The 5 Hottest Indie Women

Written by Richard Matthes

There’s something about indie chicks that is both endearing and frustrating. They’re endearing because they write honest songs and they strive to progress musically. They’re frustrating because so many of them just don’t try to be attractive. We’ve chosen the 5 women who kick the most ass in both music and hotness.

5. Lily Allen

Who she is: Lily Allen is an internet sensation who broke into the mainstream in July of last year with her #1 single “Smile.”

Why we like her: Allen decided to forego the recording industry’s prescribed channels and release her own songs on the internet when her label wanted to give her the Jessica Simpson/Britney Spears treatment.

She also has a sense of humor about herself, as shown here:

4. Joanna Newsom

Who she is: Joanna Newsom is a harpist who released one of the most critically acclaimed albums of the year, “Ys.”

Why we like her: She plays an instrument that is twice her size. She somehow convinced Brian Wilson collaborator Van Dyke Parks to produce her most recent album. She’s got an angelic face. Her singing is sometimes approaching John Cage levels of craziness.

3. Annie

Who she is: Norwegian dancepop all-star.

Why we like her: She creates catchy, tongue-in-cheek pop songs. She’s Norwegian. She tours with a live band. Her most popular song is a dialogue between herself and herself.

2. Jenny Lewis

Who she is: One of the lead singers in the band Rilo Kiley, as well as a solo artist. Also sings for The Postal Service, occasionally.

Why we like her: First, she was in the Fred Savage movie The Wizard. She, at 5’1”, recorded an album and toured with The Watson Twins, who are about 6’. While onstage together, she looked like the Smurfette to their Gargamel. Has Sarah Silverman introduce her in the video for “Rise Up With Fists”:

1. Katrina Kerns

Who she is: She’s a member of Sufjan Stevens’s Illinoisemakers, playing the xylophone and singing. In addition, she’s a former Ford model. She’s unsigned as a solo artist, but she has a myspace page.

Why we like her: Look at her. Guys try to love indie girls, but then you see Katrina and all of a sudden even the most beautiful indie girl like a burn victim. It’s not even a contest.

Since she’s just a background vocalist, there aren’t videos of her, but here are a few more pictures:

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There are 14 comments so far:

deutsch

04/16/2007 20:05

SOMEBODY SAVE ME!

http://www.myspace.com/ginavillalobos

the

04/16/2007 22:02

Where's the Emily Haines? And you know what?... not to be a cougar hunter... where's Kim Gordon? I mean is this only based on ass-shape or is it also based on the ability of one to Rawk?

Matthew

04/16/2007 22:15

also....

Chan Marshall of Cat Power

http://youtube.com/watch?v=wXWvjkX446A

and

Eleanor Friedberger

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ERSf4aAcimo

chillip

04/16/2007 22:31

Danielle Howle:
http://www.daniellehowle.com/

She is at the top of my list!

Richard

04/16/2007 22:32

I considered Eleanor, and I considered Cat Power. What it amounted to was that for every picture that made either of those two look good, there were ten that made them look pretty bad. I'm sure they're both attractive, but the gals on this list are consistently striking both in person and in pictures.

lee

04/16/2007 23:04

lee

04/16/2007 23:14

Gotta put Merit Larsen on this list. Check out "Under the Surface"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_i4ArMNAFM

PENIX

04/16/2007 23:36

Katrina Kerns is def the hottest

Matthew

04/16/2007 23:43

----> Richard

Thanks for the response. I can see what you're saying about Eleanor, but Chan is looking pretty good these days. There are lots of performances on youtube that you can check out, and I personally recommend her video for "Lived in Bars"

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MVGgGW1ZalY

Nonetheless, great article and I'm glad to see these girls getting some love.

Cochise

04/17/2007 00:23

UGGGGH. How did that chav get in there? Lily Allen's music is borderline pretty good but just lookin at her makes me want to havea shower. Better yet, she should have a shower.

I'm surprised NEKO didn't get an honourable mention cos she's kinda the original Jenny Lewis in some ways haha?

And Jemima Pearl should DEFINITELY be in the top 5 if not for her name alone. Do it now. Strike Lily off and insert Jemimi in pronto!

Knaves

04/17/2007 11:43

I agree, Neko Case should have been somewhere in here. She does her own stuff and sings completely different music with Carl Numan and Dave Bejar.

someone

05/06/2007 16:10

not sure if she is a true "indie", but ya gotta go eyeballs out for Corinna Fugate...http://www.angelfire.com/grrl/corinnany/pages/purplemain.html

caryn

05/11/2007 16:51

what about NIKI SALETTA
don"t count her out
check her out!
www.myspace.com/nikisaletta
www.myspace.com/carynmoss

Sarah

08/07/2007 10:12

You know all these gals here and all these indie women polls look plain jane. The real interesting women in rock to me were women in the early to mid 90's. Like Bjork(Sugarcubes), Toni Halliday(Curve) Miki(Lush) Sonya Madan(Echobelly)Kat Bjelland(Babes in Toyland)..they had their own style and were super cool and super pretty!

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