Process

When I'm looking for the next artist for my music column for my college's feminist music column, I never really know what I'm looking for. I generally have an eye out for women and women-fronted groups, but I don't necessarily want to discount people because of their gender. I've actually been very open to the idea of featuring a guy for once.

I run into a lot of good music on my journey to find the topic of my next column, and I always feel unsure about who I'm going to choose. Until I find it, that is, and then it just seems ridiculous to have imagined anything else would work. I love that I pretty much always end up finding the perfect thing, an artist whose work I really care about and connect with. But I find plenty of other good stuff, too, even those aren't what I find most useful for my particular mission. I won't give too many of my potentials away, because who knows.



I was very excited to find The Depreciation Guild, The Depreciation Guild, and the free album on their site for download. I haven't gotten a chance to listen to it, but I was really siked even though it doesn't really fit for the column. It's sort of Crystal Castley but different.

And you can check out Marnie Stern's myspace to hear her album, too. I was really really excited to find out that she had a new album, she is freaking amazing, and the obvious choice. So to be continued on that one.