The AccoLade is the first all-girl alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 band from Saudi Arabia. The band consists of four college students of King Abdulaziz University

King Abdulaziz University

King Abdulaziz University was founded in 1967 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Designed by English architect John Elliott, it had 2,000 teachers and more than 37,000 students in 2000/2001....

. The band’s name comes from Edmund Leighton

Edmund Leighton

Edmund Blair Leighton was an English painter of historical genre scenes, specializing in Regency and medieval subjects.-Biography:...

's painting The Accolade of a princess knighting a warrior.

The band's first single, Pinocchio, has become an underground hit with quarter of a million downloads from the group's page on MySpace

MySpace

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Controversy

American pop culture magazine, Venus Zine

Venus Zine

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, featured The AccoLade in its “25 under 25” list for 2009 for bringing “progressiveness and greater promise” to Saudi Arabia.http://www.venuszine.com/articles/art_and_culture/culture/5754/What_glass_ceiling