Are you getting sick of the same artists on your playlists? Are you craving a new and alternative sound? Freshen up your music taste and celebrate Women’s History Month this March by exploring the world of alternative women musicians.
EASHA
22-year-old EASHA is an ambitious artist originally from New Jersey and based in Nashville. A music lover since childhood, she performed for the first time at an open mic night at a bar in Trenton, 20 minutes from her hometown. Since then, she hasn’t stopped playing and writing. Her passion and hard work led her to Stanford University, where she studied English.
EASHA’s discography is, in my opinion, one with no skips. You can trace her musical progression from the softer, bedroom-pop-esque sound to her current, more produced, yet still soulful indie pop. Her personal development is evident through the stories told in her lyrics. Early songs like “Far Away” that capture a desire to experience new places pair well with newer music like “xoxo,” a song about a fling in a foreign country.
Her new EP, “Meaning in the Motion,” is a perfect display of her masterful writing and exciting melodies. Whether you’re in the mood for the upbeat, danceable “Both of Us” or the slow, heartwrenching love song “Nashville Novembers,” EASHA has a song for everything. This up-and-coming indie pop princess is sure to hit it big soon, so get ahead of the curve and start listening now.
Rachel Chinouriri
London native and daughter of immigrants from Zimbabwe, Rachel Chinouriri is an influential and unique voice in the world of alternative pop. You’ve most likely heard Chinouriri before, considering she had a charting single in “All I Ever Asked” and her song “Never Need Me” went semi-viral on TikTok. She’s had hits for good reason, her lyrics are strikingly vulnerable, and her production is modern alternative pop at its finest.
Like EASHA, Chinouriri has been dreaming of the stage since her teenage years. At 17, she dropped music on SoundCloud for the first time. She signed with a label at age 19 in 2018, and slowly built a dedicated following until she blew up with her aforementioned single “All I Ever Asked.” She released her debut album, “What A Devastating Turn of Events,” two years later. The album has everything a good pop album should: great beats, lyrics with complex meaning, and powerful vocals. A personal favorite from this album is “The Hills.” A belting story about feeling out of place and longing for home, Chinrouriri said she wrote the song in a session one month into living in LA as she was realizing just how much she missed London and the UK.
Keep up with this British gem with her newest EP, “Little House,” where her unique sound is refined to perfection. The single, “Can we talk about Issac?” is fun, relatable, and the pinnacle of Rachel Chinouriri’s style.
Jesse Detor
Born and raised in Minneapolis, educated at Boston’s Berklee College of Music, and now based in LA, Jesse Detor turns influences from both the grunge of the 90s and modern pop-rock into indie alternative masterpieces. Detor and her band of fellow Berklee grads, Sam Anderson, Emma Harner, and Daisy Soper, frequently collaborate in writing and composing. The four of them create music always tethered to the lens of being young, experiencing love and life.
Detor’s biggest claim to fame is her early single, “Sofia I’m Sorry,” making its rounds on TikTok in 2023. Since then, her sound has evolved but kept the piercing lyrics and alternative rock edge that made her a hit to begin with. Her most recent EP, “Twist of the Star”, is all about the ending of a relationship, and the trouble and emotions that come from its deterioration. Detor says this EP marks a new era for her music, focused more on instrumentation and a return to true 90s grunge; she cites Deftones as a major influence in her recent writing process.
Ultimately, Jesse Detor is taking the energy, anger, and passion of her early 20s in Boston and turning it into her own true take on alternative rock, now grounded in an increasingly mature sound and perspective in LA. Don’t miss out on Detor’s evolution as she takes her place among modern alternative greats.
All three of these women are changing the game with their unique sounds and hard-hitting words. This list doesn’t end here, so next time you’re bored with your same old playlist, ask your friends which woman in music has been in their headphones recently.
Sources
https://www.onestowatch.com/en/blog/easha-new-artist-discovery
https://stanforddaily.com/2022/03/31/how-music-has-changed-student-artist-easha-and-her-dad/
https://www.clashmusic.com/news/rachel-chinouriri-shares-new-song-the-hills/
https://www.clashmusic.com/news/rachel-chinouriri-shares-new-song-the-hills/
https://vanyaland.com/2023/09/22/jesse-detor-shatters-a-delusional-ex-in-her-video-for-mirror/
https://idobi.com/features/100-rising-artists-you-need-to-listen-to-in-2024-pt-9/
