Anyone wanna talk female-fronted bands?

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The Agonist is a deathcore band fronted by Alissa White-Gluz (until she joined Arch Enemy):
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZo4bOZf3B4&list=RDpZo4bOZf3B4&index=1[/youtube]
All female death metal band Kittie:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsuTuAVJrF8&index=34&list=RDpZo4bOZf3B4[/youtube]

The Pleasure Seekers a 60's all female garage rock band from Detroit Rock City. with The Quatro sisters including Suzy who went on to fame as a a glam rock star in the UK and as Leather Tuscadero from Happy Days a in USA and Arlene the mom of actress of Sherilyn Fenn of Twin Peeks fame
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddDHPWJIfEY[/youtube]

They do a raucous cover of the Four Tops "Reach Out" 18 year Suzi doing probably the first heavy metal head spin at 2:57.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD0JRdIGwoo[/youtube]


Fanny the first all female hard rock band to release an album on a major label
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_(band)
Here is a 1971 Old Grey Whistle Test performance
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pukOcZ4Tjk0[/youtube]

Joan Jett is my favorite.

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts - I love Rock n Roll

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL5spALs-eA[/youtube]

I hate myself for loving you

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPkTGm4RtVM[/youtube]

There was a really good one called The Devils Blood, but they broke up

Anyways here is a song of theirs:


So sad they broke up, not sure if their was animosity or if they just decided to split ways and do their own projects...I did get to see them opening for Dimmu Borgir I think it was though. But yeah when I first heard them I did not know the singer was a female....when I found out they where female I was impressed cause I like how they don't have a super girly voice.

Also Nightwish when they had this singer:


Hell yeah!

Really like the Julie Ruin (Kathleen Hanna from Bikini Kill/Le Tigre)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No_g3a6c-qk

Pretty obscure. You would only know these songs if you listened to college radio in 1980-1981

Mitch Easterhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Easter on guitar and drums.

Vanessa Briscoe Hay from Pylon -Maybe someday she will get the recognition she deserves. "When Rolling Stone named R.E.M. "America's Best Band" in November 1987, R.E.M. drummer Bill Berry said, "We're not the best rock 'n' roll band in America." Pylon, he said, was the best" (source Wikipedia)

Pagan metal. Masha can really deathgrowl.

Post-metal. The vocalist Julie Christmas was also in Made Out Of Babies (also post-metal).

Couldn't let this thread go without Garbage.

On the lighter side of things.

I don't think the distinction between a male or female lead singer is very important, but I always liked The Cardigans. They actually made my favorite version of the Iron Man theme.


No Doubt and Eve's Plum were also good in their day.

Some of my favorite leading ladies!

I wish their were more female artists that I like. There is the occasional song that I like here and there, but there is only one band that I semi like

Florence+the Machine is okay in my opinion, have a few songs I like

Female fronted acts were almost unheard of in 1970's Progressive Rock. Sonja Kristina was an exception.