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Today is Women Rock! Day, a day where we take a moment to reflect on and admire the influential women who paved the way for other women in rock music. So that’s exactly what we’re going to do ...
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland recently opened a major new exhibit celebrating influential femal artists, 'Revolutionary Women In Music: Left of Center' Skip to content.
When it comes to influential women in rock music, Sister Rosetta Tharpe doesn’t get enough credit. Though many would consider her time to predate rock music’s beginnings, her guitar-playing ...
L7 is an all-female American rock band founded in 1985 before disbanding in 2001 and reforming in 2014. The band, co-founded by Donita Sparks, is one of the bands whose music is between grunge and ...
“Women Who Rock” is a four-part EPIX original docuseries about women who rose to the top in the male-dominated music industry. It highlights Sheila E., Nancy Wilson, Chaka Khan, Pat Benatar, Macy Gray ...
Rock music has more or less always been a male-dominated genre. Though women have long been present in the rock scene, they are routinely left out of conversations when discussing the greats. We ...
Because each of these legendary singers has a place in VH1’s “100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll,” a five-part series airing on the cable channel this week.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame will host a dedication to its latest exhibit, "Revolutionary Women in Music: Left of Center" on Thursday, March 7. Rock Hall inductee Jane Wiedlin, Garbage lead singer ...
Last week's Music Historicity noting the top lead vocalists in the rock music genre included only one paragraph mentioning those who were of the female gender.
The music industry, and rock music in general, is still very much male dominated. So what can a woman do if she’s a musician who wants to share the stage with legendary women rockers such as ...
Janis Joplin: “For a woman to sing, she really needs to, or wants to.”. While late rock icon Joplin didn’t write most of her own music, she sang each song with such fervor, often reinventing ...