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Hip-hop has survived as a sonic practice more than anything else. It's an approach to music-making based in sampling and rhyming over beats... →
You can't fool yourself anymore that your art is your art. When you're not getting paid for that song that's being traded back and forth... →
Personally, I've realized that the tradition I thought of as too safe, too pretty, and too conventional is the space where women have been able... →
Women in music have always been associated with pop - with prettiness, theatricality, melodic hooks and dance beats.
A lot of artists feel it's not worth it to sign with a major label, because if you don't have a giganto hit, then you're not going to get... →
I enjoyed singing and playing guitar but didn't have the stamina to make music-making a career. In reality, writing was my real gift, and as soon... →
I got the writing bug in the fourth grade when a poem of mine was published in the school newspaper. Music criticism came a little later, when I was... →
MTV definitely has the effect of narrowing the range of music that hits the mainstream. On the other hand, isn't that the effect of television in... →
To some extent, the idea that rock 'n roll used to have this sort of free antediluvian identity, frolicking in the 1950s with Elvis or something... →
We have to ask ourselves why younger women don't feel the need to be right up front with their politics. Is that going to set us back or is that... →
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