Up until this point, the sounds of the moment seemed to have passed riot grrrl by, and the movement’s adherence to a garage aesthetic was partly a political move: Men often kept women out of bands by ...

Sara Marcus’s Girls To The Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution is a history of a group of young, punk women who refused to shut up. And if you listen, you can still hear them. As ...

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Lefty Lucy is proud to be a riot grrrl band “re-doing riot grrrl.” “We’re definitely riot grrrl, because we’re all girls and we’re playing punk rock,” said Lila Elm, the group’s guitarist. “But we’re ...

Most punk shows exist in damp, dark basements where bodies smash themselves into one violent, wriggling nucleus in the middle of the room. Though many spectators feed off this frenetic energy, letting ...

Overwhelming hardcore sounds reverberate off graffitied walls. Angry female vocals and distorted guitars explode in small, seedy, and sweaty DIY venues. A horde of rowdy, misfit girls wearing Doc ...

For Sleater-Kinney, the concert also served as the group’s first show since a series of cancellations after singer-guitarist Carrie Brownstein was diagnosed with a chest infection. The show brought ...

Bessie Smith / Daphne A. Brooks -- Sister Rosetta Tharpe / Stephanie Phillips -- Mahalia Jackson / Jana Martin -- Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton / Gillign G. Gaar -- Wanda Jackson / Gillian G. Gaar -- ...

No pledge or stamp made an act riot grrrl. The bands below generally contained members who identified as such, or performed at shows organized by local chapters, or sang about feminist issues over ...