Earlier this year, driving around Vík, Iceland and this song came on the
Rás 2 radio station and I was floored. From their bandcamp: "This song stems from the overturning of Roe v. Wade and talks about the patriarchy, the oppression of women, reproductive autonomy as well as women's rights."
Happy birthday to Kathleen Hanna, American singer, pioneer of the feminist punk riot grrrl movement, lead singer of the feminist punk band Bikini Kill, frontwoman of Le Tigre in the late 1990s, born this day 1968 in Portland
This is more like it. I often forget that Hole wasn't an all-female band. Guitarist Eric Erlandson founded the band with Courtney Love and co-wrote many of the songs with her. But there's no question that Courtney is the star here, and the RiotGrrrl attitude is all over the first two albums (this and the excellent Live Through This).
37 years ago
Lunachicks - forming in September 1986 when Theo Kogan, Gina Volpe, and Syndney "Squid" Silver met at La Guardia school of Music/Art and Performing Arts in NYC