The record’s politics are a little suspect (“Eat meat/Hate Blacks/Beat your fuckin wife/Its all the same thing”), but the ardor is unmistakable, especially on the anthemic “Feels Blind” and “Suck My Left One.” It also includes “Thurston Hearts the Who,” a live recording of the band churning away, Vail ranting and Molly Neuman of Bratmobile furiously reading a magazine article that had the gall to be critical of Hanna and company.
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The six-song vinyl-only Bikini Kill EP includes “Carnival” from the cassette, plus new versions of four more of those songs, re-recorded with Ian MacKaye and Don Zientara. Subtle they’re not, but sometimes a two-by-four is the only prescription. The eight-song tape Revolution Girl Style Now, sold at shows, is blandly recorded but gets down on tape the band’s earliest anthems and their basic message: girls should be empowered, molesting children is bad, etc.
Meanwhile, the band - guitarist Billy Karren (aka Billy Boredom), bassist Kathi Wilcox and drummer Tobi Vail (formerly half of the Go Team’s core membership, with Beat Happening’s Calvin Johnson) - bashed out passionate three-chord punk behind her every so often, Vail would take over the mic for an even more confrontational number. Singer Kathleen Hanna, an American incarnation of X-Ray Spex’s Poly Styrene, worked the crowd like a master preacher, singing, speechifying and switching between a little-girl voice and a full-throated howl, bringing girls to the front and attacking obnoxious guys, sometimes verbally, sometimes physically. In January 2019, Rolling Stone reported that Bikini Kill announced a reunion tour.On the strength of its legendary live shows, Bikini Kill - the archetypal riot grrrl band - was packing clubs before it even had a record out. In 2017, after a 20-year hiatus, three of the founding members reunited for a one-off performance. Kathleen Hanna continued to create feminist music in bands Le Tigre and The Julie Ruin. Their last album, Reject All American, was released in 1996 before their breakup in 1997.
Their first demo Revolution Girl Style Now! was released in 1991 as a cassette tape, followed by their self-titled EP in 1992. –Kathleen Hanna (via Past Daily Soundbooth) People were throwing chains at our heads people hated us and it was really, really hard to be in that band. very vilified during the ‘90s by so many people, and hated by so many people, and I think that that’s been kind of written out of the history. Outside of Riot Grrrl fans, however, they were often criticized and misunderstood. Kathleen Hanna was known to personally jump into the audience in order to remove men harassing women.īikini Kill, and Tobi Vail in particular, is credited with pioneering the term Riot Grrrl, an underground feminist punk movement fueled by the circulation of independent magazines. At their shows, they encouraged a female-centric environment, inviting women to the front of the venue. Together they wrote songs focusing on themes of feminism and women’s rights. Their line-up consists of vocalist Kathleen Hanna, guitarist Billy Karren, bassist Kathi Wilcox, and drummer Tobi Vail. Bikini Kill is a punk band originally from Olympia, Washington, and formed in late 1990.
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