“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 about 30 since the movement’s inception, trying to define it still feels fraught. Riot grrrl was always a nebulous concept, […]
Los Angeles punk band The Linda Lindas released a new music video in collaboration with Erica Dawn Lyle and Kathi Wilcox of Bikini Kill and Vice Cooler of The Raincoats. “Lost In Thought” features the Linda Lindas moshing, skating, and dancing their way around a suburban backyard. Lyle and Wilcox can be seen jamming out […]
A new track featuring Kim Gordon is the latest to emerge from the benefit compilation Land Trust: Benefit for NEFOC, which, as previously reported, will be released June 3 on Bandcamp. Gordon appears on the song “Debt Collector” by compilation organizers Erica Dawn Lyle (Bikini Kill) and Vice Cooler (The Raincoats), as well as in […]
The first new Kathleen Hanna song in more than four years leads the tracklist for LAND TRUST: Benefit for North East Farmers of Color, a charity album due for a June 3 release on Bandcamp. The project was assembled by Hannah’s Bikini Kill bandmate Erica Dawn Lyle in tandem with The Raincoats’ Vice Cooler, and […]
Bikini Kill is kicking off their long-awaited international tour next month. The run was initially set for 2020, but the rescheduled run has a handful of new shows throughout the U.S. and Europe. Fans can purchase tour tickets now. Kathleen Hanna, Tobi Vail, Kathi Wilcox, and guitarist Erica DawnLyle are returning to where they first […]
This article originally appeared in the September 1999 issue of SPIN. “You must be high.” We heard that a lot during the time we spent preparing this issue. Which is understandable. Pronouncing the 90 greatest albums of the ’90s is a somewhat presumptuous thing to do. When you’re measuring the music this decade is offering to […]
While 2021 festivals are coming fast and furious, festival fans have something to look forward to in 2022, thanks to Beck, Gorillaz, Nick Cave, The Strokes, Pavement and more slated for the jam-packed Primavera Sound Festival. The two-day fest in Barcelona will also see Massive Attack, Tame Impala, the National and Tyler, The Creator on the […]
Yesterday, you probably saw a video of some teenage girls rocking out in a library, singing their instant hit single “Racist, Sexist Boy” about… well… a racist, sexist boy. Said video of the Linda Lindas got tweeted, shared, posted, and distributed in every other possible way on the internet by everyone from comedians to journalists […]
Just like everyone else, Bikini Kill had their touring plans squashed due to the pandemic and initially planned to push it to this year. Alas, that isn’t happening. However, Kathleen Hanna, Tobi Vail, Kathi Wilcox and Erica Dawn Lyle will be hitting the road almost exactly one year from today. On Wednesday, Bikini Kill unveiled […]
Beastie Boys’ Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz and Bikini Kill’s Kathleen Hanna are the latest subjects on Dan Rather’s special “Musical Family” themed season of The Big Interview. In a clip from the show, Ad-Rock discusses last year’s Beastie Boys documentary and Hanna reflects on the catalyst that sparked Bikini Kill’s 2019 reunion. “Part of it was because of […]