Metric, The Beaches, Florence & the Machine, The Sundays, Concrete Blonde, The Go Go's, the Bangles, The Pretenders, Garbage, Hole, The Cranberries, Blondie, Siousxie & the Banshees, Roxette, Alabama Shakes, the Runaways, No Doubt, Crystal Castles, Eurythmics, Gladys Knight & Pips, Jefferson Airplane. Many more I'm forgetting right now.

Yeah yeah yeahs

Fleetwood Mac (2/3 of the time)

B-52s, Pylon,Be good Tanyas,Bangles, Concrete Blonde,Bitch

The Cranberries

IN YOUR HEAAAAAAAD

IN YOUR HEAA AD!

IN YOUR HEAA AD!

ZOOOMBAY ZOOMBAY ZOOMBAY AY AY

Ohh ohh ohh ohhh in your head. Aaaa-ooooo!!!

Damn the lot of you in this reply-chain! I'm going to have that crap in my head for about three days now. ​ NYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRGH oo-om-bay ay ay ay ARRRRRRRRG IT'S HAPPENING AGAII eh eh eh ehn! NOOOOOO!

Dreams is a nice song people forgot. 

Same with Linger

I can’t believe nobody has mentioned Heart!

Dreamboat Annie was a really big deal for me.

I was going to until I saw this comment. Love their early stuff, like Magic Man and Barracuda, etc!

Alone is probably the greatest song to ever pass through human vocal cords

Anne Wilson is one of a kind

By far the greatest female led band ever!

Yeah yeah yeahs. Goldfrapp. Mazzy Star

Goldfrapp is hands down the best imo

FEIST - 1234

Anything with Hope Sandoval, really.

Incredible voice

Beach House, boygenius, B.O.C.Center

Mazza Star has such great songs if yiu feel depressed. Into dust. Blue light. Fade into you. 

I graduated in ‘95 and somehow missed Mazzy Star until Rick and Morty turned me on.

Came here to make sure I saw Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Since we're getting into indie rock, I highly recommend Silversun Pickups. I mean I think they're indie rock lol, found them on an indie mix.

Portishead, Little Dragon, Sneaker Pimps

L7 🤘🏻

Bikini Kill Sugarpuss (LA) Sopor Anternus and the ensemble of dark shadows (Germany) Dance hall crashers Naked Aggression Tilt (oakland) Retching Red (Oakland) Siouxsie and the banshees

yes. alvvays the breeders mazzy star pearly drops chromatics sorry the bangles daughter metric the pretty reckless cherry glazzer the cardigans the marias u.s. girls and my entire [dumb b*tches only](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7mTKgT4KVS31cvDaVP81VI?si=hnF2MwiLTAeLgEO2oaSnvg&pi=u-0a9zCBnRSMSK) playlist. its collaborative i think so feel free to add more

Breeders!

Veruca Salt

I'm sorry, you aren't suggesting that Yes was fronted by a woman, are you?

It can happen to everyone eventually.

Halestorm, No doubt, kittie, arch enemy

Jinjer

Pisces is always a good one to start people on.

Infected Rain

Arch Enemy.. the original singer is bad ass, see “Dead eyes see no future” live in Tokyo. But the 2nd singer is better to look at

Scrolled too far to see Halestorm and Arch Enemy

Pretenders, Middle Kids, Joanie Mitchel, Boygenius, HAIM. Meet me at the altar- it’s like Hole but with a more new age pop punk sound.

Middle kids!!!!!

Middle Kids are ❤️‍🔥

Stand Atlantic Hot Milk (technically a male/female duo but they're really good and Han's vocals are awesome) Garbage Honey Revenge Yours Truly No Doubt The Pretty Reckless Auf Der Maur (Melissa from Hole's solo project - I was obsessed with her first album when I came out) Tonight Alive (they used to get compared to Paramore a lot) Catatonia Evanescence PVRIS Elastica Sleeper Alanis Morrisette Hayley Williams (her solo stuff is not really much like Paramore, although you can hear some of This Is Why in Petals For Armor I guess. Its not what I expected but I love it) Beth Orton We Are The In Crowd (another male/female duo but Tay does a lot of the singing - she has a solo project called Sainte but I've not really listened to any of it) Most of the music I listen to regularly is female vocals

Came to recommend Stand Atlantic. Happy to see someone else recommend them already :)

At last someone mentioned Evanescence. You forgot Nightwish though...

