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Women Who Rock Right Now: No. 10

It's been more than a decade since the first Lilith Fair, the all-female music festival founded by Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan. Now we celebrate the new generation of women who have taken up the torch passed by McLachlan, Sheryl Crow, Fiona Apple and other ladies of Lilith, and who continue to redefine what it means to be a woman who rocks.


Who: Beth Ditto
Birthplace: Searcy, Ark.
Sound: Dance punk

Frontwoman for the Gossip, Ditto -- a plus-sized lesbian with a Southern drawl and a soulful howl -- challenges the skinny white boy indie-rock canon with riot grrrl mentality and a disco backbeat. Her firecracker social consciousness has earned an avid fan in Rosie O'Donnell, who toured alongside Ditto on this summer's True Colors tour.

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Haley

What about Alexx Calise?

November 25 2009 at 3:47 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Meaghan

What about Amy Lee of Evanescence? She's probably the best female singer in rock right now, and her band's great. She's an amazing singer and, by the way, who are these people? Hayley Williams of Paramore is awesome too, she's a great singer. Most of these people aren't even real rock. Amy Winehouse? Yeah right.

August 10 2008 at 4:57 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Rachel

This List SUCKS!! None of those chicks even Rock!! I'll help yall out some.
Number 1 BEST Rock Chick EVER- Avril Lavigne DUH!!
2. Hayley Williams from Paramore
3.Amy Lee from Evanesence She has an awesome voice
4.Gwen Stefani(in No Doubt) They had unique rock songs
5. The singer of FLYLeaf she has a ROCKIN voice
6. Pink- She rocks and tells everyone off!!
7. The singer of the Peaches- she's a bad butt chick
From 7-20 is where yall should add all those crappy singers nobody has ever heard of.

July 20 2008 at 10:58 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Goofy

Wrong, many have "heard of" these artists.

November 23 2009 at 11:52 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Roseann

Annie Lenox. She ROCKS!

June 14 2008 at 10:14 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Kool

Wow. I have no idea who this big lady is.

February 14 2008 at 4:31 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mister Brightside

It is both a MORTAL and a VENIAL S-I-N that sooo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o many posts have made it up here, and STILL no mention of the ORIGINAL D.I.Y. ROCK-GODDESS

*****~SiOuXsIe SiOuX~*****


uh, hul-low??? Earth to music-listeners... Come in, music listeners... Are there any of you out there? I'm going back to Uranus where its cold and damp and dark (and I play SIOUXSIE all DAY (which lasts 84 Earth years!!!) and ALL night (another 84 yrs!)... Okay , WAY past my beddi-bye time, 'nightchy'all!!!


*~CoreY~*

January 22 2008 at 7:17 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mister Brightside

It is both a MORTAL and a VENIAL S-I-N that sooo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o many posts have made it up here, and STILL no mention of the ORIGINAL D.I.Y. ROCK-GODDESS

*****~SiOuXsIe SiOuX~*****


uh, hul-low??? Earth to music-listeners... Come in, music listeners... Are there any of you out there? I'm going back to Uranus where its cold and damp and dark (and I play SIOUXSIE all DAY (which lasts 84 Earth years!!!) and ALL night (another 84 yrs!)... Okay , WAY past my beddi-bye time, 'nightchy'all!!!


*~CoreY~*

January 22 2008 at 7:17 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mister Brightside

It is both a MORTAL and a VENIAL S-I-N that sooo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o many posts have made it up here, and STILL no mention of the ORIGINAL D.I.Y. ROCK-GODDESS

*****~SiOuXsIe SiOuX~*****


uh, hul-low??? Earth to music-listeners... Come in, music listeners... Are there any of you out there? I'm going back to Uranus where its cold and damp and dark (and I play SIOUXSIE all DAY (which lasts 84 Earth years!!!) and ALL night (another 84 yrs!)... Okay , WAY past my beddi-bye time, 'nightchy'all!!!


*~CoreY~*

January 22 2008 at 7:17 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Kay Dailey

What about Joan Jett, the Donnas, L7, Lita Ford, Gwen Stefani, Cherie Currie? Y'all have barely scratched the surface!

January 06 2008 at 9:35 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Kay

What about the Runaways, Hole, Bikini Kill, Seven Year Bitch, L7, Venus and the Razorblades, the Donnas? Y'all have barely scratched the surface!

January 06 2008 at 9:32 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply