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Offline krieger

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Re: please give me some female artist recommendations
« Reply #70 on: September 26, 2013, 03:05:25 PM »
Many great names were mentioned, but one is missing: Emmylou Harris. I can't recommend every album from her, but there's a three album sequence that is brilliant:

Wrecking Ball/ Red Dirt Girl/ Stumble into Grace

Wrecking Ball is unbelievable. Produced by Daniel Lanois, Larry Mullen Jr. on drums...

I believe PJ Harvey's "Let England Shake" is one of the most profund, heart-breaking albums ever done...

Kate Bush is a true genius.
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« Reply #71 on: September 26, 2013, 05:49:33 PM »
Warpaint!!!  They were love at first listen for me, and quickly became my 2nd favorite band.  Great combination of darkness, shoegaze, indie.  Also a great live jam band, they add a lot of jams to their live songs.   New album should be out in January.

Sixpence None The Richer.  Forget the "Kiss Me" pop stuff, their earlier music is darker and rockin'.  Check out "Musings", "Falling Leaves", "Angeltread", "Love, Salvation, the Fear of Death". 
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Re: please give me some female artist recommendations
« Reply #72 on: September 26, 2013, 11:00:50 PM »
Lots of good ones already listed. I'll throw some I haven't seen. Pretty much each one of these has a totally different style so check them out.



Anneke Van Giersbergen - I'm only really familiar with her work with Devin Townsend (but all of it, Addicted-EpicLoud is amazing).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0YShMFpv7Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf4_LB32M6Q



Christine Rhoades - Did some awesome work with Jeff Loomis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQotKmGd0mM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnnxXUVOzgI



Grace Potter - She has an amazing voice IMO (heres a couple killer covers she did with other great artists) has her own band the Nocturnals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paeNnR33i5Q (around the 2:30 mark my jaw hits the floor everytime)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A13tUxH09SI


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgc5l9X3Dn4 (edited to add a song of the Nocturnals.. crazy to see how well she sings just stripped down walking through a park) She has some serious pipes (get your mind out of the gutter)


Nikka Costa - Beautiful, soulful voice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh4XoP2rXdM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTMIhlOFgvw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W_-dU9jEZc



Maybe you'll find something in there :)... good stuff throughout the thread already!  :tup

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« Reply #73 on: September 26, 2013, 11:06:02 PM »
I'll second the Grace Potter recommendation. I love the first three Grace Potter & the Nocturnals albums, especially This Is Somewhere. Haven't gotten around to getting their latest album, but I heard some of the songs during a radio broadcast of one of their recent concerts. Sounded really good but a bit poppy, which isn't surprising given the direction they were going on the third album.
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« Reply #74 on: October 08, 2013, 06:46:55 AM »
How about Jenna Jameson ?? :biggrin:  :loser:  :facepalm:
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Re: please give me some female artist recommendations
« Reply #75 on: October 18, 2013, 03:47:30 PM »
Harvest
Touchstone
Neo Geo (Katy Perry meets Paramore... I don't like either, but somehow I like this)
Amanda Somerville/Trillium
Delain
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Re: please give me some female artist recommendations
« Reply #77 on: October 18, 2013, 04:21:13 PM »
Don't know if its been suggested already, but Anneke van Giersbergen.
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Re: please give me some female artist recommendations
« Reply #78 on: October 18, 2013, 04:33:55 PM »
Dalbello - forgotten songwriting goddess from the 80's. I recommend checking her last album from 1996. Some progressive and hard rocking elements. Some might know her from the Queensryche album Rage For Order. The track Gonna Get Close To You is a Dalbello cover.

Leather from Chastain is worth mentioning.

I second Shania Twain. Great pop-rock in the Mutt Lang years.
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Re: please give me some female artist recommendations
« Reply #79 on: October 18, 2013, 06:13:44 PM »
Let me just pop in here to include this for your consideration:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxd6sxLxdys
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« Reply #80 on: October 18, 2013, 07:17:14 PM »
P!NK - Her Live at Wembley DVD is one of the best rock shows ever (get it get it get it) and she's really a great overall artist.  On-record she's poppy but she really rocks-out her live stuff and I wish I could link something here but it's all official, unless stuff that's aired on TV (ie. MTV Awards, Leno, etc) is ok to post, but I'm not sure so I won't.

Halestorm - Lzzy scares the shit out of me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpJAmlnBxoA

Amaranthe - She sings about half the vox but when she does it's amazing.  Mostly in-your-face energetic music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8lV1To-_fU

Delain - Fairly diverse music, both heavy and gentle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaATQzLr_20

Orianthi - She's also an amazing guitarist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu1aQvm5MrU

Rihanna - I like the songs where she really sings (California King Bed) and the live stuff she's doing with Nuno (Rock Star).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhBorPm6JjQ

Jennifer Hudson - I remember her doing an interview on Jimmy Fallon and, on-the-spot, standing up and just belting out something accapella, it was beautiful.

