Rita Ora has been released from Jay Z’s record label Roc Nation, after settling a lawsuit filed against them last year in which she deemed their partnership an “orphaned relationship.”
Grimes has just released the music video for “California,” the third track from Art Angels to be set to visuals after the dual video “Flesh Without Blood/Life in the Vivid Dream” and “Kill V. Maim.” Directed by Grimes and her brother Mac Boucher, the video draws on the same tensions as the song itself: whimsy and…
In an interview with Rolling Stone published this week, Grimes says she’s unsurprised about the Dr. Luke fiasco, as she’s personally experienced multiple cases of men trying to blackmail their way into sex.
While accepting her trophy for best female solo artist at the 2016 Brit Awards on Wednesday in London, Adele used her time on stage to state her support for Kesha.
Kesha responded to the recent outpouring of support from fans and peers today in a Facebook post, where she refers to her sexual assault lawsuit against Dr. Luke as an issue that’s “bigger than just me.”
Dr. Luke went on an ill-advised Twitter tirade on Monday afternoon, addressing the lawsuit filed by his former protégé Kesha. On February 19th, a judge denied Kesha’s request for a preliminary injunction, ruling that the artist is still contractually tied to Dr. Luke despite her sexual assault claims against him.
After a judge ruled on Friday that Kesha is contractually bound to producer Dr. Luke, the man she’s accusing of sexual abuse, his lawyers claim Kesha is using social media to taint Luke’s reputation in what they’re calling a “trial by Twitter.”
Months after Rita Ora filed a lawsuit against Jay Z’s label Roc Nation for neglecting her music, the company has filed a $2.3 million counter suit.
The sexual assault allegations against music industry publicist Heathcliff Berru this week have inspired the creation of a Tumblr account that encourages women to write about their experiences with abuse and sexual harassment in the music business.
After founder/CEO Heathcliff Berru resigned from Life or Death PR amid sexual assault allegations, the remaining staff is leaving to launch a separate venture “that bears no ties to Heathcliff Berru or the Life or Death name,” according to the company’s president Nick Dierl.
On Sunday, January 17, Amber Coffman, a member of the band Dirty Projectors, was having breakfast with two girlfriends at a bar in Silver Lake, Los Angeles. They spent part of the time venting about their experiences with harassment from men, a conversation that picked up the following night at Coffman’s house between…
Last night, Lady Gaga was honored as Woman of the Year at Billboard’s Women in Music event. During her acceptance speech, Lady Gaga outlined the difficulties women face breaking into the music industry in a very Gaga-like way.
Just two minutes into Charli XCX’s documentary about feminism in pop, The F Word And Me, Charli is seen doing press before her set at the Glastonbury Festival
in London
. After a female reporter asks her which essential item she’d bring to a festival (“Vodka,” says Charli), it cuts to an off-camera male interviewer…
It’s obvious just by looking at the lineups for any given music festival lately that dudes make up the majority of performances.
In case you'd forgotten, the patriarchal Internet hive-mind loves to send rape threats to women who try to take a stance against rape culture ("Rape culture is not a thing! I will threaten you with rape until you agree with me!" is the sickeningly flawed mentality here, more or less). The latest example of this…
Get ready to frown sadly at your computer screen. Pragaash, the first all-girl rock band in Indian-controlled Kashmir, has been forced to break up after receiving violent threats via social media and orders to cease by Kashmir's state-appointed cleric Mufti Bashiruddin Ahmad.
As an unabashed Bruce Springsteen fan, I've always loved the nuance he brings to his characters. Though he's sometimes portrayed as a heartland caricaturist, the people in his songs and the stories that he tells have more shading than the bombast of some of his songs would make you think.
Artists like Britney, Rihanna and Katy Perry are known for singing, and putting on a show, but not for doing heaps of actual songwriting. Brit singer Kate Nash wishes we could change that. Nash, whose snarky pop hit "Foundations" went to number 2 on the charts in the U.K., is a fan of a clever turn of phrase. In…
A while back, we asked what makes a feminist song. But now everyone from Joan Jett to Jezebel contributor Marisa Meltzer is weighing in on another question: what's "girl power," and which rock acts really promote it?
