When British film-maker Robert Carruthers was sued for including uncleared music in documentaries he made about The Rolling ...
The premise of Lilith Fair was simple: Make female musicians matter. In the late 1990s, with radio programmers refusing to play songs from female artists in succession and concert promoters reluctant ...
Sarah McLachlan often isn’t considered one of the pivotal cultural figures of the 1990s, a Rock & Roll Hall of Famer along the lines of Kurt Cobain, Trent Reznor, and Tupac Shakur. Lilith Fair: ...
In the beginning, all Sarah McLachlan wanted was to prove to music industry gatekeepers that female artists could sell concert tickets. The “Sweet Surrender” singer had a simple, untested idea: put ...
Music festivals are often filled with dudes, dudes and more dudes. In the late '90s, a group of organizers tried something different - put women first. Industry insiders said, not a chance this will ...