Tag: kim gordon
10 times different artists collaborated to make inspiring music
September 1963: A young R&B combo called the Rolling Stones are rehearsing, preparing for a recording session. Their manager, former Beatles publicist Andrew Loog...
10 women who made the ’90s one of the most memorable decades of music
Among all the music that the ‘90s brought us, there’s one common denominator—kick-ass women vocalists. From the emergence of grunge to the golden age...
Kathleen Hanna’s Tees4Togo highlights the space between art and activism
Kathleen Hanna led the charge of the riot grrrl movement and helmed pioneering bands, including Bikini Kill, Le Tigre and the Julie Ruin. Aside...
20 books written by or about women musicians to add to your reading list
When searching a bookstore for music memoirs, it’s likely that the shelves are packed with men such as Kurt Cobain, Johnny Cash and Keith...
10 times musicians designed their own album cover art
We may be taught not to judge books by their covers, but are we always so kind to albums? In a sea of iconic...
15 bands who are crucial to the history of noise music
When it initially blasted into the world from New York’s Lower East Side almost concurrently with punk in 1977, it was dubbed no wave....
5 Dr. Martens collabs that have embraced every alternative subculture
At this point, Dr. Martens—Docs, DMs, whatever you want to call them—have been around for 74 years. And, for almost all of that time,...
10 alternative albums by women that have influenced music since the ’90s
As some of our favorite pop-punk bands continue to show us, we have a lot to thank 1990s alternative music for. Not only did the mainstream...
10 ‘Simpsons’ band cameos that’ll make you wish you lived in Springfield
As the longest-running animated television show in history, The Simpsons has been around for the rise and fall of grunge, the emergence of pop...
These 10 SST Records releases defined ’80s punk and beyond
These 10 albums represent SST Records’ greatest achievements. Greg Ginn began Solid State Tuners at age 12 as a mail-order electronics business still thriving...
