10 Great Albums of 2011 That Happen to Have Been Made by Women
December 20, 2011 by Lindsay Zoladz · 3 Comments
Almost anywhere you looked, 2011 seemed like a banner year for women in music. Remember how exciting it was when the immensely talented Esperanza Spalding pissed off all those Justin Bieber fans and ...Read More
Sudanese Women Singers Assert Themselves With “Girls’ Music”
October 28, 2011 by Diallo Hall · 1 Comment
In one of my favorite songs by Afrobeat progenitor Fela Kuti, he exclaims: If you call am woman African woman no go ‘gree She go say I be Lady o Fela is recounting the age-old resistance by African ...Read More
Feminists, We’re Calling You: Support the New Kathleen Hanna Documentary!
September 29, 2011 by Cortney Rock · 1 Comment
Ok, you can find video of Kathleen Hanna singing with her bands all over the web, and she pops up here and there in films, but why hasn’t there actually been a full-length documentary devoted ...Read More
Loaded Guns, Loaded Metaphors: Rihanna’s “Man Down” Video
June 3, 2011 by Janell Hobson · 6 Comments
Rihanna has a genius for controversy. As soon as the music video for her latest single, “Man Down,” premiered this week on BET’s 106 & Park, it created an instant backlash ...Read More
You Never Heard of Fanny?
May 26, 2011 by June Millington · 19 Comments
It’s not really possible to talk about women in rock without bringing up my band, Fanny, but people do. Even the newly opened “Women Who Rock: Vision, Passion, Power” exhibit at ...Read More
Beyonce: Girls Run the World (Cue the Apocalypse!)
May 20, 2011 by Janell Hobson · 20 Comments
I’ve been an admirer of Beyonce since her Destiny’s Child days and always appreciated that group’s “girl power” anthems (think “Bills, Bills, Bills,” “Independent ...Read More
We Know Women Rock–Tell Us Something New
May 12, 2011 by Audrey Bilger · 14 Comments
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum has a reputation for being a boys club. Since 1986, when its first annual list of inductees consisted of men only, women have been snubbed three additional ...Read More
JD Samson Talks about MEN and All-Gendered Bodies
April 26, 2011 by Erica Meiners · Leave a Comment
Fresh from the Coachella music festival, where she played songs from her debut album with the trio MEN, Talk About Body, JD Samson is back in New York, and it is her first conversation of the day. ...Read More
Pop’s Diva Daughter as Primal Mother
March 3, 2011 by Aviva Dove-Viebahn · 9 Comments
I’ve been looking forward to the music video of Lady Gaga’s much-hyped single “Born This Way” for several weeks, so, when it premiered Sunday on Vevo I really wanted to love ...Read More
Can’t Stop the Women of Hip-Hop
February 24, 2011 by Janell Hobson · 4 Comments
My awakening to black feminist thought came in 1989 when Queen Latifah, with British rapper Monie Love, rapped about “Ladies First” and opened the music video for this powerful track with ...Read More
