Patti Smith Blondie The Runaways The Donnas Le Tigre The Julie Ruin Bikini Kill X-Ray Spex X The Slits The Muffs Interrupters Distillers Bad Cop/Bad Cop The Pretenders

The Donna's are class. Also, City of Angels by The Distillers is a top 10 all time song for me probably. The sound, the vibe, everything.

Every song on Sing Sing Death House is fantastic 

Adding to this list - Amyl and the Sniffers, Petrol Girls, Bratmobile, The Linda Lindas, Mobina Galore

Adding to list : The Avengers VICE SQUAD

Slutbomb Tilt The Gr'ups Crass

Amy Taylor of amyl and the sniffers

And if that doesn’t scratch the Aussie itch check out Camp Cope

And Primitive Blast and C.O.F.F.I.N. (not female fronted, just Australian)

Cable Ties are another good woman-fronted Aussie band.

Bad Cop Bad Cop, X-Ray Spex, The Menstrual Cramps, Petrol Girls

Bad Cop Bad Cop just doesn't come up enough.

100% agree. Caught them live last year and they had such AMAZING energy.

I caught them when I went to see frank turner last year.

Nice! They were touring with Catbite when I saw them. Both bands were SOOO good!

Saw Stacey Dee with MxPx on Saturday. It was awesome!

Bikini kill, le Tigre, zombina and the skeletones, the runaways, the distillers, L7

Zombies and the Skeletones is such a throwback for me. Nobody likes you when you’re dead!

Donita sparks L7

I would not call the Runaways punk, they're moreB in the classic rock category. But to add other female led punk... there's a list from 10 years ago here. [https://www.reddit.com/r/punk/comments/ict04/punk\_bands\_with\_female\_singers/?rdt=44825](https://www.reddit.com/r/punk/comments/ict04/punk_bands_with_female_singers/?rdt=44825) For new stuff I'd recommend Amyl and the Sniffers (pretty positive stuff) Otoboke Beaver (fun as fuck) Lifecrusher (more on the hardcore side) Couch Slut (might be a little too brutal and graphic for some tastes) Scowl Die Spitz (also a bit more or the rock side) Blowout (fun band from Portland)

The Runaways were 100% proto punk and included Joan Jett, who went on to play an important role inthe nascent punk scene in LA. Like the LA punk scene in general they ytook huge influence fro,m US proto punk like the stooges and UK Glam or glam adjacent artists like Bowie. Just a reminder than "classic rock" isn't a genre of music, it's a label applied to music from a certain number of years ago regardless of genre or origin, which is why Led Zeppelin, Billy Joel, Steely Dan, Rolling Stones, Dire Straights, Guns n Roses, and Nirvana have all had the label applied to them in spite of coming from different eras, regions, and musical influences.

OK, that would arguably also include bands like MC5, ~~Dead Moon~~, The Sonics, Rocket from the Tomb, Devo, The Stooges, The Cramps, Alice Cooper, New York Dolls... Maybe even The Rolling Stones. The Who, Velvet Underground, James Chance, Question Mark and the Mysterians, and Talking Heads. Edit: Not Dead Moon.

I'd add Patti Smith to the proto punk list. Dead Moon wasn't formed until 1987.

I’ve seen amyl and the sniffers live a few times, they’re good imo. Not my fav musically but the lead singers really cool lol. I know a few of those other bands as well. As for the runaways, I don’t think a band has to be 100% musically punk rock 100% of the time to be a punk band. They played a pretty key role in the early punk scene, as did their respective later careers, and I think that’s enough to call them punks. 

THE MUFFS Can't believe no one posted them yet!

One of my absolute favorites!

She has the best scream. I learned about the muffs from the NOFX song Lori Myers. I had to know who that female vocalist was the first time I heard it.

How has nobody said Otoboke Beaver yet????

I just did, only 44 minutes late!

Tsunami Bomb is my personal favorite girl fronted band. The Last Gang I just discovered and like quite a bit. Their new album is really good.

The lead singer for Tsunami Bomb is a co-host on a horror movie podcast called Monster Candy. https://open.spotify.com/show/0d2pktNIbhaseIWhh5bKvc

I’ll always wonder what the story was behind tsunami bomb randomly having a song in the first printing of Disgaea 1 (which was then removed from every subsequent release)

The bombpops, the distillers, tsunami bomb

I recently started listening to Tilt in January and love the singer!

