From the stage and on record, Hanna’s lyrics are determined and radical, amplifying messages about abortion rights, domestic violence, rape, and sex work set to urgent punk rock, making feminist ...

The band’s feminist swagger and on-stage rage fuelled a Nineties rock revolution. Helen Brown speaks to frontwoman Kathleen Hanna and bassist Kathi Wilcox about balancing soundcheck and ...

The Linda Lindas Are Still the Champs of Teenage Punk Rock. ... Sexist Boy," a grunge-punk scorcher inspired by anti-Asian taunts their drummer had been subjected to on ... pop-punk, and riot-grrrl.

The misbranding of femme-fronted bands as riot grrrl isn’t as wide-reaching today as it once was. Many rock acts on Coachella’s lineup this year have femme majority membership and ‘90s ...

Lambrini Girls Are the Punk Rock Radicals We Need Right Now. Jon Dolan. Fri, January 10, ... The sound and message bring to mind the very best of riot grrrl and late-Seventies art-punk, ...

A recent resurgence of punk-powered feminism — or is that girl-powered punk? — raises the question: What was, or is, riot grrrl? A movement, a genre, an era, a scene?

Here are five records that helped define the '90s Riot Grrrl movement. In the early 1990s, a new kind of punk was brewing; it was raw, political, loud, and unapologetically feminist.

Riot grrrl pioneers Bikini Kill: ... an experience fans heard reflected in their 1993 song “Star Bellied Boy”. ... she says. “But at the time you thought: there is no HR in punk rock.

The Linda Lindas Are Still the Champs of Teenage Punk Rock. The band's ... Sexist Boy,” a grunge-punk scorcher inspired by anti-Asian taunts their drummer had been ... pop-punk, and riot-grrrl.

Skinned Teen, ‘Pillow Case Kisser’ (1994): No wonder Britain was so quick to embrace riot grrrl: The country had spawned proto-riot punk bands like X-Ray Spex, the Raincoats and the Slits ...