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"Frenzee is an outburst of adrenaline." Meet the Greek-Australian siblings running on red wine, darts and very high acid reflux

Fired up musically and politically, the Frenzee siblings blend punk, metal and rock

Louder

Daisy Chain Fields review – Olivia Rodrigo’s women-led festival is electric amid extreme heat

Performances from Rodrigo, Stevie Nicks, Chappell Roan and Sarah McLachlan raise $20m for charity yet are marred by poor planning for heatwave

The Guardian - US

‘We never apologised for our rage or revenge-seeking’: riot grrrl legends Heavens to Betsy reunite

Alongside Bikini Kill and Bratmobile, Corin Tucker and Tracy Sawyer created a feminist punk vernacular that’s still inspiring the likes of Olivia Rodrigo. They recall the clarity and conviction of their historic teenage exploits

The Guardian - UK

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On tour with the Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth and Foo Fighters: raw music documentary captures Australia’s ‘best summer’

In 1995, US film-maker Tamra Davis travelled to Australia to capture the one-off Summersault tour on her camcorder. Thirty years on she has made The Best Summer, an intimate snapshot of an era that can never be repeated

The Guardian - AU

Members of Tool, Pearl Jam, Korn, Garbage, Fugazi, Bikini Kill among artists donating to online fundraiser to help cover L7 bassist Jennifer Finch's medical expenses following brain cancer diagnosis

Musicians rally around L7 bassist following recent diagnosis with an aggressive form of brain cancer.

Metal Hammer

"The lineup is truly insane." Olivia Rodrigo launches Daisy Chain Fields festival featuring Stevie Nicks, Bikini Kill, Die Spitz, Doechii, Garbage, Chappell Roan and more, to "uplift women and girls"

"Daisies are wild and beautiful. As a chain, they are strong and unbreakable"

Louder

Mel C addresses disputed origins of Spice Girls’ iconic slogan

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Melanie C responds to accusation Spice Girls ‘stole’ their iconic ‘girl power’ mantra from another band

Pop group are credited with popularising the term in the mid-Nineties, but members have previously admitted to hearing it elsewhere

The Independent UK

There is a fascinating TV series to be made about a menopausal rock band – Riot Women isn’t it

Writer-director Sally Wainwright is a national treasure, but here she’s reduced the fury and passion of the riot grrrl movement to a minor plot device, says Tiff Bakker, a New York-based writer

The Guardian - UK

Trio of rock, funk and punk guitarists team up with Til for new range of online lessons

Snarky Puppy’s Bob Lanzetti, Bikini Kill’s Sara Landeau and rock veteran Ben Mauro join Til’s ever-expanding roster of artists

Louder

‘We didn’t intend to create outrage’: Huggy Bear on radical politics, riot grrrl – and causing chaos on live TV

They said they’d exist for three years, then split. And that’s what the British punks did, winning love and notoriety for their feminist, queer worldview. Thirty years on, a new book tells their story

The Guardian - UK

Anger is an energy! Stars and writers on the songs that define punk spirit

As Patti Smith’s debut single turns 50, punk musicians and music writers pick the songs that define the genre’s resistance, rebellion and refusal

The Guardian - UK

“I can’t get into somebody else’s mind and decide what their problem is.” Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna was close friends with Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, but she still doesn't know why Courtney Love hated her so much

Kathleen Hanna on that one-sided 'feud' with Courtney Love

Louder

Riot grrrl pioneers Bikini Kill: ‘There is nothing more punk than a menopausal woman’

The band’s feminist swagger and on-stage rage fuelled a Nineties rock revolution. Helen Brown speaks to frontwoman Kathleen Hanna and bassist Kathi Wilcox about balancing soundcheck and misogynists, navigating interband friction, and an infamous brawl with Courtney Love

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“The promoter came in and told us a bomb threat had been called in.” Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna lays bare the violence, abuse and misogyny directed at her fearless feminist punk band in brutally honest memoir Rebel Girl

Bikini Kill vocalist Kathleen Hanna shares her truth in raw, unflinching and unforgettable memoir Rebel Girl

Salon

Kathleen Hanna on being a "Rebel Girl"

In her memoir "Rebel Girl," the singer of Bikini Kill writes about finding joy in music, despite all the oppression

The Guardian - UK

Riot grrrl pioneer Kathleen Hanna: ‘A lot of men really get off on watching a woman get angry’

The feminist punk coined the phrase ‘girl power’ and was responsible for the name of Nirvana’s biggest hit. She reflects on activism, illness, and never letting abuse define her

Metal Hammer

“I wish that he would’ve seen us live past the stupid Nineties, you’re-a-sellout thing.” Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna on the enduring impact of Nirvana and the loss of her friend Kurt Cobain

Bikini Kill / Le Tigre vocalist Kathleen Hanna shares her memories of Kurt Cobain in her upcoming memoir Rebel Girl

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One to watch: Problem Patterns

The Belfast queercore quartet are fluid and ferocious, drawing on Bikini Kill and dispensing with a front person

Louder

"It was a lot of work writing this book. I'm not gonna say it was easy. I was a mess": Bikini Kill/Le Tigre's Kathleen Hanna announces 'raw and insightful' memoir Rebel Girl

Bikini Kill / Le Tigre icon Kathleen Hanna to publish Rebel Girl memoir next year

The Guardian - UK

Le Tigre review – fun meets fury in an unmissable feminist pop reunion

Longtime musical activist Kathleen Hanna and her inspirational US party band return with a joyous yet fulminating set that takes no prisoners

The Guardian - UK

Kathleen Hanna’s feminist party band Le Tigre reunite: ‘It’s depressing our lyrics are still relevant 20 years later’

They got back together for a one-off show on Hanna’s doorstep. Then they realised they had unfinished business: to affirm their place in the punk canon and get warring feminists offline and revelling together

The New Daily

Thirty years of raging by Peaches, Bikini Kill and Björk, and they are still going strong

Bikini Kill rampages through hits such as Suck My Left One. Across town the next day, Peaches comes out wearing breast-shaped slippers.

The Conversation

Sexual exhibitionism, Riot Grrrl and climate change activism: 30 years of raging by Peaches, Bikini Kill and Björk, still going strong

Kathleen Hanna yells like she did in the 1990s, pushing the toxic male patriarchy out of the moshpit at Melbourne’s The Forum on the eve of International Women’s Day.

ABC News

Bikini Kill last played in Australia in 1997. They reflect on 25 years of feminism, and the social media age

In 2023, Bikini Kill will return to Australia for the first time since 1997. Kathleen Hanna, Tobi Vail and Kathi Wilcox reflect on what's changed since then, and why the band "wouldn't have lasted more than a few months" in the social media age.

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