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Your Weekly Women to Listen to: Priscilla Ahn, PJ Harvey, Ely Guerra and more

Hello beauties! It’s another rainy day over here and I’ve managed to stub at least four of my toes since yesterday and am still reeling in pain. Since I need a little pick-me-up, I’ve decided that the first five ladies I include today will be some of my very favorites. Please keep in mind that I have a lot of favorites; that’s what happens when you have spent almost every cent you’ve earned on going to concerts or buying albums.

Let’s dive in, shall we?

File Under: The hippest of the hop that’ll make you shake your stanky leg and twerk it like no other.

From: Virginia

For Fans Of: Timbaland, Outkast, Ciara, TLC, dancing, humor, being a step ahead of the rest

Bonus: She’s not afraid to tell you about her “cute face, chubby waist.”

File Under: One of the most intriguing, influential and unique singer/songwriters out there. Emotional rock & roll that goes from desperation to vengeance in half a second.

From: The UK

For Fans Of: Finding beauty in imperfection, storytelling, dramatic soundscapes both haunting and beautiful, herbal tea, fun houses, extremes.

Bonus: On top of being an amazing musician, Polly Jean is also an accomplished sculptor. For those of you who haven’t given PJ a chance, you may want to start out with Is This Desire? or Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea.

File Under: An enigmatic artist who is also one of the most influential — though many people don’t even realize how much she has touched the work of other musicians. She has pretty much worked every combination of punk, electronic, experimental and choral you can imagine.

From: Iceland

For Fans Of: Raging out while dancing, pixies, A Clockwork Orange, Portishead, The Knife, Tori Amos

Bonus: Music video genius Christopher Cunningham has directed a large number of Bjork’s videos and they are visually stunning and worthy of purchasing on their own. On a gay note, check out his video for my favorite Bjork song, “All is Full of Love. (It’s the name of the mixtape on my cassette tattoo, too.)There are about a million and one remixes of almost all of her songs. Check those out too, they tend to be mind-blowing.

File Under: Groovy electro-disco fun for shaking and dancing in your chair to.

From: Formed in NYC

For Fans Of: The ’70s, George Clinton, dancing, funk, clubbing, Yo Gabba Gabba!, feeling the love.

Bonus: Many of you may only know their jam “Groove is in the Heart,” but the rest of the songs on World Clique are even better. My very first girlfriend introduced me to that album, we used to play it out in her car and shake our booties while I probably awkwardly held her hand.

File Under: Jazzy lady rock/rap, sexy tribal, trance — you name it, they’ve probably done it.

From: NYC

For Fans Of: awesome things, Beastie Boys, Veruca Salt, David Byrne, Converse shoes and ringer T-shirts

Bonus: Kate Schellenbach was actually the first drummer for the Beastie Boys back when they were punk and LJ was the first band signed to the Beastie Boys label, Grand Royal. In some sad news for my parents, I spent a good portion of my note-taking time in college and devoted it to writing down Luscious Jackson lyrics.

File Under: Electronic, trance, electropop

From: Germany

For Fans Of: Apparat, swanky clubs, Agyness Deyn, Sascha Funke

Bonus: Ellen also has a fashion line.

File Under: Everything sounds better in Spanish, rock-pop with sex appeal (of course)

From: Mexico

For Fans Of: Making love, Sade, mojitos, romance, bubble baths, Brazilian Girls

Bonus: Watch her video for “Vete” and you too will be saying, “Ay dios mio! Que bonita!”

File Under: Folksy singer/songwriter with velvety smooth pipes

From: LA by way of Georgia

For Fans Of: Coffee shops, open-mics, A Fine Frenzy, Norah Jones, Mirah, warm-fuzzies

Bonus: Her song “Find My Way Back Home” was used in the movie Free Willy: Escape from Pirate’s Cove. That whale always makes me cry.

File Under: Lo-fi glam garage rock sung in English with fantastic French accents.

From: My wildest dreams

For Fans Of: The Like, Jenny Humphrey on Gossip Girl, Dragonette, ripped skinny jeans with teeny tiny leather jackets, The Black Lips

File Under: Atmospheric dark power-pop

From: Norway

For Fans Of: Air, Casiokids, Sigur Rós, Bat for Lashes, re-reading old journal entries

Bonus: I will be listening to their MySpace page for a good part of the day.

That’s all for this week everybody! Until next week, I’m sending you gummy bears and dew drops.

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