Category Commentary

PRIDE WEEK: On Allies and Music

I totally missed doing Pride-related stuff last year and I know I’m juuuuuuust narrowly avoiding doing the same things this year. What can I say? These papers don’t grade themselves. I almost wasn’t going to do anything at all until…

Towards A Pedagogy of Love

I thought I’d take a break from writing about music to write about my other love: teaching. There’s a reason for this. Since that Daily Beast article I’ve expanded my readership. Since Howard Wolfson is a former Bloomberg politico, I’ve…

Where The Ladies At?

Once again, he inestimable Von of Americana Rock Mix and I seem to be on the same wavelength. Two weeks ago, Von posted a show focusing on female artists. He wrote, “We just don’t receive enough submissions from female artists…

Cultural Hegemony and Rock’n’Roll

Apparently, Hampton Stevens forgot to take his crazy pills on Monday. He published this rant about the bifurcation caused by “red-state” and “blue-state” culture (because apparently somebody still uses those identifiers) as manifested by… …the Rock’n’Roll Hall Of Fame Selection Committee? His…

Question:

What do these bands have in common? Cowboy Mouth — “How Do You Tell Someone?” Roxie Watson — “Jolene” Two Cow Garage – What Dying Is For from Cory Hearns. Xylos — “In The Bedroom” In terms of genre, some…