'90s alt-pop professionals Garbage and Jersey basement-punk heroes Screaming Females have an unlikely bond. They toured together last year, and Scremales leader Marissa Paternoster joined Garbage…   Read Story »

Obviously, the best music-related video of the past seven days is the yelling goats remix of Taylor Swift's "I Knew You Were Trouble," and the second best is Wale attempting to fight a Toronto…   Read Story »

Earlier this month, the great Jersey punk trio Screaming Females released Chalk Tape, a cassette-only EP that follows the insanely great 2012 album Ugly. "Poison Arrow," a jittery burner from the…   Read Story »

Marissa Paternoster is most popularly known as the guitarist and singer of New Brunswick punk rock trio Screaming Females. But that group is only one of her various artistic outlets. In addition to…   Read Story »

By the end of last year, compiling Monthly Mixes became a sad task. Each month I'd scan in sadness, watching our strongest songs presented as straight-to-Soundcloud affairs, our music business…   Read Story »

Last year, New Jersey punk trio Screaming Females released the Steve Albini-produced Ugly, an album I love completely and without reservation. Next month, they'll follow it up with a cassette-only…   Read Story »

Screaming Females lead singer and guitarist Marissa Paternoster has had some health problems lately in the form of a mysterious ailment that made the band cancel a bunch of shows. Recently, Marissa…   Read Story »

Screaming Females are on tour with Garbage -- which is a good look -- and on Tuesday night in Houston, Garbage's Shirley Manson brought out Marissa Paternoster to cover Patti Smith's "Because The…   Read Story »

Screaming Females' video for "It All Means Nothing," in which bandleader Marissa Paternoster is murdered and dismembered by her bandmates, is not exactly the sort of thing that demanded a sequel. And…   Read Story »

People need to stop sleeping on Sheryl Crow. Not too many people in the past two decades have come up with as many windows-down car-radio jams as she has, and her greatest-hits album is one of the…   Read Story »