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Meg Remy of U.S. Girls on using 'collaboration as a way to combat patriarchy'

The Canadian band U.S. Girls was in Austin, Texas, to perform at South by Southwest, which is precisely where you'd expect to find an act with as much positive buzz as this one.

The group's crafty and provocative new album, "In a Poem Unlimited," has earned rave reviews from the New Yorker and Pitchfork, and songs from the record have been streamed more than 1.5 million times on YouTube and Spotify - an impressive number for an outfit that started out as a scrappy one-woman project in an underground art-punk scene.

But if U.S. Girls'

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