For roughly 25 years, the singer has been uncovering the stories and learning the musical stylings of trailblazing, ...

Horton was chosen to play lead guitar and performed in over 100 shows across the country. “Don’t let anybody or anything hinder you, if you think you can do it, do it,” Horton encouraged.

Yes, it’s so cool to see more young women picking up the guitar! I believe it’s all thanks to female rock trailblazers such as Joan Jett, Lita Ford, and Lzzy Hale. If it weren’t for those women making ...

But throughout the show, many images of guitar-playing women counter this gender stereotype, he said, by signaling self-confidence, independence, creativity and even sexual liberation.

Women had a hand in making rock music what it is today, and many of those women were underrated icons of classic rock.

Women artists are pushing back against gender stereotypes at the French heavy metal festival Hellfest, where men have long ...