Liz Phair’s 1993 debut, Exile in Guyville, reissued this month in a 25 th-anniversary box set called Girly-Sound to Guyville, is at once an indisputably canonical rock record and one weighed down by a ...

If there’s one lyric that has, for better or worse, become the pull-quote capturing the ambition and smirky audacity of Liz Phair’s 1993 indie-rock classic “Exile in Guyville,” it is, “I want to be ...

In the last 25 years, thousands of words have been spilled about the impact, importance and genius of Liz Phair’s 1993 debut album, “Exile In Guyville.” There’s a good reason for that: Dusky guitar ...

Before Exile In Guyville dropped and launched her career back in the summer of 1993, Liz Phair was working hard in Chicago writing and recording homemade music under the name Girly Sound. Some of the ...

You can listen to the Giry-Sound version of “Divorce Song” which would end up, rerecorded on Exile in Guyville, below. You can also check out the box set ...

Liz Phair is getting ready to release a massive Exile in Guyville box set, which features her early Girly-Sound tapes in their entirety. Now, she’s shared “Bomb,” the Girly-Sound demo that was later ...

Before I ever heard Liz Phair, I heard about Liz Phair. The Midwestern indie-rock gossip train had made the trip from Chicago, her hometown, to the Minneapolis record store where I worked in high ...

Liz Phair has announced Girly-Sound to Guyville: The 25th Anniversary Box Set, a 7 LP, 3 CD edition containing the indie pioneer's early recordings and her beloved 1993 debut album for Matador. It's ...

Liz Phair invited some strangers into her bedroom Thursday night. The 51-year-old indie rock star played songs from her “Girly-Sound” tapes that led to her groundbreaking 1993 record “Exile in ...

Tae Won Yu received a cassette tape in the mail. It was 1991, an era when bootlegs flowed freely through the postal service like pollen in springtime. Vanilla Ice had the top-selling album in America, ...

Liz Phair's seminal album Exile In Guyville was released 25 years ago this May. To celebrate, the legendary singer-songwriter and guitarist will reissue the album in a box set, Girly-Sound To… By ...

If there’s one lyric that has, for better or worse, become the pull-quote capturing the ambition and smirky audacity of Liz Phair’s 1993 indie-rock classic “Exile in Guyville,” it is, “I want to be ...