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Punk Rock Memoirs To Inspire A Fearless, Creative Life

January is not necessarily going to be the big refreshing escape from the year we’ve had, going by the news and the pandemic numbers. It won’t be the celebratory holidays we may have anticipated months ago. But what hasn’t...

2019: The Year Kim Gordon Broke

In 2019, it can feel like everything’s been done five times over. But Kim Gordon manages to be provocative in seemingly effortless cool girl fashion. Take the video for “Airbnb,” the second single from the 66-year-old’s solo debut, No...

AF 2019 IN REVIEW: Our Favorite Albums & Singles of The Year

Every year I keep a running list of new album releases. The idea is that I’ll have new stuff on my radar, along with a go-to playlist if I’m feeling adventurous (or bored) and want to hear something new....

NEWS ROUNDUP: Pazz & Jop Lives, 21 Savage vs. ICE, and MORE

Pazz & Jop LIVES – Even if the Village Voice Doesn’t When I received my Pazz & Jop Ballot in December, I couldn’t have been more shocked.  I’d assumed that when the Village Voice shuttered in August, the music...

NEWS ROUNDUP: Taylor Swift Goes Goth, NYC’s Night Mayor, & More

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NEWS ROUNDUP: FKA Twigs, Kim Gordon, & Brian Eno

FKA Twigs Performs On Jimmy Fallon Watch the relentlessly unique FKA Twigs give a stunning performance of her song “Good To Love” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhX1X3eJlnE Stream M. Ward’s More Rain The singer/songwriter’s easy, smoke-filled...

Kim Gordon X-Girl

LOUD & TASTELESS: Kim Gordon

 Every Thursday, AF profiles a style icon from the music world. This week, check out Kim Gordon’s inspiring trajectory as prolific noise musician, visual artist, and fashion designer, peruse the looks she’s had over her incredible thirty-year career, and...

Kim Gordon Mike Kelley MoMA PS1

LIVE REVIEW: Kim Gordon closes out Mike Kelley’s Retrospective at MoMA PS1

[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_2″] [/fusion_builder_column][fusion_builder_column type=”1_2″_last] [/one_half_last] Sometimes the most provocative art is that which is pieced together from various, unusual mediums and outcasted found objects, speaking as it does to obsolescence, alienation, and a crush of cultural detritus....

Body/Head at St. Vitus

YEAR END LIST: AF’s Guide to Riot Grrrl’s Influence in 2013

It is a goddamn golden age for girl-fronted punk.  It’s not that there haven’t been important works by women in the ensuing years, but 2013 saw a Riot Grrrl Renaissance unlike anything since its early ’90s inception.  Back then,...