i’m not deep into folk so i’m not totally sure of the specific vibe you’re looking for- but here are some new albums of women in folk i’ve been loving :) waysides by bedouine
pharmakon by humbird
fruit for flies by the army, the navy
i can by esha tewari
reveler by madison cunningham (more americana)
anything by gigi perez
anything by big thief or adrienne lenker (obviously)
Starting off strong with all of Porch Cat's discography, but specifically Belly Full of Fire I also like Sister Wife Sex Strike, Skabel, and I think I can consider The Furious Tits to be folk punk as well Some rock acts that I think someone who likes punk would enjoy include Girl Friday, Torture and the Desert Spiders, Vernon Jane, and Screaming Females Specific songs I like are: Fuck it! -- Days N Dayze
Moss Will Cover Everything -- Ponyland
Prayer to God -- Rid of Me
Fight for Me -- AlicebanD
Burn Your Pedestals -- Gen and the Degenerates
Brass Bell -- Screaming Females
Bark Like a God -- Sloppy Jane
Last Good Fuck -- Vernon Jane also following this so I can find more stuff myself as well :)
angel olsen - big time
she’s coming to portland soon so i must prepare my mind blondshell - docket (feat. bully)
blondshell and bully on the same song are you kidding me? what the heck? june henry - anthems for a seventeen year-old girl
i didnt even know broken social scene was a thing petey - i tried to draw a straight line
everything is fake
everything is fake
everything is fake kimya dawson - viva la persistence
a simple dissertation on a complex situation
These are some of my all time favorites. if you agree you should lmk or drop a rec :) Lorde, Fiona Apple, Caroline Polachek, St. Vincent, Björk, Lana Del Rey, Charli XCX, PJ Harvey, Magdalena Bay, Alice Phoebe Lou, just to name a few…
she’s pretty much the only youtuber i regularly consume nowadays, & ‘regularly’ is probably an overstatement because i’m still trying to kill my addiction to short-form content. anyway, she mostly makes fashion/style content. what separates her from other ‘fashion influencers’ is that her videos aren’t about over-consuming the new trend of the week, they’re about how to tastefully style what you already own, build a quality & reliable wardrobe, & have fun with practical fashion. i feel like she’s genuinely helped me spice up my wardrobe without doing a ton of shopping, but rather just by styling items in new ways :)
i was raised by two radically left parents who worked in the labor movement, & have adopted a lot of their sociopolitical views in adulthood. i never remember them teaching me anything about politics as a kid, though. of course they discussed their jobs at dinner & occasionally expressed their feelings about elections in front of me, but they never sat me down & told me how the world was, why they feel the way they feel, or why i should feel the same as them. i do remember them teaching me empathy. i remember them teaching me to think about how i might make someone feel before i said anything. i remember them teaching me to invite the kids who normally ate alone to come sit with me & my friends at lunch. i remember them teaching me that hurting somebody else is never going to help me. from this basic education in human compassion, i came to believe that nobody should ever have to go hungry. i came to believe that nobody should ever have to sleep without a roof over their head. & when i learned that the ruling class was forcing masses of people to do those things, boom, there was radicalization.