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Betty Davis

Weird For a Black Girl

As a kid, in the way that other kids love sports or are certain that they’re going to be a movie star someday, I became

Julia HOlter

Julia Holter: Pop Wisdom, Unraveled

Beneath a massive amphitheatre in Berkeley, Julia Holter is sequestered in her dressing room. Shoeless, clad in glasses and great big headphones, she’s expertly settled

littler madeline meyer

The Myth of the Band

It’s probably because I’ve spent most of my life writing that it’s only now, as I’m in a band, that I’m feeling the effects of

Sammus

More Than Nerdcore

Since 2010 Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo has been rapping and self-producing under the name Sammus. Working as a third and fourth grade teacher in Houston at the

Sean Nicholas Savage has become water

“I’m a freak—yeahhh!—wild and free,” is the liberated croon-and-screech refrain of Sean Nicholas Savage’s latest single, “Propaganda.” It’s a powerful affirmation from a pop savant