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672:'s "Cryin'", charted even higher in both Britain and the US. The band folded again in the early 1990s following musical differences, but reformed twice more in their history. Maxine Petrucci also joined Vixen, albeit as a touring bass guitarist, after her sister invited her in 1998 until the Petruccis and their fellow band members were forced to disperse when Kuehnemund, feeling left out and her lead in representing Vixen being usurped, successfully sued to keep the rights to her band's name. She reunited Vixen in 2001, with a new bassist in tow, until disagreements with the band's management caused Kuehnemund's bandmates to leave, driving her to search for and hire new members. In 2004, Vixen's line-up from the 443:, Chris Scheri, Robyn Clark and Sally Zylstra. Labelled "Sweet and Heavy Rock", Sweet Jayne played mostly original material. Winning the Australasian Yamaha Battle of the Bands in 1978, Sweet Jayne went on through various cassette, vinyl and film clip releases and line up changes and played 700 gigs over 6 years. Sweet Jayne split up in 1983 when Chris Scheri (flute and vocals) and Cris Bonacci (guitar) were invited to the UK to work for 274: 809:
became the first woman to establish a Christian band, specifically an all-female group. Even though Rachel Rachel's success was short lived when they folded due to "creative differences" and too great a geographic distance, future rock bands or non-rock musical groups in the Christian genre that have
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in the 1980s helped to shed another light on the role of females in music. Because of the success of the Go-Go's and the Bangles many females were frustrated at not being taken seriously or only thought of as "cute chicks playing music" and either joined rock bands or formed all-female metal bands.
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The Lovedolls became a real band now and from there it became real hectic. To make a movie about an (now) established rock band that was originally a satire would be like a double dip. I figure, they're a "real" band now & they only have a couple of original members at this point- it's evolved
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From 1964-1968 the Pandoras was an all-girl band (one of the first) playing a few original tunes and a bunch of popular covers at concerts and dances throughout New England. They started out as a trio, with Simmons College students Kathy Kinsella and Pinky Keehner on rhythm guitar and lead guitar,
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arranged for it to have a wide release. The Shaggs, particularly in their early years, were noted for their inability to adhere to basic norms of popular music (their drummer, Helen Wiggin, often found herself detached from the music her sisters Dot and Betty were singing and playing on guitar),
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With the resurgence of interest in pop-punk bands in the US in the early 1990s, along with the sunset strip "hair metal" scene becoming extremely crowded, bands who combined a "non-image" with loud raw music started were gigging at clubs like Rajis in Hollywood. Bands such as
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Jet Records was going under at the time and was trying to re-group. They owned us all individually and tried to change us. They introduced Roxy to VIXEN. Bret later went on to KAISER. Jet pushed John Ward on us and we just didn't have any chemistry after that. It was
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In the 2010s, some groups that would typically fit the description of an all-female band began expressing their ambivalence towards the term, and similar terms such as "girl band" or "female-fronted band". Female musicians have written about the gendered
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during the mid-1970s. Kuehnemund folded the band a few months later, when her bandmates either dropped out or joined other bands, and she reformed it after moving to L.A. at the start of the 1980s. Vixen was sometimes described as "the female
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While the 1980s helped pave the way for female musicians to get taken more seriously it was still considered a novelty of sorts for several years, and it was very much a male-dominated world. In 1984, when film maker
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magazine poked fun at when they put the band on their cover in their underwear along with the caption "Go-Go's Put out!". However musician magazines were starting to show respect to female musicians, putting
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became popular, while demonstrating on stage, and in interviews, a self-confident "bad girl" attitude at times, always willing to challenge assumptions about how an all-female band should behave.
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were an all-female family band who earned some regional notoriety during their time as a performing band in the late 1960s; by the time they had disbanded in 1975 their first album
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Question: So no chance of turning up on the cover of Rolling Stone in your underwear with the caption "Graces Put out!"? Charlotte Caffey: the classic cover? No, I don't think so.
