1. Girl Power: The Nineties Revolution In Music by Marisa Meltzer. This book is perhaps more sociology than music criticism, a series of snapshots of feminism from the early nineties to present day; as such it touches on the tension between second- and third-wave feminists, the shifting terminologies/identities and mainstream appropriations thereof ( Read more... )

To give you Five Norwegian Chaps Singing a Parody Version of Wham!'s "Last Christmas" in nonsensical German:

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(Via justinhowe.)

Happy Glockenspielen' Holidays.

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81. Elektra: Assassin by Frank Miller and Bill Sienkiewicz.

82. Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes From the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 by Michael Azerrad. Another loaner from janradder. (I am a terrible book borrower, so I'm trying to get some ( Read more... )

I seem to have no capacity to write anything interesting or clever today, so I am stealing links from my f-list.

Via warren_ellis: Scientists may have located the seat of free will in the human brain. I don't know about you, but I am getting ready to exercise that part of my brain in order to run and hide from the scientists who are currently making plans to ( Read more... )

Pantera's "Walk" and Gwen Stefani's "Hollaback Girl" are essentially the same song.

Discuss.

Jan and Haddayr tagged me, so you all get to suffer.

Think of 15 albums that had such a profound effect on you they changed your life or the way you looked at it. These are the albums that no matter what they were thought of musically shaped your world. Get the idea now? Good.

1. The Mary Poppins Soundtrack, Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, et. al ( Read more... )

This meme is pretty apt because I am kind of obsessing over music right now in a weird way, like where I am sick of a lot of it and have a craving for songs that smell of smoke and dust and blood. I am feeling reticent about telling you which songs these are because I think they are trying to tell me a story and it's been a while and I don't want ( Read more... )

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11. Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares.
12. Standing Fast: The Autobiography of Roy Wilkins by Roy Wilkins and Tom Mathews.
13. Women, Culture & Politics by Angela Y. Davis.
14. Everyone in Silico by Jim Munroe.
15. Daughters of the North (AKA The Carhullan Army) by Sarah Hall.

16. Petal Pusher: A Rock ( Read more... )

The vid so good it had to be reposted. Via fengi, PJ Harvey and Bjork covering "Satisfaction."

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One idea here at Mumble Herder that I never managed to get together was "Ernie and the Elephant Review Albums That Were Never Made," in which Ernie (of Bert and Ernie) and an African elephant (of Loxodonta Africana) would expound at length on collaborations by unlikely artists, à la Kot and DeRogatis on "Sound Opinions." The first feature was ( Read more... )