Brenda Kahn is a NYC-based singer-songwriter known for her poetic lyrics. Her career began in 1990, when her first album, Goldfish Don't Talk Back, was released to critical acclaim. The album showcased Kahn as an important voice of the anti-folk movement of the early nineties, and her punk-tinged folk music led to a major label deal with the Chaos label at Columbia Records. In 1992, Kahn released Epiphany in Brooklyn, which was heralded by critics and fans throughout the United States (People magazine compared her to the Violent Femmes and Patti Smith) and Europe (major French press heralded the coming of "La Baronne de Brooklyn"). Kahn was selected to open up for Bob Dylan and The Kinks, and seemed on the brink of stardom. New York, New York redirects here. ... Columbia Records is the oldest continually used brand name in recorded sound, dating back to 1888. ... Violent Femmes From left to right. ... Stark in its simplicity, the cover of Patti Smiths first album, Horses, was a photo by Robert Mapplethorpe. ... World map showing Europe Political map Europe is one of the seven continents of Earth which, in this case, is more a cultural and political distinction than a physiographic one, leading to various perspectives about Europes borders. ... Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and poet whose enduring contributions to American song are often compared, in fame and influence, to those of Stephen Foster, Irving Berlin, Woody Guthrie, and Hank Williams. ... The Kinks were a British rock group that rose to fame during the original British Invasion, and recorded and performed for over thirty years. ...

Unfortunately, Chaos Records folded just two weeks before Kahn's awaited third release, and Kahn was dropped from the major label support. She released her next two albums - both of which featured more electric guitars and edgier production - under the small independent label Shanachie Records, and continued to tour along the east coast and midwest in the late nineties. In 1999, Kahn founded Womanrock.com, Inc, an online magazine and music store designed to unite and empower female artists and give tips on how to navigate through the record industry. That same year, she released her 5th album, the acoustic and spoken word Hunger, which was a tribute to her late friend Jeff Buckley, on her own record label Rocket 99 Records. Left: Rosa Hurricane, a heavy metal-style solid body guitar. ...