Opinion
26 Sep 2012
Essay | 20 years of the Mercury Prize
Twenty Years of the Mercury Prize or How to Get Away with Marginalising an Entire Gender for Two Decades “What Mercury has always tried to do is act as some (…)
2 Jun 2012
Truth or Dare | Amanda Palmer, Tori Amos and Methods of Feminist Catharsis #2
In Part One I talked about alternative goddess Tori Amos and interweb darling Amanda Palmer and their differing methods of catharsis. I suggested that Tori tends to hide her meaning (…)
26 May 2012
Truth or Dare | Amanda Palmer, Tori Amos and Methods of Feminist Catharsis #1
“The songs don’t spring whole into existence; they are built.” – Tori Amos “The best songs come in very fast and manic bursts.” - Amanda Palmer Amanda (…)
26 Apr 2012
Girl with Guitar | Patience
My last column was over a month ago. The truth is that in that time, nothing much has happened. I uploaded an advert to Join My Band. I received two (…)
18 Mar 2012
Like Mother, Like Daughter | Music and the Maternal
Listen to the Like Mother, Like Daughter Playlist here (Spotify). – — – — – — – — – Annette + Julia Annette (Founder & Editor) - “What did you (…)
16 Feb 2012
Girl With A Guitar | Procrastination
I am a chronic procrastinator, in every single area of my life. People procrastinate for different reasons; my main reasons are indecisiveness, and a desire to avoid difficult feelings. What (…)
25 Jan 2012
Girl With A Guitar | The Female Impostor?
Since I wrote my last column, I played a gig! It was a birthday party at a local bar, and I decided to perform as I knew the birthday boy (…)
26 Nov 2011
Gendered Language | Women in Music Videos
The music video got famous in the Eighties; bands embraced the new technology in a flash, using the opportunity to communicate a strong image and increase their selling power. Characters (…)
15 Nov 2011
the girls are | Just Incredible
The music business has, for tens of years, been a place for individuality, creativity, passion, beliefs, romance, anger, and just about anything else that makes us human , to be (…)
13 Nov 2011
Ineffable She | Why Kim Gordon is my Feminist Hero
It is possible that none of us are ever going to see Sonic Youth play live again. The king and queen of the ‘Alternative Nation’, Thurston Moore and Kim (…)
