Jenny Woolworth’s Women in Punk Blog

Here is a band called Congregation - Victoria Yeulet on vocals and percussion and Benjamin Prosser on guitar and percussion. They are two people making a big bluesy rock sound that knocks me right over. Genuine, intellegent and straight out of South London. Download and listen to their track “Whole Night Long” included here [...]

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There is a band called Wetdog and it’s three members - (from left to right) Rivka Gillieron, Sarah Datblygu, and Billy Easter - live in London. They make that kind of noise that I find deeply satisfying in that sludgy no-wave punk way, reminding me of my days in the 1990s listening to the Scissor [...]

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I give you Drunk Granny, two women, Sam and Debi, on the never ending search for the perfect power punk sound. They are UK based, but only until their feminist spaceship whisks them away to an as yet undiscovered territory. They have released an album, Postcards for Auntie Julie, an EP, Beddeath, and a split [...]

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Jasmine Guffond is from Australia, but lives in Berlin now. She plays in the experimental electronic duo minit and also ventures out on her own as Jasmina Maschina. She released her first solo album The Demolition Series on Staubgold in April 2008. It’s beautiful. Kind of folk, kind of loop-y, kind of electronic, kind of [...]

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This is the band Kaputt. They live in London but some of them come from other places. Silke Steidinger sings and plays guitar, she is from Germany. Matt Yeates also plays guitar, Dave Ansell is the drummer and Ben Roussel plays the bass. Their sounds explodes like a brilliant pop rock firework in the starry [...]

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