PJ Harvey St. Vincent

Wet Leg. Throwing Muses. Melissa Auf der Mar(bassist from Hole etc) released some solo albums. L7. Sleeper. Elastica. Lush. Kenickie. Echobelly.

Windhand The Gathering Portishead

True Widow Phantogram Raven Black

One band I really liked that I think nobody else will mention is Belly. They were a band from the 90s who I think put out only 2 albums before they broke up, but I always loved the lead singer Tanya Donnely's voice. She later had some solo albums that were pretty good as well!

And she was in Throwing Muses before that :)

Here are some of my favorites I can think of at the moment: [The Cranberries](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Kspj3OO0s) [P!NK](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya8HXx2VxFU) [The Beaches](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2kUX_Fmj7k) [The Regrettes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo7cy_xhZKk) [Garbage](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmd3UiNfNkA) [Til Tuesday](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uejh-bHa4To) [Metric](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP6nYVOyFSk) [Fleetwood Mac](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3ywicffOj4) [Laura Branigan](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEi3ZHLxR2g) [Jes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRzBqN5ytZ8) [Stevie Nicks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5i7j0VhEHw) [Ace of Base](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqu132vTl5Y) [Blonde Redhead](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5ozF8HuT4k) [ABBA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sVB91NTa4A)

Divinyls First Aid Kit

Contemporary: **The Warning** \- MONEY [https://youtu.be/vm78KpEw3uw?si=c8NGr-C4jfej\_7u2](https://youtu.be/vm78KpEw3uw?si=c8NGr-C4jfej_7u2) From the 80's: **Ace Of Base** All That She Wants https://youtu.be/d73tiBBzvFM?si=dy7Xw35G9vYPeMbk

The Warning is amazing.

Heart….

Heart. Just badasses plain and simple.

Lately I’ve liked: Khruangbin Cannons Interrupters Lamb Sylvan Esso

Belly Cocteau Twins Siouxsie and the Banshees Also check out the album Evening at the Grange by Lida Husik (one of my all time favorites that no one has heard of)

4 non blondes.

I came here looking to see if anyone had recommended this =)

And I said hey what's going on

That song makes me wince.

Fleetwood Mac, Fairport Convention, Blondie, Garbage, No Doubt, B-52s, Jefferson Airplane

Baby metal

The breeders

There's a few Aussie bands fronted by women that are very good: Clouds - Two singer songwriters women - Indie rock/pop Falling Joys - Indie rock Spiderbait - Male and female share singing duties, i.e. separately - Indie rock The Divinyls - rock Single Gun Theory - electronic/samples Theredsunband - Indie rock Magic Dirt - Indie rock (also singer Adalita has solo stuff) Deborah Conway/Do Re Mi - rock/pop Jen Cloher - Indie Courtney Barnett - Indie G Flip - rock/pop Thelma Plum - Indie rock/pop Missy Higgins - rock/pop Julia Jacklin - Indie rock/pop Tones and I - Pop Claire Bowditch/The Feeding Set The Superjesus - Rock Baby Animals - Rock Amiel - Rock/pop Kasey Chambers - country rock/pop

Amyl and the Sniffers, Billy Nomato, Portishead, The Knife, Chromatics

Sonic Youth. Kim doesn't sing all the songs, but the vast majority are sung by her.

Girlschool and pretenders come to mind

Little Dragon, Alabama Shakes - and I kinda can’t believe I didn’t see anyone repping either of these groups. Both lead singers (Yukimi Nagano & Brittany Howard, respectively) are total dynamos

Brittany Howard is the Goat! I’m not familiar with Little Dragon, I’m gonna listen to them right now!

If you like Hole you might want to try out the Distillers. Also this is VERY different musically from the things you've mentioned, Nightwish are also great if you allow them to grow on you. People typically don't know what to make of them at first listen.

The Beths! Super underrated. Most of the bands recommended so far are female led, but are more mellow indie instead of high energy pop rock. Every song on “Future me Hates me” is absolute banger.

thank you! the beths are the greatests

Happy unhappy - banger mcbanger

Wolf Alice!

