In honor of Women’s Equality Day, we’d like to show our immense love and appreciation for all the women that rock, and rock hard. With our Grimy Goods founder and editor also a woman, we’ve always made a point to focus on female musicians and empowering them. In the past few years, we’ve seem some epic moves with women shattering that glass ceiling. From women in music, to tech, journalism, government, and more—the female voice is growing and only getting stronger.
And it’s about fucking time.
Needless to say, we still have a steep hill to climb to ensure women are treated equally, and not just in the workplace, but on the streets, in their homes and all over the globe. With that said, take a look at our photos of some of our favorite empowering female musicians we’ve shot this past year.
Happy Women’s Equality Day! As it should be today, and every day. And thank you to all the brave women who fought for women’s rights.
Jehnny Beth of Savages at El Rey
Alex Luciano of Diet Cig at SXSW
V.A.A.J. at Girl School at Bootleg Theater
Alison Mosshart of The Kills at the El Rey
Kristine Nevrose of The Tissues at Echo Park Rising
Julia Cumming of Sunflower Bean at Constellation Room
Sophie Hawley-Weld of Sofi Tukker at Lyric Theater
Evan Rachel Wood of Rebel and a Basketcase Bootleg Theater
PJ Harvey at Shrine Expo
Death Valley Girls at The Echo
Jenny Lewis of Nice As Fuck at The Glass House
Teri Gender Bender of Le Butcherettes at the Echoplex
Lena Simon of La Luz at Echo Park Rising
Kim House of Kim and The Created at Echoplex
Kera Armendariz of Kera & The Lesbians at Girl School at Bootleg Theater
Kacey Musgraves at SXSW
Juliet Lewis at the El Rey
Catalina García of Monsieur Periné at the Echo
Chhom Nimol of Dengue Fever at the Echoplex
Shannon Lay of Feels at Echo Park Rising
Kate Clover of Ex-Sage at Echo Park Rising
Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes at Panorama
Bishop Briggs at The Troubadour
Bethany Cosentino of Best Coast at Fonda Theatre
Zoe Jakes of Beats Antique at Club Nokia
Allison Weiss at Girl School at Bootleg Theater
Alice Bag at The Echo
Jennifer Clavin of Bleached at Echo Park Rising
Colleen Green at Echo Park Rising
Courtney Barnett at The Glass House
Emily Armstrong of Dead Sara at The Glass House
Julie Edwards of Deap Vally at The Smell
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You forgot AJ Haynes of Seratones!!!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘
You left out the great Sharon Jones!
@Richard — Love us some Sharon! But as mentioned in our post, we’re just including photos of women we’ve covered this “past year” (2016).
what about Kim Gordon, Kathleen Hanna and Annie Clark…?
@Ramon — Read the post! We are sharing photos of women we’ve photographed “the past year,” as in “2016,” as in the past 7 months.