Gender
Gudrun Gut breaks down Baustelle
For three decades, Gudrun Gut has remained a pivotal figure in Berlin's underground music scene, from 1980 as an early founder of Einstürzende Neubauten, to her role as multitalented member of Malaria! (just one of her many bands and collaborations), to the long-running Ocean Club radio show with Thomas Fehlmann, and now, her new... »
Kitties and titties attack! The collage work of Christa D’Angelo
Born in South Korea, raised in NYC and having studied in Krakow, Christa Joo Hyun D'Angelo is a visual artist now living and working in Berlin. Her current exhibition 100% Napalm is a reaction toward media-propagated ideals and visual oversaturation, leading the viewer to ponder the power we give to ubiquity. The focal point... »
Trying to define “witch house” can be a real drag
Triangles and crosses and slashes, oh my. Years since the initial awkwardness of saying !!!’s name out loud, we now have a whole new slew of bands to worry about: B▲L▲M▲C▲B, †‡†, //TENSE//, oOoOO, and the list goes on. My first thought was, "Oh, some kids discovered the special character palette and decided to... »
Bloody Mary launches Dame-Music
DJ Bloody Mary (nom de guerre of Marjorie Migliaccio) expatriated from France to Berlin in 2005, and since then her career has taken off on an international level. Aside from playing in top clubs around the world, she’s spent time in the studio, and after several 12″ EPs, her efforts culminated last year with... »
Are we not divas? We are MEN! Q&A with JD Samson
JD “the girl with the mustache” Samson is perhaps best known as member of Le Tigre, having joined the “Deceptacon” trio in 2001. JD’s main focus for the moment is MEN, integrating themes of gender inclusivity and queer rights into catchy, danceable pop beats. MEN were the opening band for Peaches’s 2009 U.S. tour,... »
LoneLady, MEN and other femmes mix it up for Berlin festival
Tomorrow, Friday the 2nd of April, marks the start of Les Femmes s’en mêlant, a women’s indie music festival that's going thirteen years strong in Paris and freshly exported for a Berlin edition. Now, je parlez non français, but my best attempt at translating the festival’s name would be “Women get mixed up”, and... »
AGF & Gudrun Gut make live debut, plus Angie Reed and Cobra Killer in Berlin
The Wie Es Ihr Gefällt (“As She Likes It”) festival in Berlin continues this weekend, the 19th and 20th of March, at Maria am Ostbahnhof. Whereas the first part surveyed women’s contributions to electronic music in an academic and experimental framework, the second part will focus more on contemporary artists with a pop angle.... »
Peaches strips down Jesus Christ Superstar
In February, electro-rapper Peaches announced her plans for Peaches Christ Superstar, a one-woman rendition of the biblical rock opera, performing each and every role herself, backed only by pianist (and longtime friend and collaborator) Chilly Gonzales. Considering the film version runs at 108 minutes, that sounds about as simple as, say, walking on water... »
Boy/Grrrl Revolutionary: JD Samson
Riot grrrl is an underground DIY movement that has helped to kick-start lives for young females who have wanted to rise above any reliance on men and truly show the world what they were made of. As soon as their ethics hit the world in the early 90s, grrrls rallied together to communicate female... »
Not really news: Men have no standards when it comes to sex
While it's no major surprise that men tend to be more desperate than women to get laid, some new interview-based research reveals some interesting figures. When a man would be offered sex by a woman, even a slightly unattractive one, he would be (on average) nearly 12 times more likely to say yes than... »