The future of rock is female and that might just be what's needed to rejuvenate the fading genre
For the last half century or so, throughout the history of rock music, it could be argued it has mostly been an all-boys-club, with women either propped as a novelty act -- think Smashing Pumpkins bassist D'Arcy Wretzky or Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon -- or left at the uncelebrated fringes of the genre. But in the last half-decade or so, that outlook has been changing rapidly as a steadily increasing number of women are starting to make an impact on an arguably fading genre, at least in its traditional sense.
Even this year, some of the most innovative rock acts have come from women, with artists like St. Vincent, Snail Mail, Mitski, Courtney Barnett and the likes featuring on the "Top Albums" lists of almost all tastemaker music publications (our own included).