title: The AccoLade
text: # The AccoLade
  
  The AccoLade is the first all-female alternative rock band from Saudi Arabia. The band consists of four college students of King Abdulaziz University. The band's name comes from Edmund Leighton'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.
  
  ## Controversy
  
  American pop culture magazine, Venus Zine, featured The AccoLade in its “25 under 25” list for 2009 for bringing “progressiveness and greater promise” to Saudi Arabia.
  
  