Who says Bono has the corner on Music’s Philanthropic market? Bono does, of course, but who else? Not Your Girl In Music. One thing that has always been true is that when , musicians are often front and center, rolling up their sleeves and pitching in to support causes near and dear. The recent push […]
Best Coast + Liz Phair stand with Planned Parenthood
You know how sometimes you’re on stage performing a benefit concert you organized in order to give back to an org that you depended on and is under attack for stupid political reasons, when all of a sudden one of your personal heroes stops by to duet a few with you? Well, so does Bethany Cosentino. […]
Lily Allen covers ‘Going to a Town’
Lily Allen, darling U.K. import of the early-aughts, performed a haunting live cover of Rufus Wainwright’s “Going to a Town” at Women’s March London this year. Today she released her version with a black-and-white video directed by Bafic that includes footage of her performance and the anti-Drumpf demonstrations from the London Women’s March rally. One day […]
2016 was the Worst
Phew: midnight. It is now 1st January, 2017 and while I didn’t get an awkward kiss with a stranger I am relieved to report, after spending the last several hours breathlessly refreshing google alerts that our irreplaceable, 94-years-young national treasure Betty White is still counted among the living. It doesn’t bring back anyone we lost, […]
Presidents of the United States of America Disband
On day 8 of our national election hangover, 90’s Seattle alt-rockers The President’s of the United States of America are piling on. Today their 3rd and final breakup, which apparently happened a year ago, was made official via a post on the band’s facebook page. Given how close after the election this was revealed, its […]
(Give Me a) Leonard Cohen After-Life
WELL GEE 2016, JUST WHEN I THOUGHT YOU COULDN’T GET ANY WORSE… YOU GO AND TAKE LEONARD COHEN TOO?? DIDJA WANNA KILL KURT COBAIN AND JOHN LENNON AGAIN WHILE YOU’RE AT IT? UGH, I HATE YOU, YOU’RE THE ABSOLUTE WORST YEAR IN ALL OF HUMAN EXISTENCE!!!! YOU, 2016, HAVE NO COUTH. NONE. Yes dear readers, […]
Bowie Snags Four 2016 MTV VMA Nominations
David Bowie added four more posthumous award nominations to his tally today, this time for the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards. Bowie was recognized in four professional categories for two music videos. His video “Blackstar” was nominated for Best Art Direction, and “Lazarus” secured nods for Best Direction, Best Cinematography and Best Editing. If there […]
Own Your Own Frances Bean Cobain Original Print
Frances Bean Cobain, the sole offspring of Nirvana frontman /Voice of a Generation-X Kurt Cobain and Hole frontwoman Courtney Love, announced today on her twitter and instagram channels she is making prints of her original artwork publicly available for purchase at online retailer depop. Selling my art via depop.com/space_witch666 A photo posted by […]
Punk Progenitor Alan Vega, Suicide Frontman, Dies at 78
Another casualty to 2016: the Year the Music Died fell today with the passing of Alan Vega, former frontman and co-founder of proto-punk forerunners, Suicide. Vega was 78 and continued making and performing music to the very end. His death was announced earlier today by Henry Rollins, reading a statement issued by Vega’s family. As Suicide, […]
Own a Piece of David Bowie’s Art Collection
EXCLUSIVE – First look at David Bowie’s private art collection – heading for Sotheby’s auction. #BowieCollector pic.twitter.com/ASSaX6Mcyn — BBC Radio 4 Today (@BBCr4today) July 14, 2016 Preview World Tour: London: 20 July–9 August Los Angeles: 20–21 September New York: 26–29 September Hong Kong: 12–15 October The Exhibition: Bowie/Collector Sotheby’s London 1–10 November All exhibitions are […]
Jarvis Cocker on #Brexit
More compelling evidence on my teenage self’s impeccable taste in musical crushes. Not only is the Pulp frontman dreamy AF and capable of turning a lyrical phrase that’s equal parts sex and wit, Jarvis is a rather clever commentator to boot. Be still, my (sometimes irregularly) beating heart! So yeah, smart guys who make me […]
Billboard’s Open Letter to Congress backed by 200 Music Heavies
In the early hours of June 13, 49 people were killed during Latin night at the gay nightclub Pulse in Orlando, Florida by a man who legally purchased an assault rifle despite his being on an FBI terror watchlist. Days earlier, an obsessed fan shot and killed singer Christina Grimmie during a post-concert autograph session. […]
DadsBand, Fat Mike style
Parents, amirite? So, I’m perusing instagram on Voldemort’s birthday when I come across this gem from none other than Fat Mike of NOFX. Really cool to see pro-femme support from my homegrown punk hero. I wonder if she gets embarrassed when he starts to sing at the grocery store, or if she just moshes along. […]
Farewell, Sweet Prince
RIP PRINCE June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016 Yes, I’m afraid it’s true. Moments after my loot crate arrived with the much-anticipated ‘Bowie as Labyrinth’s Jareth’ tee in a suspiciously purple palette, KCRW announced that Prince had been found dead at his Paisley Park compound in St. Paul. He was just 57 years old. […]
Rolling Stone Got Punk Rock Wrong. Again.
