Not really talking about pop shit. And no doubt a lot of the horrible shit that they doing misses me, and it's not that they are doing things that are outshining what black women can do... but they doing shit that is unignoreably on my radar.

tunyards dropped the leading vocal album on my list last year (still making that list)
Shara Worten, killed her features and dropped a pretty awesome album last year.
Julia Holter put her foot into some noise work.

And I ain't even want to like this Grimes chick... but c'mon you can't deny this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olP3279j5_0

I'm trying to think what the parallels from the black community are. I mean you can say we don't do shit like that and you'd be wrong but undertandably so. But examples of I don't know how to call it, expressive creativity from black women are so few and far between. Have the boxes we've errected for them prevented this type of artistic development.

Only ones I can think of are Matana Roberts and Pamela Z but they are pretty far off the general radar.

*edit* Sorry fire. But did you hear that Hot & Heavy Band garbage... what we got to hold onto now?
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