Badass Women Who Rock: The Queens of the Stage and Studio
🎨 Poster Notes
Style: Tara McPherson × Raymond Pettibon × EmekThis one’s got McPherson’s fierce feminine mystique, Pettibon’s scribbled prophecy edge, and Emek’s layered iconography. It’s a cathedral of rebellion—lipstick and leather jacket relics framed by burning guitars and altar-ready amplifiers. Sacred, sexy, and screaming with myth.
🎤 Alright, now pay attention.
Let’s cut through the static—rock ‘n’ roll isn’t some dusty boys’ club relic. It’s a pulse, a growl, a gospel—and the women listed below? They didn’t ask to be let in. They kicked the damn doors off the hinges.
This is The Attitude’s definitive tribute to the Queens of the Stage and Studio and the Next Generation Monarchs. One bloodline of noise, sweat, riffs, and raw truth.
👑 The Queens Who Reign: Royalty in Leather and Lace
🎸 Joan Jett
The leather-jacketed queen who took bubblegum pop and smashed it against a Marshall stack.
🌌 Grace Slick
The cosmic priestess of psychedelia. “White Rabbit” wasn’t a song—it was a war cry.
🩸 Janis Joplin
She bled into every mic. A cracked soul soaked in Southern Comfort and fire.
🪄 Stevie Nicks
The gold-dust woman. Heartbreak, spells, and a voice you can taste in the air.
💋 Debbie Harry
NYC grime turned glam goddess. Blondie was disco with a switchblade smile.
🥃 Chrissie Hynde
A barstool prophet. The Pretenders’ soul. Every rasp? Barbed wire poetry.
⚡ Ann & Nancy Wilson
Thunder and lightning. Heart’s twin vortex of power and melody.
🌊 Kim Gordon
Noise queen of Sonic Youth. Basslines like tectonic plates shifting under your feet.
👑 Amy Lee
Goth elegance and opera firepower. Her voice didn’t just haunt arenas—it built a cathedral in every chorus.
💥 Courtney Love
Her stage wasn’t a platform—it was detonation. Every set was shrapnel and lipstick.
🎤 Brittany Howard
A gospel storm. That voice breaks genres and puts them back together with a scar.
🌹 Brandi Carlile
Truth-teller with outlaw soul. Her voice tattoos your ribs.
🥀 Margo Price
Barroom poet laureate. Heartache holy, and boots muddy.
📖 Patti Smith
Punk’s priestess. Every lyric a brick through a cathedral window.
🔊 Poly Styrene
A joyful riot in a teacup. X-Ray screamer with a mind like a Molotov.
🖤 Suzi Quatro
Bass as a blunt-force object. First lady of leather and rebellion.
🔥 Lita Ford
Six strings of hellfire wrapped in lipstick and metal.
💀 Kim Deal
The alt-rock assassin. Hooks clean as blades, smile like you’re next.
🩶 PJ Harvey
A minimalist menace. She sings like she’s daring you to blink.
🌙 Siouxsie Sioux
Goth matriarch. Her voice didn’t ask—it commanded.
🔥 The Princesses Ascending: Who’s Taking the Throne Next
⚡ Karen O
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ howling exorcist. Sweat, shriek, salvation.
⚡ Alison Mosshart
Swamp witch swagger in human form. Voodoo with distortion pedals.
⚡ Shirley Manson
Grunge glam queen. Her snarl shaped a generation of eyeliner and angst.
⚡ Hayley Williams
The pop-punk phoenix. Sweetness, rage, and stage dives that bruised ceilings.
⚡ Brody Dalle
The alley-fight voice of The Distillers. Sandpaper and salvation.
⚡ St. Vincent
Art-rock shapeshifter. Every riff is a scalpel, every album a reinvention. Glamour, danger, and surgical guitar genius.
⚡ Tina Weymouth
The groove goddess of Talking Heads. Basslines that strutted circles around funk and art.
⚡ Emily Wolfe
Modern shred sorceress. Every solo cuts, heals, and howls.
⚡ Grace Potter
Roots rock preacher. Her mic catches fire and her boots stomp truth.
⚡ Sharon Van Etten
Whispers that rupture. A quiet wrecking ball in denim and dusk.
✅ Damone’s Moves
- ⚡ This isn’t about trends—it’s bloodline and birthright
- 🎤 They didn’t knock—they detonated the door
- 👑 The crown doesn’t rotate—it reverberates
- 🔥 These queens and heirs don’t break the mold—they repurpose it as a mic stand
❌ The Attitude Rejects
- 🕳️ “Best Guitarists” lists missing half the royalty
- 🚫 Every headline calling them “female-fronted”
- 👻 Fans who forget who ran the stage when the guys were backstage puking
- 🎯 Industry goons still playing the same old gatekeeper game
🎵 Soundtrack to This Post
🎵 “Cherry Bomb” – The Runaways
🎵 “White Rabbit” – Jefferson Airplane
🎵 “Piece of My Heart” – Janis Joplin
🎵 “Edge of Seventeen” – Stevie Nicks
🎵 “Atomic” – Blondie
🎵 “Brass in Pocket” – The Pretenders
🎵 “Barracuda” – Heart
🎵 “Kool Thing” – Sonic Youth
🎵 “Doll Parts” – Hole
🎵 “Stay High” – Brittany Howard
🎵 “The Joke” – Brandi Carlile
🎵 “Hurtin’ (On the Bottle)” – Margo Price
🎵 “Gloria” – Patti Smith
🎵 “Oh Bondage Up Yours!” – X-Ray Spex
🎵 “Devil Gate Drive” – Suzi Quatro
🎵 “Kiss Me Deadly” – Lita Ford
🎵 “Cannonball” – The Breeders
🎵 “Down by the Water” – PJ Harvey
🎵 “Spellbound” – Siouxsie and the Banshees⚠️ Heads up: these are affiliate links — no extra cost to you, but they help keep Damone’s guitar strings fresh.
🕯️ Damone’s Final Word
These women didn’t just write verses—they rewrote the mythos. Some etched their names in blood and lipstick. Others are still carving their initials into the future. But together? They make up the roaring gospel of rock.
You don’t get to talk about power, presence, or passion in music without bowing—or kneeling—to these queens.
That’s the attitude.
👤 Tell Damone What You Think
Got a queen who belongs in this damn cathedral of sound? Drop her name in the comments, scrawl it on a dressing room mirror, or scream it from the pit. Damone hears everything.
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The Attitude, Damone Says, Women Who Rock, Rock Icons, Queens of Noise, Rising Monarchs, Hall of Flame
