#Kathleen Hanna is the love of my life

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GIRL STYLE NOW! ੈ✩‧₊˚

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first tumblr post, dont mind the tags pls </3

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intergalactic | oscar piastri

an: listen, i love the beastie boys and it’s been a while since I’ve written so here ya go <3 also who wouldn’t want ad rock and kathleen hanna as their parents??

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yourusername beastie boys story out now! thank you spike jonze for making another masterpiece <3 and also thanks to my dad and uncles for having a concert in melbourne where i would eventually find the love of my life 🫶🏻

oscarpiastri never did i think i would find my future girlfriend at her dad’s job

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KATHLEEN HANNA ANNOUNCES MEMOIR, REBEL GIRL: MY LIFE AS A FEMINIST PUNK

7/13/23: Kathleen Hanna has announced that she’s releasing a memoir in May of next year: Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk is out Tuesday, May 14, 2024, via Ecco (a HarperCollins imprint). The book will follow Hanna’s story from childhood to her college years in Olympia, Washington.

Kathleen Hanna's rallying cry to feminists echoed far and wide through the punk scene of the 90s and beyond. Her band, Bikini Kill, embodies this iconic time, and today her personal yet feminist lyrics on anthems like "Rebel Girl" and "Double Dare Ya" are more powerful than ever. But where did this transformative voice come from? In Rebel Girl, Hanna's raw and insightful new memoir, she takes us from her tumultuous childhood home to her formative college years in Olympia, Washington, and on to her first years on tour, fighting hard for gigs and for her band. As Hanna makes clear, being in a "girl band," especially a punk girl band, in those years was not a simple or safe prospect. Male violence and antagonism threatened at every turn, and surviving as a singer who was a lightening rod for controversy took limitless amounts of determination. But the relationships she developed during those years buoyed her--including with her bandmates, Tobi Vail, Kathi Wilcox, and Johanna Fateman; her friendships with Kurt Cobain and Ian MacKaye; and her introduction to Joan Jett-- were all a testament to how the punk world could nurture and care for its own. Hanna opens up about falling in love with Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys and her debilitating battle with Lyme disease, and she brings us behind the scenes of her musical growth in her bands, Le Tigre and The Julie Ruin. She also writes candidly about the Riot Grrrl movement, documenting with love its grassroots origins but critiquing its later exclusivity. In an uncut voice all her own, Hanna reveals the hardest times along with the most joyful--and how it continues to fuel her revolutionary art and music.

you can pre-order Rebel Girl now though bookshop.org!

[lajulie24]

My Favorite Books of 2024

I read far fewer books than I’d intended this year (read a lot more short-form articles and a good bit of fanfiction, some of which I’ll rec elsewhere), but since @hondagirll was kind enough to tag me in their year-end book roundup, I thought it would be fun to share my top five!

Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk by Kathleen Hanna

I got inspired to read this after seeing Bikini Kill live for the first time ever, and it was fantastic and inspirational, if a bit harrowing in several places. (Content warning for sexual assault, child abuse, domestic violence.) Hearing Kathleen talk about the creative process, how starting a band evolved from her work in creating art and spoken word performance, how things like The Julie Ruin came about, really made me want to write some zines and maybe start a band and just plain make some art.

Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

I’ve never been particularly big on horror as a genre, but I’d heard so many good things about @drchucktingle’s novel that I had to check it out. Incredible, multifaceted characters (particularly the protagonist, through whom we discover the central mystery of the book and who fights so hard to be herself as she is rediscovering who that is), gripping action, and horror that is both fantastical and uncomfortably close to reality.

Leslie F*cking Jones by Leslie Jones

Another autobiography, this one of comedian, actor, and one of the most talented people from Saturday Night Live, Leslie Jones. Leslie is one of the most gifted, vivid storytellers I’ve ever heard, and the benefit of the audiobook is that she a) reads it and b) does a fair number of asides as she’s reading where I’m fairly certain we got way more stories than are in the printed version of the book. Plus there really is nothing like hearing these stories in her voice. You know it’s going to be hilarious, because she’s so talented as a comedian, and you know this is likely going to have some emotional moments (as this is an autobiography), but there’s something about the way she gifts us with her vulnerability, her reflections, and her perspectives (particularly on being a Black woman in an industry and a country rife with racism and sexism) that makes it so much more than the sum of its parts.

