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To address the under-representation of women in the rock scene, the Harvard College Women’s Center center invited three female-led bands to perform in the Queen’s Head, as part of its “Women Rock Pub Night.”
For more information: Female Artists Rock Queen’s Head Pub
by Anna Polonyi for The Harvard Crimson

Cinema Blends Top 5: Chick Lead Singers

MUSIC REVIEW: Annie Lennox: Songs of Mass Destruction by JON BREAM for the Minneapolis Star Tribune

Blabbermouth said [I just love the name of that online mag]: The multi-platinum EVANESCENCE proved that female-fronted rock was a serious mainstream force, and more and more hard rocking women in groups like LACUNA COIL and FLYLEAF (on a mainstream level), ARCH ENEMY, WITHIN TEMPTATION, and IN THIS MOMENT (bubbling under), and LEAVES' EYES and THE AGONIST (growing on an underground level) are showcasing their diversity across many subgenres of metal. Such activity should make female rock star progenitors like Pat Benatar, Joan Jett, Ann and Nancy Wilson, Lita Ford, Grace Slick, and Janis Joplin proud.

Even Bryan Reesman of Grammy.com had something to say about women in rock.


Patti Smith, Juliette Lewis and Shingai Shoniwa are interviewed about rock stardom by Sophie Heawood of the London Times On Line. Here's the Link


“Dreamboat Annie's” comin' 'round the bend again.
By David L. Coddon for the Union Tribune

The 1976 album that introduced the rock 'n' roll world to a rockin' sister act – Ann and Nancy Wilson's Heart – has turned 31 and gone multimedia. The Wilsons performed “Dreamboat Annie” in its entirety in April at L.A.'s Orpheum Theatre. Resulting from that show was a concert CD and an accompanying DVD, “Heart: Dreamboat Annie Live,” which was just recently released. Here's the link to the full review.

LA Women in Music was mentioned on the internet on Top40Charts.com There was also a message about this group's mission and fund raising efforts on a nice message board called Indierocktalk.