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Denver recording, performing, & visual artist. déCollage looks like this and sounds like Salvador Dali smells. 50 Deep Tracks That Will Blow Your Kids' Minds. The 10 Best All-Female Rock Bands. Thursday, July 16, 2015 | 7 months ago At some point, all famous female rock bands of the past several decades have endured a similar barrage of insults: not being able to play their instruments, being dramatic, have too much sex appeal (or not enough) or being feminist man haters.

The 10 Best All-Female Rock Bands

Although most of those accusations are biases and downright sexism, one common similarity among all women rock groups is the tendency to make fun of the guys instead of trying to fit in among them. Many rock and heavy metal subgenres inherently formed with a communal brotherhood of male fans, segregating many females from the scenes for decades. The few brave leaders who tried to break into the fraternity suffered a rough road of acceptance. This opposition is still seen today even by other female heavy metal musicians, quoting more male influences on their music than women. Today, there are plenty of female bands who still aren't afraid to stand up and grab your attention.

Shins, Andrew Bird, McCartney on Holiday Comp; Listen to Rufus Wainwright/Sharon Van Etten Duet. Rufus Wainwright with Sharon Van Etten: "Baby, It's Cold Outside" (via SoundCloud) On October 30, Starbucks' label Hear Music and Concord will release Holidays Rule, a compilation of artists covering holiday (read: mostly Christmas) songs.

Shins, Andrew Bird, McCartney on Holiday Comp; Listen to Rufus Wainwright/Sharon Van Etten Duet

It features tracks by Paul McCartney, the Shins, Andrew Bird, Eleanor Friedberger, Calexico, Holly Golightly, Heartless Bastards, Fruit Bats, and more. Tiny Kitten Teeth Mix 10 (8 songs) Dj Uilson aka Professor Groove: Cazumbi: African Sixties Garage. The Best Cover Songs - The Covers Project. The Good-ass Remixes Vol. 1 (11 songs) Peaches' New Music Video Features Kim Gordon And Wrestling. Peaches recently teamed up with Kim Gordon on hew new song, “Close Up,” and now the electronica goddess has released a music video to match.

Peaches' New Music Video Features Kim Gordon And Wrestling

Mickey Avalon: Mickey Avalon. When you pop in an album and the first words to boom from the speakers are “We are going to have open sexual intercourse on every street corner of America!”

Mickey Avalon: Mickey Avalon

, it’s hard not to feel surprisingly shocked, slightly disgusted, highly intrigued, and deliriously thrilled regarding the ride you’re about to be taken on. Needless to say, Mickey Avalon really knows how to get people’s attention and keep it. With his self-titled debut album released through MySpace Records (as if MySpace hasn’t already become an omnipresent internet entity, now the company is taking aim at the record industry), Mickey Avalon has single-handedly invented the genre of “glam rap.” (MySpace)US: 31 Oct 2006UK: 27 Nov 2006. The mysterious death of Elliott Smith. No one could honestly claim to be surprised when they heard Elliott Smith had committed suicide.

The mysterious death of Elliott Smith

Plenty of folky singer-songwriters have a reputation for making introspective, melancholy music, but none quite like Smith's. To some critics he was Mr Misery - a pun on Miss Misery, the song from the soundtrack of Good Will Hunting for which he was Oscar-nominated in 1998. He was the "unhappiest man in the land", a singer you didn't so much listen to as commiserate with. According to his friend, singer Mary Lou Lord, Smith was the heir to the tragic mantle of her former boyfriend, Kurt Cobain: he was making records for "the sad kids".

M.I.A, Born Free. Craig Finn. Craig Finn (born August 22, 1971) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist.

Craig Finn

He is best known as the frontman of the American indie rock band The Hold Steady, with whom he has recorded six studio albums. Prior to forming The Hold Steady, Finn was the frontman of Lifter Puller. Described by Pitchfork as "a born storyteller who's chosen rock as his medium,"[1] Finn's lyrics are often noted for having a strong literary bent, stringing together recurring characters and storylines throughout.

Personal life[edit] Musical career[edit] With Lifter Puller[edit] Like a Rolling Stone. DOWNLOAD: Wu-Tang vs. The Beatles: Chicagoist. Wait--before you start, we know that mash-up albums are, like, so last decade.

DOWNLOAD: Wu-Tang vs. The Beatles: Chicagoist

We know that every so-called unsuspected relationship between rock and hip-hop has been bridged by ambitious producers all over the world who happen to have some acappella tracks and GarageBand. While we still love the great bits, like Chicago's own The Hood Internet, so much of it is just sloppily placed together, without regard for what makes two different tracks work well harmonically.

But, amidst a trend that we can't quite figure out is leaving or here to stay indefinitely, every once in a while a well-intended and talented soul finds the right match. In this case, it's Tom Caruana and his free album pitting Wu-Tang vs. New Free Wu-Tang Mixtape Is Best Beatles-Rap Mashup Since Grey Album - The L Magazine. Almost exactly six years after Danger Mouse proved the infinite malleability of The Beatles’ catalog and its weird adaptability to rap a cappellas on his now legendary Jay-Z remix record, The Grey Album, Tom Caruana of Tea Sea Records has released an excellent compilation of Wu-Tang Clan members’ lyrics set to Beatles songs and covers of Beatles songs.

New Free Wu-Tang Mixtape Is Best Beatles-Rap Mashup Since Grey Album - The L Magazine

We Can't Stop Listening To Bikini Kill's New 'Ocean Song. Guess who’s back, back again?

