Musicians for Equal Opportunities for Women (aka MEOW) is proud to announce that Kathy Valentine will be the Saturday Keynote Speaker at MEOW Con, the conference for women in music. The inaugural MEOW Con will be held in Austin, Texas at the Renaissance Hotel from October 24-26. Valentine will address the crowd on the morning of Saturday, [...]
Here’s something to get your Monday moving – double diva girl power with Janelle Monae and Erykah Badu.
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 [...]
Beyoncé Knowles is obviously one of the most powerful women in music. But is she a feminist? That is what the blog-o-sphere wants to know. Queen Bey hasn’t exactly embraced the term, but – surprise – she’s on the current cover of the magazine that invented feminism, Ms. So is she – or isn’t she? Although [...]
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 [...]
Hard to believe it’s been 20 years since The Breeders burst onto the scene with their song, “Cannonball.” To celebrate this anniversary, the band has released a new box set and are beginning a tour of the US, Europe and Australia including several festival appearances at Bumbershoot, Pitchfork and Hopscotch. And last night they absolutely [...]
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 [...]
We can’t wait until June 14th. That’s when Twenty Feet from Stardom is officially released. The film, which has already shown at SXSW and Sundance, follows four back-up singers: Judith Hill (currently on “The Voice”), Merry Clayton, Darlene Love (a legend in her own right) and Lisa Fischer. Twenty Feet from Stardom traces the backup singers’ [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Musicians for Equal Opportunities for Women (aka MEOW) is proud to announce that Kathy Valentine will be the Saturday Keynote Speaker at MEOW Con, the conference for women in music. The inaugural MEOW Con will be held in Austin, Texas at the Renaissance Hotel from October 24-26. Valentine will address the crowd on the morning of Saturday, [...]
Beyoncé Knowles is obviously one of the most powerful women in music. But is she a feminist? That is what the blog-o-sphere wants to know. Queen Bey hasn’t exactly embraced the term, but – surprise – she’s on the current cover of the magazine that invented feminism, Ms. So is she – or isn’t she? Although [...]
Hard to believe it’s been 20 years since The Breeders burst onto the scene with their song, “Cannonball.” To celebrate this anniversary, the band has released a new box set and are beginning a tour of the US, Europe and Australia including several festival appearances at Bumbershoot, Pitchfork and Hopscotch. And last night they absolutely [...]
We can’t wait until June 14th. That’s when Twenty Feet from Stardom is officially released. The film, which has already shown at SXSW and Sundance, follows four back-up singers: Judith Hill (currently on “The Voice”), Merry Clayton, Darlene Love (a legend in her own right) and Lisa Fischer. Twenty Feet from Stardom traces the backup singers’ [...]
London-based duo Still Corners have just been added as direct support to Glaswegian band Chvrches’ North American headlining tour, which currently begins May 28th in Portland, OR at Wonder Ballroom and ends on June 23rd in Philadelphia, PA at Union Transfer. In lieu of this new tour, Still Corners’ US and Canadian dates for May and June [...]
Today is your very last chance to apply to perform at MEOW Con. The upcoming gathering of the tribes takes place October 24-26 at the Renaissance Hotel in Austin and includes a keynote speech by Suzi Quatro, a dinner honoring Suzi Quatro (separate cost), networking opportunities, panels, workshops, films, showcases and much, much more. MEOW [...]
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 [...]
Paula Cole, whose birthday is Friday, was one of the breakout stars of the Lilith Fair tour back in the mid- to late ’90s. Her song, “Where Have All the Cowboys Gone” reached number eight and its follow-up, “I Don’t Want To Wait,” hit number eleven – and became the theme to the television series [...]
Influenced by such great guitarists as Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour, Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page, Slash of Guns N’ Roses, and Carlos Santana, Panamanian-born, Miami-raised Sharon Aguilar, during the course of her professional musical career, had been making the rounds of playing in both original and tribute bands, but it was her audition for Cee-Lo Green [...]
Beth Hart is a true force of nature and has been compared to singers like Janis Joplin and the late, great Etta James. She recently wrapped up a European tour with most dates sold out, and was voted the #1 Best International Vocalist for 2012 by the UK’s Blues Matters magazine. Hart just finished tracking [...]
It’s been about a decade since the Belgian band K’s Choice last released an album in the US. In the meantime, founders Sarah Bettens and Gert Bettens have recorded on their own. But now that the Antwerp siblings have decided to release their latest album, Echo Mountain, stateside (with a companion acoustic album called Little Echoes), the band is [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Lauren Mayberry is the voice behind CHVRCHES (pronounced “Churches”), the Glasgow-based synthpop trio that’s been getting much attention lately. Recover, their newest video, is also the title of their one and only EP on Glassnote Records (Mumford & Sons, Phoenix). CHVRCHES ON TOUR: 4/19 Bergain, Berlin 4/24 The Garage, Aberdeen 4/25 Corn Exchange, Edinburgh (with [...]
Rkives is the new album from beloved indie rock band, Rilo Kiley, who broke up in 2010 or maybe it was 2011, depending on which band member you talk to. Despite the new album, Rilo Kiley isn’t actually back together - Rkives is a collection of previously unreleased material. Back in December, drummer Jason Boesel told Paste Magazine, “Rilo Kiley’s working [...]
Delta Rae has a new video out featuring Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham on guitar. Although he does not appear in the video, you can still hear him and support Delta Rae’s collaboration with a member of their favorite band. “This video captures what I love most about the song” says Delta Rae singer Elizabeth [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
It’s snowing in New York and Leona Naess is walking around the East Village darting in and out of shops as she is interviewed by cell phone. She casually discusses her anthropology studies while at NYU. Given the subject matter found on her debut album, Comatised, it seems fitting to facetiously ask her about a unique [...]
Suzi Quatro is an icon – the first female bass player to become a major rock star. She has influenced everyone from Joan Jett to Chrissie Hynde. Born in Detroit, Suzi started playing as a teen with her sisters in The Pleasure Seekers and later in the hard-rock group, Cradle. In 1971 she moved to [...]
Musicians for Equal Opportunities for Women (aka MEOW) will host the first annual MEOW Con, a three day conference on the state of women in music. The conference will be held October 24-26, 2013 at the beautiful Renaissance Hotel in Austin, Texas. Keynote speaker on Friday, October 25th, will be legendary “rock chick” Suzi Quatro, the first female bass [...]
Emily Bear, an 11-year-old piano prodigy, will release Diversity, an album of all-original material on May 7th. Produced by her manager, Quincy Jones, the album will feature 13 of Bear’s original compositions performed with a jazz trio. At age 6, Bear made a splash on the “Ellen DeGeneres show” and has since appeared five more times. [...]
Ever since her entire tour was canceled, following an on-stage fail of epic proportions, Michelle Shocked has been popping up at cities she had been booked at, staging something that resembles a protest. Sort of. Thursday night, Shocked sat outside the Alberta Rose Theater in Portland where her previously scheduled performance had been replaced with [...]
Chrissy Amphlett, lead singer of Australian band The Divinyls, died in her sleep yesterday, surrounded by friends and family, losing a long battle with breast cancer and multiple sclerosis. She was 53. “Chrissy’s light burns so very brightly,” her husband, former Divinyls drummer Charley Drayton said in a statement posted on the Australian Recording Industry [...]
Heart performed “Crazy on You” with their original line-up (Roger Fisher, Howard Leese and Mike Derosier) last night as part of their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They also played “Barracuda” with Seattle guitarists Mike McCready of Pearl Jam and Jerry Cantrell as well as “Dreamboat Annie” as a duo. The [...]
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