In the 1990s, numerous women rockers emerged on the popular music scene, flooding the airwaves of college and independent radio stations with alternative feminist rock and momentarily elevating these women in the rock pantheon. As Tanya Pearson, founder of the Women in Rock Oral History Project, illustrates in her buoyant oral history, Pretend We’re Dead: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Women in Rock in the ‘90s (Da Capo, January 28, 2025), though, these women artists’ careers fell almost as quickly as they rose and, by the early 2000s, many of these bands had disappeared from the scene.
THE READING ROOM: ‘Pretend We’re Dead’ Recalls Women Who Rocked and Changed American Music
