I have recently gotten into more "popular" music as of late, as you can see-- and I am wondering-- are there more women singing than I can think of, or were my college years (1991-1995) just a heyday for female singers. Because I listened almost exclusively to female singers/groups in college ranging from Hole to Edie Brickell to Tori Amos to Fiona Apple to the Indigo Girls, and even people I didn't quite care for, like Paula Cole and Alanis Morrisette. I could keep going with many more names.

I can only think of, currently, Greta from the Hush Sound, Katie Perry, Gwen Stefani (don't know if she is still popular), Ashlee Simpson and The Pussycat Dolls right now, but my scope of listening is rather small... and I only really like The Hush Sound. was there some sort of backlash and have women dissappeared, or am I missing a whole big group of people?

ETA: This post brought to you by nostalgiac youtubing of Tori Amos songs

Tom Scola = hero of the beach!

Sophia, have you heard Bat For Lashes?

Well, there's Pink and Avril Lavigne amd Kelly Clarkson, off the top of my head. A LOT of alt-country women out there (Lucinda Williams, Kim Richey, Shawn Colvin). There's also the new soul comeback, with Duffy, Adele, and Amy Winehouse.

There are a lot of other R&B women, too, like Beyonce.

Bah. Got a "Service temporarily unavailable" from Tom's link.

I haven't, but I will check them out. I have been stuck in a musicals plus folk singers plus Magnetic Fields for about 10 years, so everything is new to me!

Lily Allen, Dresden Dolls, Tegan & Sara, Norah Jones, Nellie McKay, Jenny Lewis (Rilo Kiley).

Thank you, thank you ! (I had forgotten about Pink, but most of the others are new to me!) I knew Buffistas would come through.

Rilo Kiley, definitely. And Feist. Neko Case if you think you might alt-country-ish stuff. Thea Gilmore is AWESOME. Um, who else? Martha Wainwright (Rufus' sister), Deb Talan, Goldfrapp, Regina Specktor, KT Tunstall. Recently, I've had Santogold's debut album on a constant loop.

Kate Nash, The Sounds, The Pierces (as recced by smonster, SO GOOD), The Donnas, The Gossip, The Pipettes, Erykah Badu, Zap Mama, Peaches, Poe, Regina Spektor, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs...

eMusic currently has a feature on cover albums. [link] So far I've downloaded the Steve Reich one, which is OK. Oh, and Robyn Sings (Dylan covers), which I like a lot. Think I'll grab Japancakes' version of MBV Loveless next....

Oh, I downloaded Radiodread a while ago, but never got into it....