LINKS AND FAVES

BAND WEBSITES - TOP

RECORD LABELS / MUSIC DISTRIBUTION - TOP

Kill Rock Stars (US) - fab Olympia based label and champion of Riot Grrrl bands

Trocar Records (US) - "corporate goals: death of indie pop and destruction of the major label system"

Dionysus Records (US) - garage, surf, punk, rockabilly, lounge, exotica, insanity and more

Pop Sweatshop (US) - Denver-based indie

Vida Loca (Italy) - the queerious punk conspiracy

No Concessions (UK) - punk, HC and indie label with the emphasis on female, queer and foreign bands

Thunderwoman (Germany) - "The great girl-label for cool chicks!"

Paroxym (US) - "D.I.Y. punk indie underground art fiasco"

CD Baby (US) - excellent music distro, dealing in CDs that come directly from musicians - including:
Ripley Caine - Civet - Eystone - Gertrude - The Gits - IFG - Lucid Nation - Millenary - Reba Hasko - RPM - Ladyfest East - Bang Sugar Bang - Hemi Cuda - The Pinkos



WOMEN IN MUSIC WEBSITES / RESOURCES - TOP

Church of Girl - packed with info and links for female musicians and female fronted bands

FemMuse - California based women musicians network

Frock On - Glasgow-based female collective behind the fab 'Frock On' events

GirlMuso - excellent UK site for and about female musicians

GoGirls - site and e-mail list promoting indie women in music

Italian Grrls Do It Better - top guide to the Italian Grrls rock'n'roll renaissance (in Italian)

Love, Rock and Revolution - emplive.com feature article on Riot Grrrl

Noisy Rock Women - "Loud, opinionated female musicians are beloved and honored here. "

Punk Girl - massive A-Z web index of women in punk and beyond

UK Band Network - Manifesta's top guide to cool bands

Women in Punk - website packed with useful band features

Women in Rock : making negative stereotypes positive - article on why the future of rock belongs to women



BOOKS AND MAGAZINES - TOP

She's A Rebel: The History of Women In Rock and Roll by Gillian Garr (2nd Edition)

She Bop II - the definative history of women in rock, pop and soul by Lucy O'Brien

Grrrls - Viva Rock Divas by Amy Raphael

Never Mind The Bollocks: Women Rewrite Rock by Amy Raphael

Rockrgrl - long-established US magazine devoted to women in music

Women Who Rock - US magazine website with useful resource listings



ZINES AND WEBZINES - TOP

The Book of Zines - zines, e-zines, zine libraries, all things zine

Do Something Pretty Fanzine - news and reviews focussed on independent music

Fingerbang Distro - zine and feminist goods distro

Freewheel Zine - punk, HC and underground pop e-zine, with an emphasis on female and queer bands

Girlpunk.net - breaking up the boys club!

Grrl.com - feminism, pop culture, zines, books, music, art, grrl radio, comics

Grrrl Zine Network - Grrrl, lady, queer and trans folk zines, distros and DIY projects

Rebel Grrrl - zine and distro collective - "your one stop shop for feminist propaganda"

Riot Grrrl World - for riot grrrls, queerpunks & underground feminists everywhere

Riot Kittens - UK based grrrl zine

Scarlet Web - personal, feminist writings from Sophie Scarlet, including 'Anti Social Scarlet' zine

Sponic Zine - excellent Denver-based alternative music zine

Synthesis - "punk rock feminist milliennial angst"

Zine World - a reader's guide to the underground press



RIOT GRRRL CHAPTERS / SITES - TOP

Riot Grrrl In The UK

Riot Grrrl London

Riot Grrrl Ireland

Riot Grrrl Europe

Riot Grrrl New York City

Riot Grrrl International Message Board



LADYFEST EVENTS AND SITES - IRELAND AND UK - TOP

Ladyfest Scotland (August 2001)

Ladyfest London (August 2002)

Ladyfest Devon (April 2003)

Ladyfest Bristol (August 2003)

Ladyfest Manchester (September 2003 - site now defunct)

Ladyfest Cardiff (February 2004)

Ladyfest Birmingham (July 2004)

Ladyfest Dublin (November 2004)



EMAIL DISCUSSION LISTS / NEWSLETTERS - TOP

GoGirls - long-established online community for women musicians

IndieGrrrl - lively discussion forum for women in independent music

Typical Girls - forum on women in punk from late 1970s through the early 80s



GRRRL RADIO - TOP

Babes In Boyland (Montpellier, France) - 100% girlz radio show, weekly on Radio Clapas 93.5 FM

Diva Radio (San Francisco, US) - weekly half-hour Sunday show on KUSF

Estrogen Nation (Kentucky, US) - weekly smorgasbord of slightly under the radar female musicians on WRFL

Nette Radio (Dallas, US) - weekly Internet radio show hosted by Eden Automatic's Annette Conlon

Ovary Action (Norway) - feminist radio show broadcasting every Saturday 4-5pm on Radio Orakel

Queen Bee (Rome, Italy) - anarcho-feminist radio show broadcasting since 1999

Rebel Girls (US) - VH1 automated online station with decent playlist on rotation

Rocket Girl Radio (US) - Internet radio show featuring indie, unknown and low-fi music

Women Who Wrock (US) - online radio show featuring music by female artists and woman-fronted bands

The XX Show (Canada) - weekly show available online and scheduled Tuesdays 6pm-9pm (-6hrs GMT)



QUEER MUSIC RESOURCES - TOP

Holy Titclamps - fab queer zine site and home of 'Queer Zine Explosion'

Homo-a-gogo- queer underground music and film festival in San Francisco

Queer Bands On Tour - directory page of gigs by queercore bands

Queercore Blitz - tours of exclusively queercore bands - next December 2004

Queer Music Explosion - reviews and listings from 'Queer Zine Explosion'

Queer Music Heritage - keeping alive gay and lesbian music from the past



FAVE CLUB NIGHTS - TOP

Pussy Whipped (Leeds, UK) - a dirty punk-electro-rock 'n' roll grrrl riot at Leeds' Bar Phono, on the last Friday every month....