Star Wars: X-Wing #5: Wraith Squadron by Aaron Allston

This was a reread of a Star Wars EU novel I’ve loved for a long time and often recommend to folks who are trying to write Star Wars fic, especially those wanting to write characters like Wes Janson and Wedge Antilles. This is the first in the Wraith Squadron series, where Wedge Antilles builds a new combination X-wing squadron/ commando unit, using pilots who have special skills but were misfits on the verge of washing out of the New Republic navy. The way Allston combines action sequences and missions with humor and genuine character moments for each of the squadron members is amazing and a great lesson in how to build a compelling Star Wars story.

Radiant Rebellion: Reclaim Aging, Practice Joy, and Raise a Little Hell by Karen Walrond

This isn’t quite a self-help book, and isn’t quite an autobiography, but a little of both with some interesting perspectives on aging and on the barriers ageism often poses as we move through life. As her child prepares to leave for college, Walrond explores to what extent her issue is about getting older or if it’s just about having lost her “spark”, why we associate vitality and beauty with youth in mainstream American culture, and how we can think about reframing aging personally and structurally as well as think differently about the next adventures in our lives.

Who else would like to share your top five (or top two, or one) reads from 2024? Consider yourself tagged! And if you’re looking to read any of these, I highly recommend bookshop.org for book purchases and Libby/your local library for loans. (The only one I bought was Wraith Squadron, and that one I picked up from my local independent comic book store.)

[xxx-ang3l-w1th-a-sh0tgun-xxx]

my special interest list (& blank version)!!

I've used this template to list all of my special interests I've ever had (i think?). the most recent ones are skate 3, dinosaurs and autism (yes autism is a special interest of mine - i know so much about it from extensive research as I'm still working on getting diagnosed).

special interests in this list - kathleen hanna/bikini kill/le tigre (also the julie ruin but i didn't have room for that image), animal jam, how to train your dragon (books and films), five nights at freddy's, life is strange, coraline (book and film), wolves, minecraft, dinosaurs, skate 3, slugs, autism, iceberg charts (also video essays ESPECIALLY if they're about iceberg charts)

these special interests aren't ALL current. for example, how to train your dragon was my biggest and most obsessive special interest for many years when I was a kid, but not so much anymore. i still love httyd but not as a special interest.

feel free to use the blank version, i didn't make it myself and I'm not sure where it came from. (if anyone knows just lmk and I'll credit them) 🫶

[vpjdrums]

My Totally Biased Top Ten Albums of 2024

There really is no top or best and in reality it's all subjective and opinion based. Hence me poking fun at the whole thing in the title. But, these are the albums I enjoyed this past year.

In no particular order…

Tarbaby You Think This America (Giant Step Arts)

This is New York Times’ best jazz album of 2024 and their year end review opens with, "The pianist Orrin Evans, the bassist Eric Revis and the drummer Nasheet Waits have each been indispensable to 21st-century jazz… ". That's all you need to know about this album. Just a phenomenal recording from this decades spanning jazz juggernaut of a trio.

The Bad Plus Complex Emotions (Mack Avenue)

It's always fun to see what TBP is going to do next. If you've embarked with them on their ever changing aural journey you're bound to expect some twists, turns, and pleasant surprises. And this album is no exception. To my ears this is the most expressive and layered TBP album yet. A completely natural and stellar amalgam of no wave/post-punk with ethereal and modal jazz sounds. Stand out tracks: Grid/Ocean, Cupcakes One, Tyrone’s Flamingo, and Li Po.

Orrin Evans and The Captain Black Big Band Walk A Mile In My Shoe (Imani)

Another superb offering from an Orrin Evans lead collective and it's no surprise this album has also been topping critics' and publications' best lists this past year. This album really is the story of Orrin's life, featuring some unique and wonderfully executed renderings of some old and new favorites. So many great vocalists on here. Of course, the greats, Bilal and Lisa Fischer, but also New Jersey based crooner, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and arranger, Paul Jost. Jost, in my opinion might be the secret weapon on here. I also did the layout and artwork with the fantastic Chris Kayfield, photographer extraordinaire.

