Apr 02, 2014 By Frank Valish Web Exclusive

Dum Dum Girls’ third full-length album, Too True, represents a new chapter in the musical life of frontwoman Dee Dee (who used to go by Dee Dee Penny, but now prefers no surname). After the tragic death of her mother, which informed 2011’s Only In Dreams, Dee Dee slowly started to exorcise her pain and hurt. The band’s subsequent End of Daze EP found her More

Apr 01, 2014 By Matt Fink Issue #49 - February/March 2014 - Portlandia

Sharon Jones admits that she didn’t want to do the video for “Stranger to My Happiness,” the second single from her new album, Give the People What They Want. More

Apr 01, 2014 By Laura Studarus Lou Reed

At first listen, one wouldn’t necessarily draw a line between Spandau Ballet and Lou Reed. More

Mar 31, 2014 By Matt Fink Issue #49 - February/March 2014 - Portlandia

Sharon Jones has always been a fighter. Though she has been singing her whole life, doing talent shows and singing backup on some obscure albums in the ‘70s and ‘80s, she had to fight for anyone to think she could be more than a former Rikers Island corrections officer with a booming voice. More