Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook According to Google, a riot grrrl (noun) is “a member of a movement of young feminists associated ...
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“Even though I did punch her, I thought she was a genius,” Courtney Love said of Kathleen Hanna in 2002, while attempting to explain riot grrrl to The Strokes live on MTV. Twenty years later, and ...
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. The Riot Grrrl ...
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Welcome to Get Into This, KCRW's series of essential guides breaking down everything you need to know about musical styles, movements, and artists from the folks who know them best. Following them is ...
Lefty Lucy is proud to be a riot grrrl band “re-doing riot grrrl.” “We’re definitely riot grrrl, because we’re all girls and we’re playing punk rock,” said Lila Elm, the group’s guitarist. “But we’re ...
Politically, riot grrrl blasted feminism into the future: Centering the needs of a new generation via direct-action strategies, witty mantras and slogans such as “girl power” and “support girl love,” ...
Four years ago, Karen Dió moved from Brazil to Britain. Today, the Latin riot grrrl has become one of the brightest new stars ...
Riot grrrl left a legacy and … it’s complicated. A lot of the bands that were inspired by the movement don’t want to be directly associated with it any longer. We’ll dig into that and hear from bands ...
Riot grrrl-inspired, Chicana-punk band Fea tackles the issues we’re often told to skirt at the holiday dinner table: racism, sexism, politics and religion. The tunes by the four-piece San Antonio ...