Ethan Iverson Tecnically Acceptable (Blue Note)

Surprise, surprise, another album from a TBP alumnus and much like Orrin, this too has been in the critics’ favorite pile. This is Ethan's second Blue Note album and according to All That Jazz's Mike Jurkovic, this is the first Blue Note release to feature both a theremin performance and a piano sonata. That's the sort of invention and innovation you'll expect from this soulful bop infused body of work.

DIIV Frog In Boiling Water (Fantasy)

This might be my favorite indie rock album of the year. It further leans into the shoegaze, art rock, and dark textures/sounds of their previous album, Deceiver. It many ways, FIBW feels like a companion/sibling album to it, but this younger brother surpasses it’s older sibling in some aspects and it's definitely their best release yet. If there was a way to describe this album it's a soft inviting pillowy cloud floating around uneasily and autonomously. The more discernible influences of My Bloody Valentine, Autolux, Sonic Youth, and Slint are all there, but underneath the surface are more layered, lush, and intricate soundscapes that are all inherently DIIV.

Gustaf Package Pt. 2 (Royal Mountain)

I've always said sophomore albums are make or break for artists and bands. They have to deliver and be as good if not better than the debut. Package Pt. 2 is that and then some. In a world where "post-punk" has become so widespread, Brooklyn based Gustaf have held their own, carved out their own space, and in many respects set themselves apart from their contemporaries. What I love about this album is that it's both sensitive/vulnerable and fierce/daring at the same time. Equal parts introspective and in-your-face. It's no surprise they've become favorites of the likes of Beck, James Murphy, Kathleen Hanna, and Idles.

Starflyer 59 Lust For Gold (Velvet Blue)

SF59 is among the most important American dream pop/shoegaze bands. If you haven't heard them please stop everything and go check out their early (there’s three decades worth of material, so start with those) albums. Jason Martin's contributions from SF59 to The Brothers Martin to Low & Behold (with with Ryan Clark of Demon Hunter) to Lo Tom (supergroup featuring Dave Bazan, TW Walsh, and Trey Many) should have placed him in the ranks of Evan Dando, Lou Barlow, Joe Pernice, and the late great Jason Molina. But, for whatever reason never quite saw center stage like his contemporaries, Dave Bazan and Damien Jurado. However, this album is no short of what his peers have conjured in recent years. A dense and involved offering that is on all levels nostalgic (Lust for Gold’s artwork colors bronze and red is a call back to the first three albums, Silver, Gold, and Americana) for place, time, and sound. Just a beautifully crafted album with absolutely no low points.

Sunny Day Real Estate Diary Live at London Bridge Studio (Sub Pop)

What else is there to say? It's one of the most seminal, heralded, and influential albums of the 90s played live by the artists who created and wrote it. However, this time around presented by a much more sonically and spiritually cohesive outfit performing the songs in the way they've always wanted them to sound.

Keith Jarret, Gary Peacock & Paul Motian The Old Country (ECM)

The original Deer Head Inn album, At the Deer Head Inn, recorded in 1992 and released in 1994, temporarily brought Paul Motian back to the drum throne after a 16-year separation. The album represents what’s memorable of Jarrett’s middle-to-late-period work. A fantastic dive into a refreshing repertoire of classics and standards that few have able to present in that sort of idiomatic fashion. Now we have another collection of songs that ECM has made available of previously unreleased material from that 1992 live recording before a packed crowd of about 200 in the small performance space in the Pocono Mountains. It’s great to hear Paul Motian with Keith Jarret and Gary Peacock, bringing an airy yet crisp and worldly percussiveness once again to the fold.

Tigran Hamasyan The Bird of a Thousand Voices (Naïve)

This is Tigran's most personal and spiritual project yet. Inspired by an ancient Armenian folktale about an anthropomorphic bird, the story presents an era of unrest catalyzing the bird to embark on a spiritual quest to seek world harmony. As Tigran states it struck him as a metaphor for the problems confronting today’s world; conflict, inequality and ecological disasters. In many way the album is also reflective of Tigran himself, blending together many aspects of his singular and artistic life.

Honarable mentions…

Julie My Anti-Aircraft Friend (Atlantic)

This album snuck up on me. I didn't know anything about this band until a friend of mine had reposted a snippet from one of their recent live performances on IG. I was immediately prompted to check them out. This LA based trio is of the new school/recent wave of modern shoegaze bands and I have to say one of the best from that revival. There's the recognizable hints of My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Sonic Youth, Lush, and Morella's Forest, but also the bombast and ferocity of Hum, Failure, Dinosaur Jr., Nirvana, and Swervedriver. The shared "girl and guy" vocals dynamic also brings to mind bands like Rainer Maria and Blake Babies, which is very refreshing to hear these days. The fusing of all these along with their journal entry-esque lyricism/songwriting makes for a fun and compelling listen.

