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Miss Marnie, or Her Majesty Shredding

Fall begins: sun­streaked school­buses, pumpkin beers fer sale, Obama in Martha’s Vine­yard, crabby home­less, and, of course, some great upcoming releases. Put away your girl­pants, and get ready to put on your girllong-johns.

Girls Names

Girls Names came at a good time: just when all these “girl” bands were get­ting stale, we get another girl band worth our ears.

iggy pop, janelle monae and more: girlpants gets opinionated

It is with interest that I’ve been fol­lowing this weird week (month) of bizarre endorse­ments – does it not seem like everyone is shilling for someone these days? Some are artistic col­lab­o­ra­tions, some are out-of-genre forays, some are fundraisers, and some are straight-up curious wtf moments (like when Bob Dylan teamed up with Victoria’s Secret). […]

Amanda Palmer reacts to justice (as to everything) with exuberant Twittering

Yes­terday, Amanda Palmer (of the Dresden Dolls and also of a kind of bril­liant solo album and recent col­lab­o­ra­tion with Jason Webley called Evelyn Evelyn) led an aggres­sive, Mel-Gibsoned Twitter cam­paign to make a big announce­ment: after sev­eral years of imbroglio with the less than sup­portive Road Runner Records, she has finally been dropped from […]

Chris Knox benefit show, Jeff Mangum, Yo La Tengo etc

Last year, New Zealand musi­cian Chris Knox (of Tall Dwarfs fame) suf­fered a series of debil­i­tating strokes. You have doubt­less heard about the ben­efit album, which fea­tures an wide cat­a­logue of artists like Will Oldham, Jay Reatard, and Girl­pants favorites the Moun­tain Goats, all cov­ering songs from Knox’s impres­sive back cat­a­logue. When Pitch­fork announced there […]