If your band is badass enough for Lemmy Kilmister to offer you a deal with his label, you’ know there’s something going on. In 2015, the late Motorhead frontman saw the female-fronted Greek quintet at the Whisky a Go-Go and signed them to Motorhead Music. With their new album, Rub My Mind, coming out on June 16th on the label, the band is getting set to head out on the Warped Tour this summer. Barb Wire Dolls vocalist Isis Queen made a playlist for Metal Insider of her Top Ten songs featuring fearless frontwomen.
The Runaways, “Cherry Bomb”
This band ignited a revolution when they were too young to even know what a real revolution even was…
X, “Los Angeles”
This song captures the City Of Angels beautiful dark side…
Blondie, “Heart Of Glass”
Debbie Harry is mesmerizing and an icon of beauty, grace, and overcoming jealous counterparts…
Patti Smith Group, “Dancing Barefoot”
A poet first and foremost, Patti figured out how to mix music with her poetry…
X Ray Spex, “Oh Bondage Up Yours!
Poly Styrene was a light amidst a dirty and drug-infested early London punk scene and she shined bright…
Go-Go’s “We Got The Beat”
First wave LA punks turned “Pop”, Belinda Carlisle could drink and fuck you under the table while looking like a Hollywood movie star…
The Slits, “Typical Girls”
Ari Up was the truest expression of female rage and confrontation combined with intelligence and later reggae…
L7, Shitlist”
Just bad ass LA women on a mission…
Bikini Kill, “Rebel Girl”
Self-explanatory, but the deeper you look, the more you find Kathleen Hannah’s statements ultra-progressive and empowering, and frightening to a male dominated music scene (and world)…
Sonic Youth, “Kool Thing”
In the midst of so many female rage and sex stories, out comes Kim Gordon with the decades’ “Koolest” song…
