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Sexism etc – female music critics wanted for Collapse Board
It seemed a shame to let this Facebook thread pass unnoticed. Here’s an edit. Oh, and just a small aside. Why is it that the vast majority of well-known chefs are male? Female music critics wanted...
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Women, Men, and Music: the XY factor (part one)
Let me begin with some residual New Year bonhomie by saying that the New Yorker‘s Alex Ross is not the problem here. It’s just that you sometimes need to take an inventory of the symptoms before...
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Women, Men, and Music: the XY factor (Part Two)
Part One of this article identified a split in approaches to music between the intellectual and abstract and the personal and emotive. This is, of course, a false dichotomy, as is the concomitant view...
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Beyoncé – 4 (Columbia)
by Scott Creney You may not hear a better heavy metal album all year than Beyoncé 4. And if you don’t think Beyoncé sings heavy metal then you’re probably a racist, or a sexist, and you should go...
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Balam Acab – Wander/Wonder (Tri-Angle)
By Scott Creney Four years ago, The Wire named Burial’s Untrue the album of the year. That was my introduction to dubstep, so it’s beyond surreal to see the genre mutate into a bunch of US jocks and...
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U.S. Girls – Gem (FatCat)
By Scott Creney This album haunts me for reasons that may or may not have nothing or everything to do with the album itself. On one hand Gem reminds me of so many things that I love — Ronnie Spector,...
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