<![CDATA[clovenhooves - Women in Music]]> https://clovenhooves.org/ Wed, 06 May 2026 13:29:41 +0000 MyBB <![CDATA[The Clovenhooves Womyn's Music Festival]]> https://clovenhooves.org/showthread.php?tid=1875 Sun, 18 Jan 2026 04:39:25 +0000 Impress Polly]]> https://clovenhooves.org/showthread.php?tid=1875
Thought I'd create a thread where we can share songs that we like. Lots of boards have a dedicated, all-purpose "what are you listening to right now?" or song recommendations type thread and I noticed that we didn't yet, so thought I'd make one. Since this is a feminist board, I'll set out a basic standard that all songs you share should at minimum be female-fronted. (Exception 1: If it's an instrumental song, then the lead / most front-and-center musician should be female. Exception 2: If it's a lyric-free game/show tune, it must be from a game or show that centers on a female character.) Also please try to avoid content that revolves around celebrating heterosexuality if possible. (In other words, don't post the Taylor Swift song Wood or others like it that threaten to make me barf.) Other than that, any theme or genre goes. This is just for fun!

I'll start us off with a few some stuff I've been listening to lately. Prepare yourselves for my goth-geek sensibility. I'm kidding. Nothing can prepare you.

Theme of Shut-In Samus (Yet to Be Confirmed)

I Only Paint in Red Now (Lydia the Bard)

And here's a couple fun songs by my favorite band. These are metal jams, so I recommend cranking the volume up nice and loud the way these songs are meant to be heard. 

Headbangeeeeerrrrr!!!!! (Babymetal) <-- New version!

BxMxC (Babymetal) <-- Their Mortal Kombat style video.  :meowwow:

And finally, here's a cool tune by a Japanese punk group I discovered recently.

When is Your Birthday? (Sorry No Camisole)

YOUR TURN!! Share with us your favorite song(s) of the moment!]]>
Thought I'd create a thread where we can share songs that we like. Lots of boards have a dedicated, all-purpose "what are you listening to right now?" or song recommendations type thread and I noticed that we didn't yet, so thought I'd make one. Since this is a feminist board, I'll set out a basic standard that all songs you share should at minimum be female-fronted. (Exception 1: If it's an instrumental song, then the lead / most front-and-center musician should be female. Exception 2: If it's a lyric-free game/show tune, it must be from a game or show that centers on a female character.) Also please try to avoid content that revolves around celebrating heterosexuality if possible. (In other words, don't post the Taylor Swift song Wood or others like it that threaten to make me barf.) Other than that, any theme or genre goes. This is just for fun!

I'll start us off with a few some stuff I've been listening to lately. Prepare yourselves for my goth-geek sensibility. I'm kidding. Nothing can prepare you.

Theme of Shut-In Samus (Yet to Be Confirmed)

I Only Paint in Red Now (Lydia the Bard)

And here's a couple fun songs by my favorite band. These are metal jams, so I recommend cranking the volume up nice and loud the way these songs are meant to be heard. 

Headbangeeeeerrrrr!!!!! (Babymetal) <-- New version!

BxMxC (Babymetal) <-- Their Mortal Kombat style video.  :meowwow:

And finally, here's a cool tune by a Japanese punk group I discovered recently.

When is Your Birthday? (Sorry No Camisole)

YOUR TURN!! Share with us your favorite song(s) of the moment!]]> <![CDATA[“... and call men stupid in as many ways as you can”: Sabrina Carpenter offers her songwriting advice]]> https://clovenhooves.org/showthread.php?tid=1763 Thu, 11 Dec 2025 01:25:01 +0000 Clover]]> https://clovenhooves.org/showthread.php?tid=1763 “Add the weird chord progression and key change, and call men stupid in as many ways as you can”: Sabrina Carpenter offers her songwriting advice as she accepts Variety’s Hitmaker of the Year award

Music Radar, December 10 2025

https://www.musicradar.com/artists/add-the-weird-chord-progression-and-key-change-and-call-men-stupid-in-as-many-ways-as-you-can-sabrina-carpenter-offers-her-songwriting-advice-as-she-accepts-varietys-hitmaker-of-the-year-award]]> “Add the weird chord progression and key change, and call men stupid in as many ways as you can”: Sabrina Carpenter offers her songwriting advice as she accepts Variety’s Hitmaker of the Year award