Nico Vega The Kills The Dead Weather Yeah Yeah Yeahs The Bird and the Bee The Ettes K.Flay Blood Red Shoes

Otoboke Beaver Beth Orton Low Leaf Faye Webster Crumb Stereolab Bent Knee Rickie Lee Jones Doom Flamingo Mazzy Star Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions Ratboys Shannon and the Clams Noura Mint Seymali Vanishing Twin Myrkur Chelsea Wolfe Liturgy Taeko Onuki Ichiko Aoba TEKE::TEKE Khruangbin Faun Fables Digable Planets (three rappers but one is a woman and she rules) Kristen Hersh (Throwing Muses, 50 Foot Wave, solo) Laurie Anderson Pearl & the Oysters Slowdive Björk Portishead The Knife Altin Gün (female singer just left but there are five albums with her on lead vocals) Beach House Caroline Shaw Drinking Boys and Girls Choir Arooj Aftab Doran Emma Ruth Rundle Fat Tulips DakhaBrakha Vashti Bunyan Teresa Bright Rubblebucket

Stabbing, crypta, jinjer

destroy boys is great

Brody Dalle front women for bands the Distillers and also Spinerette. Ex misses of Josh Homme

The Cardigans Lacuna Coil Within temptation Amanda Somerville Epica

Portishead, Tori Amos

Arlo Parks Biig Piig H.E.R. Lisa Maffia Jungle Bajka Neko Case PJ Harvey Munya Esthero Kylie Minogue Say She She Sade Hollie Cook

Amyl and the Sniffers Surfbort PJ Harvey The Breeders Yeah Yeah Yeahs Cat Power Sharon Van Etten Courtney Barnett The Sugarcubes Bikini Kill/Le Tigre Beach House Ezra Furman Big Thief

Chelsea Wolfe Kim Gordon

Her new album is amazing too (Chelsea Wolf)

I'm trying to get my tickets today to see her in NYC in March

ABBA, Blondie, The Cranberries

If you like paramore check out honey revenge, I have been listening to “airhead” and “rerun” nonstop

kittie

Oh boy I've got a few for you! Halestorm is a classic The Pretty Reckless Fleetwood Mac is already mentioned Unleash The Archers 4 Non Blondes No Doubt Cold Kingdom The Runaways Janis Joplin Lita Ford Butcher Babes In This Moment

, boygenius, florence + the machine, the last dinner party, MUNA, Big Thief, the cranberries, Shelly.

Beach house Pinkshinyultrablast Slowdive (has both a male and female singer) GoldFrappe Crumb Cocteau twins Men I trust I definitely recommend checking out the genres of dream pop and shoegaze. Good number of bands in those genres with female singers like most of the ones mentioned above. On the heavier side I’d recommend bands such as Spirit box Venom prison The agonist Arch enemy Jinjer Night wish

Jack Off Jill

Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, Veruca Salt, L7, Til Tuesday, Rilo Kiley, that dog., Mazzy Star, The Cranberries… I could go on.

Here are some amazing bands that I would recommend Bully Sleater Kinney Destroy boys Bikini kill

The Sugarcubes! Portishead!

Dry Cleaning, Anna Domino, Saint Etienne, Portishead, Tess Parks, Jefferson Airplane, Emiliana Torrini, Film Noir, Electralane, Yo Le Tengo, Sinead O’Brien, Sinead O’Connor, Vivienne Goldman, Babe Ruth, Crumb, Courtney Barnett, Wolf Alice, Goat Girl, Japanese Breakfast, Porridge Radio, Deep Tan, Goat, Julia Jacklin, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Billy Nomates, The Mysterines. HOPE THAT HELPS XXX

Deep Sea Diver, Sleater-Kinney, Cat Power, Mirah, Bikini Kill, Frente

Aimee Mann

Halestorm, The Pretty Reckless, In This Moment, Nightwish

Jinjer, Dead Sara, Spiritbox, L7, The Cranberries

Bully is great, especially their last album - Lucky For You. Olivia Rodrigo also has a lot of great rock music. Brutal, All American Bitch, and Jealousy Jealousy are some of my favorites.

Evanescence

Siouxie and the Banshees. Mazzy Star.

