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Lindsey Rhoades

Lindsey Rhoades is the founding Editor-In-Chief of AudioFemme. She has written for The Village Voice, Stereogum, Brooklyn Magazine, Impose, Complex, and others. You can often find her playing pinball in local dive bars and laundromats around Brooklyn.

Mexican Summer's 2021 Looking Glass Singles Provide Words of Wisdom for 2022

Given the continuing chaos that 2021 had to offer, many of us are still struggling to find a way forward three weeks into the new year. Once again, Brooklyn imprint Mexican Summer offered some delicately-rendered advice in the form of their continuing Bandcamp-centric Looking Glass singles series....

AF 2021 IN Review: Our Favorite Albums and Singles of the Year

If you went into 2021 with high expectations, you weren’t alone. Even if it was hard to feel optimistic this time last year, it certainly seemed as if things could get no worse. Live music did return, after all – though with the appearance of Delta, and now Omicron, the joyful noise comes with a...

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Composer Uèle Lamore Fans the Flames of Mass Appeal With "Breathe" Video

Echoey percussion, enigmatic synth and...

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Casper Skulls Build Monument to Memory on Sophomore LP Knows No Kindness

Playing outdoors with childhood pals, a neighbor shot her best friend's father seemingly unprompted. St-Pierre testified at the trial, then buried the memory deep. On her...

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Alt-Rock Duo Mediocre Exorcise Pushover Tendencies With "Mattress Bitch" Premiere

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Zzzahara and Ynes Mon Join Forces on Debut U.S. Velvet Video

A.-based musicians Zahara Jaime and Collin Davis couldn't help but react explosively once their powers combined. Jaime has been hard at work on their solo project under the moniker Zzzahara, as well as...

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Portland Pop-Fusion Duo Foamboy Investigate Digital Alienation With "Logout"

After a year (and some change) of world-wide lockdowns, in which we've been mostly isolated, our social interactions limited primarily to digital realms, those visions - both...

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Michelle Rose Makes Her Own Dreams Come True "One Promise at a Time"

Fans of the show are probably already humming (or belting) its singular refrain: "I am...

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Alisa Amador Stays Afloat by Taking Time to "Slow Down"

Her songcraft is deeply personal, examining her intersecting identities, but there's...

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Brooklyn Grunge Upstarts Hello Mary Shine on Latest Single "Evicted"

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New Orleans Piano Paragon Laura Fisher Premieres Solo Dreampop Single "Fiction"

As a touring musician (and someone who travels for work generally) Fisher had been monitoring the oncoming pandemic since the beginning of 2020, and though it happened a bit earlier for her than for...

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Poise Offers Compassionate Blueprint for Resilience With "New Kind of Love" Premiere

When we spoke on the phone, she said that the overarching theme that ties Vestiges...

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Penelope Trappes Completes a Haunting Three-Album Opus on Matriarchal Healing and Self-Empowerment

She didn’t intend to commit an actual murder of course – just to use an anonymous woman’s corpse as a...

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Billie Marten Turns a New Leaf on Flora Fauna

Not yet 22, the British singer-songwriter spent her mid-to-late teens releasing...

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Blue Cactus Find New Meaning in Making Music With Stranger Again LP

"I remember talking about this after we knew what songs we...

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Audiofemme's Own Mandy Brownholtz Set to Release Debut DIY Novel Rotten

"Now I’m in this position where I have to talk about myself and things that I’ve created; it’s this peek into my brain that I’ve never really allowed people to have, and it’s scary."...

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Fever Queen Plunges Into Deeper Connection on "Taste of What It Is"

It's regrettably easy to get sucked in to the cycle of surface-level validation we get from scrolling through social media - but Eleanor Rose Lee, aka Fever Queen, has a simple solution: "The world's gone shallow/Find the ones who care." It's the opening line of her latest single "Taste of What It...

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Biianco Is the Ex-Slaying, Banger-Producing BFF Everyone Deserves

And when you need a reality check, she's the type to...

That Brunette Celebrates New Single "Capricorn Moon" With a Song for Every Star Sign

"The sign of Capricorn is known...

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Izzy Heltai Finds Authenticity in Letting Go With "My Old Friends"

"I hate in-between spaces and I hate limbo and I hate non-concrete things," he admits on a phone call with Audiofemme. Of course, over the past year, we've all found ourselves in pandemic limbo, unable to make any kind of...

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Elise Davis Lets Worry Melt Away on New Single "Summertime"

She was in the final mixing stages of her 2018 sophomore record Cactus, a manifesto on her life as a perpetually single...

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Nicky Egan Returns With a Slice of Cali Soul in "Back to You" Video

That was certainly true for Los Angeles-based soul singer Nicky Egan, who relocated to the West Coast after seven years living and playing music in New York City, mainly with funk...

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How Mia Doi Todd Built Her Music Life, Song by Song

She dispenses those gems freely on "Music Life," the title track to her stunning 12th album, depicting the lifestyle...

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Virginia Wing Cycles Through Urge, Addiction and Shame on Latest LP Private LIFE

It was a silly thought - fleeting really - but it's...

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Miss Grit Shreds Guitar (and Self-Doubt) on Imposter EP

But Imposter, her second EP under the moniker Miss Grit, explores those pervasive feelings of inadequacy as a means of exorcising them,...

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Sasha and the Valentines Cast a Spell With Premiere of Silent-Film Inspired "Witches" Video

.. or is it? Austin-based quintet Sasha and the Valentines want you to consider those feelings as carefully as they have on their debut LP, So You Think You Found Love? out April 16 via Oof Records. They've released...

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Mountainess Eulogizes Songs Ruined by Bad Break-Ups With "Soundtrack"

From attending concerts with loved ones to sharing mixtapes that say what we can't, or even just...

