It’s been a good month for women and it’s been a good month for music.  Kim Gordon‘s memoir, Girl in a Band, hit bookstore shelves in late February, and this past week Carrie Brownstein announced that her memoir, Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl, will come out in the fall.  Brownstein recently did a hilarious live interview with Gordon, in which the two discuss the pervasive and engrained… Read More

At the tiny bar/music venue called the Monkey House in Winooski, VT, there’s a bathroom stall in the girl’s room that has some graffiti scrawled about Screaming Females frontperson Marissa Paternoster. It reads “M. PATERNOSTER IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL TALENTED LADY I KNOW”  Every time I go to the Monkey House for a show I use this stall, and every time… Read More

“Are you from Mahwah?” “No, but I am from New Jersey” “Oh, you’re better than me then, I’m from Brooklyn.” This is probably the only instance in which being from New Jersey has delivered me sincere humility and respect from a New Yorker, let alone some guy from Brooklyn.  But in what kind of absurd… Read More