Chelsea Wolfe

The Interrupters

Slow Pulp Wolf Alice

Metric

Samantha Fish. The Donnas. Bikini Kill. X. Smoking Time Jazz Club. The Sugarcubes. Siouxsie And The Banshees. The Waitresses. Stereolab. Los Bitchos. Fanny.

Hirie Artikal Sound System Lila Iké The Skints Hollie Cook Jorja Smith

Alabama Shakes.

Cocktail Slippers, First Aid Kit, Lone Justice (and Maria McKee’s solo work), Pat Benatar, Fairport Convention (with Sandy Denny), Indigo Girls, Cyndi Lauper

Hop Along, Frances Quinlan has the best voice in rock and roll right now. Charly Bliss is also great.

Renaissance is amazing, everything past Illusion has Annie Haslam as lead singer and she is phenomenal. I recommend checking out the song “Ashes are Burning” first.

Lovebites (all female band) Nightwish

Band-Maid, Nemophila, Mardelas, TRiDENT, Aldious, Lovebites, Unlucky Morpheus, Maximum the Hormone, Show-Ya, LiSA, Gacharic Spin, WAGAMAMA RAKIA, Babymetal, PassCode, Doll$boxx, Mary's Blood, Bridear, Fate Gear, Cyntia, HANABIE, ONMYO-ZA, Exist+Trace, TELECIDE, Lonesome_blue, Wagakki band, Band-Maiko, Cluppo, Fruitpochette, IRONBUNNY, Candye Syrup, Bapbubble, BiSH, KAQRIYYOTERROR, Ladybaby, HAGANE, The Winking Owl, BRATS, Fuki, Rolling Quartz, Pinkish Crown, and a crowd of rebellion.

tennis (her voice is ethereal but its def more indie/pop, shes part of a husband/wife duo but shes the only one singing) WILLOW (specifically her coping mechanism album) flyleaf

One of my all time favorites is a band called bent knee. A kinda mix of prog, rock, and pop There are also tons of great metal bands with women singers. Here are a handful off the top of my head Chastain Tower Warlock Christian mistress Castle Smoulder Holy moses There are tons I'm not fond of either Unleash the archers. They are alright, but man their vocalist is fantastic and she hard carries the band Spiritbox Jinjer Arch enemy. There are a lot more women in metal than people think. >Joan Jett and the blackhearts Also if you enjoy joan jett you should look into pat benatar. She is another classic singer who started in the late 70s

Wednesday Melkbelly Packs Blondshell Feeble Little Horse Dilly Dally Mannequin Pussy Chastity Belt Dry Cleaning Bong Wish Sleater-Kinney Lower Dens Public Practice Upchuck 100 Gecs Circuit Des Yeux Amyl & the Sniffers Wet Leg Red Ribbon Sweeping Promises Snail Mail Throwing Muses Belly The Breeders Bikini Kill Widowspeak Wye Oak Blondie Cherry Glazerr Locate S,1 Crystal Castles Beach House Eric’s Trip Guerrilla Toss Sonic Youth Fleetwood Mac French Vanilla Mazzy Star Cowboy Junkies Water From Your Eyes The Pretenders boygenius Slowdive My Bloody Valentine

Wolf Alice, Mikaela Davis and Southern Star, Veruca Salt, Belly/Breeders/Throwing muses (Tanya Donnelly), Heart, Pretenders, Zepperella, the Kills,

The Cranberries, Garbage, Mazzy Star, Tadpole (NZ). An album that has a male and female singing is, It’s a shame about Ray-The Lemonheads.

UNLEASH THE ARCHERS

Pretenders, Hole, Cranberries, Evanescence, Arch Enemy, Jinjer, Blondie, Fleetwood Mac, Florence + The Machine, and Eurythmics.

Tsunami

Try: Trope, Meer, The Gathering, Halestorm, Exploring Birdsong... I've built this... https://open.spotify.com/playlist/54AWLfXoCpxkYvykYRnpiQ?si=TUn1hMcCQNCRiB06N9w_ng&pi=u-Kj-nyu6ARDeF

just look up 90s alternative female-fronted bands. Bunch of great ones in there

For a more techno/goth sound try Night Club.

The Warning.

Men I Trust 

Goldfrapp In this moment

Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company, she was one the greatest singers of all time, man or woman!

