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Reviews · Musique Boutique

Big Joanie, Eszter Balint, Dawn Riding

Welcome to Audiofemme’s record review column, Musique Boutique, written by music journo vet Gillian G. Gaar. The last Monday of each month, Musique Boutique offers a cross-section of noteworthy reissues and new releases guaranteed to perk up your ears. Four years after their great debut album,...

Musique Boutique

Julie Driscoll, Robin Holcomb, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Honey and the Bees

Welcome to Audiofemme’s record review column, Musique Boutique, written by music journo vet Gillian G. Gaar. The last Monday of each month, Musique Boutique offers a cross-section of noteworthy reissues and new releases guaranteed to perk up your ears. If no one told you it was a reissue, you might...

Reviews · Musique Boutique

Twinart, Jill Kroesen, Autour De Lucie, Alina Bzhezhinska, Brandi and the Alexanders

Welcome to Audiofemme’s record review column, Musique Boutique, written by music journo vet Gillian G. Gaar. The last Monday of each month, Musique Boutique offers a cross-section of noteworthy reissues and new releases guaranteed to perk up your ears. Coxsackie, New York-based rarities reissue...

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Blondie, Nora Brown, Faye, Dreckig, Bobbie Gentry

Welcome to Audiofemme’s record review column, Musique Boutique, written by music journo vet Gillian G. Gaar. The last Monday of each month, Musique Boutique offers a cross-section of noteworthy reissues and new releases guaranteed to perk up your ears. Blondie pulled off one of the greatest pranks...

Interviews

How Holly Foster Wells, Granddaughter of Peggy Lee, Keeps the Iconic Singer-Songwriter's Legacy Alive

She was representing no one but herself, but she nonetheless was determined to face off against one of the largest media conglomerates in the country — Walt Disney Productions. In one corner, there was...

Reviews · Musique Boutique

Jna, Jaws of Brooklyn, Liza Minnelli, Student Nurse, Doris Troy

Welcome to Audiofemme’s record review column, Musique Boutique, written by music journo vet Gillian G. Gaar. The last Monday of each month, Musique Boutique offers a cross-section of noteworthy reissues and new releases guaranteed to perk up your ears. Put on JNA’s debut EP, I Have Good Taste But...

Musique Boutique

Linda Martell, Petrol Girls, the Inflorescence, Diamanda Galás

Welcome to Audiofemme’s record review column, Musique Boutique, written by music journo vet Gillian G. Gaar. The last Monday of each month, Musique Boutique offers a cross-section of noteworthy reissues and new releases guaranteed to perk up your ears. In 1970, Linda Martell made history when she...

Reviews · Musique Boutique

Ann Wilson, Nancy and Lee, Fanclubwallet, Stoney and Meatloaf

Welcome to Audiofemme’s record review column, Musique Boutique, written by music journo vet Gillian G. Gaar. The last Monday of each month, Musique Boutique offers a cross-section of noteworthy reissues and new releases guaranteed to perk up your ears. Ann Wilson has one of the most recognizable,...

Interviews · Woman of Interest

Kanoe Miller Keeps Hawaiian Tradition Alive As Last Hula Dancer Standing

Kanoe performing at House Without a Key // Photo Credit: Gillian Gaar Growing up, Kanoelehua Kaumeheiwa often felt embarrassed by her Hawaiian first name. Even then, Hawaii was a very multi-cultural place (she herself was of Hawaiian, Chinese, and German heritage) and though her fellow students had...

Musique Boutique

Oceanator, the Linda Lindas, Suzi Quatro, Flummox

Welcome to Audiofemme’s record review column, Musique Boutique, written by music journo vet Gillian G. Gaar. The last Monday of each month, Musique Boutique offers a cross-section of noteworthy reissues and new releases guaranteed to perk up your ears. Brooklyn-based musician Elise Okusami has...

Musique Boutique

Juanita Euka, Beverly "Guitar" Watkins, Karen Dalton, Irma Thomas

Welcome to Audiofemme’s record review column, Musique Boutique, written by music journo vet Gillian G. Gaar. The last Monday of each month, Musique Boutique offers a cross-section of noteworthy reissues and new releases guaranteed to perk up your ears. Born in RD Congo, raised in Buenos Aires, and...

Musique Boutique

Natalia King, Bitch, and Songs of Yoko Ono

Welcome to Audiofemme’s record review column, Musique Boutique, written by music journo vet Gillian G. Gaar. The last Monday of each month, Musique Boutique offers a cross-section of noteworthy reissues and new releases guaranteed to perk up your ears. “Well, they call me a hard-headed woman/I tell...

Musique Boutique

Eliza Gilkyson and Janis Ian

Welcome to Audiofemme’s record review column, Musique Boutique, written by music journo vet Gillian G. Gaar. The last Monday of each month, Musique Boutique offers a cross-section of noteworthy reissues and new releases guaranteed to perk up your ears. Eliza Gilkyson’s Songs From the River Wind...

