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It’s festival fever over here in Europe. On a train from London last week, I was surrounded by backpacks and their owners who had just returned from the Isle of White festival, which kicks off festival season in the UK. Appearing in various festivals this season around the world: Bruce Springsteen, Laura Marling, Lily Allen, Florence and the Machine (one hot redhead who makes great eye candy for the lesbians), just to name a few. 

Here is the last installment of our 100 Greatest Lesbian Albums of all time. Look for albums by Shawn Colvin, Stevie Nicks, Janis Joplin, Brandi Carlile's The Story (who is featured on Grey's Anatomy The Musical Event episode), Heart, Wendy and Lisa, Lady Gaga, Liz Phair, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Alanis Morissette, Sinead O'Connor, Joan Armatrading, k.d. Lang, Ferron, Me'Shell, Dusty Springfield, Chris Williamson, Eurythmics, Ani DiFranco, Janis Ian, Indigo Girls, Melissa Etheridge, Sophie B Hawkins, Tracy Chapman and Sarah McLachlan. 

The San Antonio rock trio Girl in a Coma recently played the famed lesbian bar Sue Ellen’s on after two earlier shows in Corpus Christi and Austin. But they’re not the only lesbian band in Texas, you know. In fact, if you took a look at last year’s South by Southwest music lineup, you would have found five lesbian musicians all homegrown in the Lone Star State.

In endeavoring to nail down The 100 Greatest Lesbian Albums (Of All Time) we enlisted the help of lesbian friends, colleagues, musicians and entertainers spanning 6 decades in age and asked them to name the albums that provided the soundtrack to their lives as women. Here are numbers 75-51 including The Cranberries, Meg Christian, The Breeders, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Missy Higgins, The Dixie Chicks, Uh Huh Her, Janet Jackson, Cyndi Lauper and more...

According to Merriam-Webster’s dictionary, an album is a collection of songs, but it is also “ a book with blank pages used for making a collection.” And that is the definition that most intrigues for our purposes in compiling The Greatest Lesbian Albums (Of All Time) – the idea that a collection of recordings has the power to create an indelible impression on the listener. Certainly, lesbian music fans have lovingly co-opted albums for decades to help provide aural snapshots of their lived experiences. Please enjoy our list, which includes Sarah McLachlan, Blondie, Garbage, Girl in a Coma, Disappear Fear, Kelly Clarkson, Lucinda Williams, t.A.T.u., Rent, Grace Jones and more...

Need new music? Check out these ladies.

New York-based singer-songwriter Julia Weldon might be the most soulful singer you've never heard of.

The lesbian singer-songwriter opens up about her teacher-turned-rocker journey, her personal lyrics, and fighting back against those negative voices in your head.

We picked our favorite classic, modern, and lesbian holiday songs. Take a listen to tunes guaranteed to make your yuletide gay.

Here is the next installment of out 100 Greatest Lesbian Albums of all time. Look for albums by No Doubt, Leisha Hailey's The Murmurs, Natalie Merchant, The Gossip, Annie Lennox, Fleetwood Mac, Madonna, P!nk, Sade, Paula Cole and more...

Sports writer Helen Wortham proves that Women's Week in Provincetown is a full contact sport with the Red Sox nation and its own celebs including, Maggie Cassella,Kate Clinton, Erin Daniels, Michelle Clunie and Jennie McNulty.

SheWired caught up with Antigone Rising to chat about the group’s longevity, the challenges of being an indie band and the new album 23 Red, which was funded with the help of fans via a robust Kickstarter campaign.

While Memorial Day officially rings in the summer, Fourth of July weekend marks the season in full swing, and what is summer without a soundtrack? From folk anthems to impossibly catchy pop tunes, we've polled our friends and colleagues to find out which songs indubitably make us long for summer or remind us of those days gone by. We include Madonna, Katy Perry, Corrinne Bailey Rae, The Go Gos, Tegan and Sara, Gaga, Pink, Joni Mitchell, Janis Joplin and many more. It's a nearly definitive playlist for the lesbian in us all. 

From Vicky Beeching coming out to Mary Lambert and Madonna, it was a good year in music.

SheWired's assembled its top picks for hottest summer albums! Including Alicia Keys, Pink, The Indigo Girls, Ani DiFranco, Uh Huh Her, Joni Mitchell, Sheryl Crow, Madonna, Katy Perry, Lauryn Hill, Melissa Etheridge, Sarah McLachlan, Tegan and Sarah and more... Now it's time for you to vote on your top summer album from our list!

In honor of lesbian widow Edie Windsor's case challenging the so-called Defense of Marriage Act, which comes before the Supreme Court today, we thought we'd round up some of our favorite lesbian weddings from recent years.