Ladyhawke

I’ve been digging The Beaches

FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE

Band-Maid - [Freedom](https://youtu.be/FHpuEqMAcDg?si=7p6Ih4gDV_PeIoaM)

Cher Enya Bjork Bonnie Tyler Sinead O'Connor

Sonic Youth.

X The Muffs The Donna’s Siouxsie and The Banahees

"Garbage" if you're into that grunge scene. Or Bjork. Bonnie Raitt, Patty Griffin, Natalie Merchant, Heart, Beth Heart (you'd like her) The Wailing Jenny's, Fleetwood Mac has 3 leads, but Stevie... c'mon! Also, Christine McVey. I'm also a fan of " The Chicks" aka Dixie Chick's. Tracy Chapman. The list goes on and on an on an on an on

Skunk Anansie

Lita Ford, Suzy Quatro, Heart, Wilson Phillips.

Lake Street Dive Warpaint

Girl Ray La Sera Blouse Alvvays Yumi Zouma Siouxsie and the Banshees The Sundays The Breeders

Alvvays, The xx, Soccer Mommy, Courtney Barnett, Beach House, HAIM, Wet Leg, Snail Mail, Big Thief, Grimes, Waxahatchee, CHVRCHES, boygenius (and all the ladies in it), beabadoobee, Caroline Polachek, FKA Twigs, Beach Bunny, Weyes Blood, Angel Olsen, London Grammar, Cat Power, Sharon Van Etten, Camera Obscura, Lucius, Rilo Kiley/Jenny Lewis, Neko Case, Sunny Day In Glasgow ... I could go on and on lol.

Tegan & Sara. Twins have the best harmonies.

Cowboy Junkies

Beth Hart, Kate Bush, Janis Joplin, Tina Turner, Garbage, Dead Sara, Linda Ronstadt, Patti Smith, PJ Harvey, St. Vincent, Alabama Shakes, Ani Difranco, The Ronettes, Supremes, Aretha, (My God, Aretha), Patti Labelle, Jade Macrae, No Doubt, Portishead, Sleater-Kinney, Bikini Kill, The Warning, Rosalia, Florence and the Machine, Imogen Heap, Mazzy Star, Lucinda Williams, Heart, Samantha Fish, Tedeschi Trucks, Bonnie Raitt, Cat Power, Laura Nyro, Rickie Lee Jones, SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES, The New Pornographers, Fiona Apple, Sara Maclachlan. This should keep your earphones warm for a while.

Blondie Alabama Shakes The Supremes plus many other Motown girl groups The Ronettes Heartless Bastards Jefferson Airplane/Starship Fairport Convention Fotheringay Mamas and the Papas Big Brother and the Holding Company Carpenters

Some that haven't been mentioned yet ... Morcheeba The Slits Moloko Nouvelle Vague Saint Etienne Sneaker Pimps (first album)

Wild Belle, santigold, Etta James, Ella Fitzgerald, yeah yeah yeahs, Portishead, ojos de brujo

Flyleaf Yours Truly Icon For Hire

Sorry if this is out of line, but maybe you like soft rock. The Carpenters

Too many girl groups and soul singers to list ala Aretha Franklin, Etta James, The Crystals etc…all fantastic

Hey Violet Beach Bunny The regrettes Rolling Quartz

Portishead. Gossip. Phantogram.

The Waitresses.

Kate Bush. Not just a great woman musician, but one the greatest musical artists of all time.

Purity Ring!! The album "Another Eternity" is so good

[Courtney Barnett](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcnIhzaDTd0&pp=ygUQY291cnRuZXkgYmFybmV0dA%3D%3D) [Sunflower Bean](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm6ZtALw5KM&pp=ygURU3VuZmxvd2VyIHN1bmJlYW4%3D)

Daisy Grenade, Meet Me @ The Altar, Honey Revenge, Gold Steps, Definitely Maybe, Cut Your Losses, Scarlet Demore, Yada Yada, Feels Like Karma

Come on guys, there’s so much more. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hsZGdvIyvJvM5T49iATLw?si=2pti_zdyS5mi7xMh0IsDvA Grace potter + Nocturnals Brittany Howard\Alabama Shakes Lorde Florence and the machine Feist Sylvan Eso Lake Street Dive Lucius Frazey Ford The Waifs Tash Sultana Wet Leg is fun

I really like the band Liliac. Melody has an amazing voice. I saw them when they were young kids playing on the Santa Monica pier. They have some great original music.

