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    Partridge Poems

    February 13th, 2009     by Anna Leventhal     Comments

    Montreal-based spoken word artist Taqralik Partridge has been keeping busy. This Sunday the 15th she’s going to be featured on CBC Radio 2’s concert series Next!: Canada’s Music Future, so tune in at 8 PM to experience her husky, rhythmic poem-performance. Partridge is a writer and performer of Inuit and Scottish descent. But instead of choosing between differing realities - Indigenous and white, Up North and Down South, big open spaces and cramped bustling skylines … READ MORE

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    Hey yeah, I wanna… study black history?

    February 5th, 2009     by Anna Leventhal     Comments

    So, I don’t know if y’all noticed this or not, but Barack Obama is president of the USA. This, for many reasons, is cause for celebration. But while it is very exciting and thrilling and hopeful to have a person of colour holding the highest office in the United States (some would say the world, but that’s a little America-centric, don’t you think?), there is occasionally a slightly disturbing undertone to all the … READ MORE

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    Prey For Us

    January 24th, 2009     by Anna Leventhal     Comments

    For everyone who occasionally needs to slam their sweaty body into a bunch of other sweaty bodies in order to remind themselves they’re still alive, and then afterwards wants to eat hummous and chips and talk about their favourite Kate Bush song; for every girl who met her best friend at a hardcore show after all her guy friends told her she wouldn’t have a good time; for everyone who doesn’t know the difference between … READ MORE

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    Sorry, I had to.

    January 21st, 2009     by Stacey May Fowles     Comments

    Swoon. … READ MORE

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    Duchess Say What?

    January 16th, 2009     by Anna Leventhal     Comments

    Duchess Says, whose first full-length album I chose as one of my favourite releases from 2008, have put out an awesome video of their song Tenen Non Neue for Mange Ta Ville, a web-based television show about arts and culture in Montreal (Mange Ta Ville means “eat your city” - it sounds snappier in French. Really). They set up their instruments at the St. Michel flea market in east-end Montreal and quite likely … READ MORE

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    Gold Standard 2009

    January 9th, 2009     by Anna Leventhal     Comments

    Santogold is the nickname of Santi White, a Brooklyn-based singer and songwriter who released her first self-titled album in 2008. For a while she was being hailed as “the new M.I.A.” which I think is now the officially recognized term for “brown girl who isn’t doing rap or R&B”. Okay, she’s a bit like the British musician with Sri Lankan roots and mad style, but she’s even more like, well, Santogold. White herself addresses … READ MORE

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    O Superwoman

    January 3rd, 2009     by Anna Leventhal     Comments

    My New Year’s resolution, I’ve just decided, is to be more like Laurie Anderson. But I’m not sure what I mean by that. Do I mean: 1) Be in complete and total control of my creative output; incorporate everything I know and everything I possess in pursuit of what I want to express? 2) Be innovative to an absurd degree; if what I need doesn’t exist yet, invent it? (Anderson invented at least two unique … READ MORE

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    You know, cause (Feminists) belong.

    December 31st, 2008     by Stacey May Fowles     Comments

    Happy New Year from Shameless magazine! See you in 2009! … READ MORE

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    Venus Picks for 2008

    December 30th, 2008     by Anna Leventhal     Comments

    Tiina, you’ve inspired me. I was going to write something mopey about how this time of year makes me feel like a sailboat caught in the doldrums, no wind in sight (though come to think of it, when is wind ever in sight? Whoaaa), facing the prospect of a long and dreary paddle, and how all I can bear to listen to is stoner drone from Baltimore. But then I read your Top … READ MORE

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    Lavender Love

    December 18th, 2008     by Anna Leventhal     Comments

    The holidays can be a rough time for many people; what with the excessive family time (“Yes, Auntie Zelda, as a matter of fact I am trying to scare away husbands”), trauma caused by shattering of previously rock-solid resolve to be healthy, and the complete and utter panic attacks brought on every time you hear a “funky” remix of Jingle Bell Rock, the season of joy can sometimes turn into a nightmare. Well, I … READ MORE

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    i listen to bands that don’t even exist yet

    December 12th, 2008     by Anna Leventhal     Comments

    Do you find the music industry’s manipulations and machinations to be as confusing as I do? Do music mags’ “What’s Hot and What’s Not” lists make your head spin? Have you ever showed up at a party wearing a band t- shirt that you were sure was the latest thing, only to be told “That band is more out than Ellen Degeneres”? Well, fear no more, friends! Monitor Mix, the blog Carrie … READ MORE