It's sad how current pop "singers", and mostly female, are pretty much only doing interviews on talk shows instead of actually performing these days.  Even "old" stars like Mariah Carey won't just sing on-the-spot, they need a few days notice to "warm up" or get their lip sync rig set up.
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Re: please give me some female artist recommendations
« Reply #81 on: October 20, 2013, 07:18:03 PM »
Haven't seen any of these mentioned:

Saint Vincent
Regina Spektor
Blondie
Kaki King
Siouxsie and The Banshees
The Horrorpops
Janis Joplin
The Breeders
Sade
The Indigo Girls
Tal Wilkenfeld
Esperanza Spalding
Matana Roberts
Thelma Houston
Alanis Morissette
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Re: please give me some female artist recommendations
« Reply #82 on: October 20, 2013, 07:44:19 PM »
If you're into jazz, Hiromi Uehara and Esperanza Spalding are where it's at.
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Re: please give me some female artist recommendations
« Reply #83 on: October 20, 2013, 07:53:29 PM »
Regina Spektor, mainly piano driven singer/songwriter. I recommend Checking out her song "Samson"
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Re: please give me some female artist recommendations
« Reply #84 on: October 22, 2013, 05:58:22 AM »
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« Reply #85 on: October 22, 2013, 11:21:29 AM »
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Re: please give me some female artist recommendations
« Reply #86 on: July 28, 2014, 03:51:10 PM »
Reviving to add Rainover, Sinheresy, In This Moment (only their second album The Dream) and Shear.
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« Reply #87 on: July 28, 2014, 04:00:59 PM »
Thanks for reminding me of this Zook. I got so many good recommendations from this thread  :)
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Re: please give me some female artist recommendations
« Reply #88 on: July 28, 2014, 04:03:32 PM »
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Re: please give me some female artist recommendations
« Reply #90 on: July 28, 2014, 05:55:33 PM »
Nobody recommended Chelsea Wolfe?  :eek

Her music is unlike anyone else's. It has elements of Dream Pop,Folk,Darkwave and a lot of other genres. Here's one of my fav songs off her most recent album. Posting a live recording so people see how beautiful she is.  :laugh:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4Lz_wnJtaA
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Re: please give me some female artist recommendations
« Reply #91 on: July 28, 2014, 06:09:49 PM »
Destiny Potato is an amazing Djent-ish band, with an awesome female singer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TbmPPNQD5s
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« Reply #92 on: July 28, 2014, 06:23:11 PM »
Technically, not really a female-fronted band since this band has male-female vocals for the most parts, but I suggest Lacuna Coil.

End Of Time - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USXHxgWoS9g
Intoxicated - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXv_W63lIFQ
Hostage to the Light - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQi193kkfP8
Our Truth - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCxFTh-XDy8
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« Reply #93 on: July 29, 2014, 01:30:20 AM »
I've recently listened to some songs by Autumn's Grey Solace and they're pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLKnRmF-gDk
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« Reply #94 on: July 29, 2014, 01:44:38 AM »
Second Person is awesome, if you're into trip-hop. (I may have sent them in your roulette? I can't remember)
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« Reply #95 on: July 29, 2014, 01:58:16 AM »
CeU - sexy Brazilian jazz.
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« Reply #96 on: July 29, 2014, 02:22:21 AM »
Quote from: Sacul on July 28, 2014, 06:09:49 PM
Destiny Potato is an amazing Djent-ish band, with an awesome female singer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TbmPPNQD5s

Ugh, really great music but stupid name.  Call me superficial but I hate junk like that.

It's along the same lines as if the band/artist are complete personality-turds (ie. Axel Rose, Oasis) it affects my enjoyment of the music... it shouldn't, but it does.
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Re: please give me some female artist recommendations
« Reply #97 on: July 29, 2014, 04:57:05 AM »
I haven't gone through the entire thread, and I'm not sure which ones you have already heard (apart from the ones in your OP), but I'll recommend these:

Björk (Electronica/Pop)
Cat Power (Indie Rock/Pop)
Eisley (Indie Rock)
Grimes (Dream Pop)
Kimbra (Pop/Soul)
Laura Stevenson and the Cans (Indie Rock)
Lush (Shoegaze/Dream Pop)
Susanne Sundfør (Electronica/Baroque Pop)
St. Vincent (Pop)
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« Reply #98 on: July 29, 2014, 05:38:09 AM »
Quote from: Shadow Ninja 2.0 on July 29, 2014, 01:44:38 AM
Second Person is awesome, if you're into trip-hop. (I may have sent them in your roulette? I can't remember)

Yep you did. Great little song.
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« Reply #99 on: August 05, 2014, 06:39:35 AM »
I love music by Susanne Sundfør and I'd like to hear something similar (voice with piano/keys). Could you recommend me something? Sorry for my laziness :-[
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« Reply #100 on: August 05, 2014, 08:12:13 AM »
From the Blues side of the tracks may I suggest

Beth Hart
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Re: please give me some female artist recommendations
« Reply #101 on: August 06, 2014, 04:54:26 PM »
Quote from: PetFish on July 29, 2014, 02:22:21 AM
Quote from: Sacul on July 28, 2014, 06:09:49 PM
Destiny Potato is an amazing Djent-ish band, with an awesome female singer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TbmPPNQD5s

Ugh, really great music but stupid name.  Call me superficial but I hate junk like that.

It's along the same lines as if the band/artist are complete personality-turds (ie. Axel Rose, Oasis) it affects my enjoyment of the music... it shouldn't, but it does.
Yeah, it's dumb name, but some people have got into them because of it, so it seems to work for something :lol
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« Reply #102 on: August 06, 2014, 09:03:17 PM »
Pomplamoose.
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Re: please give me some female artist recommendations
« Reply #103 on: August 07, 2014, 12:14:34 AM »
Klô Pelgag
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« Reply #104 on: August 07, 2014, 05:49:13 AM »
Did anyone say?

Evanescence
Halestorm
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