Music Radar, December 10 2025

https://www.musicradar.com/artists/add-the-weird-chord-progression-and-key-change-and-call-men-stupid-in-as-many-ways-as-you-can-sabrina-carpenter-offers-her-songwriting-advice-as-she-accepts-varietys-hitmaker-of-the-year-award]]> <![CDATA[A record label is bringing forgotten female composers out of obscurity]]> https://clovenhooves.org/showthread.php?tid=1364 Thu, 10 Jul 2025 20:18:37 +0000 Magpie]]> https://clovenhooves.org/showthread.php?tid=1364 https://www.positive.news/lifestyle/arts/the-record-label-bringing-forgotten-female-composers-out-of-obscurity/

Quote:Unsung heroines of classical music are being resurrected from obscurity thanks to a new record label dedicated to women composers.

La Boîte à Pépites (The Jewel Box) was founded by French cellist Héloïse Luzzati. It builds on the ‘Elles – Women Composers’ festival and YouTube channel she started to promote forgotten female creators.

Many of the label’s composers have never been recorded and Luzzati spent hours poring over original manuscripts and first editions to rescue their work from obscurity.

The article is a couple of years old but this label is still going! They've had to change their name after a dispute (they're now called Cité des Compositrices) and are apparently planning to launch a score publishing house this year. 

Their site: https://citedescompositrices.com/en/home/
Their youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/LaBoite%C3%A0P%C3%A9pites/videos]]> https://www.positive.news/lifestyle/arts/the-record-label-bringing-forgotten-female-composers-out-of-obscurity/

Quote:Unsung heroines of classical music are being resurrected from obscurity thanks to a new record label dedicated to women composers.

La Boîte à Pépites (The Jewel Box) was founded by French cellist Héloïse Luzzati. It builds on the ‘Elles – Women Composers’ festival and YouTube channel she started to promote forgotten female creators.

Many of the label’s composers have never been recorded and Luzzati spent hours poring over original manuscripts and first editions to rescue their work from obscurity.

The article is a couple of years old but this label is still going! They've had to change their name after a dispute (they're now called Cité des Compositrices) and are apparently planning to launch a score publishing house this year. 

Their site: https://citedescompositrices.com/en/home/
Their youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/LaBoite%C3%A0P%C3%A9pites/videos]]> <![CDATA[Hayley Williams Hopes Christian Music Industry ‘Crumbles’ Amid Michael Tait Scandal]]> https://clovenhooves.org/showthread.php?tid=1271 Sat, 14 Jun 2025 15:48:56 +0000 Elsacat]]> https://clovenhooves.org/showthread.php?tid=1271 https://variety.com/2025/music/news/hayley-williams-christian-music-crumbles-michael-tait-ccm-1236430953/

Quote:The Paramore singer also slammed the CCM industry for a lack of 'gay-affirming support' that she believes leads closeted musicians into 'self-hating' and destructive behavior.

Hayley will probably get some shade from people thinking she's excusing singer Michael Tait's predatory behavior. I don't see it that way. As she says, "F— All of You Who Knew and Didn’t Say Anything" and she's also right that just being gay is NOT the problem.

One of the things I hate about the current pushback against trans is the number of people I see who are either okay with the TQ+ pushback taking down LGB with it, or who actively want to push back against LGB also and think LGB is "mental illness" "depraved" "sinful" etc. I'm tired of people who blame only the TQ+ for that, too. Someone who hates lesbian and gay people probably didn't start hating lesbian and gay people just because Dylan Mulvaney got a specialty Bud Light can or because Bruce Jenner became Caitlyn Jenner. They already hated LGB and they don't get a hall pass from me just because we share some negative opinions on TQ+.]]> https://variety.com/2025/music/news/hayley-williams-christian-music-crumbles-michael-tait-ccm-1236430953/

Quote:The Paramore singer also slammed the CCM industry for a lack of 'gay-affirming support' that she believes leads closeted musicians into 'self-hating' and destructive behavior.

