[Storm Eagle]

I listen to K-ROCK (WXRK; 92.3-FM) here in New York. They play alternative, and I didn't realize that they haven't been playing much music from female rock bands until some feminist group protested in front of the station on April 1 of last year. The DJ's who were playing music around that time let the protestors in the station, and they complained that the station doesn't play anything from female bands. The DJs argue that female bands just suck now. However, to appease the feminists, they said they'd change their format, and just play all female bands and then call the station "Fem-Rock". They play what sounds like Kittie doing an acousting cover version of Linkin Park's "One Step Closer", and the feminists are happy. Now here's the funny part. The DJ's just played an April Fool's joke on them, and kicked them out of the studio. Oddly enough, female listeners called in and even spoke against the feminists. Some of them even say that female bands suck.

I wouldn't mind if more female bands would come out of the woodwork though. Not many of them seem to be active right now anyway. At least not at the time when this all happened. No wonder they haven't been playing anything from female bands lately. I think the last time they've played anything from a female band was back in 2000, and it was from Kittie's first album. Plus since the station plays older songs from current groups, I guess they could also play older songs from female bands, or at least bands where a female is the lead singer (i.e: Veruca Salt and Hole) even though none are really currently active. They've never even played anything from No Doubt. The Donnas have a new album out now, and the station hasn't even played anything from them, even though the DJs had them on for an interview. They've been playing songs from Evanescence lately though, and that's a band where the only female is the lead singer.