Music-Drop Magazine

Rock and Roll has constanly been plagued by machonigy and idiocrasy (Sometimes the same thing). It isn't unusual inside Rock to have Males who flaunt their (In my view) (non-existent) sexuality. The genre is a male dominated field, although many of rock's greatest songs are inspired by women. The male genre however, has had frequent notable talented females who have outshone their male counterparts. However during a lot of the past they have been forced to depend on male colleagues, such as Debby Harry's dependance on the band (Blondie), Stevie Nick's dependance on Lindsay Buckingham and Fleetwood Mac, even Patti Smith the godmother of punk had a dependance on male songwriters. Blondie; One of many female fronted 70s bands. However this trend has been bucked recently, while rock's status as "Alive" may be dubious in the modern climate, many female's independently strive to keep it alive, and this post will be about three of those females who ra...

In the future people will remark that Rock and Roll was a art form perfected by scruffy youths who upon perfecting their art became known as Rock Stars, the latest and potential last Rock Star is Jack White. I'm certain we all know his music, he created the rawest blues and combined Led Zeppelin with Son House, with MC5 and then added a violin (in his latest album). White may be a eccentric know for his obsessions with the colour blue, the number three and his constant exclamations that Meg White is his sister, whereas she was his wife. The White Stripes are possibly the most iconic rock group of the 2000s with only indie rock artists possibly rivalling him (Arcade Fire, The Strokes, Wilco). His deformed mutated Blues captured the people in 2001 with "White Blood Cells" (One of my top 100 personal albums) and in 2003 "Elephant" confirmed his place in the rock canon (as has his various escapades and collaborations with classic rock artists such as Neil youn...