Ana da Silva is an artist and musician, best known as a founding member of influential punk rock band The Raincoats.

Peaches is a Canadian musician, producer, director, visual artist, and performance artist. Born in Ontario, Canada, Peaches began her musical career in the 1990s as part of a folk trio, Mermaid Cafe. In 1995, she established a rock band, the Sh...

Lynn Breedlove is an author, performer, poet, and the founding member and lead singer of the Bay area homocore band Tribe 8. He is the founder of the San Francisco based non-profit Homobiles, a California NPO 501c3 committed to providing secure...

"Brooklyn based ROIR and  Invisiblegirl Recording  artist  Honeychild Coleman has worked with The Slits, Mad Professor, and Death Comet Crew (with  Rammellzee), is in documentaries “Afropunk,” (USA), "Firelies" & "Gettin...

Frances McKee is a Scottish singer and songwriter known best for her work in the Scottish indie band The Vaselines.

Emily Retsas is an Australian-born bass player living in Los Angeles. She has recorded and performed with Death Valley Girls, BoyGenius, Fiona Apple and Shirley Manson, Kim Gordon, and currently plays with Phoebe Bridgers. 

Melanie (or Melanie Safka), is an American singer-songwriter. She is best known for the 1971-72 global hit "Brand New Key", her cover of "Ruby Tuesday", her composition "What Have They Done to My Song Ma", and her 1970 international breakthroug...

Melanie (or Melanie Safka), is an American singer-songwriter.  She is best known for the 1971-72 global hit "Brand New Key", her cover of "Ruby Tuesday", her composition "What Have They Done to My Song Ma", and her 1970 international break...

Veruca Salt is an American alternative rock band founded in Chicago, Illinois, in 1992 by vocalist-guitarists Nina Gordon and Louise Post, drummer Jim Shapiro and bassist Steve Lack.They are best known for their first single, "Seether", ...

Veruca Salt is an American alternative rock band founded in Chicago, Illinois, in 1992 by vocalist-guitarists Nina Gordon and Louise Post, drummer Jim Shapiro and bassist Steve Lack. They are best known for their first single, "Seether", that w...

Ginger Coyote is a powerhouse. She the founder of the Bay Area punk band White Trash Debutantes and the seminal Punk Globe Magazine. 

Susan Quatro is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress. In the 1970s she scored a string of hit singles that found greater success in Europe and Australia than in her homeland, reaching No. 1 in the UK, other European countries an...

Lydia Lunch is a musician, author, historian and hysterian best known as founding member of the seminal No Wave band, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks. In this oral history, Lydia Lunch details her teenage years in Rochester, New York and her move t...

Kate Schellenbach is a drummer, was a founding member of the Beastie Boys and drummer of Luscious Jackson who reached commercial success with the release of their single “Naked Eye” in 1997. Schellenbach discusses her musical career, touring, g...

Viola Smith is an American drummer best known for her work in orchestras, swing bands, and popular music from the 1920s until 1975. She was one of the first professional female drummers and started her career with her family band, The Smith Sis...

Shirley Manson is a vocalist and musician best known as lead singer of the band Garbage. In this interview, Manson discusses her childhood, education, and relationship with her family, as well as her musical career in bands Goodbye Mr. Mackenzi...

Brenda Lee is an American performer and the top-charting solo female vocalist of the 1960s. She sang rockabilly, pop and country music, and had 47 US chart hits during the 1960s, and is ranked fourth in that decade surpassed only by Elvis Presl...

Freda Payne is an American singer and actress, best known for her career in music during the mid–1960s through the mid–1980s. Her most notable record is her 1970 hit single, "Band of Gold". Payne was also an actress in musicals and film, as wel...

Terri Nunn is a singer and actress best known as the lead vocalist and founding member of the synth pop band Berlin. She joined the band In 1978 and left briefly to pursue an acting career. Nunn rejoined Berlin in 1981 and they released their f...

Genya Ravan is a singer best known for her tenure in The Escorts, Goldie and the Gingerbreads, and Ten Wheel Drive. She is also a producer and engineer and recorded the Dead Boys debut album, Young, Loud, and Snotty, and Ronnie Spector...

Toody Cole is an Oregon-based musician, bass player, and vocalist. She is best known as a founding member of Dead Moon with her husband Fred Cole and drummer Andrew Loomis. Together, they were a successful DIY band for 19 years (1985-2006). She...

Gail Ann Dorsey is a multi-instrumentalist, and vocalist best known for her work with David Bowie, Tears for Fears, Gwen Stefani, Lenny Kravitz, The National, and Olivia Newton John. She is a renowned bassist and top session musician and has re...