“THE PEOPLE NEED TO UNITE AND SAVE THIS FUCKIN’ PLANET!”

It’s official: I am in love with Patti Smith. Not only did the 63-year-old performer, dubbed the “Godmother of Punk,” kill it singing her poetry-songs and pounding her electrified acoustic guitar during the 10th Anniversary weekend of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, she also used the opportunity to rekindle a sense of our valuable place in [...]

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Girls! Girls! Girls!: Essential metal for feminists

I’m resurrecting some past articles this week because I’m on vacation (what are the summer wildflowers in rural Massachusetts? We shall see….). This one was a sidebar to a larger article about women in metal for the Fall 2008 Bitch magazine “Loud” issue. I was not thrilled about it: It was a quick overview [...]

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