Tomorrow is Father’s Day – so how about a classic Madonna video from 1986 to celebrate?
Kim Deal has officially left the Pixies. Today the remaining members of the band, Joey Santiago, David Lovering and Black Francis, released the following statement on their website: We are sad to say that Kim Deal has decided to leave the Pixies. We are very proud to have worked with her on and off over [...]
A couple of cameras, a deep knowledge of music, and a directive to capture the truth are the essentials of Lian Lunson’s do-it-yourself filmmaking. “All the big stuff isn’t really necessary. Making films is just something you go and do,” she says. Formerly an actor, and now a director (Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man) who [...]
Brooklynites Heliotropes will release their long-awaited debut album, A Constant Sea next week. Heliotropes is the musical vehicle of four Brooklynites that hail from places as wildly divergent as West Virginia, New Jersey, and California. The band formed in 2009 when vocalists Jessica Numsuwankijkul and Amber Myers posted an ad on Craigslist, seeking like-minded Brooklyn musicians to [...]
While the hit television show “Nashville” is on hiatus it’s good to have something to tide you over, right? How about this new song from The Civil Wars? The track is called “The One That Got Away” and will be featured on their up-coming self-titled album. Check it out.
Girls just wanna have fun – and win Tonys. Cyndi Lauper became the first woman ever to win a Best Musical Score Tony. The honor was given to her for “Kinky Boots.” The play, which also won Best Musical, won six of the 13 categories for which it was nominated. “I gotta thank my mom [...]
Shannon and the Clams have just released a new album, Dreams in the Rat House, on Hardly Art Records. But their ’50s retro doo-wop meets Buddy Holly sound will make you think you’ve heard this before. The band, from Oakland, California, are the newest indie darlings. Shannon Shaw (vocals, bass), Cody Blanchard (vocals, guitar) and Ian Amberson [...]
Talk about bleak love. With only two days to go it appears The Cabin Sisters (full-time actresses and wannabe musicians Zosia and Clara Mamet) will not meet their Kickstarter goal to make a video for their song, “Bleak Love.” That’s an understatement. At only 8% so far, meeting $2,673 of their lofty $32,000 goal, the [...]
LA group Raw Geronimo will release its debut album, Dream Fever, on July 30th on Neurotic Yell Records. Raw Geronimo has been described as bridging the gap of ’80s music between Kate Bush, Bow Wow Wow and Roxy Music. You may also here elements of Elastica, Divinyls and Bjork in Dream Fever. The band derives its ’80s roots [...]
Confessional albums often play out like a soap opera. But thanks to social media, the public now plays a big part in the narrative. LeeAnn Rimes’ new album Spitfire is a case in point. Her feud with Brandi Glanville, star of Bravo’s ”Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” and ex-wife of Rimes’ current husband Eddie Cibran, is the stuff hit [...]
On March 15th, MEOW held its second annual High Tea Luncheon in association with Austin’s Women in Music Professional Society (better known as WIMPS). One hundred ladies from all over the US – and one from Canada – sipped Moeji-Teas courtesy of Deep Eddy Sweet Tea Vodka and munched on tea sandwiches. The bluesberries on [...]
It is unanimous! MEOW Day was a hit! Keynote speaker Laura Taylor regaled the crowd with fascinating tales about her experience as a woman at Guitar Center, working her way up from part-time greeter 23 years ago, to Sr. Vice President of Operations today. We are grateful to Laura, Parker Bradley and Kasey Compton of [...]
Check out these great shots by photographer Brenda Ladd of our very first High Tea Luncheon at SXSW.
Kim Deal has officially left the Pixies. Today the remaining members of the band, Joey Santiago, David Lovering and Black Francis, released the following statement on their website: We are sad to say that Kim Deal has decided to leave the Pixies. We are very proud to have worked with her on and off over [...]
Brooklynites Heliotropes will release their long-awaited debut album, A Constant Sea next week. Heliotropes is the musical vehicle of four Brooklynites that hail from places as wildly divergent as West Virginia, New Jersey, and California. The band formed in 2009 when vocalists Jessica Numsuwankijkul and Amber Myers posted an ad on Craigslist, seeking like-minded Brooklyn musicians to [...]
While the hit television show “Nashville” is on hiatus it’s good to have something to tide you over, right? How about this new song from The Civil Wars? The track is called “The One That Got Away” and will be featured on their up-coming self-titled album. Check it out.
Girls just wanna have fun – and win Tonys. Cyndi Lauper became the first woman ever to win a Best Musical Score Tony. The honor was given to her for “Kinky Boots.” The play, which also won Best Musical, won six of the 13 categories for which it was nominated. “I gotta thank my mom [...]
Talk about bleak love. With only two days to go it appears The Cabin Sisters (full-time actresses and wannabe musicians Zosia and Clara Mamet) will not meet their Kickstarter goal to make a video for their song, “Bleak Love.” That’s an understatement. At only 8% so far, meeting $2,673 of their lofty $32,000 goal, the [...]