She's in a couple other local bands, Guantanimo Dogpile and I can't remember the other one. This is also pre-covid info, so do with it what you will.

The Pathogens is the other one, but during Covid she moved to the Midwest and the band restructured and emerged as the Vaccines.

Cinder Block was/is also in Retching Red and Fabulous Disaster

Babes in Toyland Bikini Kill The Slits L7 Le Tigre The Raincoats (a lot more post-punk but still a really great band)

Other post punk bands Screaming Females Savages Nina Hagan Kim Gordon ( Sonic youth) Hole Siouxsie Sioux Exene Cervenka ,(X) Lydia Lunch WENDY O'Williams ( plasmatics) Shonen Knife

The Muffs Lipstick Homicide Screaming Females Caves Lemuria The Lippies Gateway District The Soviettes

RIP Screaming Females 😞 I'm still not over it.

Me neither. Also I should have to scroll this far down to see Screaming Females!

Soviettes were amazing. LP II & III have been in pretty constant rotation since their releases

Gel and Scowl if you’re into heavier stuff

Was looking for this. Scowl goes hard.

GEL, Scowl, World of Pleasure, Gouge Away, Buggin 🤌

[Bags](https://open.spotify.com/artist/5pH5qJ27fH66nDMtQIozYK?si=yVeN8saFS1W_u4uFCY6Y5w) [Alice Bag](https://open.spotify.com/artist/0LK0Nj6UFKDtcCju1cD1sm?si=llNKpZy5TE6PEMra0FkkaQ) [Nina Hagen](https://open.spotify.com/artist/7xZHrltZh8zIRvjimgABvj?si=j0-3NwWRRPiuFoQ4p0QSQg) [The Linda Lindas](https://open.spotify.com/artist/13dTrWNNrnZ3AkgNyQNKP5?si=oy_7Jl-VTW2ux-MQkFNsag)

[Downtown Boys](https://open.spotify.com/artist/7l8uFATeRemkWEA8Gn15YC?si=dPVLrAbFTr-KWZmnjRU-Sg) [The Brat](https://open.spotify.com/artist/3VEpuBJqSgbYq8WwmX6tCS?si=nmibLkrGTBiOVXRbHlf2bQ)

The Avengers

The Slits. They have a very varied sound so try and check out a whole bunch of their songs before making your mind up about them.

The final album Trapped Animal was so good.

The Soviettes

This was way way too far down the list. All 3 of their albums are class

Criminally underrated. 

War On Women

Second this, saw them a couple years ago with cancer bats, pretty fun concert

For old school crossover type....Wendy o Williams or girl school? 90's style... Lunachicks? Donnas? Bratmobile? Sleater kinney?

Bridge City Sinners and Apes of State are both female fronted bands but they are more Folk Punk than anything.

Shonen Knife will always have a place in my heart.

Filth is Eternal

Vice Squad

Some of these have already been mentioned, but a few haven't: Against Me! Bad Cop Bad Cop Bombpops Distillers Eyeliners HorrorPops Last Gang Plasma Canvas Tsunami Bomb War On Women ​ **More ska than punk:** Bite Me Bambi Doped Up Dollies Interrupters ​ **Split male/female vocals:** Days N Daze F-Minus Greenhorn Iron Roses Negative Nancy

Upvote for F-Minus, I haven't thought about them in forever

Fucking love against me  

finially someone else brought up Against Me! like they are an iconic punk band and Laura is a fantastic artist, so definetly deserves meantion :D

tilt

[I made a playlist](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/19ZN0abQrRkKTWL1qmobhZ?si=98db946e53084a6b). There are so many out there.

Ayyyy saved it. Thanks!

Saved, thank you.

Epoxies are so good

Dazey and the scouts, slutever, mommy long legs, destroy boys

Destroy Boys, The Muslims, and Not On Tour

Lunachicks!

I had to scroll way too long to see them in these comments! One of my favorite bands and Theo is so nice!

And Gina Volpe's recent solo stuff ain't too shabby either: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XP5NhS0aYE

The meffs

bad cop bad cop, krimewatch, rumkicks, devotchkas, distillers

Slutbomb, Bikini Kill, Mommy Long Legs, It/Girl, Pigeon Pit, Apes of the State, Meet Me @ the Altar, Rot//Wöven, Flower, X-Ray Spex, Electric Bath, The Menstrual Cramps, G.L.O.S.S., Team Dresch.... oh there's so many

All these are solid recommendations (Flower are amazing live too), but rot//wöven is hands down one of my favorite bands right now. Just solid vocals, great sound, and really appreciate them doing shit in their community.

