In honor of International Women’s Day, we’ve spent the afternoon compiling tunes from some of our favorite musical women. We looked into all of our usual genres – indie rock, hip hop, RnB, pop – and did our best to shine some light on the industry’s best and brightest.
The lines blur from genre to genre at times, and the definition of a “female musician” does as well. Some bands have male members. Some women are covering a song from a male artist. At the end of the day though, we tried our best to showcase acts that have a heavy female influence in their art.
So, sit back, relax, and take some time to appreciate some of the best work from women musicians around the globe.
INDIE ROCK / POP
’Feist – How Come You Never Go There’
’Breakfast – Boris’
’Gordi – Taken Blame’
’Tei Shi – See Me’
’Regina Spektor – Small Town Moon’
’Cat Power – Sea Of Love’
’MEG MAC – Roll Up Your Sleeves’
’MØ – Say You’ll Be There’
’Ryn Weaver – OctaHate’
’The Narcoleptic Dancers – Again And Again’
’Courtney Barnett – Avant Gardener’
’Daughter – Landfill ‘
’Gnarls Barkley – Crazy (Cover) by Daniela Andrade’
’Lauren Aquilina – Sex (The 1975 Cover)’
’Grace Mitchell – Runaway’
’Black Honey – Madonna’
’Lyla Foi – Shoestring’
’Owl Eyes – Something About Us (Daft Punk Cover)’
’Luluc – Small Window’
’Bets – Rooftop Lover’
’Husky Rescue – Deep Forest Green’
’Laura Welsh – Here For You’
’Marika Hackman – Animal Fear’
’London Grammar – Sights’
’Little Joy – Unattainable’
’Birdy – Skinny Love’
’Julia Stone – You’re The One That I Want’
’The Staves – The Motherlode’
’Noosa – Sail’
’Zella Day – Compass’
’Mapei – Don’t Wait’
’Chelsea Lankes – GHOST’
’Janelle Kroll – Sunny Days’
’Catey Shaw – Human Contact (Original Mix)’
’Lucy Rose – Our Eyes’
’Jose Vanders – Blue Notes’
’Maiday – Wish You’d Met Me First’
’Lily Allen – I Don’t Mind Babe (gknew1)’
’Gabrielle Aplin – Let Me In’
’Kawehi – Anthem’
’Sylvan Esso – Coffee’
’Phoebe Ryan – Mine’
’XYLO – America’
’Mr. Little Jeans – The Suburbs’
’Naomi Pilgrim – It’s All Good’
’Broods – Bridges’
’EVVY – Collide’
’Little Daylight – My Life’
’ACRE TARN – Dawn Faces’
’MS MR – Hurricane’
’MarzXLeon – L O N E R’
’Rae Morris – Under The Shadows’
’HAIM – The Wire’
’Yellow Flicker Beat – Lorde’
’BANKS – GODDESS’
’Ellie Goulding – Tessellate (Alt
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’FKA Twigs – Two Weeks’
’Lana Del Rey – West Coast’
’Shura – Touch’
’Jessie Ware – Tough Love’
’Lykke Li – Gunshot’
’Florence and the Machine – What Kind of Man (Radio Edit)’
’Little Dragon – Klapp Klapp’
DANCE
’dot – Super Moon’
’Kimbra – Miracle’
’AlunaGeorge – Supernatural’
’Phantogram – Fall In Love’
’Purity Ring – begin again’
’Mark Johns – 5 South (Prod. Alexander Lewis) Ft. Brasstracks’
’Alison Wonderland – Lies’
’DABIN – Endlessly feat. Anna Yvette’
’Anna Lunoe – Say It Again (Nina Las Vegas & Swick Remix)’
’dOP – Close Up (Louisahhh!!! Remix)’
’Polar Youth – Bae’
’Jessie Ware – Keep On Lying (TOKiMONSTA Remix)’
’Anna Lunoe Ft Jesse Boykins III – Heartbreak In Motion’
’Karin Park & Pandora Drive – Hurricane (Maya Jane Coles Remix)’
’REZZ – Black Energy (Original Mix)’
’Lupe Fuentes – Gotta Keep Holding On’
’Kittens – Tell Me How U Feel’
’Fei Fei
Born’
Born’
’HELENA – Raven (Original Mix)’
’Armin van Buuren – Ping Pong (Dani Deahl Remix)’
R&B / HIP HOP
’Kali Uchis – Call Me’
’Jhene Aiko – The Pressure’
’Kehlani – FWU (Prod. by Swagg R’celious)’
’RAYE – FLOWERS’
’SZA – Julia (Prod. Felix Snow & Dave Free)’
’Snakeships – Gone (Feat. Syd)’
’Cyril Hahn – Slow ft. Rochelle Jordan’
’Rubee Rayne – DSYLM (Don’t Say You Love Me)’
’Venessa Michaels – Touch Me ft. Kiana Brown’
’Cashmere Cat – Adore feat. Ariana Grande’
’Rapsody – Lonely Thoughts Ft. Chance The Rapper & Big K.R.I.T.’
’Selah Sue – Together (Feat. Childish Gambino)’
’George Maple – Where You End And I Begin Feat. Grande Marshall’
’Nylo – Fool Me Once’
’Little Sims – Enter The Void (Prod. Balistiq)’
’Vanessa Elisha – Ocean (Prod. By J Louis)’
’Alina Baraz & Galimatias – Fantasy’
’DeJ Loaf – Try Me (prod.by DDS)’
’Tinashe – Pretend featuring A$AP Rocky’
’Kiesza – Bad Thing Feat. Joey Bada$$’
’Marian Hill – Lips’
’Cathedrals – Want My Love’
’Jeni Suk – Don’t Let Me Down (feat. IamSu & AR 2)’
’Niykee Heaton – Bad Intentions’
’LIZ – Y2K (Prod. by Lido)’
