Rock 'n' Roll 'n' Blues Women!

Dhoom Machaao Dhoom was a Hindi programme which used to air on Disney Channel India. It premiered on January 8, 2007, with a one-hour special introductory episode, which had songs by the Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs winner, Sanchita Bhattacharya. She performed the song Aisa jadoo in the same episode. The story deals with Priyanka Sethi and the Pink Band, a band which she formed with her friends. The show used to air from Monday to Thursday at 9.30 p.m.(IST). As of April 2008, it has been replaced by another Hindi show called Sanya. Sanya was stopped due to poor ratings and was replaced by Kaarthika.^{[citation needed]}MORE

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Funchess, the Light Asylum frontwoman, drums and sings, pogoing around in a mix of black leather and new-wave neon, like a punker, harder-edged Grace Jones possessed by the sensibilities of Ian Curtis. Her voice has appeared on tracks by bands like Telepathe and TV on the Radio, but it’s with this latest project (a duo, with Bruno Coviello on synth) that she has come into her own. Light Asylum is catchy but raw, music you can lose yourself in.

The new single from punk icon Poly Styrene, who passed away earlier this year.
" 'Ghoulish' available 8th August 2011, featuring a killer remix from Hercules & Love Affair. Second single from the critically acclaimed album "Generation Indigo". Poly Styrene took inspiration from Michael Jackson for this track and director Lauryn Siegal creates an entertaining take on it for the video that features Gaby Hoffmann."

When Florence Welch began creating music in the bedroom of friend and keyboardist Isabella Summers, she could've had little idea at the scale of the outcome. Florence and the Machine's debut Lungs peaked at Number. 1 on the UK charts, has appeared on the Billboard Heatseeker's chart in the US and, as of last week, had Australian audiences in a spin.

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It’s true. How did it feel to have so many people screaming your lyrics along with you?

Really weird [laughs], but nice. Really nice. I just find sometimes it gets slightly overwhelming. What are you all doing knowing the words?! I wrote these like, two years ago inside someones bedroom.

And probably under such different circumstances?

You write these songs and you don’t even, like you’re completely in your own head space and then you see people singing along, and obviously you know, it must mean something to them? They’re translating it to their own lives and their own experiences and it’s really amazing. But to come to the other side of the world and have people singing the songs you wrote back at you it’s like, “fuck!”.

That must be bizarre.
Yeah, totally weird. It’s massive out here, I’m blown away.

Do you think that the idea of the frontwoman is still sort of a novelty in popular music?

Don’t know. I think there’s definitely been a resurgence of late of strong, female figures as musicians and I think that’s an exciting thing. But yeah, people can’t really seem to get over it, even though there have been so many amazing artists through out history, you know: Janis Joplin, Stevie Nicks, (they’re) two of my favourite artists, PJ Harvey, Kate Bush, people like Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin, Dusty Springfield. The list, it’s not a novel thing, there’s been so much and so many wonderful women artists, but I think there is something quite beguiling about the female artist.

I think maybe people still hold on to the idea of feminine vulnerability and being quite reserved, and if you see people on stage, really exposing themselves, kind of tearing everything up, then I think people find that… It’s the juxtaposition between femininity and power I think, and vulnerability and strength in female artists that I think people find really interesting.MORE

She smokes, drinks and swears, and is unlike the cutesy mass-market acts that dominate the Mando-pop industry. But it is her straightforward attitude and lack of packaging that appeal to her audience. Deserts Chang (張懸), who has been composing music since her teens, finally launched her debut album My Life Will ... at The Wall (這牆), an alternative music venue in Taipei, last weekend.

Despite having a bit of a rough edge, she inspires fans with her soothing voice, poetic lyrics and charismatic personality. Ironically, although her fan base is comprised largely of college students, especially those with artistic pretensions, Chang is a high school dropout.

"I couldn't stand the conservative restrictions in high school," Chang told the Taipei Times. "If I received a diploma based on that value system, then I would never [be able to] embrace my true colors. And I wouldn't be able to compromise with that value system."MORE

The Voodoo Queens were a North London-based girl group, who reached number one in the Indie Charts in 1993.
The band composed of Anjali Bhatia (guitar, vocals), Ella Guru (guitar, backing vocals), Stefania Lucchesini (drums), Rajni Bhatia (keyboards) and Anjula Bhasker (bass).^[1] Rebecca Lunn later stepped in for Anjula who had to leave to visit family in India.^[2]
In late 1992, Anjali left the group Mambo Taxi where she was the drummer to start the Voodoo Queens, along with her sister Rajni and cousin Anjula, Ella Guru (of Mambo Taxi), and drummer Sunny.^[3]MORE

1970's All Girl Band FANNY "Legendary Ladies of Rock and Roll" Hosted by John Sebastian. Includes: "Special Care" & "Blind Alley" From 1971. FANNY: June Millington - Guitar, Jean Millington - Bass, Nickey Barclay - Piano, Alice DeBuhr - Drums.

Fanny was an American girl band, led by June Millington. They were pioneers as one of the first rock bands to feature all women, and the third to sign to a major record label, after Goldie & the Gingerbreads and The Pleasure Seekers (Mercury Records). They reached the Top 40 three times, with "Charity Ball" in 1971, "I've Had It" in 1974, and "Butter Boy" in 1975, peaking at #40, #36, and #29 respectively in the Billboard Hot 100. Fanny was the first all-female band to release an album on a major label.^[1]MORE

June Millington (born April 14, 1948) is a Philippine-American guitarist, who along with her sister bassist Jean Millington, drummer Alice de Buhr, and keyboardist Nickey Barclay founded Fanny, which was signed with Warner Brothers' Reprise Records in 1969 and released five albums by 1974, including Fanny, Charity Ball, Fanny Hill (produced by Richard Perry), and Mother's Pride, which was produced by Todd Rundgren. Fanny toured worldwide, gaining widespread popularity in the U.K., and charted in the U.S. with the songs "Charity Ball" and "Butter Boy". In 1971 Fanny also served as session players and did arrangements for Barbra Streisand's self-titled album. In 2002, Rhino records gave the group the box-set treatment, releasing First Time In A Long Time—The Reprise Recordings.MORE

In 1986, June Millington together with her long time partner, Ann Hackler, formed the Institute for the Musical Arts (IMA). The Goshen, MA-based non-profit institute's mission is to support women and girls in music and music-related businesses. IMA's programs include the Rock 'n Roll Camp for Girls, and workshops on vocal and instrumental instruction, album production and recording techniques, lyric and music composition, and booking, promotion, and entertainment law.