Let’s start here: calling Gang of Four’s magnificent Entertainment a punk record is like calling the Soft Machine a British Invasion band. Rolling Stone has just published a list of the 40 Greatest Punk Albums of All Time. So of course the list was riddled with records that had only the most tenuous connection, if […]
2015’s Best Underground + UnSpotifyable Albums
If you believe everything you read outside music+moxie, the music industry was “saved” not once but three times in 2015 — first by Taylor Swift, then by Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre, and once more by Adele. Crisis averted, and we can all rest easy knowing that Record Label execs can put away those golden […]
Brit-Pop Ate Itself
Oasis and Blur may mark the official beginning of Britpop with the twin classics of Definitely Maybe and Parklife, respectively, but some people — particularly, seemingly, in music-writer circles — claim Pulp’s Different Class as the genre’s pinnacle. It’s the smartest of the bunch, as intricate and sprawling as Parklife, and armed with just a […]
Lou Reed, Problematic Punk Icon, Dead at 71
When a famous man dies, his critics tend to evaporate (at least temporarily). The type of person who disparages the newly dead always comes across like an opportunistic coward, and every postmortem potshot inevitably has the opposite effect. When a famous man dies, you don’t mention the qualities that made him a problem. There is […]
Drummer Appreciation
New Year, new me? Nope, not so much. New Year, New Editorial Structure for Music+Moxie? Abso-freaking-lutely! Kicking off 2012, we’ve promised to focus on features, or the stories, profiles and interviews that get us the most excited about music today. We have made a vow to bring you quality profiles and interviews with non-music […]
The Beast in MTV
MTVS TEEN WOLF UNLEASHES ITS NEW WEB SERIES TODAY “Teen Wolf” unveils “Search for a Cure,” its all-new 6-episode web series, via an exclusive premiere of the first two chapters on AT&Ts Facebook page today, expanding to MTV.com and AT&T U-verse properties tomorrow. Following these premier events, the four remaining chapters will be doled out […]
U2’s Bono Attempts To Win My Favor
I don’t know if you’ve seen this yet but it would seem that word of my “I BLAME BONO” and “BLAME IT ON BONO” tees has reached Bono himself… Naturally, the rock-star is so distressed by this news that he’s trying everything he can think of to get back into my good graces, including attempts […]
lovestrong: a lesson to learn from the real deal.
Oh my dear, darling Indies, please take note: Forget for a second the ocean of talent this girl has in her pick-hand alone, this simple little heartfelt email = her Best EPIC WIN yet, and is exactly why her ‘making it’ is in the bag. This small note is that oh-so-important personal connection with your […]
Light’s Out! Show’s On!
I sat in on Lluther’s first rehearsal on US soil two nights ago and instantly knew i’ve become part of something huge. What I heard in the small, rented space at Hollywood’s Swinghouse Studios was enormous. And while I filmed the band, sitting right at the center and in the thick of their contagious, energetic […]