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    I wish i didn’t have to keep doing this

    December 4th, 2008     by Anna Leventhal     Comments

    By which I mean saying goodbye to folk music and civil rights activist heroes. But only two weeks after we lost Miriam Makeba, we now also have to do without Odetta, the American folksinger who helped generations realize how essential African-American music has been to the development of songwriting, in America and elsewhere. She was also a major figure of the American civil rights movement - she performed at the historic 1963 March … READ MORE

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    Newsflash: Music rendered worthless by feminine belly!

    December 1st, 2008     by Michelle Schwartz     Comments

    The f-word recently featured a post on the battle between musician Amanda Palmer and her record label over the commercial viability of her new single, ‘Leeds United.’ The fight between stodgy music execs and artistic vision is not a new one. However, the subject of this particular disagreement is not just the same old story. Apparently, Amanda Palmer’s new single is not commercial because of her “fat belly,” shots of which the record label wanted removed … READ MORE

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    lederhosen who?

    November 28th, 2008     by Anna Leventhal     Comments

    Krista Muir has been a mainstay on the Montreal music scene for more than a decade now. She’s probably best known for her off-the-wall, food-obsessed, fashionista Teutonic alter-ego Lederhosen Lucil, a blonde-braided German uber-hostess who’s been known to bust out songs that sound like a cooking show set to Casio keyboard sample tunes. But of late, we’ve been getting a chance to see the woman under the wig and hosen; Muir has just … READ MORE

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    Invincible

    November 17th, 2008     by Stark Koenig     Comments

    I know this is usually Anna’s domain, but a few weeks ago some of the bloggers and readers here were having a conversation about women-friendly hip hop and I just wanted to add another name to the list of artists worth a listen. Based in New York and Detroit, MC Invincible drops some rhymes with some serious focus. In her work she talks about feminism, racism, social justice, homophobia, depression and more. And she puts her … READ MORE

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    goodbye Mama Afrika

    November 15th, 2008     by Anna Leventhal     Comments

    Global warming just got a little worse on November 10th… we lost someone pretty damn cool. Miriam Makeba was a South African singer and civil-rights activist who spoke out against apartheid and injustice in the strongest, sweetest, most melodic voice you could imagine. She was exiled from South Africa after she left to pursue a musical career in the US and found her passport had been revoked when she tried to return. But she … READ MORE

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    Beyonce Knowles All

    November 13th, 2008     by Tuval Dinner     Comments

    I’ve only watched this video once but I felt really moved by it. If nothing else it seems to be asking those of us who are heterosexual to just think about our partners, think about the effects our actions have on our relationships and to think about what its like in someone else’s shoes. You can’t go wrong with that, can you? … READ MORE

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    stern warning

    November 6th, 2008     by Anna Leventhal     Comments

    Okay, it’s November, it’s getting dark at 4:30, I have to think about things like storm windows and Thinsulate, and Proposition 8 is making me want to eat my face. But! Today it’s 18 degrees outside, I have reason to feel optimistic, and Marnie Stern has a new album. Stern has gotten a lot of buzz since her first release In Advance of the Broken Arm, with accolades like Greatest Female Guitarists of All Time (Venus … READ MORE

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    diamanda is forever

    October 30th, 2008     by Anna Leventhal     Comments

    I said it last year and I’ll say it again: Halloween is the time of year when everyone lets their hidden fantasy loose, their inner demon out, their freak flag fly… and the next day we wipe off the eyeliner and fake blood and shaving cream and go back to business as usual. But for some people, grappling with the dark side is what they do every day of their lives. You can bet Diamanda Galas … READ MORE

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    yo, it’s about time

    October 17th, 2008     by Anna Leventhal     Comments

    If, like me, you sorely miss the tuff-as-Lee-Press-On-Nails attitude and music of mouthy, unabashedly sexual 90s rappers Salt ‘N’ Pepa, this news will make you wanna Shoop. (Ouch… sometimes I kill me.) Yo Majesty, Florida’s electro-crunk rap ladies, have just released their first full-length album, called Futuristically Speaking… Never Be Afraid. They’ve been tearing up dancehalls and The Internet for years now, but this is the first time you can have a full sixty-ish … READ MORE

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