Results for: be the change
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Reviewing Tegan & Sara: Sainthood Track-by-Track
Tegan & Sara’s new album Sainthood is now streaming live from their myspace. In part two of our Sainthood review, we review Sainthood album track-by-track in obsessive detail so we can all talk about it constantly forever!
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Autostraddle Fall Music Preview 2009: La Roux, Tegan & Sara, Basement Jaxx, Jay-Z Among Hotly Anticipated Releases
Basement Jaxx, Tegan & Sara, Michelle Branch, MONSTERS OF FOLK, Lights, La Roux have new releases, you should check that out
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Welcome to Autostraddle’s New Music Blog, AUDIOstraddle!
Introducing Autostraddle’s new music blog AUDIOSTRADDLE, where we’ll bring you more content more often about bands you love and bands you should know. We debut with Tegan & Sara’s NYC concert review/set-list, The Gossip’s Portland show, and bands to watch including Fan Death, the xx, Lindsey Ray, The Cassette Kids and Don Diablo, Grant Smillie and Ruby Rose.
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Rachael Cantu Interview and ‘Far and Wide’ Album Review
Crystal and Intern Emily are here to give you a run-down on indie singer/songwriter Rachael Cantu’s second studio album, ‘Far and Wide’. Also! Rachael speaks with Audiostaddle about the pros and cons of being an independent artist, adding to the drama of Private Practice, and how stellar musicians like Tegan Quin came to play on the album.
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Tegan Quin of Tegan & Sara: The Autostraddle Interview(s)
Autostraddle chats with Tegan of Tegan & Sara about writing Sainthood, making eggs, throwing bras, touring Australia, playing so many standing room venues, and a little something we call “The Tegan and Sara Experience.”
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Tales of a Rock’n’Roll Runaway: On Tour With theSTART
Stef is privy to the best-kept secret in rock’n’roll, and it involves a kick-ass former Mormon who’s now a sick drummer.
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Beat on the Street: Brody Dalle Will Never Be Uncool.
Let’s be clear and honest right from the start: Brody Dalle is a badass woman. Brody Dalle is the frontwoman of Spinnerette, and she was clearly the only thing the kids came to see at their recent Bowery Ballroom gig.
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Pink’s “Funhouse: The Tour” Makes 58 Sold-Out Dates in Australia – The Autostraddle Concert Report
Photographer Stef Mitchell & Autostraddle Deputy Music Editor/Australian Specialist Crystal report from the trenches of the Outback’s Outbreak of Pink Fever. Lady Gaga Who? “Even the most passionate Pink fans couldn’t have predicted that this feisty pop star was capable of selling out a whooping 58 stadium shows in a country with only 21 million […]
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Beat on the Street: The Radical Potential of Dance Music
Stef wants to make you DANCE B*TCHES! Whatever you’re a fan of, she has a new recommendation for you. Especially for fans of “party time in general.” Amanda Blank, Girl in a Coma, Zambri and so.much.more!
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Beat on the Street: Stef-on-Kaki King
“Well, a friend of mine saw me playing at some point and said, ‘You know, it’d be interesting if you took paint and put it on your fingers and and left a mark of where your fingers traveled on the guitar.’ … I kind of took this idea for a minute and thought well, OK.. That was the first seed planted.”
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Listen Up World: Music is Our Hot Hot Fix #1
Your new monthly music round-up from girls who don’t live in America and therefore are not jaded by our incredible freedom. Muse, Beck, The Grates, The Cliks, Daniel Merriweather, Iron & Wine, Passion Pit, Regina Spektor, Paramore , Stars, Pink, The Butterly Effect, The Montreal Jazz Festival, David Bowie, Children Collide, The Vault and Sigur Ros.
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Robin Shoots Peaches and Fischerspooner
“Electroclash gained steam in 2001 and two of the first artists I got into were Fischerspooner and Peaches. Both are primarily queer acts that were formed in reaction as a response to the lame state of electronic music at the time. They are political; they are artistic; they are entertainment.”
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Lady GaGa’s New York Show: The Beat on the Street Cartoon Recap
Say what you want about this woman — she sings her heart out and dances like a maniac, and her stage show is worth every penny she’s put into it.
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Riese-on-Haviland Stillwell: Life is an Upright Cabaret
Haviland Stillwell, who you may know from the world-famous Haviland & Riese Vlogs, or perhaps from Broadway’s Les Miserables and/or Fiddler on the Roof, will be performing her one-woman spectacular of audio-visual singtastic delights, “West Coast Debutante” in Los Angeles at the Upright Cabaret on April 23rd. Because Haviland is both an international rising superstar and my BFF, I was able to sit down with her cyber-coastally and have a little AIM Chat about her big show, lauded on the website as: “a sassy night ranging from Kurt Weill to Madonna, from upbeat to out of control and beyond. Come see this versatile, charming and adorable “tight little ball of spunk, bad ass, and class.” Who doesn’t like tight little things? That’s right, we all love tight little things. Here goes!
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Beat on the Street: In Which Amanda Palmer Gets Dramatic, Stef Learns The Musical Saw
We’re totally fascinated with everything Amanda Palmer writes, sings, says, thinks or Twitters, so obvs we sent a spy to see her co-production “With The Needle That Sings In Her Heart” performed by the Lexington High School Drama Club.
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Beat on the Street: SXSW Captain’s Log #2
Stef’s suitcase finally arrived! She saw Devo and Amanda Palmer and Margaret F*cking Cho! Amanda asks if maybe internet silence is going to be the new punk for musical artists, and later barks like a dog at Margaret Cho.
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Hesta Prynn on Northern State and her new Solo Project – Beat on the Street
When we here at Autostraddle HQ heard that Hesta Prynn (alias Julie Potash) was among the illustrious performers at SXSW 2009, we knew immediately that she’d be a perfect candidate for our first Beat on the Street interview.
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Beat on the Street Meets the Thunder Down Under: Crystal & Stef Do This Week in Music
Crystal from Australia & Stef’s Beat on the Street team up to bring you this week in music, with lots of secrets too.
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Autostraddle Roundtable: Last Night a DJ Saved My Life
Because we’ve been serious at the Roundtable for the last two weeks, we went easy on ourselves this week and asked what song makes you jump up and scream OMG THIS IS MY JAM! at the club? You know, the club? Where all the girls go to get down?
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Beat on the Street: SXSW Captain’s Log #4 [Last Day!] – I Can Only Move to the Beat
Rachael Ray, Magic Tomato (it’s a food, not a band name), Girls Gone Wild, PJ Harvey, Rye Rye, Solange, BFF Little Boots, Perez Hilton dropping the C-word, the Kanye West Surprise, Yelle, and the drunken end of SXSW. There were alcoholic sno-cones!