Girlschool, touted as the longest-running all-female rock band, toured plenty of times with their British compatriots Motörhead over the course of almost 40 years. Guitarist Kim McAuliffe can clearly ...

There’s an argument that tends to worm its way into conversations about equal gender representation in the music industry. It’s that the powers-that-be would love more talented, awesome female acts, ...

In 46 years of playing music with Girlschool, singer/rhythm guitarist Kim McAuliffe has probably seen it all. So a guitar breaking mid-song Thursday night didn’t faze her, as she handed off the guitar ...

Anyone who thought that the controversy over female representation at the Grammy Awards would die down in a few days should have been at the Girlschool LA festival this weekend. There at the Bootleg ...

Last weekend’s Grammy ceremony, where only one woman received a televised award, Lorde refused to perform, and Recording Academy President declared women need to “step up” if they want to be ...

The legendary British group Girlschool have seen a lot of musical trends and an endless number of bands come and go during their nearly 40 year career, and have always managed to blaze their own ...

“I’d picked up the mic and got a huge electric shock,” the Girlschool singer and rhythm guitarist tells me. “My body was thrown backwards into the drum riser – the audience thought it was part of the ...

From the vantage point of the present, it’s difficult to appreciate just how few women were playing in hard and heavy bands in the late 70s and early 80s. Despite groundbreaking artists such as Fanny, ...

Girlschool are probably the most famous all-female band from the NWOBHM era. They did a really awesome split with Motörhead way back in the day, and were widely regarded as matching Lemmy and Co. when ...

New Wave of British Heavy Metal bands came in a variety of styles, and in June 1980, it took on another form when the London-based, all-female quartet Girlschool released their debut album, Demolition ...

Kathy Valentine perfectly summed up what it's like to have the compulsion to perform with or without commercial success.

Lunchtime at the Rock n’ Roll Camp for Girls Los Angeles is when campers get the chance to watch guest artists perform for inspiration. Anna Bulbrook, multi-instrumentalist of the L.A. indie group the ...