The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis S/T (Impulse)

What happens when two seasoned jazz musicians get together with two of the most respected and legendary musicians from the post-hardcore/punk world? Something really good, that's what. I disagree with a lot of critics' description of them merely as 'Fugazi with free jazz'. I think the intention was to provide a punk painted open canvas to allow for free improvisation. Punk jazz is nothing new, but this is a fresh and welcome addition to the art form, executed at the highest level.

The Jesus Lizard Rack (Ipecac)

They’re back and it’s like nothing has changed. Still the MFn’ noise rock n’ roll titans and just as inauspicious as ever. They’ve arisen like a phoenix and are engulfing us all in their sonic onslaught. My one regret is missing seeing them live when they were here last month. The life of having two small children. Next time.

Pedro the Lion Santa Cruz (Polyvinyl)

Speaking of Dave Bazan, here's the third installments of his ongoing memoir (the two prior being Phoenix and Havasu) series. This moody synth layered collection of indie rock is Bazan's most personal recording yet. Revealing many parts of his Christian upbringing and his exvangelical adulthood, which for many is very relatable. This album seems to be more of a collaborative effort compared to prior releases with contributions coming from his usual cohorts, guitarists/songwriters, Andy Fitts and Erik Walters, and producer/songwriter, Andy D. Park back at the helm.

Ron Miles Old Main Chapel (Blue Note)

Rest in Power Ron Miles (1963–2022) Just go listen to this album.

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Gloria (In Excelsis Deo)

Today is lesbian day, and so I've decided I will share my personal favourite lesbian song - Gloria (In Excelsis Deo) by Patti Smith.

Yes, it was written by a man, yes, Patti is not queer, and yes, I am aware that there is actual lesbian music out there.

But.

I was thirteen when I discovered Patti Smith, and when I was thirteen I had just started high school and had suddenly realised that there were more queer people in the world than I thought. Gloria is the first song on Horses, which I had read about and at some point was like 'hmm yeah I'll listen to that today' - and it was the most brilliant thing I had ever heard in my life. Horses is of course one of the best rock albums ever (in popular opinion, but Radio Ethipoia is my favourite), but not only was it everything I wanted to be - cool, effortlessly androgynous, full of references to literature, other songs, an art-punk masterwork - Gloria was a love song about another woman. She was singing about wanting another woman - something unparalleled in my 13 yr old experience of average sapphic YA books and a *certain* 2008 pop song (you know the one I mean).

Here was Patti Smith, androgynous, very very cool, looking defiantly from the cover of Horses, who I had been listening to for all of about two minutes before she declares her love for another woman in the sort of song which I had previously thought only men sung. It was 1975 when that came out - I heard that and assumed that she really was queer, just cos it would have taken a lot of balls to sing that on record, why would she sing it if she wasn't?

The song is of course a cover, written by a man, and Patti has said that when writing her songs she doesn't feel like a man or a woman, and that if women can be the muse for men, why can she not also use women as a muse? Interestingly PJ Harvey has said similar things about writing from a place beyond gender, and she has many sapphic songs and is also (as far as I'm aware) not queer.

I have since found both Patti songs that I like a lot more, and sapphic songs written by actual sapphics, but this initial act of revolution (in my worldview at least) altered my 13yr old existence on every plane. Patti was (and still is) my straight woman lesbian icon (along with the aforementioned PJ Harvey).