LA group Raw Geronimo will release its debut album, Dream Fever, on July 30th on Neurotic Yell Records. Raw Geronimo has been described as bridging the gap of ’80s music between Kate Bush, Bow Wow Wow and Roxy Music. You may also here elements of Elastica, Divinyls and Bjork in Dream Fever. The band derives its ’80s roots [...]
A couple of cameras, a deep knowledge of music, and a directive to capture the truth are the essentials of Lian Lunson’s do-it-yourself filmmaking. “All the big stuff isn’t really necessary. Making films is just something you go and do,” she says. Formerly an actor, and now a director (Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man) who [...]
Kathy Valentine (recently announced as a Keynote Speaker at MEOW Con in October) has filed suit against the Go-Go’s claiming her former bandmates are attempting to “deprive her” of her 20% interest in the band. A member since 1981, Valentine is responsible for many of the bands hits, including “Vacation.” But that hasn’t stopped Kathy [...]
If Dallas, Texas singer Debbie Loeb looks familiar, you may have seen her on “Number One Single,” the reality show featuring Debbie’s sister, Lisa Loeb. Lisa is the only artist not signed to a record label to ever have a number one hit song (“Stay,” from the film “Reality Bites” in 1994), so it’s no [...]
New York heavy metal singer MilitiA is a fierce one-woman army. Whip-smart and fearless, she’s won praise from everyone from Kathleen Hanna (“One of the best live voices I’ve ever heard”) to Taylor Dayne (she’s “the rock goddess). As the singer for all-girl tribute band, Judas Priestess to her own rock band, Swear on Your [...]
Ruby Dee, co-lead of Ruby Dee and the Snakehandlers has been cooking and playing music for as long as she can remember. On the food front she’s got a radio show and a cookbook. Now this true Renaissance woman is venturing into playing rockabilly for kids with her new album, Rockabilly Playground. We talked to [...]
Cirby (22), Celbi (18) and Carli Manchaca (19) grew up singing country music in the tiny Texas town of Mont Belvieu (population roughly 4,000). But they’ve only been singing together as the group, Sister C, for a few short years. With perfect harmonies that can only be attributed to DNA, the trio made it onto [...]
The Women’s Music Summit, produced by the Women’s International Music Network, has announced four of this year’s guest artists – Jennifer Batten, Mindy Abair, Starr Parodi and Leanne Summers. The Summit, now in its second year, is offering a $75 discount to anyone who registers in the month of May and will feature musical instruction, [...]
Austin City Limits Festival announced its 2013 line-up yesterday. This year the eleven-year-old music festival expands from one to two weekends, taking place October 4-6 and 11-13. Isn’t until the 24th name on the bill that you find a female artist out of 130 on one of the eight stages – Grimes – in the [...]
The San Francisco MusicTech Summit will present its 13th conference Tuesday, May 28th from 9:00AM to 6:00PM at the Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco. The Summit brings together over 1,000 visionaries in the music/technology space: developers, entrepreneurs, investors, service providers, journalists, musicians and organizations who work with them at the convergence of culture and commerce. The Summit is an [...]
April 26, 2012 – AUSTIN, TX – May 1 is the final deadline for the opportunity for female musicians in all styles of music to apply for an official showcase at MEOW Con – the inaugural international three-day music conference on the state of women in music. Produced by Musicians for Equal Opportunities for Women [...]
Time is running out to apply to showcase at our First Annual MEOW Con, a conference for women in music. The deadline is May 1st – just one week away. MEOW Con will feature 100 performers in ALL styles of music, from classical and jazz to punk. Over the course of the three day fest, from [...]
Mindy Abovitz of Tom Tom Magazine and Phil Hood of DRUM! announced the winners of the second annual Hit Like A Girl Contest live on DrumChannel.com Thursday night, April 18th. The contest received more than 200 entries from 35 countries. Contest grand prize winners, Michaela Brezovsky of Austria in the 18 plus category and 17-year-old Taylor Ann [...]
Tomorrow is Father’s Day – so how about a classic Madonna video from 1986 to celebrate?
Shannon and the Clams have just released a new album, Dreams in the Rat House, on Hardly Art Records. But their ’50s retro doo-wop meets Buddy Holly sound will make you think you’ve heard this before. The band, from Oakland, California, are the newest indie darlings. Shannon Shaw (vocals, bass), Cody Blanchard (vocals, guitar) and Ian Amberson [...]
We know you’re itching to hear new music from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, so here’s the new video for the title track of the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s latest album, Mosquito. Karen O and company have been making great music for a decade now and never fail to disappoint. This is a great one to kick off [...]
Here’s something to get your Monday moving – double diva girl power with Janelle Monae and Erykah Badu.
Blondfire has released the video for their song “Waves.” The LA band is sibling duo Bruce and Erica Driscoll (she sings, he produces) who have been writing, producing, playing and performing together since they were kids. “Waves” goes to radio May 7th, and is the second single off their debut Modern Art/Warner Bros Records EP. First [...]
