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Before there was Amy Lee, Lzzy Hale, Taylor Momsen and Maria Brink, there was Joan Jett, Patti Smith, Poly Styrene and Kathleen Hanna. Generation after generation, these rock stars and others in their position have dreaded receiving what has become an inevitable label of “female-led,” “female-fronted,” “women in rock” or “female rock.” While all of […]

As Everything Unfolds first burst onto the scene with their 2018 EP, Closure, in large part due to Charlie Rolfe’s piercingly clean vocals and incredible range. Packing intense shrieks and emotional hooks into the five-track EP, the star of the show was Rolfe’s voice and what she sings about. Though they pull inspiration from real-life […]

Phoebe Bridgers and I were digital friends first. We followed each other from afar, orbiting gravitational loops of likes and story views before somehow aligning at the cosmically precise degree to which we still met strangers from the internet. This feels fitting, or almost fated: A lot of the time, Phoebe reminds me of the […]

The meteoric rise of nü metal’s brightest new stars Tetrarch has been a compelling show for the scene around them. Taking their name from a governing body of four people, the Atlanta upstarts made their world-dominating intent loud and clear from the onset. Fourteen years later, their plan is coming together nicely.  That plan, however, […]