Jenny Woolworth’s Women in Punk Blog

I picked up this compilation Kopf: Hören! a few years back from a merch table laid out at concert in a squated house (Kalki in Zürich), where the beers where cheap (Sprint for 2CHF), the music loud (thanks Archie), the bands passionate and the audience loving and enthusiastic (all fifty of us).
Kopf: Hören! was released in [...]

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HTRK photo by Ron Rex

HTRK are three people - Jonnine Standish (vocals, percussion), Sean Stewart (bass, programming) and Nigel Yang (guitar, synthesizer, programming). Founded in 2003 in Melbourne, Australia they have since relocated to Berlin to explore the full potential of their sexy gritty midnight sound. This is the music to slip into after the [...]

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GB Jones is a musician, filmmaker and artist based in Toronto, Canada and active in the queer/underground scene there since the early 80s. Her many projects over the years have included co-editing the seminal queer zine J.D.s with Bruce LaBruce and later Double Bill with friends and bandmates from her all-girl band Fifth Column. She has also [...]

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Music for One is Sherry Ostapovitch, a Canadian avant-garde guitarist living and working in London. Since her debut EP in 2001, Sherry has been bending and coaxing beautiful sounds wrestled from a guitar, effects, and bits from the hardware store. Her latest full length album, The [...]

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Hailing from Brooklyn, New York this is the band Effi Briest. They are six skilled musicians - drummer Corinne Jones, bassist Elizabeth Hart, percussionist Jessica Stathos, vocalist Kelsey Barrett, bassist Rebecca Squires and guitarist Sara Shaw. The band takes their name from a German nineteenth century novel featuring Effi Briest, a tragic female protagonist and [...]

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Here we go with Hotpants Romance from far away sunny summerland Manchester, England. It’s Kate Armitage (drums/vocals), Laura Skilbeck (guitar/vocals) and Lowri Evans (bass/vocals) - “Three girls! Three years! Three chords!” Pure sweet short loud pop punk songs, in hotpants and sunglasses.
Have a listen below to the song “Stop Escaping” from their aptly titled debut [...]

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