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<title>Joan Jett &amp; The Blackhearts</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Joan Jett was the musical muscle in the short-lived Runaways, an all-female glam/bubblegum band put together by notorious Hollywood scenester Kim Fowley at the tail end of the mid-1970s glam rock craze. The band imploded before it had any real success and it wasn't long before the charismatic and talented Jett was fronting a hard-rocking combo. The leather-clad, Gibson-wielding singer-songwriter and her three-man backing group known as the Blackhearts toured incessantly before putting out the sublimely rocking "I Love Rock n' Roll." It became a monster hit -- and one of Jett's signature songs. Jett and the Blackhearts were an on-again/off-again chart presence until the late '80s, and in the late '90s Jett went solo and became the spiritual godmother of the riot grrrl movement, producing seminal acts like Bikinikill and Bratmobile. Into the millennium, she continued her aggressive stance on stage and off, hefting an M16 at Fort Bragg to show support for US troops and appearing in the Broadway cast of <i>The Rocky Horror Picture Show.</i> Her 25-year-old record label, Blackheart Records, continues to release albums by young punk bands. Jett released her 20-somethingth album, <i>Sinner,</i> in 2006. She still loves rock 'n' roll.
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<title>Bikini Kill</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 3 May 2009 08:34:06 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Bikini Kill will always be remembered as the pioneers of the Riot Grrrl movement. Their loyal fan base started in 1991 like most classic grassroots followings do -- a lot of raucous live shows and tapes for sale in the back. By the time of their first "official" release in '91, a self-titled EP on the Kill Rock Stars label, they were the leading light of the female empowering movement called "riot grrrl." The band continued to record and release regularly over the next eighteen months, splitting an album side with Huggy Bear ("Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah"), releasing a self-titled LP and a three song EP ("New Radio") before releasing their definitive <I>Pussy Whipped</I> LP in '93 at their peak. The next couple of years would see a couple of uneven releases, <I>The Anti-Pleasure Dissertation</I> EP 7" in '95 and <I>Reject All-American</I> in '96, before the band disintegrated into a number of side projects. Bikini Kill's significance in the Indie Rock world will always be as a strong purveyor of raw, heads-up music encouraging women to come to the forefront of not only the stage, but of their own lives.
- Mike Cloward]]></description>
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<title>Sleater-Kinney</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sweet melodies provide a vehicle for bitter anger, hope and joy, pain and vulnerability in a domain where the personal is clearly political. Impassioned lyrics woven from intricate vocal harmonies create everything from Riot Grrrl fury to Twee Pop Sweetness. Perfect.]]></description>
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<title>L7</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:19:31 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Driven by a kick-ass guitar sound that takes you back to Metal's formative years, L7 continue to play hard-as-nails rock with an irreverent sneer and the throttle wide open.
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<title>Babes in Toyland</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:19:32 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Little girls, it turns out, are not made out of sugar, spice and everything nice. Not grrrls like Babes in Toyland, anyway. These guitar packin' mamas are wholly composed of rage, unbridled aggression, and enough in-your-face attitude to send all those snake, snail and puppy dog tail-based life forms scurrying for a safe spot to hide. Largely based on the success of the scathing "Bruise Violet" in 1993 (which, oddly enough, gained fame partly due to the video's inclusion in a <i>Beavis and Butthead</i> episode), a song supposedly written about Bjelland's ex-bandmate Courtney Love, BIT became poster girls for foxcore and female rage. Although bands like Hole have surpassed the Babes in popularity, they remain among the grittiest of the girls-with-guitars grungesters.
