Neko Case is at her fiery feminist best on “Hell-On,” due out June 1st.
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Neither/Both/And: Rhea Butcher’s Nonbinary Comedy
"Comedy is powerful and can make a lot of social change. You have an audience of people that you’re hopefully making laugh. You’re inviting them to agree with you in laughter, to allow themselves to be vulnerable enough to laugh."
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Screaming Females in Ink and Bronze
All At Once is largely about the importance of art; the lyrics evoke color and line and material in a way that had me Googling artists and pondering the risks and rewards of painting and being painted, seeing and being seen.
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Laurie Kilmartin and the Subtle Power of Laughter
It’s a small thing and a huge thing when men “let” a woman make them laugh.
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OMG
Just before Thanksgiving, in some magnificent wrinkle in rock-legend timespace, these four smiled, a camera went click!, and The Best Instagram Picture Ever was created.
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in/distilling a love of music
Words are metaphors: in the one case, my mother fills me, drop by magic drop, with music; in the other, she extracts what I need—which was also what she needed—from music and offers it to me like an essential oil, powerful and sweet. Oil and water: both sacramental, both used in baptism.
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Playlist: Women Rock the World
We, at Women In Rock, love to highlight the local scene, but lately we’ve been just as inspired by women rockers from all over the world. This playlist offers a sampling from Iceland to India. 1. Hórmónar Iceland “Kynsvelt” https://youtu.be/SuYPmUDs-xQ 2. Pussy Riot Russia “I Can’t Breathe” (dedicated to Eric Garner) https://youtu.be/dXctA2BqF9A 3. La Hijas de Violencia Mexico “Sexista Punk” Pussy Riot-inspired protest band with confetti guns! yeah! https://vimeo.com/111910656 4. Destruye y Huye Mexico “Oscura Socieda” https://youtu.be/kANWiwTBMt0 5. LiLiPUT Switzerland “Split” (1980) https://youtu.be/qjKCzauOumg 6. Kumbia Queers Argentina “Celosa” https://youtu.be/MWV9Bu5_-1s 7. A-WA Israel “Habib Galwi” https://youtu.be/g3bjZlmsb4A 8. Aziza Brahim Algeria “Calles de Dajla” https://youtu.be/LxP0Ngt3s5o 9.…
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Rock-Ed: In Praise of Anger
Smile, the world says to women. Fuck off, anger responds.
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The Cool School Girls of Mason’s School of Rock
"We’re sometimes told ‘you’re good …. for a girl.’ We’re here to disprove that whole sexist idea.”
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Pussy Riot: “Show Them Your Freedom!”
If you followed the news coverage of the 2012 arrest and trial of three members of Pussy Riot, the Russian feminist punk collective, then you know that Nadia, Masha, and Katia are not the only women in the group, even if they are the most famous. Pussy Riot is one part punk music, one part performance art, and one part guerrilla feminism. Members refer to the band as “they,” refuse to give details about their activities, and perform in colorful balaclavas to protect their anonymity. They perform spontaneously and in guerrilla fashion in public spaces in Moscow, such as beauty salons, prison rooftops and, of course, church altars. Pussy Riot…