I listened to Gloria many many times, and it is easily still one of my favourite songs of hers, because of the impact of this initial experience, the first time I ever heard this is in a song, that reflected both who I was and who I wanted to be so clearly.

a couple actually sapphic artists for you -

Amy Ray (Indigo Girls)

Courtney Barnett (she's fantastic listen to her)

Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill)

Patty Schemel (drummer from Hole)

Ani Di Franco (actually haven't listened to her but I know she is)

Melissa Etheridge (my english teacher tells me to listen to her every year and I still haven't sorry Miss)

happy lesbian day to all my sister sapphics (inclusive of all) <3

[iheartherevolution]

Angsty Teenage Girls

This is why I love punk and alternative music

It’s no surprise this type of music resonates with angsty teenage girls forcing themselves to stifle their emotions, to make themselves smaller to conform to societal expectations. Everyone needs an outlet for expression or they go crazy. I’m 20 years old in college, studying in a male dominated field listening to the same bands, same songs, same genres I did when I was 13. I carry the emotions and brutal aftermath of being an angsty teenage girl with my Spotify listening history everywhere I go. Nothing has changed, especially not my need for an outlet to express my anger and frustrations, my need for a voice. I’m an extremely shy and quiet person. It’s never intentional but I find myself trying to make myself small to fit into spaces that I feel like I have no business being in as an FGLI student. So when we listened to Rebel Girl in class, I was comforted by the familiar sound of distortion guitar and the loudness and screaming passion of Kathleen Hanna, sounds that have shaped and defined my teenage years and will continue to define my journey into adulthood. The comforting sounds that will follow me for the rest of my life. I'm aware of the irony that music this loud and aggressive that some people wouldn't even consider to be music at all can have the ability to soothe me, but I don't care. I can't explain it, but alternative subcultures have become intertwined in almost every aspect of my identity. Girls groups have always been especially comforting because female rage in punk sounds just defies everything that men have enforced and defies the systems men have created to oppress women. It aligns with my values to go against the establishment and defy others expectations and to not conform. I know that some of these spaces haven't been created with my identity as a Mexican-American woman in mind, but that literally doesn't stop me from liking Rebel Girl.

[lostloveletters]

Do you have any book recommendations? Can be anything!

Hi, I absolutely do! (Also I'm on Storygraph if you wanna add me as a friend🖤)

The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter is probably my favorite book of all time. It's a collection of retellings of different fairy tales, and I absolutely love it and my goal in life is to be able to write half as well as Carter does. Also, I think pretty much everyone's read Mexican Gothic at this point, but I loved it, definitely recommend that and Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno Garcia.

The Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler is a must-read! It was written in the 90s as a dystopian future novel, but it now takes place present-day (literally. I think the first chapter starts in July 2024). Butler must have been paying incredibly close attention to what was going on because it's almost uncomfortable how close the dystopian future she wrote about back then is to the current state of US society and politics, the dystopia was brought on by climate change and extreme wealth inequality...The protagonist, Lauren, is so interesting because she experiences debilitating hyperempathy, but through that is able to connect with people and kind of build a following around her vision of a sustainable future.

Veronica Lake's and Kathleen Hanna's autobiographies were great reads!

🦇 Battie

[popmusicu]

On the release of Kathleen Hanna’s memoir “Rebel Girl: My Life As a Feminist Punk” and my experience as a decade-long fan of the Riot Grrrl movement.

This last May 14 Kathleen Hanna’s first book, a memoir titled “Rebel Girl: My Life As a Feminist Punk” hit the bookshelves, immortalizing the activist and feminist icon’s experiences in forging a safe space for women in the male dominated 90’s punk scene. The book recounts (apparently, as I haven’t read it yet, soon hopefully!) the singer’s upbringings, her first forays into activism and her star in the Olympia, Washington music scene, forming the band Bikini Kill alongisde Tobi Vail, Kathi Wilcox, and Billy Karren, one of my personal favourites since I was 12 years old.

Being an integral part of the 90’s Riot Grrrl movement, the band merged punk music with feminism, DIY art, and politics, their lyrics centering mainly around themes of sexual abuse, rape, violence towards women, incest, sexual freedom and the general desire to create a spece where girls can express themselves freely. Their sound consisted of  generally noisy punk out of tune instruments, sometimes being played by the bandmates for the first time in their lives, all accompanied by Hanna’s Valley Girl accent and sometimes Vail’s high pitched voice, who during their shows urged all women attendees to the front of the venue, yelling “girls to the front”.