- Kali Holloway]]></description>
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<title>Team Dresch</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:34:25 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Hailing from Portland, Ore., the dyke-rock capitol of the Northwest, Team Dresch have been instrumental in pushing the limits of the Riot Grrrl movement. Headed by namesake and president of Chainsaw Records, Donna Dresch, this all-female quartet pumps out an explosive, supersonic sound ranging from punk-metal harangues against homophobia and sexism to slower, jangly pop songs about youth's lost loves. Jody Bleyl, who also beats the skins for Indie-rockers Hazel, picked up full-time vocal duties after singer-songwriter Kaia Kangaroo left the band to pursue her solo career. With the Vegas Beat's Marci Martinez and Amanda Kelly rounding out the current roster, Team Dresch continue to make noise in the music industry with both their thunderous Power-Punk and their fiery brand of radical feminist politics.
- Shailesh Rao]]></description>
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<title>Lunachicks</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:00:55 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[This is raw, unwashed rock. Sneering spitfire vocals, trudging stale beer-soaked guitar chords and workboot-stomping percussion.]]></description>
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<title>7 Year Bitch</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 6 Apr 2009 15:59:16 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the toughest punk bands to come out of Seattle, 7 Year Bitch played a leading role in the riot grrrl movement of the early '90s. From "Dead Men Don't Rape" to "M.I.A.," their brutal, ton-o-bricks rhythm section and raw, exclamatory lyrics exemplified point-blank punk defiance. When the bassist for Seattle band Barbie's Dream Car moved to Europe in 1990, the band's drummer Valerie Agnew and occasional collaborators Selene Vigil (vocals) and Stefanie Sargent (guitar) recruited Elizabeth Davis to play bass and morphed into 7 Year Bitch, the name a play on the classic Marilyn Monroe vehicle. The band built a following playing shows with the Gits and signed with C/Z Records. Just before their debut came out in 1992, however, Sargent died from an overdose. The band regrouped with guitarist Roisin Dunne. But tragedy struck again when Gits vocalist Mia Zapata, a dear friend to 7 Year Bitch, was murdered in 1993, inspiring 7 Year Bitch to record a tribute to her (1994's <i>Viva Zapata!</i>) and prompting Agnew to start Home Alive, a feminist self-defense organization. 7 Year Bitch signed with Atlantic and released one more album before disbanding in 1997.
- Rachel Devitt]]></description>
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<title>Shonen Knife</title>
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<category>Punk</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:51:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[When Shonen Knife first appeared stateside in the late 80's/early '90s, no one could decide if they loved them because they played such pure Ramones-style Punk-Pop or because their bad English and pop culture fascination were so darn cute. The cute angle may have become a little tired after three records dedicated to Barbie, furry animals and Jonathan Richman, but the magnetic pull of charged guitar tunes harboring lethal hooks and sticky, confectioner's sugar vocals can still make a first-time listener repeatedly nod their head, a giddy smile plastered to their face.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Scream Club</title>
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<category>Indie Rap/Hip-Hop</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:19:55 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[It's an age-old story, really: Wonderful girl meets adorable girl. Girls fall in
love at first sight. Girls don matching hipster garb, shellac their hair into
matching asymmetrical platinum faux-hawks and form a hip-hop duo. The self-described "gaysymetrical superheroes" (get it? nudge, nudge) met when Cindy Wonderful applied for a job at an Olympia, Wash., video store where Sarah Adorable was the assistant manager. Several gajillion revolutions of Peaches' oeuvre and a trip to the local punk hairdresser later, Wonderful and Adorable were gigging the Northwest as Scream Club, a glammy, raunchy electro-hop duo that spit rhymes about classism, bell hooks and getting laid with a flow as smooth and cool as the gel in their hair and polished, professional hip-hop beats. Two full-length albums (in 2005 and 2006), a label of their own (Crunks Not Dead) and live shows featuring the duo alternately making out and wrestling earned Scream Club not only a devoted scenester following, but also some unlikely fans, including Yoko Ono and the hip-hop magazine <i>XXL</i>.
