The She Makes Music Mission

She Makes Music was founded in 2012 with one simple goal: to discover and celebrate brilliant music made by women and marginalised artists.

In an industry that has historically overlooked, underestimated and underrepresented so many talented musicians, She Makes Music exists to amplify voices that deserve to be heard. We champion women, non-binary, gender non-conforming and LGBTQ+ artists across all genres, from bedroom pop and indie folk to punk, metal, hip hop and everything in between.

At its heart, She Makes Music is not about ratings, algorithms, streaming numbers or chasing trends. Music is not a competition, and an artist’s worth cannot be measured by followers, monthly listeners or social media engagement. We believe that every song represents a piece of the person who created it, and that deserves to be treated with respect.

That’s why you’ll never find negative reviews here.

She Makes Music is built on the belief that criticism doesn’t have to mean tearing people down. Instead, we choose to celebrate the music that genuinely moves us, whether that’s because of a filthy bassline, a DIY visualiser made with cardboard spaceships, a voice cracking with emotion, or a song that perfectly captures the feeling of driving down an empty road at sunset.

We don’t ask, “Is this objectively good?”

We ask, “Did this make us feel something?”

Every feature on She Makes Music is chosen because it connected with us in some way. We believe that authenticity matters more than perfection, personality matters more than polish, and that the most powerful music is often the music that feels unmistakably human.

We are especially passionate about supporting independent and DIY artists, and about encouraging more women and marginalised people to pursue careers across all areas of the music industry, from songwriting and performance to production, engineering and beyond.

Ultimately, the goal of She Makes Music is simple: to help artists find listeners, and listeners find artists. If a song we share helps someone discover their new favourite artist, or an artist gains just one new fan because of something we’ve written, then we’ve done our job.

Because at the end of the day, She Makes Music has always been, and always will be, about one thing:

A genuine love of music, and the people who make it.

A Note From The Founder

Hi there! My name is Helen and I live in Lincoln in the UK. I started this blog in 2012, mainly for myself, to keep up-to-date with the music world and to discover more brilliant music made by women as I had found this difficult in the past. As I gained more and more followers and met more and more like minded people I realised I had something pretty good going on here!

This is primarily a music blog. It’s all about the music, nothing more and nothing less and although I don’t solely listen to music made by women, I do find it much more relatable. As a young woman I found it so important to find inspirational female musicians as well as male ones. They’ve been an important part in making me who I am today! It has been shown that the music industry is a very male-dominated place and this blog is for people to find those musical gems made by brilliant female musicians all in one, undiluted place. It’s rare enough to just find amazing music in a world full of mediocrity, let alone that made by women. At the end of the day, it’s a blog made purely out of love for music and my personal preference within that. I am in no way trying to say that ‘female’ is a music genre because it is most definitely not! I could go deeper into a feminist speech but I am much more of a doer than a talker!

I must also stress that “women/female” to me is completely inclusive of everyone that identifies as such. And although the focus is on women, I’m also here to show appreciation to the men that recognise the talent of their female peers and who help support and develop them as artists without prejudice. I also represent non-binary, GNC and LGBTQ+ artists if they wish to be featured.

While I celebrate brilliant musicians across all levels of success I do love to really champion those bands and artists that are completely DIY and have sole control over their music. And I want to be able to inspire and encourage as many young girls as possible to follow careers in all areas of the music industry including production and engineering.

I cover all genres because I love many different types of music. I would say pop, indie and rock are the main ones though. I share music news, new tracks and music videos. I currently don’t do album or gig reviews as I just don’t have the time but I do conduct interviews and track-by-track breakdowns of releases. If you’re a female/NB musician and you would like to submit your music for consideration, please visit our Submissions page and follow the instructions!

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I run this blog entirely by myself and all written content belongs to me, the author or I have permission to use it from a third party. All media shared is sourced and credited to the respective owners. 

Helen Evans – Founder/Editor