By Cortney Harding, eMusic ContributorKathleen Hanna has a 20-year-long career of writing smart, incisive, political music, yet she still runs up against the stereotype that she's "that riot grrl chick." If she is, then Dylan was just "that anti-war… more »
By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorThe Julie Ruin, Kathleen Hanna's solo project-turned-full band, have finally announced the details behind their debut album. Due out September 3rd through their own TJR Records imprint, Run Fast features former Bikini Kill bassist Kathi… more »
By Tobi Vail, eMusic Contributor20 years ago this October, Bikini Kill released our self-titled first EP. Recently, the rights to our records returned to us, so we started Bikini Kill Records as a way to document our work on… more »
By Jason Diamond, eMusic ContributorSince I'm a little new to the whole being the brother-in-law of a 16-year-old thing, I was a bit wary about the whole what to buy my new family member for birthdays, Hanukkah, graduation, etc.… more »
By Tobi Vail, eMusic ContributorI grew up with a rock 'n' roll mama. Even though my dad was the one who played in bands, it was my mom who saw the Beatles (twice!) and the Rolling Stones and Miles… more »
By Tobi Vail, eMusic ContributorFew things spawn more ire from idealistic fans and music journalists than the rock reunion. Naysayers cynically view the trend as an attempt to cash in on the past. In a recent book interrogating today's… more »
By Tobi Vail, eMusic ContributorWhen I was 16, Calvin Johnson (K Records) asked me to drum for Beat Happening on their upcoming U.K.tour. I asked my parents if it was OK for me to drop out of high school… more »
By eMusic Editorial Staff, eMusic Contributor"Our songs have the standard pop format: verse, chorus, verse, chorus, solo, bad solo. All in all, we sound like the Knack and the Bay City Rollers being molested by Black Flag and Black Sabbath."… more »
By Kevin O'Donnell, eMusic ContributorWhen Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was released in 1991, it changed the face of rock music forever and helped pave the way for road warriors like Pearl Jam (who are celebrating their own 20th… more »
By Jayson Greene, Managing EditorEMA, aka Erika M. Anderson, carries herself with an unmistakable punk-rock-chick swagger; it's in her demeanor, her onstage pose-striking, and it's definitely in her music, which curdles sweetly naïve melodies with buckets of ear-scraping, acidic… more »
By Julianne Shepherd, eMusic ContributorAfter mainstream magazines distorted riot grrrl's stringently independent politics (including an infamous 1992 Newsweek piece which tried to infantilize its feminism), r.g. spirit guides Bikini Kill — more focused and vitriolic than ever — recorded… more »
By Julianne Shepherd, eMusic ContributorIn 1996, riot grrrl was winding down, its bright but brief arc divided by co-option and derisive media coverage; Reject All-American, the final proper album by the movement's tugboat band Bikini Kill, rings like its… more »
By Julianne Shepherd, eMusic ContributorBikini Kill's final release (in 1998 — the year they disbanded) is compiled from three separate 7-inches, contains some of their best tracks and stands midway between the punk caterwaul of Pussywhipped and Reject All-American's… more »
By Julianne Shepherd, eMusic Contributor"We're Bikini Kill, and we want revolution girl style noooooow!" On this album's first song, nestled between shards of feedback, lead singer Kathleen Hanna howled the battle cry that lit riot grrrl afire. But it… more »