Rain Perry has a new album coming out this summer. It’s called Men. Reflecting on an upcoming milestone wedding anniversary, it’s Rain’s homage to the men in her life. “I can’t believe there wasn’t an album already with that name,” she says. Once again working with producer Mark Hallman, Rain released a sneak peek video and first single [...]
Mike Jeffries, CEO of Ambercrombie and Fitch, has come under fire for his corporate policy of only offering small-sized clothes for women at his store and his accompanying comments that he only wants the fairest (thinnest) of them all as customers. While A&F competitors H&M and American Eagle offer XXL sizes for both men and [...]
There certainly has been an uptick in news about music industry sexism lately. The latest bout with boneheads is courtesy of Grimes (aka Claire Boucher), who bravely took on sexism and condescending – even if well-intentioned – attitudes aimed at her. She wrote about unfortunate experiences on her Tumblr blog on Tuesday. “I have so [...]
Coachella is one of the largest music festivals in the country. It now spans two consecutive weekends and more than 60 bands perform each year. But a recent article from Buzzfeed (and a review of that article from Slate) shows that bands that include women comprised only about 15% of the bill in 2013. In [...]
Skechers has been getting stomped by feminist and mom bloggers this week over an ad campaign for their new line of sneakers aimed with a hidden two inch wedge called Daddy’$ Money. Using the $ for an S, a la Ke$ha, the product name and ads, say moms, are sending a dangerous and sexist message. [...]
Makers, a three-hour documentary that explores the impact of women in America, will premier this Tuesday, February 26th on PBS. This inspiring and ambitious project begins with the role of women as homemakers in the ’50s and covers the changes in politics and the daily lives of women stemming from the Women’s Liberation movement of [...]
It’s almost 2013 and close to four years after the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act was signed into law. Surely, the gender wage gap has been closed, right? Wrong. Even with moves toward equalizing pay between men and women, men still make almost 20% more than women in nearly all industries. This is despite the [...]
From ROCKRGRL Magazine issue #44, March/April 2002. Elizabeth Elmore is well-known as a member of the late, great indoe rock group Sarge. Fewer people know, however, that Elmore is also a full-time student who juggles both music and studying with aplomb. Now with a new band, The Reputation, Elmore has found herself recording and album [...]
In March of 1996, Ann Wilson, the iconic lead singer of Heart, wrote poignantly in ROCKRGRL Magazine about her challenge in balancing motherhood and music. Here is a re-run from our archive in Ann’s own words – for moms everywhere. We were playing in LA at the Wiltern Theater in the winter of ’94. It was [...]
From ROCKRGRL Issue #49, Fall 2003. Los Lobos saxophonist Steve Berlin, who also produced East Los Angeles-based Quetzal’s latest and third album, Worksongs, once paid the group the ultimate compliment. “Los Lobos has carried the torch long enough,” Berlin said, “and I think Quetzal is the next to step up and speak for the community.” “I [...]
(from ROCKRGRL Magazine, November/December 2000) Amy Rigby’s 1996 debut. Diary of a Mod Housewife, was such a critical smash that Spin Magazine instantly named her “Songwriter of the Year.” A second album, Middlescence, quickly followed and cemented Amy’s reputation as the spokesperson for the everyday woman caught “between Bohemia and suburbia.” Her witty observations about [...]
At a time when major-label record executives are handing out deals to anyone with a few good songs and a flannel shirt or two, a little indie rock credibility goes a long way. So it can’t hurt to have a quirky EP released on a small Olympia, Washington, label with music by Bikini Kill, songs [...]
Roddy Bottum is well-known as the keyboardist for rockers Faith No More. But Roddy is about to make a big splash with his other band, Imperial Teen, in which he plays guitar and drums. Imperial Teen is about to release their debut CD on Slash Records. We thought Roddy was the perfect choice to ask [...]
Pussy Riot activist Maria Alyokhina, 24, who has been serving a two-year sentence for “hooliganism” in a Russian labor camp since August, ended her 11-day hunger strike after her demands had been met. She began the strike after being denied attendance at her own parole hearing. Alyokhina said there was a campaign to intimidate her within [...]
Courtney Love dropped a few bombshells on “Howard Stern” yesterday, including hints that she’s about to announce signing on as a judge for a major television talent competition. Could she be replacing Nicki Minaj or Mariah Carey on “American Idol”? This year, “Idol” had its lowest ratings ever and the two new female judges left [...]
Eisley released their fourth album yesterday. It’s called Currents. The quintet—siblings Sherri DuPree-Bemis (vocals/keyboard/guitar), Stacy King (vocals/guitar), Chauntelle DuPree (guitar/vocals) and Weston DuPree (drums), and cousin Garron DuPree (bass)—first started playing shows together in the late-’90s, in a coffeehouse owned by their parents. Recorded in their home town of Tyler, Texas, this is the first time the [...]
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