Rock female singers recs' please

Hi all.  sometimes i really get tired of all the male growling vocals on metal and want some female vocals to please and relax my ears with.   I really have very few cds in all my collection featuring female vocals,some of them are:

sinead oconnor

anneke van giersbergen (from "the gathering")

"the gathering"

"the cranberries"

Pj harvie

bjork

avril lavigne

and maybe some gothic metal bands singers...but that's probably all.

as you can see,most of them are rock.   I wonder if you guys can throw in some names of other rock singers i can listen to except the above mentioned.  leave gothic metal aside,I am looking for more traditional rock/grunge stuff and not metal.  I also don't want 60's-70's rock either...sorry,i am not so much into that right now.  

don't get this wrong,I am REALLY into quiet songs but they have to be rock and not country,folk and other genres like that.    only rock/heavy rock/grunge please.

thanks!

thanks head injury...you arrived just on time for the party   I realize you are hard into rock stuff...

I didn't even heard of the ones you mentioned   as most of my days i am inside my metal cave and only come out to breathe every once in a while.  I WILL check those out immediately. can you give one good album you recommend from each one of the bands you mentioned?

if i will like some of the stuff in this thread,I will even get some cd's today...so give your recs' people!

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Originally Posted by mibutenma 

Garbage

Nightwish

Blackmore's Night

Concrete Blonde

 

Quincy Coleman I really like the album Come Closer

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/quincy2

 

Not the easiest album to acquire.

I personally got it from her website.

 

thanks...oh yeah,totally forgot about garbage.  i should get at least one of their albums,they are very good.  I will check the rest of the stuff you mentioned too.

well,after listening to the above mentioned recommendations,i got to the conclusion that i am much more into alternative rock music.  the "kills" and "the dead weather" are just too crazy and grungy for me.   I liked "Concrete Blonde" though,they sound kind of nice. I need to investigate them some more.

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Originally Posted by mibutenma 

No Doubt -I like some of their stuff. I only have the Tragic Kingdom album of theirs.

Forgot about them in my original post.

nah..I don't care for their music or their singer.  the only song i liked was "sunday morning".


 

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Originally Posted by virometal 

That's a relatively diverse list of artists, except for one common thread among several which 90's alt-rock. And since I haven't pimped one of my all time fave acts in a while. Here's Fait Accompli by Curve off the album - a collection of Ep's - Doppelganger.

 

 

 

For something less shoegaze and more jangle akin to the Belly rec, The Real Ramona by Throwing Muses is a classic college rock album.

 

 

There is also a long  thread with many recommendations of similar artists: 

 

Recommend me some female fronted rock

thanks for the recs', I will look at this thread.  I did looked for it but didn't find it.

To be honest, i am not really into  those music styles. I still have to check the pretenders though...

I really like k's choice style but  didn't care for their songs,but the style is in the right direction.

garbage are also very good.    anything smashing pumpkins' style...?