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I am so excited that I actually scored tickets to see Bikini Kill in Los Angeles with my best friend May 2nd, that I have committed to posting about a different counter-cultural or revolutionary woman or group of women musicians every day until the show! This project began on Facebook and Instagram, and then […]

Music Review: Zelienople – Hold You Up (Miasmah, March 2020)

There has been so much incredible music in this insane year so far, and a lot of it perfectly soundtracks the times we are living in, despite being produced before we had any idea what our current situation would be. I have found it so difficult to focus in quarantine, that I am just getting […]

COME AWAY WITH EMD

Hello reader, A UFO has landed in the South Bronx and you are invited to get beamed up. This is the official end of this blog project. I got a proper domain with no awful ads and everything! If you want to follow my ongoing sonic adventures and analysis, COME AWAY WITH EMD is the […]

YO I AM ABOUT TO….

take over this dogwalking company, in order to fund my making music and writing about it without any weird cultural imperative to be dishonest or full of shit, AND IT IS A LOT OF WORK, AND I AM ALSO SPENDING 40 MINUTES PER LETTER WRITING TO IOWANS ABOUT WHY I THINK ANDREW YANG IS THE […]

I AM A HEART BULLY: LET ME IN, MOTHERFUCKER, I’M JUST TRYING TO LOVE YOU

Hi, So, I fucked up. This blog was supposed to end with me writing to you about my best friend and how geniously talented and revolutionary they are, but I was really tired and confused and disheartened at the end of my project. I also realized I could have gone to Seattle to see my […]

INTERNAL UPDATE: RECOVERY FROM TRAUMATIC DISASTER

Hi, In case you are wondering when you can expect more writing and for me to make good on all my PROMISES, e.g. this book about women who have been revolutionary to musical culture and this declaration of war on the Chicago Reader, please know you can still expect these things! I went through a […]

HYPE: YOUR FAVORITE SONG IN ONE MINUTE OR LESS, A NEW COOL PODCAST BY NEIL JENDON

My friend, Neil, is making this cool new podcast. He is DEFINITELY achieving his mission statement of creating my new favorite song in a minute or less with this number, “Roman Polanski Just Won an Award.” He is also responsible for my favorite thing someone said about me this week, one of the earliest supporters […]

I DECLARE WAR ON THE CHICAGO READER, OR: DO YOU WANT THE READER, OR DO YOU WANT THE TRUTH?

…LIVING TRASH FIRE. LIVING TRASH FIRE. Here and here are some examples of the Chicago Reader’s take on Riotfest. Also, here is the very excellent and thoroughly researched feature I wrote for that very publication that they did not want to commit to socially or politically OR PAY FOR. Bikini Kill Are Not the Revolution […]