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the_future_modernesLet me introduce myself! I am your host, the_future_modernes, and I created this comm. because I wanna highlight the women-identifying performers of rock and roll (ETA: and punk and goth and metal and shoe gaze and progressive and singer-songwriter) and blues and funk (and whatever other genre of rock music that you can come up with) music! I've loved rock music since I was 15 years old, but it was only during last year's "three weeks for dreamwidth" that I began to be disturbed at just how ridiculously male-centric my playlist was. I wanted to have role-models that I could look up to when I was playing air-guitars or rocking out to an awesome cd, and they were not to be found easily on rock radio stations or on the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine! (Instead we had a naked Christina Aguilera posing with a guitar:/) And so I started to google. And I found that they were out there, alright, they were just mostly ignored by the mainstream establishment. To make matters worse, when they were paid attention to, their level of sexiness seemed to be the only thing that the idiot-journalists could think about! And to top it all off, diversity was completely ignored. And so I have been bombarding my access list with women rockers ever since! Some of my favourites include Tamar Kali, Sophie Ramos, Asobi Seku, Girl in a Coma, Dengue Fever, Lumaya, Brody's new band Spinerette (GOD her voice!) and so many others!
So kick off your shoes and sit a while! Tell me about you!Who are your favourite female in rock and roll and blues bands? Any band with at least one woman-identifying person is eligible, all you have to do is focus on that woman identifying person. All-women bands would be even more awesome! And bands that feature women with differing levels of ability, sexual orientation and other diversity intersections would be for the win!Give us some interviews, highlight a song on which the performance, instrumental or vocal; was awesome! Rec us websites! If you id as a woman and you feel like it, tell us what's your experience been being a fan? Write fic, make icons, make us a layout! Link us videos, give us some history, and make your recs diverse!!! Lets have some fun!
the_future_modernes, and I created this comm. because I wanna highlight the women-identifying performers of rock and roll (ETA: and punk and goth and metal and shoe gaze and progressive and singer-songwriter) and blues and funk (and whatever other genre of rock music that you can come up with) music! I've loved rock music since I was 15 years old, but it was only during last year's "three weeks for dreamwidth" that I began to be disturbed at just how ridiculously male-centric my playlist was. I wanted to have role-models that I could look up to when I was playing air-guitars or rocking out to an awesome cd, and they were not to be found easily on rock radio stations or on the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine! (Instead we had a naked Christina Aguilera posing with a guitar:/) And so I started to google. And I found that they were out there, alright, they were just mostly ignored by the mainstream establishment. To make matters worse, when they were paid attention to, their level of sexiness seemed to be the only thing that the idiot-journalists could think about! And to top it all off, diversity was completely ignored. And so I have been bombarding my access list with women rockers ever since! Some of my favourites include Tamar Kali, Sophie Ramos, Asobi Seku, Girl in a Coma, Dengue Fever, Lumaya, Brody's new band Spinerette (GOD her voice!) and so many others! So kick off your shoes and sit a while! Tell me about you!Who are your favourite female in rock and roll and blues bands? Any band with at least one woman-identifying person is eligible, all you have to do is focus on that woman identifying person. All-women bands would be even more awesome! And bands that feature women with differing levels of ability, sexual orientation and other diversity intersections would be for the win!Give us some interviews, highlight a song on which the performance, instrumental or vocal; was awesome! Rec us websites! If you id as a woman and you feel like it, tell us what's your experience been being a fan? Write fic, make icons, make us a layout! Link us videos, give us some history, and make your recs diverse!!! Lets have some fun!
