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She Rocks, Vol. 1
''She Rocks, Vol. 1: A Collection of Kick-Ass Guitar Goddesses'' is a 2017 compilation album featuring female rock guitarists, released by Favored Nations Entertainment on January 20, 2017. The album was produced by Brad Tolinski and Steve Vai. The cover art was designed by Laura B. Whitmore. Track listing # Orianthi – "Transmogrify" # Yasi Hofer – "Cosmic Stars" # Kat Dyson – "U Know What I Like" # Sarah Longfield – "The Taxi Time Travel Task Force" # Lita Ford w/ Lez Zeppelin – "The Lemon Song" # Jennifer Batten – "In the Aftermath" # Nita Strauss – "Pandemonium" # Steph Paynes – "The Sun at Her Eastern Gate" # Nili Brosh – "A Matter of Perception" # Gretchen Menn – "Scrap Metal" # Yvette Young Yvette Young is an American musician from San Jose, California. She is the front-woman for the math rock band Covet. History Young is of Chinese heritage and comes from a musical family: her father Phil is a singer, accordionist, and composer, ... – "Hydra See ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock Music
Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles in the mid-1960s and later, particularly in the United States and United Kingdom.W. E. Studwell and D. F. Lonergan, ''The Classic Rock and Roll Reader: Rock Music from its Beginnings to the mid-1970s'' (Abingdon: Routledge, 1999), p.xi It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, a style that drew directly from the blues and rhythm and blues genres of African-American music and from country music. Rock also drew strongly from a number of other genres such as electric blues and folk music, folk, and incorporated influences from jazz, classical, and other musical styles. For instrumentation, rock has centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar, drums, and one or more singers. Usually, rock is song-based music with a Time signature, time signature using ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nita Strauss
Nita Strauss (born December 7, 1986) is an American rock musician. She is currently Demi Lovato's touring guitarist and was a former touring guitarist for Alice Cooper from 2014 to 2022 and has a successful career as a solo artist. Strauss was the first female signature artist with Ibanez guitars and is regularly featured on the covers of worldwide print magazines including ''Guitar World'' and ''Guitar Player''. She was ranked No. 1 on ''Guitar World''s list of "10 Female Guitar Players You Should Know". Career Strauss started touring with her own band Lia-Fail as a teenager, leaving high school in her junior year to pursue music full time; the band included future world champion boxer Mikaela Mayer. Although initially known for her work with Iron Maiden all-female tribute band The Iron Maidens, Strauss' career has included performing with several rock ensembles including Consume the Fire, Femme Fatale, and the video-game supergroup Critical Hit. In 2014, Strauss was the of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 Compilation Albums
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Women In Rock
Women in rock describes the role of women singers, instrumentalists, record producers and other music professionals in rock music and popular music and the many subgenres and hybrid genres that have emerged from these genres. Women have a high prominence in many popular music styles as singers. However, professional women instrumentalists are uncommon in popular music, especially in rock genres such as heavy metal. " aying in a band is largely a male homosocial activity, that is, learning to play in a band is largely a peer-based... experience, shaped by existing sex-segregated friendship networks. As well, rock music "...is often defined as a form of male rebellion vis-à-vis female bedroom culture."Julian Schaap and Pauwke Berkers. "Grunting Alone? Online Gender Inequality in Extreme Metal Music" in ''IASPM Journal''. Vol.4, no.1 (2014) p. 102 Overview In popular music, there has been a gendered "distinction between public (male) and private (female) participation" in music. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yvette Young
Yvette Young is an American musician from San Jose, California. She is the front-woman for the math rock band Covet. History Young is of Chinese heritage and comes from a musical family: her father Phil is a singer, accordionist, and composer, and her mother is an organist and accordionist. She began taking piano lessons at the age of four, and violin lessons at the age of seven. She graduated from University of California, Los Angeles with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and began her career by posting videos of herself playing music in 2009. In 2014, Young released an EP titled ''Acoustics EP'' and further expanded her discography with the release of a split EP with Natalie Evans in 2015. In June 2017, Young released a second EP entitled ''Acoustics EP 2''. Young used her background in piano to use polyphony on a guitar. She taught herself guitar by ear after being hospitalized for an eating disorder. She notes, "I write with my ear, so I’m not really in a box in terms of chord sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gretchen Menn
Gretchen Menn is an American guitarist and composer who has her own original instrumental work and is also the lead guitarist for Zepparella, an all-female Led Zeppelin tribute band. She was included in ''Guitar Player Magazine'' '50 Sensational Female Guitarists' and ''Guitar Player Magazine'' '50 Years of Extraordinary Players.' In 2017 she was one of 11 female guitarists selected to contribute a track onto '' She Rocks, Vol. 1'', a compilation released on Steve Vai’s label: 'Favored Nations'. In 2017 she was nominated by readers of ''Vintage Guitar Magazine'' as 'Artist of the Year', alongside Allan Holdsworth, Steve Vai, Dan Auerbach, Rik Emmett, and Andy Timmons. She has provided lessons for ''Acoustic Guitar Magazine'', JamPlay - an online guitar lesson provider, and has been a 3-time counselor at Rock and Roll Fantasy Camps. Biography and early playing Menn started playing guitar as a teenager. She attended Smith College earning a Bachelor of Arts Degree in music whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nili Brosh
