Let’s get straight to the point: the purpose of this column will be making art (in this particular case music videos) when you got no bucks. I feel strongly that ambition never has to be shunted aside just because you got holes in your pocket, as long as you have friends (who hopefully will work […]
When I heard that the booty quotient in Mastodon‘s video for “The Motherload” was off the charts, rivaling Nicki Minaj or Rihanna’s recent offerings, I was ready for a 21st century “Girls Girls Girls,” rife with cliché raunch and classic metal misogyny. What I saw completely took me by surprise. More shocking than the sheer magnitude […]
I was a tweenager in the early 90’s when Warrant’s “Cherry Pie” was on heavy rotation. Dripping pies flew into spandex crotches and teased bangs and red lips tantalized my virgin eyes. Bobbie Brown was the first video vixen I can remember, a real mouthful of sugar and spice. Her power was in her hair […]
A dark, experimental ballet set to the music of En†er†ainmen†, Ecstatic Vision and Canada will be performed for one night this Saturday at Philadelphia’s AUX performance space. Curated by the artist collective Unraveled, Penumbra‘s two-hour choreographed dance piece will be surrounded by an atmospheric installation to create an evening of synaesthesia and sensual pleasure. We […]
Elliott LaRue is a rare breed of performer whose message is his medium. While his music draws from hip hop and R&B heavy hitters, his lyrics eschew the cliché misogyny for a reimagined masculinity that is cognizant of women’s issues to the core. We spoke with LaRue about his upcoming one man show that revolves […]
My sister, Mariam, is used to flooded inboxes. As an attorney, humanitarian, and prolific activist, she developed a reputation as a go-to person. She, much like the rest of my immediate family who escaped Soviet-infested Afghanistan, led a life tied to what seemed like a moral obligation to do as much for those left behind […]
Polymath provocateur Lydia Lunch has a storied artistic hysterie that should be required reading (and listening) for any radical humanist and sex positive feminist. Unlike some of her No Wave and punk rock peers, Lunch’s recent output just as easily reveals the mesmerically incisive bite that defines her iconic works from decades past. Her latest record, a […]
Leaking topless photos, sexing in limousines, and twerking while wearing a diamond-encrusted bra will get you crowned “Queen of THOTS” (current slang for hoe) in a hot second. Rihanna’s topless photo on a French magazine cover got her shipped to THOT Land, where Beyoncé has been exiled since the release of “Partition.” Lots of folks […]
Our first encounter with San Cha was last fall, when she gave a viscerally stunning performance while wielding a big black dildo and a microphone like a possessed high priestess, owning the stage of a small Oakland club. After that kind of introduction, it’s only fitting that the singer/performance artist grace our screens as a […]
May was primarily known as a month where we celebrate our moms until iconic San Francisco sex shop Good Vibrations christened it “International Masturbation Month” in 1995 to combat the stigma against self-pleasuring (the mother of all solo sins). In the spirit of springing forth on these fresh, dewy days of a new season, we […]
