Audiostraddle gets a make over! Also Tegan & Sara’s Alligator video premieres for real, Kaki King releases a new track from Junior, the Gossip announce US tour dates, the Vampire Weekend play doubles with a Jo-Bro and also; Ke$ha on bisexuality, Elton John says Jesus is gay, Nicki Minaj has a threesome and Lady Gaga is in a lot of magazines.
2010 Bonnaroo Lineup, Bonnie “Prince” Billy announces new album, Nicki Minaj finds her monkey, Soul Trail, St. Vincent, Google commits blogocide, and so much more! Oh also, Audiostraddle needs a new writer. Inquire within!
Cover songs from kd Lang at the Olympics, The Muppets, Hope for Haiti and the American Idol kids delight us. Also; Ellen’s NYTimes feature story, French kiss-in, John Mayer being crazy, Lady Gaga being creative, Alexander McQueen, Taylor Swift, Tool Academy, Big Gay Out, ChatRoulette and a dolphin.
Aussie photographer and writer Stef Mitchell brings us a review and photos of the Cold War Kids’ sold out concert at the Williamsburg Music Hall.
Sigur Rós front man Jónsi announces his first solo tour, Ke$ha pranks Hollywood, Amanda F*cking Palmer plays conjoined twin, Pitchfork announces festival lineup, and so much more!
A symbolical analysis of the Taylor Swift canon (w/infographic). Is there art without sex? Love without raincoats? Feminism without girls? Beauty without dirt? Copycats without claws?
Contributing music writer Corey chats to Bella Saona, the stunning frontwoman of New York electro-rock act The Fire And Reason, a band that’s been on a steady rise since performing their infectious pop at Logo’s NewNowNext awards and winning the Brink Of Fame award. Bella answers a few questions on how they formed, who she’s obsessed with, and what’s in store for 2010.
Do we really need Lilith Fair in 2010? Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein ponders. UK darling Laura Marling debuts a new sound and a new single. I’m From Barcelona releases free music from their upcoming ’27 Songs.’ Amanda F*cking Palmer has hairy armpits. And so much more!
Tegan & Sara announce their Australian tour!
Breaking down the Taylor Swift win and the Lady Gaga loss, with a Special Comment from Superfan Alex. Also; trouble for Naomi & Emily on this week’s Skins, the girl who plays Effy wishes she got to be gay too, a woman wins a directing award for the first time ever, and Tila Tequila quits twitter! For real!
It’s the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards, and our first annual Grammy-Award-watching experience! We’ve got a drinking game and a casually updated live-blog of whatever happens after Lady Gaga performs. They give stuff out, right? Who knows!
Top Ten Desert Island Albums. GO! Intern Emily already did – find out which records she can’t live without, and why – from Death Cab and Tegan and Sara, to Sarah Mclachlan, Okkervil River and more. Plus, the top ten albums the rest of Audiostraddle can’t live without … what are your favorites?
2009 was an epic year for Canadian synth poppers Dragonette, who released their second studio album ‘Fixin’ To Thrill’, did a world tour, and won Crystal’s heart during intimate set at her favourite lesbian club. Intern Emily and Crystal are here to tell you all about it.
Jess talks to polarizing musician Elizabeth Ziff: “Honestly, I’m queer more than I am gay. I’m peripheral. I’ve never been conformist, I’ve never been status quo, it’s never even entered my brain. I’ve been in a band for 25 years, that’s what I’ve done. Traveled the world, fucked, got wasted, been political, and created.”
Kelis goes from R&B to disco with her new single, “Acapella”.
The new Honda Accord Crosstour commercial caught Jess’ attention for more than one reason. It features “Pata Pata” by South African singing legend Miriam Makeba.
In her Audiostraddle debut, Jess Gitner writes about The Magnetic Fields’ eccentricities, gender-bending lyrics and return to folk as she reviews their forthcoming album, ‘Realism’, which drops Jan 26.
Dr. Gaga – or – How I learned to stop worrying and love Lady Gaga, other people, and dancing.
An Horse and Kaki King will be touring the US together. Arcade Fire singer Régine Chassagne has a moving editorial on her home country of Haiti. Ke$ha has the top chart spot. Plus, Vampire Weekend’s new album, Coachella 2010, a video from Orianthi, and so much more!
Your favorite lesbians are helping Haiti, conservative commentators are on our sides, Gaga loves us, Rosie wants to make out with Sue Sylveste, Maureen Dowd talks to our favorite Prop 8 Trial lawyers, Megan Mullaly joins “Party Down,” Gender Puzzle film looks at the science of gender, Queen Latifah’s sexuality analyzed via winterwear, GenAlso, some celebrities kissed!