So to start my series of posts about SXSW, I’m starting with a discussion of one of the books focused on during one of the…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCwaYb16hNk] If you don’t know the artists (Faith No More & Kylie Minogue) and musical genres (J-pop & hallyu) mentioned in the title of this…
Greg Kot’s Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music is a must-read for those interested in how economics combined with listener actions have led the…
Once again, Joss Whedon’s latest television show, Dollhouse, like Buffy, Angel, and Firefly before it, was on the verge of cancellation. But not this time….
After a truly great time presenting about fan culture two years ago at MIT5: Creativity, Ownership, and Collaboration in the Digital Age, we presented at…
There’s been much bloggage about the AP-photo based Shepard Fairey Obama Hope poster, but one issue I haven’t seen discussed in the midst of discussions…
We write about Nine Inch Nails a lot around here at Learned Fangirl. It’s not just because at least one of us is a hugely…
I was pretty psyched when I learned that music journalist Ian Christe had started his own book publishing company focused on heavy metal, Bazillion Points….
Some stick with reading comics for their entire lives (the norm in Japan, though the type changes over the lifetime), while others put them away…
Like other grown fangirls, I have a recent history of reading fantasy literature book series that I’m too damn old for. (Harry Potter, Twilight) While…