A quartet of teenage girls was onstage at the Knitting Factory, the Brooklyn club. Playing guitars and wearing mini-skirts, they did a tuneful pop cover of “I Wish I Was Him,” written about the 1990s alt-rock heartthrob Evan Dando and given a generational flip by these long-haired 14- and 15-year-olds who called themselves Toy Sugar. Kathleen Hanna ( Read more... )

Rihanna has found herself in the center of controversy again over one of her music videos.

Before premiering the video to her latest single, the reggae-tinged revenge ode “Man Down,” on BET's "106 & Park" on Tuesday, the singer took to Twitter to say it would have a "very strong underlying message 4 girls like me."

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Apologies that all the UK content seems to come from the Guardian, haha. Also, One Direction are a UK pop-act formed through The X Factor and GAY is a big London gay club.

Is there only One Direction for G-A-Y?Visitors to London's gay district, Soho, may have been surprised on Saturday to see the streets thronging with hordes of young teenage ( Read more... )

Last week, Reba McEntire covered Beyoncé on the Country Music Awards. The song: "If I Were a Boy," as made popular by the R&B star in 2008."When I got the song and the lyrics, I thought it was an incredible song," the country singer said. Her recording of "If I Were a Boy" appears on her new album, All The Women I Am and also made Reba a viral ( Read more... )

Nicki Minaj is hip hop’s newest “it” girl - so why does it seem like her schtick has been done before? Oh, that’s right, because it has ( Read more... )

Miley's New Video: Parents' Council Would Like To Tame It
by Chris William

Has Miley Cyrus finally gone so far with her increasingly sensual image that she's been condemned by her own father?

Well, no, not exactly. But her racy new music video, "Who Owns My Heart?," has been slammed by the Parents Television Council. Funnily enough, when you check ( Read more... )

The story is an all-too-familiar one: On Labor Day weekend, a Guatemalan immigrant named Manuel Jamines was shot in the head and killed by LAPD officers. The police claim the man charged at them with a knife, but at least one eyewitness says he was unarmed. The killing has inflamed long-simmering tensions between the police and immigrant and ( Read more... )

Burma's answer to 90s British pop group the Spice Girls challenges expectations under the country's ruling military junta ( Read more... )

 Janelle Monáe turns rhythm and blues into science fiction


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On Being a Black Feminist MetalheadArticle by Keidra Chaney, published in 2000 ( Read more... )