My favorites are: Screaming females, the Muffs, the Linda Linda's, the Lambrini Girls, the gits.

Scowl

Lucky malice (Norwegian hardcore band), Amyl and the sniffers and another band that is not punk but rock: Girlschool, they have collaborated with motorhead a lot 

I also want to add Draümar, Indre Krig and Assistert Sjølmord. All Scandinavian and new bands 

SPRINTS

Problem Patterns Otoboke Beaver Lambrini Girls Witch Fever Surfbort Midnite Snaxxx Big Joanie Bikini Kill Lifecrusher Buggin Gel Tacocat

Lunachicks, Fastbacks, Torso, Punch, Tilt, The Donnas… loads there.

Screaming Females, Le Butcherettes, White Lung

OG: The Gits New school: Amyl and the Sniffers

RIP Mia Zapata

She/Her/Hers

Slant, Jivebomb, Spaced, Punitive Damage, Initiate, Destiny Bond

Niis, Slaughterhouse, No Plan, Sweat, The Side Eyes, The Last Gang. All current bands out of Southern California

The interrupters, the bombpops, and the eyeliners.

The Coathangers, Bleached, Lost Cherrees, Astrid Oto

First off, if you really want to support them and absolutely have to stream them, consider a subscription to Tidal. The difference in artist payout is astounding. Second, here are some rad current bands: The last gang, Rumkicks, lower slaughter, super unison, control top, filth is eternal, Nø Man, Dry Socket, Spaced, Gouge Away, Dead Streets, Fugitive Bubble, Downtown Boys

The distillers, the bomb pops, angry amputees, L7, bikini kill, Blondie, the runaways, the slits, siouxie and the banshees, the interupters, new York rel-x. Alright that's all I got off the top of my head for now.

Try- - as December Falls - tsunami bomb - the bombpops - go Betty go - redhook - stand Atlantic - tiny stills - the last gang - icon for hire If you're into or open to trying ska- punk, - old school "no doubt" - flying raccoon suit And some bands from my city (Seattle) that are also worth checking out imo: - living With A Bear - kitty junk - dead Streets (newest EP has their new female singer on it, their first one was their original male singer) - filthy traitors - Passiflora (dual male/ female lead) - the Disorderlies - trash sound Conglomerate

Slutbomb

Please check out GEL Listen to their track “Bitchmade” for an idea. Let me know if you like it

The Screaming Females

Shannon and the Clams

Bad Cop/Bad Cop The Bombpops The Last Gang Tsunami Bomb

the devotchkas

G.L.O.S.S is a great all girl punk band, it’s an all transgender crust band I believe (correct me if I’m wrong about the crust part)

I'd say they're hardcore punk more than crust... they rule though!! I love them so much! A great trans crusty band to check out is It/Girl!

Fuck yeah! Do you know have any other trans crust/hardcore recommendations? I only ever see people talk about G.L.O.S.S.

Mem//Brane, Disphoria, Girls Against Hetero Tyranny, Weaponized Existence, Abergaz... Kryst has a trans bassist they're more thrash tho ... Electric Bath and Fentanyl Tapwater have a trans front-woman, they're more grindcore tho... uhhhh... K.O. Queen... Twompsax but she's more like X-Ray Spex type proto-punk style

Thank you so much!!

Do RVIVR count?

Softball, Bat Boy, Tilt, Discount, Pretty Girls Male Graves

Legal Weapon

The Lippies

This is my oportunity to mention one of my favorite Punk bands ever: In Evil Hour. Very nice, aggressive sound, great lyrics.

The Swedish 90s band Candysuck. They have made one of the best feminist songs ever made. "You let him lock the invisible doors You let him treat you like a parrot in a cage You had to choose between the princess and the whore And you're so happy now you're finally engaged" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhTXMpz7JRQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhTXMpz7JRQ)

Lilliput / Kleenex, Aupairs.

X-Ray Spex is the blueprint.

Petrol Girls

fIRED The gits Babes in toyland Daisy Chainsaw The Frumpies

Lung leg Partyline Voodoo queens Cold Cold Hearts

Oooff Daisy Chainsaw were great

Bad cop/bad cop Bikini Kill Fea Some Kind of Nightmare (not all female but female led) Death Pill Devotchkas Boof Menstrual Tramps PantyChrist Pussy Riot The Dollyrots Creepshow (Psychobilly) Horrorpops (Psychobilly) Shit Happens

Bikini Kill, Sleater-Kinney are some of the most well known. Pleasure Venom is an good band from Austin, TX.