Hayley will probably get some shade from people thinking she's excusing singer Michael Tait's predatory behavior. I don't see it that way. As she says, "F— All of You Who Knew and Didn’t Say Anything" and she's also right that just being gay is NOT the problem.

One of the things I hate about the current pushback against trans is the number of people I see who are either okay with the TQ+ pushback taking down LGB with it, or who actively want to push back against LGB also and think LGB is "mental illness" "depraved" "sinful" etc. I'm tired of people who blame only the TQ+ for that, too. Someone who hates lesbian and gay people probably didn't start hating lesbian and gay people just because Dylan Mulvaney got a specialty Bud Light can or because Bruce Jenner became Caitlyn Jenner. They already hated LGB and they don't get a hall pass from me just because we share some negative opinions on TQ+.]]> <![CDATA[She experienced California’s 1970s rock revolution. Now she has an empire.]]> https://clovenhooves.org/showthread.php?tid=963 Wed, 09 Apr 2025 15:02:07 +0000 Elsacat]]> https://clovenhooves.org/showthread.php?tid=963 https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/lucrative-california-rock-stars-celebrities-scream-20250247.php

Quote:Training over 250 artists and boasting more than a quarter of a million followers on Instagram, the self-described scream technician has worked with Korn’s Jonathan Davis, actor Kevin Bacon and singer Courtney Love, among others. She has become an omnipresent yet invisible force in the entertainment world, but she never expected to be crowned America’s scream queen, nor did she expect to build such an enduring empire. In a way, though, this path just seemed destined. 
]]> https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/lucrative-california-rock-stars-celebrities-scream-20250247.php

Quote:Training over 250 artists and boasting more than a quarter of a million followers on Instagram, the self-described scream technician has worked with Korn’s Jonathan Davis, actor Kevin Bacon and singer Courtney Love, among others. She has become an omnipresent yet invisible force in the entertainment world, but she never expected to be crowned America’s scream queen, nor did she expect to build such an enduring empire. In a way, though, this path just seemed destined. 
]]> <![CDATA[With ‘One Guitar Woman,’ Sue Foley Honors the Women Who Helped Shape Guitar History]]> https://clovenhooves.org/showthread.php?tid=912 Sun, 30 Mar 2025 14:33:28 +0000 Elsacat]]> https://clovenhooves.org/showthread.php?tid=912 https://acousticguitar.com/with-one-guitar-woman-sue-foley-honors-the-women-who-helped-shape-guitar-history/

Quote:Originally from Canada, Foley started playing guitar at 13 and toured with Mark Hummel and other blues artists before relocating to Austin, Texas, and releasing her debut album, Young Girl Blues, in 1992. Her latest album, the Grammy-nominated One Guitar Woman [see full review at AcousticGuitar.com—ed.], is a tribute to the women who shaped guitar history—and a personal reckoning with their influence. With just her voice and a Salvador Castillo flamenco negra guitar, she delivers songs by Memphis Minnie, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Maybelle Carter, and others with a mix of reverence and raw energy. Rather than simply looking back, the album sparks a conversation across generations.
]]> https://acousticguitar.com/with-one-guitar-woman-sue-foley-honors-the-women-who-helped-shape-guitar-history/

Quote:Originally from Canada, Foley started playing guitar at 13 and toured with Mark Hummel and other blues artists before relocating to Austin, Texas, and releasing her debut album, Young Girl Blues, in 1992. Her latest album, the Grammy-nominated One Guitar Woman [see full review at AcousticGuitar.com—ed.], is a tribute to the women who shaped guitar history—and a personal reckoning with their influence. With just her voice and a Salvador Castillo flamenco negra guitar, she delivers songs by Memphis Minnie, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Maybelle Carter, and others with a mix of reverence and raw energy. Rather than simply looking back, the album sparks a conversation across generations.
]]> <![CDATA[Tessa Violet]]> https://clovenhooves.org/showthread.php?tid=345 Sun, 10 Nov 2024 05:52:02 +0000 Clover]]> https://clovenhooves.org/showthread.php?tid=345
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