Ani DiFranco was gonna host a songwriting retreat at a plantation! Yup. A PLANTATION. Here’s what happened when her fans found out about that.

New tracks drop full of homophobic slurs. Someone needs to get this boy a thesaurus.

1.5 hours of extended pleasure courtesy of songs from and in the spirit of “Orange Is The New Black.”

I’ma let you finish, but Autostraddle had one of the best MTV VMA liveblogs of all time! Of all time!

This shit is bogus and fucked up.

This week marks the 44th anniversary of Woodstock, the music festival that changed the world.

This month’s edition is all about chick bands – badass women who play their own guitars, program their own beats and hit their own things with their very own sticks.

Jenny Owen Youngs just officially came out on EveryoneIsGay.com!

“Say What You Mean” is full of some of the catchiest, saddest and most upbeat, vulnerable breakup songs you’ll ever dance around your living room to.

You oughta know that I don’t go to sleep to dream, and that I’m the only one who’ll walk across the fire for you. Do you love me now? Fuck you (and your untouchable face, natch).

New song from The National! Plus tracks from Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Cold War Kids, queer musician Ellie Herring and also Antigone Rising, who give you permission to blame it on the whiskey.

Today we’re going to look past Beyoncé and into her fucking awesome band and kind of swoon there and talk about things.

A photo diary of Najva’s SXSW experience, in which she did (almost) everything wrong and still had a great time.

You’ll learn more about Coolest Cucumber Vero Sanchez in this 1,900-word interview than you did in two months’ worth of The Real L Word, and to be honest, we’re ok with that.

Happy ‘Heartthrob’ Release Day! Process your feelings here.

“A soundtrack about voting, choosing, overcoming obstacles, our country’s amber waves of grain, our country’s stupid and fucked-up political atmosphere, different states we’re all voting in and just plain old people from America partying all at the same time – because that’s my America, bitches.”

I prescribe this playlist as an antidote to most shitty ex situations.

Let’s take a video-guided tour of the movement called ‘female rap’ with appearances by Salt-n-Pepa, Aaliyah, Lil’ Kim and more! Also, there’s a playlist.

Carmen’s Team Pick: “Another Day” is the first and only released track from her forthcoming mixtape “Spirit Finger Gazebo.”

Odd Future’s Syd tha Kid and Matt Martian’s video from their upcoming “Internet” album is 99% sweet sweet girl-on-girl culture and 1% something else.