#Bikini Kill

AF 2019 IN REVIEWThe Return of Bikini Kill

Kathleen Hanna on stage at Riot Fest Chicago 2019. Photo by Ashlee Rezin Garcia for the Chicago Sun-Times. Nineties vibes are at a fever pitch in 2019 and women’s rights are still at stake, though the ripple effect of the original Riot Grrrl movement continues. For feminists who’ve repeatedly seen...

Holly Henschen

The Decade's Best Books by Women in Music

If I hadn’t read Sara Marcus’ Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution, I wouldn’t be a rock writer. It was 2013. I had recently graduated art school and was dividing my time between three retail jobs: a liquor store, a grocery store, and a clothing store. One of my friends...

Micco Caporale

CUT AND PASTEA Brief History of Zine Publishing

CUT AND PASTE is a new column that celebrates proto-blog culture by delving into the world of self-published print media - colloquially referred to as zines - which cover a wide scope of the personal and political lives of its authors and their various cultural obsessions. The column will be a mix...

Rebecca Kunin

NEWS ROUNDUPAlternative Beef, Cancel Chris Brown, and MORE

Courtney Love and Kathleen Hanna have had ongoing beef since the mid '90s. Can't We All Just Get Along? Rekindling a decades old beef, Courtney Love had some choice words for Kathleen Hanna following the news that the latter's riot grrl act Bikini Kill would play a handful of reunion shows in LA and...

Lindsey Rhoades

NEWS ROUNDUPBikini Kill Reunion, Toto Forever, and MORE

Lindsey Rhoades

PLAYING DETROITCheerleader "Bitchcraft"

To say this is an important record for women is like saying it's wet when it rains.

Jerilyn Jordan

PLAYLISTA Playlist to Celebrate "Riot Grrrl Day"

April is known for rain, taxes, rabbits, and silly pranks, but now the month has a new, much cooler holiday: Boston’s mayor, Marty Walsh, has designated April 9th “Riot Grrrl Day” in honor of Kathleen Hanna, the front woman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre. Born in Portland, Hanna's interest in feminism...

Emily Daly