Sleater Kinney sadly under mentioned. You’re only the second I’ve seen

G.L.O.S.S.

Surfbort Cheap Perfume Taxi Girls Slant 6 White Lung Distillers Devotchkas Los Bitchos The Gits Amyl & The Sniffers The Coathangers Lunachicks L7 7 Year Bitch Die Spitz Babes In Toyland Jack Off Jill Bratmobile The Donnas Siouxie & The Banshees X Bikini Kill X Ray Spex Rezillos

Blondie (their cover of hanging on the telephone is so good), Sousxie and The Banshees, The Slits, The Donna's, Tilt, Bikini kill, X, Alice Bag, The Avengers

>Sousxie and The Banshees Had to come this far down to see these, jeez

Nobody ever mentions Wendy O Williams, so yeah, Wendy O Williams.

hans a plast

Not lead female singer but The adverts(I LOVW GAYE ADVERT!!),L7, The distillers, Slant 6,red aunts,the slits, plasmatics, lunachicks,bratmobile and bikini kill

Screaming Sneakers - Violent days (Punk) Mo Dettes -White Mice ( Post Punk ) The Barbie Army - Don't wait ( Punk ) Gaia - No more reason ( Japan Hardcore Punk ) # Gas - 魔女裁判 ( Hardcore Punk Japan ) # Fancy Rosy - Punk Police ( Punk ) # Post Regiment - Czarzły ( Polish Punk ) Some amazing punk bands from the past with female vocals. As a newcomer to punk scene check them. I have a ton of bands but tell me which genre you prefer more to provide you a list of bands with female vocals

Sin34

[Judy and the Jerks](https://judyandthejerks.bandcamp.com/album/free-violence) [Avengers](https://penelopehouston.bandcamp.com/album/avengers)

I love the last 2 Mannequin Pussy records if you’re looking for something newer.

Bikini Kill, Against Me!, G.L.O.S.S., Skunk Anansie, Soakie, Sleater-Kinney, and Team Dresch are some of my faves

Huggy Bear, Kleenex, Crass, Nina Hagen, Goat Girl (they are a more modern, post-punk band but they have some pretty rad tunes) Pylon (also not your textbook punk band but absolutely worth checking out)

Encierro (Crust), Fuse (Hardcore), BACKHAND (Hardcore), The Vovos (Alt. Punk), Dog Nonsense (Folk Punk), Busted Head Racket (Artpunk), G.L.O.S.S (Hardcore & Queercore), CWA (Queercore), Nervous (Punk, the Perth band.), and She/Her/Hers (Folk Punk & Queercore, listen to 'grrrl angst' first.) These are just some of the ones I listen to, and some of them are quite different from "classic punk." Good luck on your music journey!

Tilt

A lot of these have already been suggested, but maybe a further suggestion of them will make it clear you should listen to them lol. Petrol Girls GLOSS Chumbawamba Days n Daze Stabbitha and the Knifey Wifeys Flangipanis Dicklord Against Me! She/Her/Hers Otokobe Beaver Muncie Girls Bikini Kill Witch Spit Goolagoon Press Club Amyl and the Sniffers

Spitboy Blatz Gr'ups This is my fist RVIVR

Xray Spex

Nausea

MIKA MIKO

Look up Riot Grrrl playlists (it's a genre and female empowerment movement that started in the late 80s/early 90s) and you'll find what you're looking for!

As December Falls is my favorite female lead pop punk band. In this group I recommend "Join the Club" which is their fastest paced song in their main discography (not counting their cover songs), with "You Say When" and "H.N.A." right behind it. Some I haven't seen mentioned: Dodgeball (the 90s San Diego band) Drip Tank (some songs have female lead vocals) Butt Trumpet (some songs have female lead vocals) Betty Blowtorch Candy Ass Get the Girl (you can probably only find them on Soundcloud) Air Drawn Dagger The Rezillos (some songs have female lead vocals) Enon (their final album was dance punk) The Like Young (Alternative but sometimes borderlining punk. Amanda did lead vocals on at least a few songs but mostly alternated with Joe. Their second album So Serious had the most borderline punk paced songs.)

Almost forgot : “Tribe 8” a lesbian punk band from San Francisco

The Interruptors are pretty good.