- Rachel Devitt]]></description>
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<title>Bratmobile</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:28:24 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Bratmobile was one of the premier -- if not the most erratic and rowdy -- Riot Grrrl bands of that famous movement. The band was first unleashed at the 1991 K Records International Pop Underground Festival in Olympia, Wash. This was the start of a short but influential career: the band's only full-length album, <i>Pottymouth</i> (Kill Rock Stars) clocks in at just under thirty minutes. It's a documentation of a band in raw form, pushing and shoving their songs from start to finish. With its song list of themes covering love and hate, the band fires off its own brand of youthful exuberance. On '94s EP <i>The Real Janelle</i> (Kill Rock Stars), the band improves its musicianship just slightly and delivers nine songs in twelve minutes. Bratmobile's mark on the world was short but significant; they helped guide a burgeoning scene and supplied boundless energy for the fans taking part.]]></description>
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<title>Be Your Own Pet</title>
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<title>Mary Timony</title>
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<category>Noise Pop</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:28:35 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Heralded for her bent, chirping, and rhythmically challenging guitar work in Helium, Boston singer-songwriter Mary Timony's music was almost squandered by the media's lurid fascination with her feminist inclination. Accompanied in recent years by Ash Bowie -- one of America's finest and most innovative guitar players -- Timony has continued to reinvent herself, marrying a wry appreciation for Dungeons & Dragons escapism (see: Syrup USA) with her chiming, fuzz-laden drone-pop leanings. For further studies in this fractured, beautifully discordant guitar work, look to the Spells -- a duo featuring the dueling guitars and vocals of Timony and Sleater-Kinney's Carrie Brownstein.]]></description>
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<title>The Gits</title>
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<category>Punk</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:36:42 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Born at Ohio's Antioch College and later relocating to Seattle, The Gits were one of Grunge/Punk's brightest rising stars before lead singer Mia Zapata's tragic death in 1993. Their '92 debut was a tattered battle flag raised on the outskirts of the Riot Grrrl movement. Bursting with guitar chug and feminist brio, it still inspires awe and, for many, activism. 1995's posthumous <I>Enter: The Conquering Chicken</I> contained brilliant moments of strident Punk and more intimate vignettes that served only to heighten the feeling of senselessness around Zapata's death.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Heavens to Betsy</title>
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<category>Riot Grrrl</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 3 May 2009 08:34:06 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Before Sleater-Kinney's singer-guitarist Corrin Tucker was an indie-rock giant blotting out the sun overhead, she played in Heavens to Betsy, this humbler though no less intriguing guitar-and-drums duo, developing her signature banshee's-wail vocal stylings and honing her riffs that lumber here with a primitive intensity.
- Mike Cloward]]></description>
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<title>The Frumpies</title>
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<category>Indie/Alternative</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 3 May 2009 08:34:06 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Olympia band made up of members of Bikini Kill, Pee Chees and Bratmobile plays a noisy brand of Punk and Garage Rock. The songs careen along with simply played guitar steeped in crunchy effects, accompanied by a steady beat on what sounds like garbage cans. Engaging chunks of music.]]></description>
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<title>The Butchies</title>
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<category>Riot Grrrl</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:08:47 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[After leaving pioneering Portland-based queercore band Team Dresch and moving to Durham, North Carolina, in 1996, singer/guitarist Kaia Wilson eventually snagged Team Dresch's drummer Melissa York and formed the Butchies. Once they'd added bassist Alison Martlew, the band began working with Mr. Lady, the label Wilson had started with her girlfriend Tammy Rae Carlson. They released their first three albums on Mr. Lady before the label dissolved in 2004. A tour with the Indigo Girls' Amy Ray, the Butchies' champion and biggest fan, followed the release of their third album, the aptly titled <i>Three</i>. <i>Make Yr Life</i>, the Butchies' fourth album, came out on Yep Roc in 2004.