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Spell Songs, Full Bush, Eva Gardner, Mary Wilson and a Bonus Book

Welcome to Audiofemme’s monthly record review column, Musique Boutique, written by music journo vet Gillian G. Gaar. Every fourth Monday, Musique Boutique offers a cross-section of noteworthy reissues and new releases guaranteed to perk up your ears. Spell Songs II: Let the Light In (Quercus...

Musique Boutique

Abba, Joni Mitchell, Body Unltd

Welcome to Audiofemme’s monthly record review column, Musique Boutique, written by music journo vet Gillian G. Gaar. Every fourth Monday, Musique Boutique offers a cross-section of noteworthy reissues and new releases guaranteed to perk up your ears. The songs of ABBA are like comfort food — and...

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Alice Tm, Sarah Mcquaid, Onetwothree

Welcome to Audiofemme’s monthly record review column, Musique Boutique, written by music journo vet Gillian G. Gaar. Every fourth Monday, Musique Boutique offers a cross-section of noteworthy reissues and new releases guaranteed to perk up your ears. Alice TM is described as the queer, art-pop...

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Laura Love, Low, the Sweet Inspirations, the Beths

Welcome to Audiofemme’s monthly record review column, Musique Boutique, written by music journo vet Gillian G. Gaar. Every fourth Monday, Musique Boutique offers a cross-section of noteworthy reissues and new releases guaranteed to perk up your ears. Laura Love is the kind of performer who doesn’t...

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Leslie Winer, Goldie and the Gingerbreads, Laura Nyro

Welcome to Audiofemme’s monthly record review column, Musique Boutique, written by music journo vet Gillian G. Gaar. Every fourth Monday, Musique Boutique offers a cross-section of noteworthy reissues and new releases guaranteed to perk up your ears. Leslie Winer recorded a remarkable album in...

Interviews

Alice De Buhr Says New Fanny Film, the Right to Rock, Is a Tool to Cement the Band's Legacy

Director Bobbi Jo Hart traces Fanny’s journey from the early '60s formation of Sacramento-based band the Svelts (Filipina sisters Jean and June Millington's first act), to...

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Dolphin Midwives, Anika, Olivia Newton-John in Toomorrow

Welcome to Audiofemme’s monthly record review column, Musique Boutique, written by music journo vet Gillian G. Gaar. Every fourth Monday, Musique Boutique offers a cross-section of noteworthy reissues and new releases guaranteed to perk up your ears. The new Dolphin Midwives album, Body of Water...

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Joan Armatrading, Hard Nips, the Montreux Years

Welcome to Audiofemme’s monthly record review column, Musique Boutique, written by music journo vet Gillian G. Gaar. Every fourth Monday, Musique Boutique offers a cross-section of noteworthy reissues and new releases guaranteed to perk up your ears. As Joan Armatrading recently told the New York...

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Teke::teke, Moon, Chai, the Go-Go's

Welcome to Audiofemme’s monthly record review column, Musique Boutique, written by music journo vet Gillian G. Gaar. Every fourth Monday, Musique Boutique offers a cross-section of noteworthy reissues and new releases guaranteed to perk up your ears. TEKE::TEKE’s Shirushi (Kill Rock Stars) is a...

Musique Boutique

Elizabeth King, Marianne Faithfull, Merry Clayton and Evie Sands

Welcome to Audiofemme’s monthly record review column, Musique Boutique, written by music journo vet Gillian G. Gaar. Every fourth Monday, Musique Boutique offers a cross-section of noteworthy reissues and new releases guaranteed to perk up your ears. Elizabeth King’s life was always centered around...

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Massive 50Th Anniversary Reissue of Plastic Ono Band Sessions Positions Yoko Ono As Musical Maverick

Yoko Ono portrait by Iain Macmillan at the St. Regis Hotel, New York, September 1971. © Yoko Ono Lennon On October 10, 1970, John Lennon was busy working on his first solo album at EMI Recording Studios (not yet rechristened “Abbey Road,” after the Beatles’ album of the same name). The sessions had...

Interviews · Woman of Interest

How Maila Nurmi's Niece Unearthed the Hidden History of Goth Icon Vampira

Maila Nurmi came to Hollywood in the 1940s, dreaming of fame and fortune. And after more than a decade of ups and downs, she had, briefly, attained it. She achieved international renown as Vampira, the world’s first horror movie TV host, setting the standard for what a horror queen femme fatale...

Reviews · Musique Boutique

Witch Camp (Ghana), Loretta Lynn, Nashville Ambient Ensemble, and Leandrul

Welcome to Audiofemme’s monthly record review column, Musique Boutique, written by music journo vet Gillian G. Gaar. Every fourth Monday, Musique Boutique offers a cross-section of noteworthy reissues and new releases guaranteed to perk up your ears. “Hatred Drove Me From My Home” was the first...