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In 1974, the Deadly Nightshade, a rock/country band (Anne Bowen, rhythm guitar/percussion; Pamela Robin Brandt, electric bass; Helen Hooke, lead guitar/violin) was signed by
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and Sally Levy on drums. Much later, under the management guidance of Peter Bonfils, the band had some success, including a recording contract and a couple of singles with
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In Japan, the 2010s brought a boom of all-female heavy metal bands forming and gaining mainstream attention. Although considered pioneers as the first to form in 2007,
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Most women in rock are only repeating what men have done. The women in this band are not doing that. We're coming at things from a more feminine, lunar, viewpoint.
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would not describe types of musical groups based on the gender of their members. Prominent bands who have adopted this viewpoint include American pop rock trio
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Basically the core of We Got Power films is Jordan and Jennifer Schwartz and myself and Jeff and Steve McDonald helped a lot on the Lovedolls films.
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Meredith Brooks: I remember working with a couple of producers that went 'Yeah, and we'll get a guitar player...' and I am like 'Um, guys. I play!'
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was released along with the single "High in High School". the Petrucci sisters were a focal point of the band – Maxine, the lead guitarist, and
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became the first self-produced all-female band in the R&B/pop style of music to play all instruments; several of their singles - including "
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played "no-frills, glam-rock anthems, sung with her tough-as-nails snarl and sneer", the Go-Go's were seen as playful girls, an image that even
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were an early commercially successful, hard-edged, all-female hard rock band, releasing their first album in 1976; band members
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The 1980s, for the first time, saw long-sought chart success from all-female bands and female-fronted rock bands. On the
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explored some of these issues with interviews from many of the female musicians on the riot grrrl scene at the time.
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and joined Malibu Barbi their sound shifted from heavy metal to a sound described as combining a "driving beat with
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among others, and the formation of other groups where the female members influenced the music and lyrical content (
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Charlotte Caffey: I remember the fact that people would say 'You're an all-girl band, you can't possibly make it.'
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described the other females in Hole as using a more "lunar viewpoint" in their roles as musicians. In the 1990s,
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and during the 1930s, "all-girl" bands such as the Blue Belles, the Parisian Redheads (later the Bricktops),
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behind such descriptors, pointing out how seldom the term "all-male band" is used, and that a society with
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Many female musicians from all-female bands in the 1980s and 1990s have gone on to more high-profile gigs.
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became the first all-female band to reach the Hot 100's top 40, with "Charity Ball" peaking at No. 40.
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All-female bands are not restricted to the mainstream genres. The British/Australian string quartet
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In Australia in 1977 all-girl band Sweet Jayne began doing regular gigs with the original lineup:
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were made of the vaudeville style all-girl groups, especially short subject promotional films for
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Indies Albums Chart and reached number 15 on the main chart. Another notable girls metal band is
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One such band that was playing harder music in San Francisco was Rude Girl. Originally signed to
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in the late 1970s with its "anyone can do it" ethos lead to the formation of such bands as
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for Best New Band. Another example of all-female band is the Brazilian death metal band
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in 2012 and they continually toured until Brandt's death in 2015, dissolving the band.
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in 1976. Reunited in 2009, the Deadly Nightshade recorded and released a third album
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period, to honor her legacy. Both Stile and long-time frontwoman/rhythm guitarist
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has been a fan of the band. The line-up from 2001 recorded a fourth album,
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that is exclusively composed of female musicians. This is distinct from a
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have been cited as the initiators of the movement when their first album
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which somewhat ironically (and to their bewilderment) made them icons of
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only women as members followed their lead in the next decades to come.
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Bands composed solely of women began to emerge with the advent of
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before changing her career to acting and her professional name to
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Musical group exclusively composed of female musicians
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International Sweethearts of Rhythm
Phil Spitalny
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Phonofilm
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Cab Calloway
Ina Ray Hutton
Melodears
NBC Radio
RKO
Dona Drake
Ivy Benson
BBC
Sherrie Tucker
Filipinki
rock and roll
Goldie and the Gingerbreads
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