Posts tagged indie rock
With When I Get Home, Solange Knowles Reaffirms What It Means to Be a Black Woman, and an Auteur
With When I Get Home, Solange Knowles Reaffirms What It Means to Be a Black Woman, and an Auteur

The album is an attempt, conscious or unconscious, to recalibrate the way black women and art have been pejoratively interlaced.

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Kicking and Screaming: the Rejection of Tired Tropes by Indie Rock’s Next Generation of Women
Kicking and Screaming: the Rejection of Tired Tropes by Indie Rock’s Next Generation of Women

The resulting candor is a measure of how layered and arresting women’s experiences can be for those songwriters brave enough to remain unflinching.

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A Coming of Age in 26 Songs: on Womanhood and Emotional Awakenings
A Coming of Age in 26 Songs: on Womanhood and Emotional Awakenings

These songs remind me what troubled times make easy to forget: that womanhood is a language that is often thankless, but always, always worth it.

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With Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino, Arctic Monkeys Have Finally Blended with The Last Shadow Puppets
With Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino, Arctic Monkeys Have Finally Blended with The Last Shadow Puppets

As Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino has come along, the question isn’t how we got here, but rather: how didn’t we get here sooner?

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