Interviews · Woman of Interest

Photographer Sherry Rayn Barnett Shot Music History As It Happened

All photos © Copyright by Sherry Rayn Barnett; Author photo courtesy of Adam Michaels Having spent over half a century working as a photographer, you’re sure to have seen Sherry Rayn Barnett’s work at some point. Maybe on such album covers as Nina Simone’s Let It Be Me, Toni Basil’s Best of Mickey...

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Tele Novella, Lael Neale, Lau and Dusty Springfield

Welcome to Audiofemme’s monthly record review column, Musique Boutique, written by music journo vet Gillian G. Gaar. Every fourth Monday, Musique Boutique offers a cross-section of noteworthy reissues and new releases guaranteed to perk up your ears. Tele Novella hails from Lockhart, Texas (33...

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Arlo Parks, Tamar Aphek and Juana Everett

Welcome to Audiofemme’s monthly record review column, Musique Boutique, written by music journo vet Gillian G. Gaar. Every fourth Monday, Musique Boutique offers a cross-section of noteworthy reissues and new releases guaranteed to perk up your ears. There’s been a lot of anticipation for the...

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Amy Winehouse, Tancred, and the Bangles

Welcome to Audiofemme’s monthly record review column, Musique Boutique, written by music journo vet Gillian G. Gaar. Every fourth Monday, Musique Boutique offers a cross-section of noteworthy reissues and new releases guaranteed to perk up your ears. Amy Winehouse’s sudden death on July 23, 2011,...

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Partner, Dust Bowl Faeries, and Evelyn “Champagne” King

Welcome to Audiofemme’s monthly record review column, Musique Boutique, written by music journo vet Gillian G. Gaar. Every fourth Monday, Musique Boutique offers a cross-section of noteworthy reissues and new releases guaranteed to perk up your ears. Canada’s Partner have returned with their second...

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Jessie Wagner, Loma and MORE

Welcome to Audiofemme’s monthly record review column, Musique Boutique, written by music journo vet Gillian G. Gaar. Every fourth Monday, Musique Boutique offers a cross-section of noteworthy reissues and new releases guaranteed to perk up your ears. You might have encountered Jessie Wagner...

Janis Joplin: 10 Memorable Moments

On October 3, 1970, Janis Joplin was in the recording studio where work was proceeding on her next album, Pearl, dancing around the control room in delight as she listened to her band lay down the backing track for a song by her friend, Nick Gravenites, “Buried Alive in the Blues.” She planned to...

Reviews · Musique Boutique

Make More Noise!, the Neptunas, and L7

Welcome to Audiofemme’s monthly record review column, Musique Boutique, written by music journo vet Gillian G. Gaar. Every fourth Monday, Musique Boutique offers a cross-section of noteworthy reissues and new releases guaranteed to perk up your ears. The 1970s punk explosion in Britain rewrote the...

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Maggie Herron, Tanya Donelly and the Parkington Sisters, and Norma Tanega

Welcome to Audiofemme’s monthly record review column, Musique Boutique, written by music journo vet Gillian G. Gaar. Every fourth Monday, Musique Boutique offers a cross-section of noteworthy reissues and new releases guaranteed to perk up your ears. Before the darkness of the pandemic descended,...

Interviews

Bassist Kathy Valentine Discusses the Go-Go's Documentary, Writing Her Memoir, and "Club Zero"

Ginger Canzoneri couldn’t believe it. The band she managed, the Go-Go’s, was one of the hottest groups in Los Angeles, regularly drawing adoring, sellout crowds at top clubs. But despite the acclaim, they couldn’t seem to land a record deal. Even more flabbergasting was the reason why. “I had a...

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The Pretenders, Ganser, and PJ Harvey

Welcome to Audiofemme’s new monthly record review column, Musique Boutique, written by music journo vet Gillian G. Gaar. Every fourth Monday, Musique Boutique offers a cross-section of noteworthy reissues and new releases guaranteed to perk up your ears. The latest album from the Pretenders comes...

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June Millington Looks Back on Fanny As Real Gone Music Preps Reissue of 1970 Debut

When Fanny was released in 1970, it was notable for being more than just the self-titled debut album of the Los Angeles-based rock act. It was also the very first album, by an all-female band, released by a major label. In some ways, that was surprising; women had certainly been involved in rock...

Reviews · Musique Boutique

Junkshop Britpop, Bessie Jones, and MORE

Welcome to Audiofemme's new monthly record review column, Musique Boutique, written by music journo vet Gillian G. Gaar. Every fourth Monday, Musique Boutique offers a cross-section of noteworthy reissues and new releases guaranteed to perk up your ears. It was the summer of 1995, and the cool kids...