The Philadelphia Ten were a group of ten women artists who, in 1923, rebelled against the male-dominated Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts by organizing their own exhibition in Philadelphia.The group, consisting of painters and sculptors, including Alexandra Newman, Eleanor Abrams, Katharine Marie Barker, Katharine Hood McCormick, Lucile Howard, Margaret Ralston Gest, Marietta Wharton, Mary Smith Prize, Mildred v

“Some artists are forgotten for their achievements as time passes. Today, we’d like to acknowledge one of these artists on her birthday. Linda Martell, once called “Country’s Lost Pioneer” by Rolling Stone, was the first commercially successful Black female artist. Linda was born Thelma Bynem on June 4, 1941, in Leesville, South Carolina. Her father was a sharecropper and a pastor. Her l

2022 hasn’t been an easy year for the LGBTQ community, and in a time where our rights are under attack, Pride is more important than ever. With that in mind, GLAAD believes this June was all about celebrating queer joy! Fortunately, there are countless LGBTQ artists living their truth and uplifting the community while doing so. To help kick off Pride Month here are 10 LGBTQ women in music you need to be listening to:

The story behind “Lesbian Seagull”: A song of love and controversy Though the 1996 “Beavis and Butthead” film made the song more well-known, it has an older and more interesting history. By Daniel Villarreal and Ian Helms for LGBTQ Nation – “Lesbian Seagull” is a song that has intrigued and entertained listeners for decades. Originally written by Tom Wilson Weinberg and later popularized by Engelber

Jennifer Lopez Pays Loving Tribute to Invasive Technology in Atlas By Jesse Hassenger for Paste – Suggesting that a movie was written by AI has already become a tired critical cliché, which therefore means describing Atlas, a new science-fiction movie starring Jennifer Lopez, requires additional care. Yes, the lazy critic could probably say that Atlas feels as if someone fed I, Robot (the 2004 feature, not the

Billie Eilish Tightens Her Commanding Grip on Pop Music on HIT ME HARD AND SOFT Working again with the instrumental talents of her brother Finneas, Eilish’s third album yanks her out of her former teen stardom and gives her the space to reckon with the complexities of her own confusing and liberating adulthood. By Matt Mitchell for Paste – Billie Eilish’s awaited third LP, HIT ME HARD AND SOFT, is exactly the k

MADONNA ANNOUNCES HER BIGGEST SHOW YET AS THE FINAL STOP ON HER CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED “THE CELEBRATION TOUR”. THE CELEBRATION SPANNING FOUR DECADES OF MUSIC WILL CULMINATE WITH A FREE EVENT ON MAY 4TH AT COPACABANA BEACH AS A THANK YOU TO HER INCREDIBLE FANS FROM AROUND THE WORLD. Madonna performed a historic free concert in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Saturday, May 4th at the majestic Copacabana Beach as the culminaton

Rosali’s Vibrant, Sobering Vulnerability – The North Carolina-based musician talks about her elaborate, methodical chemistry with Mowed Sound, leaving Philadelphia and finding tranquility in nature and honest songwriting on Bite Down. By Matt Mitchell for Paste Magazine – Photo by Asia Harman Rosali Middleman’s new album, Bite Down, is canonically not a break-up album. “I was single for seven years while

America Has Revealed Which New Taylor Swift Songs Are the SkipsSlate looked at the charts—and did the math. By Nadira Goffe for Slate – News broke the end of April that Taylor Swift had shattered a new record when 14 songs from her recent behemoth of a release, The Tortured Poets Department, took the top 14 spots on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart. With so much to listen to—the album’s 16 main tracks were accompanied