Years ago, I fell in love with the music created by queer feminist power pop rockers The Butchies (Kaia Wilson, Melissa York, and Alison Martlew). Their first full album Are We Not Femme? is on rotation in the soundtrack of my post-college music experience. Six years later, a more mature …
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Autocasting
Want to jump on the podcasting bandwagon but don't have the tech tools needed to do it?
Read More »A Prairie Home Companion® – 30th Broadcast Season Celebration
"It's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon…"™
Read More »The Moaners – Dark Snack
Melissa Swingle (formerly of Trailer Bride) and Laura King offer up their own blend of guitar and drums rock on their first CD Dark Snack. The recording has the usual line-up of heartbreak, bitter, love-sick, and social commentary songs that music fans have come to expect from punk-influenced rock. Swingles …
Read More »Cheryl Wheeler – Defying Gravity
Cheryl Wheeler has a knack for infusing her songs with intense emotion using her voice alone. I was first attracted to her music through humorous songs like “Potato,” but I’ve come to love the heart-breakers as well. Defying Gravity kicks off with one of those heart-breakers (“Since You’ve Been Gone”), …
Read More »The Chicago and New Haven Women’s Liberation Rock Bands and Le Tigre – Papa, Don’t Lay That Shit On Me
Second-wave feminists in the late 60’s and early 70’s had a rock and roll voice, sung by bands such as the Chicago and New Haven Women’s Liberation Rock Bands. Precursors to today’s riot grrl and queercore bands, they broke through and gave women in the liberation movements their own rock …
Read More »Infusion by Clint Smith
A valiant first effort at fiction writing by technical author Clint Smith, but it falls short of its promise.
Read More »Cafe Haiku by Zenbu Nometa and Jeffrey Goldsmith
An American photographer and a Japanese poet met in a New York City café.
Read More »Mia Doi Todd – Manzanita
A sonic treat meant to be savored over and over again.
Read More »Degunking Your Email, Spam, and Viruses by Jeff Duntemann
New email users and those overwhelmed by the size of their inboxes will find this book useful.
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