We Can't Stop Listening To Bikini Kill's New 'Ocean Song

Bikini Kill is back – tell a friend (or five)! The OG riot grrrls are reissuing their Revolution Girl Style Now! Album with unreleased titles including, “Playground” and “Ocean Song.” Check out the teaser below: In an exclusive interview with The New York Times, singer and songwriter Kathleen Hanna goes way back to the demo tape days and explains the reissuing of Revolution Girl Style Now! Grace Jones Slams Rihanna, Miley Cyrus, Nicki Minaj in Excerpt from Her New Autobiography. Grace Jones is the definition of fierce.

Grace Jones Slams Rihanna, Miley Cyrus, Nicki Minaj in Excerpt from Her New Autobiography

Few performers have matched the unyielding creative vision she has showed throughout her career, and Jones wants the world to know it. In an excerpt from her upcoming autobiography I'll Never Write My Memoirs, shared with Time Out, Jones calls out the pop world for being complacent creatives and doing nothing but retreading trails the queer icon already blazed. 14 Sex-Positive Anthems That Will Teach You What You Need to Know About Lesbian Sex. It's not a one-time-only deal. It's not always "titillating. " It's real, and it's spectacular. Though songs like Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl" give a wink and a nod to sexuality between women, the truth is that some girls want to do a whole lot more than just kiss.

And they want to talk about it. Lose the male gaze. The lyrics? 'My First Hardcore Song' by 8 yr old Juliet OFFICIAL. Beelzebubba. Boogaloo to Eminem. Daydream Nation (Remastered Original Album) Goo. Top 10 Breaking Bad Songs. James Taylor - Sweet Baby James (1970) (Full Album) HD. Top 10 Songs That Will Make You Cry. David Bowie and the Story of Ziggy Stardust [2012] [Subtítulos en español] Girls to the Front! Stream 'Revolution Girl Style Now,' Bikini Kill's 1991 Cassette-Only Demo. CocoRosie Sings For 'Lost Girls' In New Video.

Microscopic footage of a needle moving across the grooves of a record. You would think that if you have an electron microscope and a record player, you’re most of the way there to being able to record close-up footage of a needle traversing the grooves of a long-player record. Well, you would be wrong. It was actually quite a challenge, as the Applied Science YouTube channel recently demonstrated in vivid and mind-blowing detail.

New York Rock & Roll Ensemble. The New York Rock & Roll Ensemble was a rock band active in the late 1960s and early 1970s, whose music was described as "classical baroque rock". The group was known for performing in white tie and tailcoat (not tuxedo), as typically worn by classical musicians. History/Biography[edit] All The Songs From The Big Lebowski? - SoundtrackCollector.com. I'm trying to compile my own ultimate Big Lebowski soundtrack using the original soundtrack CD and other sources. The CD has fourteen tracks but has no Creedence and no Tumbling Tumbleweeds. Immortal Technique Speaks on Trayvon, Religion, Race in America & Syria.

Photo credit: Ani Yapundzhyan. Nearly 25 Years Ago, Nirvana Released an Album So Perfect It Ruined Rock 'n' Roll. How Did a Dildo-Swinging, Flame-Throwing Rock Band Like Rammstein Become a Global Powerhouse? Rock, ♫, Jazz, ♪, Blues, Singers, and chacha lol etc., another potpurri lalalaaaa✌️ on Pinterest. Find Music From TV and Movies. Space Music: GZA's Dark Matter. Black Cab Sessions. Top 10 Beatles Psychedelic Songs. 10 Greatest Andrew Bird Songs For Your Summer.

I became familiar with Andrew Bird’s music only recently, however he’s clearly taken control of a very niche market. Women Of Punk. Melancholy mantra (19 songs) 25 best basslines of all time. American Life - Primus. Berkeley Place: THE 25 BEST INDIE ROCK ALBUMS EVER . . . ACCORDING TO THE BLOGOSPHERE. Alt-J - Pusher. Hear Kurt Cobain’s Stripped-Down Cover of the Beatles’ ‘And I Love Her’ Déjà Vu (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young album) In 2003, the album was placed at number 148 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.[6] The same year, the TV network VH1 named Déjà vu the 61st greatest album of all time. The album ranked at #14 for the Top 100 Albums of 1970 and #217 overall by Rate Your Music. The album was reissued on compact disc on September 6, 1994 after being remastered from the original tapes at Ocean View Digital by Joe Gastwirt.

In 1997 guitarist Fareed Haque covered the entire album in jazz form for the Blue Note Cover Series. Album - Billboard (North America)[7] Album - Album Charts (UK) Rap Genius. Stereomood. The Best Music Streaming / Radio Stations of 2016. GG Allin. Garage punk. NEKO ATSUME CHRISTMAS MIX by rafren. Henry Rollins and Stephen Colbert Sing Headbanging Version of "Carol of the Bells" Hear Lana Del Rey's Aching Daniel Johnston Cover. Tekno Love Song ~ CocoRosie. Band Performs 'Hey Jude' In A Minor Key And It Completely Changes It. David Bowie on ‘Stage’: ‘Low’ and ‘Heroes’ live in concert, 1978. Until The End Of The World (Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack) by Various Artists. Guide To The Wu-Tang Clan : Music. Valerie June. Melancholy mantra (19 songs)

Hell on Wheels - Music From Hell on Wheels Season 1.