Courtney E Smith

If you do creative work, what value do you put on it? A conversation with Liz Hart, the first woman A&R at XL Records, manager of an Oscar-nominated artist, and creative producer.

The soundtrack for Promising Young Woman pushes into a deeper layer of women's relationship to music.

Roughly one in four women will have one. You probably know one of them, whether she’s told you about it or not. As of 2017, they’re at a record low rate in America, thanks in part to the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that birth control is covered by private insurance as out-of-pocket costs. That’s right: we’re talking about abortion.

Her longtime designer, Christian Joy, tells us why you'll see Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs in androgynous suits.

This song was the source of a lot of firsts for the Beatles.

Doughnuts are, blessedly, everywhere in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. It’s a proven fact that a deep-fried round of dough makes getting through a tough morning a little bit easier, especially when there are so many killer local options.

Lily Cornell Silver hadn’t been in lockdown long when she realized her mental health was starting to deteriorate.

One nipple dealt a massive change to how Instagram handled #freethenipple in art. It happened to belong to Rihanna.

2020 finds the Recording Academy’s board facing their biggest woman problem yet: their newest CEO and president, Deborah Dugan.

What it was like for a woman to work at MTV when Britney Spears started her career.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is on the cusp of a very female-friendly group of inductees. Over the next decade a huge number of important female artists from the '90s will become eligible for recognition.

Courtney E. Smith joins the Switched on Pop podcast to offer her expertise on an urgent topic in advance of Valentine’s Day: Can we abstract the sexiest songs of all time into a universal list of arousing musical qualities?

With the release of the documentary Bad Reputation, Joan Jett has taken a moment to look back on her life.

Texas is home to one of the most-watched Senate races in the country, with incumbent Ted Cruz polling ahead of challenger Beto O’Rourke by a smaller margin than the party is used to — or comfortable with.

Billie Holiday fought against racism by singing this song, but what do you know about the Jewish Communist who wrote it?