Girl Punk Radio On WESU

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Girlpunk: one of the best sites on the web- featuring up-to-date news, reviews, and interviews with modern girl punk bands. The gallery and message boards are worth checking out, and don't miss a Massive database of links to just about every contemporary female fronted punk band.
Church of Girl: Internet radio with tons of QUALITY playlists of sub-generes of female fronted punk music. Another great list of links to band webpages.
All Girl Mix: livejournal community where you can post and trade mix tapes of the female fronted variety.
Kill Yr TV: female fronted/grrrl punk/hardcore resource. This is a really great site, with tons of great links and information.
The Women of 1970's Punk: Rockin Rina has made this fab site to help out those of us who weren't around for the explosion of amazing girl punk bands in the 1970s, before angry white boys took everything over.
Revolution Grrrl Style Now: everything you ever wanted to know about riot grrrl!
Waywardgrrrl: queer girl music: information and links
Ladyfest: girl punk music festivals- first happened in Olympia in 2000, and has been popping up everywhere since then, find out if there is one happening by you soon.
Queer bands on Tour: Larry Bob keeps a great up-to-date list of riotgrrrl/queercore-type bands currently touring.
All Music: the best place to track down information on obscure bands.
Founding foreMOTHERS of female punk and art damaged divas: amazon listmania. be sure to try and purchase the records from the bands or record labels, or yr local indie store though plz.
BEST OF THE POST-PUNK LADIES: another amazon list, required listening, same caveat as mentioned above.

Contemporary Bands:
Les Baton Rouge: Portuguese/German band, drawing successfully on new wave and riot grrrl tactics to make really fresh exciting music.
Bitch: punk rock violinst, formerly of Righteous Babe label Bitch&Animal, doing the solo thing. should be exciting.
Beyond Pink: Swedish all-girl crusty punk band with radical queer and feminist politics. First album due out on either agitproprecords or emancypunx soon.
Dominatrix: Brazillian all-girl punk rockers, recently toured with The Haggard, who have really catchy and fun political songs.
Drama Machine: local CT female-fronted hardcore band with intense guitar work and smart lyrics.
Fabulous Disaster: rock like crazy.
Bonfire Madigan: out of the orchestra pit! punk rock cello, lyrics as poetry, political passion.
The Dresden Dolls: Wes alum, brechtian punk cabaret that shows how far a piano and drumset can go.
The Epoxies: new wave punk rock madness from portland that must be seen to believe. you will dance like an idiot have have the most fun ever.
The Organ: all girl darkwavers from canada with there first albumm coming out soon in the US, beautiful soaring vocals with music reminicent of Joy Division in a totally unique way.
The Syndicate: "The Syndicate is a New York City-based band, whose radical politics express themselves through passionate music." They have this arty, riot grrl thing going, with the smartest most beautiful and relevent lyrics.
my favorite: About half the songs of this band are sung by Andrea Vaughn, and they are probably my favorite contemporary band, sometimes surpassing The Smiths in my heart (blasphemy, i know).
The Quails: post-riotgrrrl music for the political and art sets, check out there song "Yr heart is a muscle the size of yer fist (keep loving, keep fighting)."
Tilly and the Wall: have a tap dancing section, enough said.
Tracy and the Plastics: fresh from the Whitney biennial, one woman, art, video, and electronic music- and a hell of a singing voice.
The Gossip: sparse rock and roll fronted by the amazing, stunning, passionate, talented Beth Ditto. Their records are good, and their live shows are not to be missed
Kill Rock Stars: record label home of most of the really important riot grrl releases, post punk rereleases, and is still putting out some amazing records.