Crystal’s Team Pick: The Vine’s Top 20 Music Articles of 2010
If you appreciate great music journalism then this’ll keep you entertained for the next 1 – 3 hours.
2010 Autostraddle Music Awards: All You Do Is Win
Some very lucky people are going to be bestowed giant awards of great import. Who will win “Best World Cup Anthem” or “Most Ridiculous Moment on Ke$ha’s Debut Album”? These people include Janelle Monae, Girl Talk, Lil Wayne and the entire country of Canada.
Audiostraddle Record Club: Go Listen To Holly Miranda’s Magician’s Private Library
You asked for it, so here it is – the second meeting of the Audiostraddle Record Club. Crystal really wants to discuss Holly Miranda’s ‘The Magician’s Private Library’.
OPEN THREAD: Favorite Albums of 2010
It’s time for year-end lists galore! Jess G. shares some of her favorite albums of 2010. What were yours?
16 Holiday Songs That Don’t Suck: Your Autostraddle Christmakwansuka Playlist
Whether you’re the type who watches ‘Love Actually’ on loop from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Eve or you’re more of a Scrooge, we’ve got a suck-proof holiday playlist to tackle every mood. Cherry cherry boom boom, motherf*ckers.
Emily’s Team Pick: Intervention with Margaret Cho & Tegan and Sara Quin
This is a music video starring Margaret Cho and Tegan & Sara Quin. What else do you need.
Excuse Adam Lambert While He Kisses the Sky (and, more importantly, This Guy)
Remember that time you got high and watched Adam Lambert’s E! True Hollywood story and had a lot of feelings about gender, boy-on-boy onstage kissing, the history of counterculture/glam rock, American Idol itself and Adam’s hypothetical second album? Luckily I wrote that all down for you.
20 Album Reviews. 300 Words. Includes Girl Talk, Cee-Lo, T-Swift, Nicki Minaj etc.
There have been SO MANY new albums released this month. I ran out of time for multiple listens and proper sentences, so instead here are my very first impressions communicated in a series of highly unauthentic haiku poems. Just go with it.
10 Great Hits You Won’t Find on Pink’s New “Greatest Hits” Album
P!nk’s Greatest Hits Record is about to drop but my fangirl heart knows it should probably be a two-disc set with the list of songs contained in this post. This is very important.
Crystal’s Team Pick: Metric Debuts “Black Sheep” Music Video
Emily Haines is badass.
15 90s Bands We Stopped Listening To After the 90s (and 11 We Still Listen To)
Remember that time in your life when you listened to Oasis and ate at Sbarro? Look inside the eye of your mind, children, don’t you know you might find a better album to play.
Australian ARIA Music Awards: Can’t You Hear, Can’t You Hear The Thunder
Here is a list of good Australian musicians nominated for this year’s ARIA music awards, as reported by a real Australian.
Pink’s New Music Video Raises Your Glass to Homosexuality
P!nk’s new music video for “Raise Your Glass” features gay wedding, other queer things. Let’s take a look.
Ani DiFranco Appreciation Club Meeting #2: Ani DiFranco Is Trying to Break Your Heart
Every song has a ‘you’ / A ‘you’ that the singer sings to / And you’re it this time / Baby, you’re it this time.
Crystal’s Team Pick: Crystal Castles ft. Robert F*cking Smith
We were lovers, now we can’t be friends. Fascination ends. Here we go again.
Laura’s Team Pick: Nonhumans Dancing to “Whip My Hair”
I see Laneia’s kittens and raise her a muppet and a cockatiel.
My Mic Sounds Gay: Saluting Out and Proud Female Emcees
Let’s stop talking about Nicki Minaj’s so-called bisexuality and start celebrating the many out & proud female emcees in the Hip Hop community. Glennisha chats to Mz Jons, Lady Lust & Eyeris about their careers as openly gay Hip Hop artists.
Ani DiFranco Appreciation Club Meeting #1: Now More Than Ever
Welcome to the first meeting of the Ani DiFranco Appreciation Club. (It’s Ani F*cking DiFranco. Show some respect.)
CMJ 2010 Artist Spotlight: Izabo
Want to hear something fun? Okay. Here’s some music from Israeli band, Izabo – yet another talented act showcasing at the 2010 CMJ Music Marathon in New York City this week.
This Week In Music: Robyn, Indigo Girls & Passion Pit Do The Ting Tings
Passion Pit cover The Ting Tings, Girl In A Coma cover Patsy Cline and Robyn covers Robyn. Gaga & Ono get their blues on, while Raimy Rosenduft & Holly Miranda get their podcast on. But you might forget all that when you see the cat play the drums.