As seen in Guitar Girl Magazine
Concern 25– Spring 2024
She’s a Badass
Females in Rock Shaping Feminism
Author: Katherine Yeske Taylor
Pubilsher: Backbeat Books (1/2024)
She’s a Badass by Katherine Yeske Taylor is an engaging expedition of the crossway in between ladies in rock and feminism, including extensive interviews with twenty prominent female artists who have actually formed the motion through their artistry and advocacy.
Speak with the females spoke with for She’s a Badass: Suzi Quatro, Ann Wilson (Heart), Exene Cervenka (X), Gina Schock (the Go-Go’s), Lydia Lunch, Suzanne Vega, Cherie Currie (the Runaways), Joan Osborne, Donita Sparks (L7), Amy Ray (Indigo Girls), Tanya Donelly (Throwing Muses, the Breeders, Belly), Paula Cole, Tobi Vail (Bikini Kill), Laura Veirs, Catherine Popper, Amanda Palmer, Bonnie Bloomgarden (Death Valley Girls), Orianthi, Fefe Dobson, and Sade Sanchez (L.A. Witch).
About Katherin Yeske Taylor
Katherine Yeske Taylor is a long time New Yorker, however she started her rock critic profession in Atlanta in the 1990s, speaking with Georgia musical royalty such as the Indigo Girls, R.E.M. and the Black Crowes while she was still a teen. Ever since, she has actually carried out countless interviews with a vast array of artists for lots of nationwide, local, and regional publications and papers, consisting of Billboard, Spin, American Songwriter, FLOOD, and so on. She is the author of 2 upcoming books: She’s a Badass: Women in Rock Shaping Feminism (out January 2024 by means of Backbeat Books), and she’s assisting Eugene Hütz of Gogol Bordello compose his narrative, Rock the Hützpah: Undestructible Ukrainian in the Free World (out in 2025 through Matt Holt Books/BenBella). She likewise added to 2 distinguished music books (Rolling Stone’s Alt-Rock-A-Rama and The Trouser Press Guide to ’90s Rock). She has actually composed album liner notes and PR products for a number of significant musical artists.