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Kaiti Jones Premieres Video for Procrastination Anthem "Gettin Around to It"

Bicycle got a flat tire. We've heard all the excuses - and some of us have even made them. In her first-ever music video, Kaiti Jones investigates the reasons we keep putting things off: "I'm always searching for seeds that I can sow/Am I a gardener...

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Famish Premiere Subtly Anime-Inspired Famished EP

Many of us have spent pandemic isolation diving into books, movies and music; for Denton, Texas musician Dominik Kozacek, a survey of anime and manga classics inspired their latest batch of songs, while stir-craziness led to the formation of Famish, a loose group of tight-knit friends who left...

AF 2020 IN Review: Our Favorite Albums and Singles of the Year

In a year that's been like no other for the music industry, it feels a bit weird to make a best of 2020 list - there have been no tours, venues and clubs across the globe are in danger of closing their doors for good, release schedules were shuffled beyond recognition, and musicians have had to...

The Looking Glass Singles Series Reflects the Best of Brooklyn Imprint Mexican Summer

There's no question that one of the best things to come out of this absolute shitshow of a year has been Bandcamp Fridays; the first Friday of every month, the music streaming platform waives its revenue share to provide an extra boost to struggling artists who use it to promote their music. Though...

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Emily Edrosa Dives Deep on Another Wave Is Coming LP

"I could just see the rest of...

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Elizabeth Moen Makes Space for Reflection With "Studio Apartment"

Over the last several months, she's taken some time to examine her own holding patterns - especially those that have held her back - as she settles into city...

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El Perro Del Mar Reclaims Artistic Dignity With FREE LAND EP

musician Zahara sips a bubble tea in front of a lavender wall covered in graffiti

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Zzzahara Confronts Death With DIY Ethos in "Starry Eyed" Video Debut

k.a. Zahara Jaime of The Simps and Eyedress) proclaims, almost proudly, "I'm already on my way/One foot out, and one foot in the grave." This morbid hokey pokey isn't mere ambivalence; it's a vehicle for Zahara's...

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Land of Talk Makes Boldest Statement yet With Indistinct Conversations

With the release of Indistinct Conversations at the end of July, Land of Talk - and its driving force and sole constant member, Lizzie Powell - gained a lot of clarity (despite the soft-focus implications of the album's title). For the LP, the Montreal-based trio returned to the original lineup of...

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Little Hag Premieres "Encore (Live From Asbury Park)" Ahead of Bar/none Compilation LP

It was still a few minutes 'til midnight that hot summer evening, but the sound guy brought up the lights and house music instead. In the crowd, inspiration...

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Eyedress Remains Wholesome Amid Big Changes on Dreamy Let's Skip to the Wedding LP

Born in the Philippines and raised in the US from the age of six, Vicuña spent...

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Jess Cornelius Reconciles the Life She'd Planned With a New Reality on Distance

Though Teeth and Tongue began as a solo project,...

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Lonelytwin Premieres Pretty, Nostalgic Breakup Bop "My Heart"

One of Sweden's biggest exports, in music at least, is smartly written electropop, with heavyweights like Robyn, Tove Lo, Lykke Li and Icona Pop effortlessly churning out gems with an uncanny ability to permeate the zeitgeist. Assuming her place in that lineage comes Stockholm-based...

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Earleine Premieres "Rita," a Poppy Murder Ballad for the Sober Movement

Rita wasn't another performer on the bill or a mutual friend, but an alter-ego that had been emerging from Wright's blackout drunkenness for years without her ever knowing. Someone who...

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Brooklyn Supergroup Rhinestone Mine Campy but Heartfelt Country Aesthetic on Debut EP

As she developed a taste for the...

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Grace Sings Sludge Keeps Creepin' on in "Friend to All" Video

For the physical release of her fifth solo album (and first recorded in a studio) as Grace Sings Sludge, Cooper illustrated a 32-page booklet, which, she explains, wasn't deemed long enough to...

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Sun Cycles Prep Debut EP With Premiere of "Into Confusion"

This is the feeling Jessica Hottman wanted to capture on her debut EP as Sun Cycles, Imaginary, out later this...

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How Support From Her Sister (and Aaron Dessner) Brought Eve Owen's Debut LP to Life

Don't Let The Ink Dry, the lush, haunting debut album from British singer-songwriter Eve Owen, is a testament to how far young women can go when they feel supported. Struggling with loss and alienation at school, Owen spent her summer holidays in Hudson, New York with The National's Aaron Dessner,...

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Johanna Warren Comes Into Her Power With Chaotic Good

Her musical idols - Elliott Smith, Kurt Cobain, Nick Drake - all died as tortured young poets. Warren hadn't sung in front of...

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Deau Eyes Details Latest Plans for Visual Album Debut With "Full Proof" Video

She and her brother Michael had been drinking margaritas all day to cope with the loss. On top of everything, Ali was still reeling from the cancellation of SXSW; her musical project Deau Eyes was...

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Razor Braids Promote Pastel-Hued Positivity With "Nashville" Video

When life gives Hollye Bynum lemons, she makes lemonade. Her tart-yet-sweet rock band Razor Braids is all the proof you need; it didn't really come together until a minor head injury sidelined the operatically-trained singer, forcing a recovery slow enough she had time to teach herself to play...

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Audiofemme Presents: Backstage Pass With Lola Pistola

On International Women's Day this year, Audiofemme curated a showcase of talented musicians to play the opening of For The Record, a portrait series showcasing women in the music industry shot by Ebru Yildiz, at Ridgewood venue TV Eye. Our videographer Molly Mary O'Brien shot a candid interview...

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Audiofemme Presents: Backstage Pass With Parlor Walls

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