Be Rock Stars

"Good music programmers are rock stars to the women of this generation, just as guitar players were for their mothers." —From the Beloit College Mindset List, in which two dudes at a Wisconsin college attempt to get a bead on What The Freshmen Class Might Be Thinking via the making of a list w ... More >>

A Couple Of Bands That Are Just As Likely To Reunite As The Smiths, Which Is To Say, Not At All

So this morning one of those British music-news sites decided to engage in a little bit of traffic-goosing rumormongering by posting a breathless item about the Smiths reuniting, citing "a source [who] revealed that the 80s icons had been in talks to perform with a well-known promoter." This game of ... More >>

BOOKISH BUFFET

Bits from Mary Gaitskill, Tao Lin, 
and Michael Cunningham

This Weekend In New York: Habibi, Natural Child, Liturgy, And Zola Jesus Bring Catharsis To Manhattan

In Waste Of Paint, our writer/artist team of Jamie Peck and Debbie Allen will review goings-on about town in words and images. This weekend we found ourselves in the rare situation that all the shows we wanted to see were in "the city": one at the Lower East Side's anachronistically good Cake Shop, ... More >>

Modernist Kicks: Swissted's Mike Joyce Discusses The Inspirations For 10 Of His Gig Poster Makeovers

​In 1978, the Sex Pistols would have hocked snot at the idea of being associated with prim layouts and orderly type. Sublime's signature colors were not purple, pink, red, and gray; The Replacements had no ties to concentric squares. Dr. Know and Gorilla Biscuits never put pinwheels anywhere i ... More >>

Q&A: Mannequin Pussy's Marisita Dabeast On Spontaneous Songwriting, Our National Myths, And Being In A Band Called "Mannequin Pussy"

In the time it takes to watch an episode of Two and a Half Men sans commercial interruptions, you can head-bang through the recorded Mannequin Pussy oeuvre twice. But guitarist/singer Marisita Dabeast and drummer Athanasios Paul, both 24, come on like an acid-rain hurricane, packing their EPs meatsl ... More >>

Five Top Five Lists From Hunx And His Punx

​ The leather-clad Los Angelenos Hunx And His Punx bring some proudly poppy pep and a zany attitude to their girl-group/doo-wop stylings. Live, the Oakland transplants' candy-coated tunes and catty, filthy stage banter giggle-up crowds and turn bars into parties that feel like they could turn ... More >>

Ke$ha Is Having a Ball

The pop star flips the lap-dance script.

Q&A: EMA's Erika M. Anderson On How To Shock People Using Stolen Classic-Rock Lyrics And Firing A Gun At Age 14

William Rahilly​With her excellent debut Past Life Martyred Saints, former Gown Erika M. Anderson (a.k.a. EMA) has been causing quite a stir for dense sonics and harshly comic narratives that haven't been this critically acclaimed since the heyday of certain Seattlites. Or, if you let her tell ... More >>

Live: Kelly Clarkson Shows Those Whippersnapper Idol Finalists How It's Done

Bryan Horowitz​ Kelly Clarkson Highline Ballroom Wednesday, May 25 Better than: Watching the American Idol finale in real time. I'll be honest: There was something pretty delicious about spending last night, during which a super-frustrating American Idol season came to an end by crowning a ... More >>

Q&A: Titus Andronicus' Patrick Stickles On "Practical Righteousness," The Replacements' Goof Songs, And His Band's Our Band Concert Set

​Titus Andronicus frontman Patrick Stickles named his band after one of Shakespeare's most violent, least regarded plays. He writes songs named "Upon Viewing Brueghel's 'Landscape with the Fall of Icarus'." His band's most recent album uses the Civil War as a metaphor for political and persona ... More >>

Karaoke Underground's No. 1 Hit Songs

Giving indie-rock fans a chance to sing along with their favorites

Live: Bamboozle Stimulates Every Sense (And Then Some)

So much to see, everywhere. ​The Bamboozle Meadowlands April 29-May 1, 2011 Better than: Watching scene reports scroll by on Twitter. In a lot of ways, the Bamboozle is a festival tailor-made for the current moment of constant distraction. The festival's running time over three days totals ... More >>

FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT

Ad-Rock brings the hot sauce to MOMA

The Ten Best Musician/Comic Artist Friendships

Grant Morrison in the video for My Chemical Romance's "Sing" Grant Morrison is a U.K. comic book writer known for known for highly singular--or insane, if you prefer, in a good way--takes on established mainstream properties like X-Men and Doom Patrol as well as his own, peyotesque original series ... More >>

Q&A: Director Kerthy Fix on Her Endearing Film Who Took the Bomp? Le Tigre On Tour

DVD cover We are on the cusp of a riot-grrrl resurgence, or so we hope. Early last year, NYU's Fales Library announced that the institution had acquired Kathleen Hanna's 1989-1996 papers. Then in the fall, news of a Hanna documentary spread, with activist/poet/Sister Spit staple Sini Anderson at th ... More >>

Rally for Women's Rights Brings 6,000 to Foley Square

​Saturday's Rally for Women's Health in Foley Square served as a reminder that activism in America is alive and well, contrary to whatever the Internet might have been telling us. An estimated 6,000 people gathered at the event held by New York City's Planned Parenthood in an attempt to tell W ... More >>

Was 2010 The Best Year For Music Ever? American Idol Wobbles, R&B Thrives, And The '90s Rise Again

Welcome to Sound of the City's year-in-review rock-critic roundtable, an amiable ongoing conversation between five prominent Voice critics: Rob Harvilla, Zach Baron, Sean Fennessey, Maura Johnston, and Rich Juzwiak. We'll be here all week! At least one song on this record is really good!​Gent ... More >>

Live: Kathleen Hanna And Friends (Kim Gordon! Amy Andronicus! Care Bears On Fire!) Invade The Knitting Factory

Murray Hill introduces the night's star attraction. The Kathleen Hannah Project The Knitting Factory Saturday, December 12 Better than: Any actual battle of the bands that I've ever attended. We are gathered here tonight at the Knitting Factory to praise Kathleen Hanna, not bury her. Though it ... More >>

LET IT RAIN

The 'godmothers of grunge' rock MOMA

Ten Bands From The '90s That Haven't Reunited

Mark Ibold, still happier about the Pavement reunion than you are​So Chavez is reuniting, or whatever you want to call it. A Pavement reunion just dominated most of last week in New York City. Before that, it was a never-dissolved-but-certainly-largely-inactive Superchunk. In the past few year ... More >>

Correction: Christina Aguilera's "I Hate Boys" Is *Not* Co-Written By Le Tigre (Or Peaches, For That Matter)

​Right, mea culpa: that Xtina song that leaked earlier today, supposedly co-written by downtown New York femme punks Le Tigre? Not actually co-written by Le Tigre! This according to someone who has seen the liner notes to Christina's new record. Nor does the song feature Canadian electro-porns ... More >>

TALK TO THE VAG

Vaginal Davis does it like Dinah

Revolution, Girl-Style—Shhh!

RIOT GRRRL MOVES OUT OF THE STREETS AND INTO THE LIBRARY

Kathleen Hanna's Riot Grrrl Archive Goes to NYU's Fales Library

​L. Magazine comes up with the suitably photocopied-in-black-and-white flyer announcing the deal, which will send Kathleen Hanna's papers from the years 1989-1996 to the library, where the collection will "support scholarship in feminism, punk activism, queer theory, music history and more." F ... More >>

Mika Miko+the Strange Boys+Coathangers+Fiasco

The Top 20 (and Far Beyond)

Big year for metal, hip-hop, and Paul Simon/pigfucker reconciliation

Letters

Letters

Cut Copies

Violent punk-funk imagines grotesque possibilities

Notes on Girl Power

The Selling of Softcore Feminism

Not Your Chick

Before riot grrrls were born, libbers mocked rock's males

Drunken Hunt for Unintelligible Punk Singer Proves Fruitful

CMJ Musicfest 2003

Whiskers in the Dark

Mama's Got a Litterbox, Daddy Never Sleeps at Night

Listings

Clarify Your Dissent

Cucumber-Scum Tapeloop

Chaos Theory

In Pop Music, It’s Anyone's Guess

Time’s Lonesome Fugitives

Trivial Necessities

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Music

You Go, Grrrl!

More, More, More

African Connection II

Consumer Guide

Shape Shifting