Firstly, a little background. While Jett will always be associated with “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll,” she did not perform the original version of the song. The track was originally by a relatively obscure ...

Growing up, Jett defied the norms and expectations that “girls don't play electric guitar” – and went on to become a bona fide trailblazer and legend ...

The band led by Joan Jett was one of rock’s most disruptive — made up of girls in a tremendously masculinized world, it had a short, brilliant, shadowy career ...

Ditching The Beach Boys’ surf-rock style for more of a barroom blues, Jett’s smokey lilt makes the sweet, beachy classic sound tough as nails. 3. “Have You Ever Seen the Rain” She stays pretty true to ...

Joan Jett is still touring around the country but unlikely to perform in Snohomish County anytime soon. Your best bet to rock out to Jett’s music would be catching Jett City’s tribute to the godmother ...

Joan Jett must have felt right at home Friday night on the Iron City Stage. The newish concert venue, nestled between the Allegheny River and Pittsburgh Brewing Co.’s Creighton facility, with railroad ...

The fuck, they don’t. And Jett demolished more walls than anyone, paving the path every woman with a guitar has traveled since. “I was so into this idea of girls being able to play rock ’n’ roll…as ...

A hard, deliberate snare roll. A sudden, thunderous power chord. A drum beat that sounds like a stadium full of football fans stomping in unison. And then a voice -- strong, androgynous, raspy, ...

Those words, spoken by Joan Jett‘s guitar teacher in 1971, may have changed the course of rock and roll. The discouraging words only solidified her desire to learn the instrument. After guitar ...