News

• 2/11/12 – Maura Johnson nails it in her Village Voice piece, “How Not to Write about Female Musicians: A Handy Guide.”

• 2/9/12 – Iconic Austin journalist Margaret Moser is clearly not a WIMP – but she’s down with the MEOW tribe!

• 2/7/12 – M.I.A. ignites Super Bowl controversy with a middle finger malfunction during Madonna’s half-time performance.

• 2/1/12 – Hit Like A Girl drummer contest opens today. The contest name is a little cringeworthy, but the prizes are cool.

• 1/30/12 – How did Lana Del Rey feel about the backlash? The day before her debut drops, she tells Rolling Stone, “I felt good about it.”

• 1/27/12 – Washington City Paper asks – where are the women and non-white media critics?

• 1/27/12 – Maura Johnston of the Village Voice on how the Lana Del Rey / Saturday Night Live debacle played out on the Internet. Could sexism have anything to do with it?

• 1/25/12 – The piracy battle excludes artists, says cellist Zoe Keating to Digital Music News. “Neither side has my best interests in mind.”

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• 1/24/12 – Some good news (for a change). Although only 5% of films of the top 250 films made since 1998 have been made by women (yikes!), Sundance Film Festival reports that 27% of this year’s films at Sundance were made by women.

• 1/19/12 – Much as we love The Onion, sound guys are not the only ones who can rock a pony tail.

• 1/18/12 – Sinead O’Connor has checked herself into the hospital for depression, reports The Mirror. This news comes after the collapse of her 16-day fourth marriage  and Twitter feeds claiming she was “not at all well.” We wish Sinead a quick recovery!

• 1/18/12 – Marcia Ball will be appearing on an upcoming episode of the HBO hit series, “Tremé.”  She filmed a small speaking part and performed two songs with her band in New Orleans yesterday.

• 1/18/12 – Music Critic Everett True takes the Australian press to task for clueless, sexist comments in a PJ Harvey concert review.

• 1/10/12 – Coachella has just announced its line-up for 2012.  What’s new this year – and sure to be controversial – is that the festival will now be held two consecutive weekends with the exact same line-up both weekends – April 13-15 and again April 20-22. Women on the bill include Cat Power, Santigold and the ubiquitous Florence and the Machine.

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• 1/6/12 – Reuters reports that Etta James, who is terminally ill and suffering from leukemia, was released from the hospital on Thursday and is home resting in California. James is 73.

• 1/5/12 – The San Francisco Weekly reports the death of Jennifer ‘Miro’ Anderson, founder of the pioneering punk band The Nuns, at age 54.

• 1/2/12 – Girls Rock Austin counselor Esme Barrera, 29, was murdered in her home after returning from a New Year’s Eve party. No arrests have been made so far but friends have written tributes to Esme and a fund has been established to help her family with expenses. Please donate.