Who were (or are) the Best Female Hard Rocker(s)?

No Concrete Blonde yet ?

 

For a current group, how about Stonefield? Four sisters who rock hard

 

Elyse Steinman

 

All those mentioned prior and Wendy O Williams.

jerol

 

Bleach-03 (from Okinawa).

 

that little guitar riff is straight off of the stones little by little

 

if I remember right they started out as little girls up in santa clarita

 

Toronto
Syd Straw with Golden Palominos

 

Suze DeMarchi (Baby Animals)

 

some female metalers:

Vanessa Nocera- Wooden Stake (doom)
Christine Davis- Christian Mistress (doom)
Jen Pickett- Black September (blackened death)
Katherine Katz- Agoraphobic Nosebleed/Pig Destroyer (grindcore)
Christina- Agrimonia (crust death)
Krysta Martinez- Transient (grindcore)
Laura Pleasants- Kylesa (sludge)
Brittany Fugate- Rwake (sludge)

 

I'm having a hard time with the definition for some of the above - hard rock?
However there are many above that I would second.

I don't think Bikini Kill was mentioned.

 

The jury is still out but:
Taylor Momsen for your perusal:

 

Mari Elliot aka Poly Styrene (RIP)

 

Sylvia Juncosa, for seriously kickass guitar on her album Is.

 

I'll second the Headpins,

 

Dunno. My friend saw them live at some festival and really liked them so I checked out their debut CD and agreed.

 

Do I get to mention every female bass player and drummer in hard rock, too? I mean, there's Jo Bench from Bolt Thrower and Chesire Agusta from Stinking Lizaveta and ... well, you get the idea. Quite a few good ones out there.

 

Sleater-Kinney, hands down. They rock out with verve and conviction. Janet Weiss is a helluva drummer.

 

L7 has been mentioned. But I'll use the excuse to post my fav L7 song. The subject is the same as the Bikini Kill song above. I never met that girl in high school.



Edit - had to correctL7 (I didn't spell it right)

 

Perhaps not hard rock but surely tough enough

Toni McCann

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCtiK6eWa5Y

 

Heart started off kind of 'tough' and 'heavy'.....but they faded into light pop/rock fairly quickly...look at their career during the 80's and into the 90's.....light power ballads.....So I give them credit for starting off 'heavy', but they did not sustain it.

 

What about Babes in Toyland or Bottom (a three piece outfit that was comprised of all women). Then there's Lost Goat, too.

 

who dat?