Browsing: women in rock

Blackheart Records wasn’t a vanity label. It was Joan Jett’s survival system – ownership, leverage, and a blueprint artists still chase.

How Ann Wilson’s opera-soaked childhood, volcanic voice and refusal to play nice with a sexist industry turned Heart into one of rock’s boldest revolutions.

How Jan Kuehnemund turned a Minnesota high school band into Vixen, fought for her name, and quietly rewrote the rules for women in 80s hard rock.

How Suzi Quatro kicked the door in, and how Debbie Harry and Joan Jett turned that shockwave into a sisterhood that rewired rock’s rules on sex, power and image.

A candid photo of Heart’s Ann and Nancy Wilson with Stevie Nicks, sold as a Studio 54 moment, reveals how three rock queens quietly rewrote the 70s rulebook.