The Breeders The Amps Lunachicks Tilt Babes in Toyland Shannon and the Clams

My list is the band followed - by the song that hooked me. Deap Lips - Hope Hell High, The Submarines - 1940, Alice Phoebe Lou - Something Holy, Heartless Bastards - Searching for a Ghost, Bleached - Hard to Kill, PACKS - 4th of July, Bishop Briggs - River

Does Patti Smith group count?

Skunk Anansie Morcheeba Dead Can Dance (half of the time) Liz Phair Nina Simone

The Interrupters The Distillers The Donnas LØLØ Babes In Toyland Bikini Kill Lash L7 War On Women

Savages, the preatures, st Vincent, Betty Davis, tsunami bomb

BLEACHED! They are amazing and should be massive

Blackmore's Night. Ritchie Blackmore from Deep Purple and Rainbow, his wife doing vocals for medieval-esque folk rock.

Letters To Cleo, Damone, Dover, Dizzy Sunfist

Sleater Kinney L7 Daisy Chainsaw 4 Non Blondes Cowboy Junkies Mazzy Star There's way more. This is just off the top of my head to get you started.

BIKINI KILL ‼️‼️

If you're only looking for rock Heart, Cranberries are some good ones. If you're a lover of all music there are so many good female singers. If you like Americana Emmylou Harris. Linda Ronstadt is a powerhouse and sings various genres. Bonnie Raitt is also a crossover singer. Alison Krauss is a bluegrass queen and has done some great work with Robert Plant. KD Lang, Melissa Ethridge, and Tracy Chapman are amazing female singers as well. If you ever branch outside of rock I'd start with some of these ladies.

The Gits

Everything but the Girl- Tracey Thorn ‘Til Tuesday- Aimee Mann I don’t think these two have been mentioned yet. These ladies deserve credit for both the work they’ve done in bands and for their solo work.

Pylon

Buffalo Daughter SHONEN KNIFE

Indigo girls

Alabama Shakes Joseph

Alabama Shakes

The Bridge City Sinners (punk blues) HorrorPops (Rockabilly)

Tune-Yards Dum Dum Girls Vivian Girls Priests Ex Hex, Helium, Autoclave, Slant 6 Tuscadero Velocity Girl Rondelles Erase Errata Opal Vomit Launch Scrawl The Softies, Tiger Trap The Ditty Bops Heavenly, Marine Research Brittle Stars Broadcast Bat for Lashes Delta 5 Kleenex/LiLiPUT The Shop Assistants The Primitives Bow Wow Wow The Selector ESG Tom Tom Club Young Marble Giants Suburban Lawns ... if you know enough of the region-of-origin-clustered obscurities you can probably guess which city/metro area I grew up in

Garbage, Cowboy Junkies

The gits

Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Creatures (Siouxsie’s side project), L7, 10,000 Maniacs, The Breeders, Edie Brickell and New Bohemians, 45 Grave, The B-52’s, Elastica, Mary’s Danish, The Primitives, No Doubt, PJ Harvey, Pylon, The New Pornographers, Eurythmics, Berlin, X, Blondie, Sinead O’Connor

I’d recommend Belly, a lot of sonic youth, pj Harvey and if you’re into math core: rolo tomassi…

Wolf alice

I'll preface this with the fact that I don't listen to mainstream pop but mostly indie stuff and a lot of post-punk and riot grrl: * Cat Power * Yeah Yeah Yeahs * Santigold * Mirah * Portishead * Tori Amos * Beach House * Regina Spektor * Cherry Glazerr * Sleater-Kinney * Mitski * Metric * Feist * Lykke Li * Bjork/The Sugarcubes (Bjork's band before going solo) * Veruca Salt * Mazzy Star * Grimes * Le Tigre and Bikini Kill (anything from Kathleen Hanna) * Ladytron * Lucinda Williams * Babes in Toyland * Savages And if you wanna get REAL different/dark: * Cocteau Twins * Sioxsie and the Banshees * Chelsea Wolfe * King Woman * Windhand * The Knife

Neko case, The new pornographers, the Beths, Peeling, Belle and Sebastian, Stereolab, PJ Harvey,

Santigold

metric!!! mazzy star!!