- Rachel Devitt]]></description>
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<title>The Third Sex</title>
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<category>Riot Grrrl</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:47:41 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Seizing the immediacy of punk's ethos and subverting its masculinist performance, the Third Sex produce raw, uninhibited exhibitions of fierce guitar clamor, proving that love, rock and politics are always barbed.]]></description>
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<title>Gina Gershon</title>
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<category>Riot Grrrl</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:25:17 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Evil Beaver</title>
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<category>Riot Grrrl</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 08:20:54 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The uppity duo behind Evil Beaver combine fuzz-blasted bass guitar, cascading drums, and plenty of Riot Grrrl grrrowls into catchy Punk-Pop ditties. Could make the biggest buzz since the invention of the vibrator.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Bonfire Madigan</title>
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<category>Urban Folk</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 3 May 2009 08:34:06 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Madigan Shive got her start as one half of the duo Tattle Tale. With her new venture Bonfire Madigan, Shive's talented cello playing and her husky, sensual voice propels her emotive songs. The cello accentuates her voice nicely.
- Mike Cloward]]></description>
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<title>Bangs</title>
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<category>Indie/Alternative</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:54 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[All-female trio plays straightahead Power Pop. Lead vocals mix well with tasteful backing vocals, while the guitars are crunchy and upfront.]]></description>
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<title>God Is My Co-Pilot</title>
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<category>Riot Grrrl</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:59 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Punk abandon and downtown errantry of Sharon Topper and Craig Flanagin's constantly evolving and mutating God is My Co-Pilot project is as diverse and erratic as music can be. Their art is an extension of their radical queer/feminist/post-colonial politics, not merely by lyrical subject, but extending into an anti-aesthetic that turns hegemonic music production on its head by ignoring boundaries of difference, generating sound from collective libidinal desire rather than an applied manifesto. The band's changing members and interests fuse approaches as disparate as Techno, Thrash, Klezmer and Free Jazz together as if they weren't so dissimilar after all. Form and function are hand in hand like two raised fists.
- Marc Kate]]></description>
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<title>Magic Dirt</title>
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<category>Contemporary Hard Rock</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 9 Jul 2008 09:03:47 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Having toured America numerous times during the mid to late 1990s, it's half-surprising this Aussie band didn't apply for U.S. citizenship. Leading the sonic charge is frontwoman Adalita, whose piercing caterwauling defines the band's nightmare-inducing sound as aptly as the fuzz-drenched noise with which it cat-fights. It's both powerful and fearsome -- and that's in the literal sense, as in something to be feared.
- Linda Ryan]]></description>
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<title>Bitch And Animal</title>
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<category>Urban Folk</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:34:18 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Bitch, a lesbian diva from Detroit, and Animal, a trans-man from Queens, met in the late 1990s while they were coincidentally both attending a play rehearsal at a theater school in Chicago and, according to their label Righteous Babe Records, tripping on mushrooms. Before the 'shrooms had left their systems, they'd already begun laying the groundwork for the funny, funked-up folkie sound they would forge out of little more than a drum, an electric violin, and a handful of dildo jokes. Vowing never to reveal their given names, Bitch and Animal quickly hit the coffee shop circuit, leaving a trail of feminist urine in their wake as they induced pee-your-pants laughter in the girl-with-a-guitar crowd with songs like "Sparkly Queen Areola," "Best Cock on the Block" and "Ganja." Needless to say, Ani DiFranco sent her minions to snap up the duo tout de suite, and they released their second and third albums on her label before taking an indefinite hiatus to pursue other projects.
Bitch went on to form Bitch and the Exciting Conclusion with her girlfriend Daniela Sea, while Animal began performing solo as Animal Prufrock. No, they still haven't told the world what their real names are.
- Rachel Devitt]]></description>
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<title>Excuse 17</title>
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<category>Riot Grrrl</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:47:44 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Excuse 17 offer more than just a glimmer of a very bright future. Before rocking the world in Sleater-Kinney, singer/guitarist Carrie Brownstein cut her teeth with Olympia, WA's Excuse 17, developing her distinctive anthemic guitar crunch, spoken-word-to-caterwaul vocal delivery, and personal-is-political lyrical approach that today have become Sleater-Kinney hallmarks.]]></description>
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