As the third annual Girlschool festival takes place in Los Angeles this weekend, its voices — which this year include Garbage’s Shirley Manson with the Girlschool Choir, Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie ...

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, ...

2 Barry Manilow Postpones 2026 Farewell Tour After Lung Cancer Diagnosis GIRLSCHOOL, the highly popular L.A.-based interdisciplinary festival celebrating women-identified artists, thinkers, ...

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 ...

The original trio of Motörhead were pure rock’n’roll, from start to finish. Nobody else could have written a song like Overkill. They haven’t! It’s the kind of stuff that makes your hair stand up on ...

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 ...

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 ...

On the morning of Saturday’s women’s march in Los Angeles, the heads of the music-promotion collective Girlschool met at Eightfold Coffee in Echo Park. The crowds were already overwhelming – Metro ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...