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Category Archives: women in rock

Women and Punk: Cristy’s 18th Birthday Show

For Cristy’s 18th birthday, she and 13-month-old Heather blast out the speakers with raw, electric estrogen, spinning women of punk rock.

Woman and punk.

Woman and punk.

Listen. Now.

Women in Punk Rock / New Wave

Cristy and William team up to pay tribute to the prominent (to them!) women in alternative rock of the late 1970s and 1980s.

Two hours of power.

Polly Styrene.

Polly Styrene.

Women Making Waves: Covers

On this Saturday’s Women Making Waves, Cristy focuses on re-appropriating the master’s tools: songs mostly by men covered and improved by women. Be revisionist: Listen.

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Women Making Waves: Lu

Special guest Lu joins Cristy on Women Making Waves. These two derby girls join forces to hip check some rock by women in your face. Listen on it.

The Damagin' Dames and The Paign join forces on this show.

The Damagin’ Dames and The Paign join forces on this show.

Women’s History Month Rocks!

Danielle Dax.

Danielle Dax.

Cristy and her secretary pay homage to the hardest-rocking and/or most-interestingly-rocking women of rock and roll in this special broadcast.

Women Making Waves: Holly Golightly

For WEFT’s women in [folk] music show, Cristy continues to augment the playlists with estrogen-fueled rock. This show is dedicated to Holly Golightly.

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Women Making Waves: Isobel Campbell

Cristy keeps with her mission of defolking the women’s music show with a two-hour special orbiting around the work of Isobel Campbell. Wow.

Isobell Campbell.

Isobel Campbell.

Women Making Waves: Ladies of the Eighties

For the next 2 hours, Cristy is hosting a women’s rock show called “Ladies of the Eighties” on Womyn Making Waves, streaming on http://weft.org/. I am on hand to select Yaz songs. Download this revisionist nostalgia in then-inconceivable podcast form.

We think, under the hair, this is Yaz.

We think, under the hair, this is Yaz.

Women Making Waves: Country

I am acting as research gofer while Cristy hostesses Women Making Waves – the women of rock and country.

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Women Making Waves: Marianne Faithfull

Cristy tells the story and plays the music of Marianne Faithfull, and rounds out the broadcast with punk-leaning songs by other women artists.

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