From “Jesus Take the Wheel” to “Break Stuff”: country-pop girlies in their alt rock era
Girls these days are embracing rock and rewriting the traditional narrative of the 90s that centers corporate grunge to highlight a more demographically and stylistically diverse modern rock canon. Olivia Rodrigo has singled out The Breeders and The Cure as…
Slop vs. ‘iPod music’: frictionlessness, vibes, and the end of the modern episteme
Jodi Dean argues that AI-ideology frames its telos as unrestrained – and in psychoanalytic terms, infantile – wish-fullfilment. “The fantastic promise is AI is limitlessness, unboundedness”: no labor, no delayed gratification, no need to overcome and/or assimilate difference, no need…
Its Her Factory Radio August 2026
You may or may not know I have a weekly program Sunday nights 5-7p Eastern on Inhailer.com. Below are my playlists for this past month. Its Her Factory Radio August 2 2026 Boy Harsher – Hard Beat NIN – Shadow…
Slop-doom-ism: a new era for pop music & criticism
It’s late summer 2026; as I start writing this post, it’s Lollapalooza weekend. My TikTok FYP is full of videos of Charli XCX and Slayyter’s performances at the megaconcert. My Bluesky feed is full of Gen X music critics and…
Rock Vibes: on Charli and The Strokes
The Strokes and Charli XCX both have new indie rock records out in late summer 2026, and everybody including me wants to compare them. Sonically, Casablancas’ vocals gesture towards the heavily-AutoTuned style of Charli’s previous album brat, and Charli’s album…
Its Her Factory Radio July 26, 2026
Wet Leg – CPR (horsegiirL remix) Kerala Dust – White Noise Deep Sea Diver – Teardrop (Massive Attack cover) La Securite – Detour Radio 4 – Dance to the Underground Paul Westerberg – Dyslexic Heart The Soup Dragons – I’m…
Its Her Factory on Inhailer 7/19/26
Here’s the playlist for my radio show this week: Amilie Lens – Our Frequency Snooper – Recess Water From Your Eyes – Playing Classics Icona Pop – Dance to This Monobloc – City Boy Harsher – Jeans Til Tuesday –…
Its Her Factory Radio July 12 2026
Here’s the setlist for my Inhailer.com show yesterday. Channel Tres – Black Techno Guy Genesis Owusu – LIFE KEEPS GOING The Cure – A Forrest Dinosaur Jr. – Several Got Away Kim Gordon – DIRTY TECH Bush Tetras – Can’t…
Its Her Factory – On the Radio at Inhailer.com
I have a radio show every Sunday from 5p-7p Eastern on Inhailer.com. I’ve decided to publish my playlists here, both to keep track of my shows for my own records and to give y’all a sense of what I’m spinning…
Music/media labor is a new type of ‘reproductive labor’ in the era of finance capital and AI
In July 2026 the sports-leaning internet publication DEADSPIN published a how-to explaining the various ways one could use prediction markets to bet on music charts. “Events that you can trade on include Spotify and Billboard Hot #1 Songs, album sales,…
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