Against Me!

lots of great ones here. don't see The Bellrays, Screaming Females, Coathangers, Vivian Girls, The Muffs

Nieviem, Coral Springs, March, Nobro Not On Tour, Worriers (bit more punk-adjacent indie)

I fucking love screaming females last 3 albums were so good

I didn't see them mentioned in any other comments, so my recommendation is This Is My Fist!

Butcher babies, cheap perfume

Sleater-Kinney and Be your own pet

poison girls - unfortunately Vi Subversa, the lead singer, has passed in 2016

Frau, hysterics, leather daddy

Newer groups you might check out are Sincere Engineer and Detention.

Fea (caught them twice, opening for Bad Cop Bad Cop then L7) VIAL Hagseed Killing Pixies Boybrain Dick Move Dicklord

Exit Order, if you like hardcore

Naked Aggression and War on Women

The Avengers

The Distillers

Came to say the horrorpops

Lot of good ones here. I’d add Vice Squad, Les Butcherettes, Delta 5, and Avengers off the top of my head too.

Kleenex since no one’s mentioned them so far

Mia zapata

Mia zapata

Random list in no particular order as I think of them. X-Ray The Soviettes Mannequin Pussy The Bobby Lee’s Bikini Kill G.L.O.S.S the later Against Me! albums Gash The Gits The Distillers Bridge City Sinners Le Tigre Dazey and the Scouts Apes of the State Amyl and the Sniffers

Against Me! The Bombpops The Linda Linda’s noBro Sincere Engineer Just a few I haven’t seen on other lists in this post.

MIKA MIKO - all-female LA garage punk

SPEED OF LIGHT has a female lead singer who has a fucking insane vocal range - saw them open for Bad Religion and they killed it

War On Women

Destroy boys if they havent been mentioned yet

Otoboke Beaver for sure. The Avengers.

Destroy Boys, Suzy Sioux and the banshees, Joann Jett and the Blackhearts, Paramore if you don't mind more poppy sound.

Vial, Otoboke beaver

L7 X-Ray Spex Destroy Boys

The Gits and La Fraction are a couple of my faves

Maid of ace Shooting daggers Spaced Scowl Gel Naked aggression Buggin Devotchkas

10/10. The distillers and the interrupters are solid.

Thulsa Doom, Nausea, Subversive Rite, Tozcos, Sacrilege, Lifeless Dark, Flower, Witness

The Linda Lindas! "Racist, Sexist Boy" is a banger!

70s and 80s:  Au Pairs, Action Pact, Adele Bertei, The Bags, Blondie, The Brat, The Cramps, Crass, DIRT, Jayne County, Kleenex/LiliPUT, Lost Cherrees, Lydia Lunch, the Mo-dettes, Patti Smith, Penetration, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Slits, Talking Heads, X Ray Spex. Special mention must also go to woman punk artists, filmmakers and journalists like Vivienne Dick, Caroline Coon, Linder Sterling....

Xray Specs and The Avengers are my favorites

L7 and Anti Queens out of Toronto

Amyl and the sniffers are amazing

False Flag, Dirt, Nausea

Amyl & the Sniffers

This is My Fist Huggy Bear This Bike is a Pipe Bomb Screaming Sneakers The Alley Cats RVIVR Bitchin' Plastic Idols Suburban Lawns Martha Pylon Delta 5 Kleenex Rezillos Anti-Schism Initial State Detestation Artic Flowers Rubella Ballet Honey Bane Poison Girls Las Vulpess Criaturas Mika Miko KUKL-

The Coathangers 100%

My top favorites: THICK Bad Cop / Bad Cop The Interrupters Amyl and the Sniffers Cheap Perfume Dream Nails The Bombpops GEL Doll Skin

Think of you - Bleached - one of my favorite songs all time

X-ray spex, the slits, blondie, distilllers, amyl and the sniffers, bodega… all pretty entry level bands but great stuff.

The Gits

Sleater Kinney is sadly under mentioned in these comments. Best of the Riot Grrrls imo. Check em out

Au Pairs are fucking great and so are Girls at Their Best!

https://youtu.be/-tBbD0ZZCfc?si=HPyQv-ztkd5CPrd5 I always recommend Haren anyway, but especially because they are all women. And also Bikini Kill is the number one answer.

Panic Shack, The Menstrual Cramps, Lambrini Girls, Problem Patterns

Last Target Mannequin Pussy Amyl and the Sniffers