Nili Brosh is an Israeli-American guitarist and songwriter. She has performed and/or recorded with Danny Elfman, Cirque du Soleil, Dethklok, Steve Vai, Tony MacAlpine, Paul Gilbert, Andy Timmons, Guthrie Govan/The Aristocrats, Stu Hamm, DragonForce, Jennifer Batten, Gretchen Menn, Alphonso Johnson, Jeff Loomis, Bryan Beller, and The Iron Maidens. Early life Nili Brosh was born in Rishon LeZion, Israel, the fourth child and only daughter of first-generation Israeli parents. Inspired by her brother, Ethan Brosh, Nili started taking classical guitar lessons at the age of 7, later discovering the band Extreme and moving onto electric guitar at the age of 12. That same year, Brosh’s family moved to Boston, MA, where she eventually went to Berklee College of Music. Career Brosh graduated from Berklee College of Music in 2009, and immediately began teaching in the college’s summer guitar programs. She released her debut album, ''Through The Looking Glass'', featuring a gues ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Batten
Jennifer Batten (born November 29, 1957) is an American guitarist who has worked as a session musician and solo artist. From 1987 to 1997 she played on all three of Michael Jackson's world tours, and from 1999 to 2001 she toured and recorded with Jeff Beck. Batten has released three studio albums: her 1992 debut, ''Above Below and Beyond'' (produced by former Stevie Wonder guitarist Michael Sembello), the worldbeat-influenced '' Jennifer Batten's Tribal Rage: Momentum'' in 1997, and ''Whatever'', which was released on CD and DVD in Japan in 2007 and worldwide in 2008. Early years Batten began to play guitar at the age of eight when her father bought her a "killer red and blue electric". Her early influences were the Beatles, B.B. King, Lightnin' Hopkins, and Jeff Beck. Batten started to experiment with the two-handed tapping technique in 1978, having been inspired by Guitar Institute of Technology classmate Steve Lynch (who ended up playing for the band Autograph) while ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Favored Nations Entertainment
Favored Nations Entertainment is a record label founded in 1999 by guitarist Steve Vai and Ray Scherr, former owner of Guitar Center. The first album released by the label was '' Coming to Your Senses'' by guitarist Frank Gambale in 2000. Soon after, a variety of artists were signed, such as Johnny A., Larry Carlton, Peppino D'Agostino, Marty Friedman, Johnny Hiland, Allan Holdsworth, Eric Johnson, Stanley Jordan, Steve Lukather, Novecento, John Petrucci, Eric Sardinas, Neal Schon, Andy Timmons, Dave Weiner, The Yardbirds, and Dweezil Zappa. Favored Nations was followed by the creation of separate branches, Favored Nations Acoustic in 2002 and Favored Nations Cool in 2004. Pro-Found is a sister label that promotes Favored Nations artists through the Favored Nations and ProFound websites. Notable artists Favored Nations * Eric Johnson * Eric Sardinas * Andy Timmons * Steve Vai *Johnny A. * The Yardbirds * Tony Macalpine * Mattias Eklundh Favored Nations Acoustic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lez Zeppelin
Lez Zeppelin is an all-female tribute act, performing the work of Led Zeppelin.McClintock, J. Scott.Lez Zeppelin Allmusic History In June 2005, Chuck Klosterman wrote an article for ''Spin'' that featured Lez Zeppelin as a leading protagonist in a trend of all-female hard rock "tribute" bands. He referred to the group as "the most powerful all-female band in rock history" and described the rise of bands like Lez Zeppelin as a "kind of multilayered cultural phenomenon." Stories about the group appeared in ''The Times'', whose journalist called the band "the best new band I’ve seen all year, no question;" Reuters and CNN.com., which ran a front page feature that called the group so "electrifying" they are "driving club audiences to a frenzy." In April 2007, after touring in the US and Europe the band released its first album, ''Lez Zeppelin'', which was produced by Eddie Kramer, former recording engineer on several Led Zeppelin albums. In the wake of this release, the band wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lita Ford
Lita Rossana Ford (born 19 September 1958) is an English-born American guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. She was the lead guitarist for the all-female rock band the Runaways in the late 1970s, before embarking on a successful glam metal solo career that hit its peak in the late 1980s. The 1989 single "Close My Eyes Forever", a duet with Ozzy Osbourne, remains Ford's most successful song, reaching No. 8 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Early life Ford was born to Harry Lenard Ford and Isabella Benvenuto in London, England; her father was British and her mother was Italian. When she was in second grade, she moved with her family to the United States, eventually settling in Long Beach, California. Inspired by Ritchie Blackmore's work with Deep Purple, she began playing the guitar at the age of 11. Her vocal range is mezzo-soprano. Music career The Runaways (1975–1979) In 1975, at age sixteen, Ford was recruited by recording impresario Kim Fowley to join the all-female rock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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