As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, Jan Kuehnemund, lead guitarist of the groundbreaking all-female metal band Vixen, died of cancer on October 10. She was 51. Kuehnemund and Vixen singer and rhythm guitarist Janet Gardner formed the band in high school in St. Paul, Minnesota, before moving to Los Angeles in 1985 during the city’s glam-metal boom. The scene at the time was not only almost exclusively male, it trafficked in a curious mix of androgyny and misogyny—which Vixen had a hard time finding a place in. When asked in a recent interview what it was like to ...
- 10/14/2013
- avclub.com
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