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Liz Phair's new album, Funstyle, is currently available for purchase on her website, and in order to entice you to buy it, she's posted a single, "Bollywood," which I think you should listen to before we go any further: More »
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Several readers directed us to The AV Club's list of "well-intended yet misguided feminist anthems" — inspiring us to list a few more successful ditties, and to wonder what makes a feminist song anyway. More »
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The large amount of pop songs giving props to sex and blow jobs almost drown out the ones about oral pleasures given to women. Here, we give a rundown of songs in which ladies singing the praise of being eating out. More »
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• Dita Von Teese wears two Elie Saab couture creations in her limited-run Paris show. Is it strange that the only people who can afford couture these days are burlesque artists and Saudi princesses? [IHT]

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People — writers, fans, music executives — don't really know what to do with an aging female musician. I'm not talking about someone like Celine Dion or Cher, whose popularity was never based on some amorphous idea of coolness or relevance. I'm not even talking about our beloved Liz Phair, who still plasters short, tight dresses on her meticulously muscled frame and projects an image of socially desirable sexuality. I'm talking about Patti Smith, who was interviewed by Deborah Solomon in this weekend's New York Times Magazine and asked more than one question about her use of conditioner and reigning status as "the queen of split ends." And even more so, I'm talking about Kim Deal, the lead singer of the Breeders and former Pixies bassist who headlined a big summer concert yesterday in Brooklyn to support the Breeders' April release, Mountain Battles. More »
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Yesterday Jessica and I went to see the musician Liz Phair play an intimate concert in commemoration of the 15th anniversary of the highly underappreciated cult album Exile In Guyville. The crowd was somewhat disappointingly subdued, chiefly because they couldn't really sing along word-for-word as one usually does in such situations because Liz Phair has a very, very, very low voice. (Occasionally you'd hear little yelps from fangirls, desperately singing along in the next octave up like Liz Phair as told to Juliana Hatfield karaoke.) (And yes some of those yelps came from us!) Anyway, we attempted to Liveblog the excitement via Twitter, but the subterranean venue had no cell phone reception. How nineties! So we've attempted to recreate the experience in all its shimmeringly, sensually poignant totality the only way we know how anymore: IM exchange! In short: don't believe the haters! It was fun. Well, in that "despite the fact we are really fucking old" way! More »
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Jess and I are going to see Liz Phair. We'll be twittering about it. Come, experience our fabulous lives vicariously, one misspelled 14-word text message missive at a time! More »
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Jane Czyzselska thinks that women in music are rarely referred to as geniuses. The Times of London writer claims that Rufus Wainwright gets plied with the "genius" accolade frequently, while similarly blessed female musicians like Kate Bush, Bjork and Goldfrapp are not given the genius label. Um, Jane? Goldfrapp? You're really arguing that Goldfrapp is a "genius?" Maybe the term genius is being tossed around entirely too frequently, regardless of gender. That made me doubt Czyzselska's original thesis, so I decided to google Jezebel fave "Liz Phair" and "genius" and found this incredible review of Phair's third album whitechocolatespaceegg by Laura Sinagra. I checked out the Billboard Hot 100, and as five of the top ten albums are by women, maybe we need to lament the lack of "genius" females in music writing, not music making. More »
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Moe is not the only Phair-lover on staff; I, too, listened to Exile In Guyville at least once a week for the entirety of my college career, not to mention the time spent on whitechocolatespaceegg and Whip Smart. I was shaped by Phair, but not just by her alone — I also spent many, many ponderous hours with Sleater-Kinney and Kim Deal and Belly and lots of other disaffected, apathetic, introspective white ladies. Carrie Brownstein, former Sleater-Kinney guitarist was on NPR yesterday, talking about the "sound of a generation" — i.e., how music can define a specific era. Much of the talk focused on the difference between Generation X's musical preferences and Generation Y's. Although I am technically part of Generation Y, as its often defined as those born between 1982 and 2002, my musical tastes are very staunchly X, and hearing Brownstein talk made me wonder: what happened to all those sad young indie rock girls? More »
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It is the fifteenth anniversary of Exile In Guyville. What more, at this point, could we possibly say about Exile In Guyville? WRONG QUESTION, bitches! (Better question: Why on earth isn't Jezebel devoting a post to each song on Exile In Guyville? Answer: Why, what a capital idea! How did you go about becoming a blowjob queen, Anna?) Anyway, Liz (incidentally a Hillary supporter) was on NPR today talking about the album, and the interview — salient quote: "I had this crush on this guy in the scene…" — would have probably brought a tear my eye if Liz hadn't so effectively schooled me in the ways of repressing emotions. Fifteen years ago, see, I was a fourteen year old passenger in the carpool of Francis Chung whose most defensible CD was probably En Vogue's "Funky Divas." I was a virgin and a nerd who hadn't learned to pluck my eyebrows or roll my kilt correctly or swear off barrettes. Francis Chung was a dork too but he liked "alternative" music, and he, and that one line in "Fuck And Run" — Even when I was seventeen, fuck and run, fuck and run, even when I was twelve… — would become my "salvation" of a sort. More »
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• Nelson Mandela personally called Amy Winehouse and asked her to sing at his birthday party on June 27! The former president of South Africa phoned her! Bono, Elton John and Annie Lennox are expected to perform as well. This UK paper says,"Let's hope [Amy] bee-hives herself!" Yuk, yuk. [Mirror]

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Your favorite non-Bjork 90s indie rock chanteuse Liz Phair is writing a novel! This way hopefully, Avril Lavigne's evil production team can't fuck it up and she will have to do that all herself. We learn this courtesy the New York Times Book Review, which mini-profiled her (and had someone draw a really flattering illustration of her) to accompany her review of Black Postcards, a memoir by Luna frontman Dean Wareham. [NYT] More »
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Liz Phair is reissuing Exile In Guyville on some label owned by Dave Matthews that sounds like the name of a wrestling fraternity (and that, to its credit, also gave us Ben Kweller). Exile in Guyville is not that great a conversational topic since I think we can all agree that to deny its greatness is on par with killing puppies and date rape, but the question is: when did you stop listening to Liz? I totally held out until she colluded with those malevolent Avril Lavigne Svengali producers The Matrix. (You know how I'm all "Fuck discretion?" Yeah, well, everyone has their limits and mine is writing a song called "Hot White Cum.") Anyway, name your favorite Liz song here; bonus points if it's post-Exile like the song referenced in my headline! [Pitchfork] More »
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Crappy Valentine's! And welcome to our all-time favorite hateful love songs post. The thing about love songs is that they only seem good when you're really really miserable thanks to love. In fact, if you're in a relationship and you find yourself listening to, say, "Divorce Song" or "I Am Trying To Break Your Heart" or "Unsatisfied" or "She's Gone"...or "I Want You" or "Song Cry" or anything Smiths or off that pink Beck breakup album or that suicidal wrenching Jennifer Hudson number from Dreamgirls...yeah, you're maybe not going to be in that relationship long because that song is actually trying to break your heart. Anyway! In the spirit of this, which is to say, the fact that the only thing any of us single people ever got from love was an iPod full of aborted dreams... More »
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