Some of the stories Hanna seems to recount in her memoir follow, for example – and this one is my favourite random fact to dump at parties– the time she wrote “Kurt smells like teen spirit” on Kurt Cobain’s hotel wall with a sharpie, because back then Nirvana’s front man had been dating Bikini Kill’s Tobi Vail and using her Teen Spirit brand deodorant, a product that was heavily marketed for young girls, idea that Hanna found very funny, thus, Nirvana’s anthem got its name. Other numerous tour shenanigans, having to work as a stripper to finance said tours, collaborating with the likes of Joan Jett, the forming of side projects Julie Ruin, the bands Le Tigre and The Julie Ruin, her marriage to Adam Horovitz of The Beastie Boys, and her struggle with Lyme disease seem to be all different and important chapters of the singers’ life as she reminisces of how far she has come in her journey of activism, fighting for a better world.

As I previously mentioned, I’ve been a fan of Hanna and her numerous side projects, as well as many other riot grrrl bands such as Sleater-Kinney, Babes in Toyland and Hole (controversies aside) for over ten years and I seem to be experiencing a new found love and passion for the bands and the music that first got me into activism and feminism, an inegral part of my life. I am very happy to share how this experience came full circle for me last March 7, when I got to see Bikini Kill play live in Santiago for the first time, and managed to get my record signed by Kathleen Hanna herself!!! (not bragging or anything haha)

That’s all for now, I reccomend you listen to the bands I mentioned and

REVOLUTION GIRL STYLE NOW!

By María Jesús Espinoza

[no-where1997]

KATHLEEN HANNA I LOVE YOU YOU ARE INFINITELY INTERESTING FUNNY TALENTED AND RAW SEEING YOU A THIRD TIME HAS CHANGED MY LIFE ONCE AGAIN

[transmissionsfromthebattlefield]

Saw Le Tigre last week and have been procrastinating on posting about it. T’was fun, though I was at my peak of liking their music and Kathleen Hanna in general in high school, so I guess I was going in with more jaded eyes. Case in point: in between songs at one point she was talking about making “spaces” “safer” for non-”straight, white, cis” people. Which...kind of bummed me out for a few songs. Just a few weeks prior I’d been to a show in my town where one of the openers was a bunch of local kids, the oldest of which had just graduated high school. 3/5 of the members were girls, one of them sporting a super sick afro. The pit was all female at one point (and much more existent than crowd action at the Le Tigre show, where everyone danced tamely in place until they ended the night with “Deceptacon” and spontaneously everyone started mauling each other). But the main takeaway that I got from those kids’ show wasn’t some message of “inclusion”. My takeaway was that they kicked ass. Their music wasn’t sanitized; in fact, it was actually pretty vicious. And they didn’t ask permission from anyone to do what they did. They didn’t read some book that told them how to do it, either. They were playing because it was something they loved to do, and it was their passion towards kicking ass that defined them. It would be a disgrace to that passion to try and apply tokenism to them or that night. I thought it was cool seeing a lot of fellow young women in the crowd, but I also thought it was cool that, finally, my little town has a cool little ~space~ where all kinds of people can indulge in some Maximum Volume Kick Ass Rock-N-Roll. I wasn’t consciously scanning the crowd to see how many people looked like me or didn’t. I didn’t give a shit, because I was living in the moment. Concerts are events where all different kinds of people can become one with great music. And in that moment, when you’re losing yourself in guitar feedback and physical interaction, “female representation” and “visible queerness” don’t really matter. What the hell constitutes being “visibly queer”, anyways? Certain patches or pins? Certain styles of hair? Certain facial structures? Why can’t people just be people?

Maybe I would’ve been a little more impressed if I had less life experience and more of a grudge against the concept of men. And this is coming from a physically small female from the suburbs. If anyone should have a grudge against men, shouldn’t it be me? Too bad I try not to judge people based on features they can’t really change. I just judge them on whether their taste in music is good or not. Because the superficial construct doesn’t matter much. It’s the gray matter that matters.

Kathleen ended her spiel by saying we should consider solution-based approaches to the problems in our world. Which is totally correct. But she seemed unaware that the solution is already unfolding in gritty little scenes across the country. Hence why I was...a little bummed.

[awesomehoggirl]

hey man, got any more songs like Girls Like Us? found it on ur playlist recently n I LOVE it it’s so fun

HOLY SHIT i got so so so excited like a rush of euphoria from this ask 😭 bc i srsly revolve my life around that song. um okay so absolutely anything else by the julie ruin, my favs are party city, cookie road and kids in ny! then anything by le tigre (same frontwoman! kathleen hanna) hot topic matches the vibe really well! similar songs id vet that have that teenage girl bedroom vibe are anything by the go team 😭 especially fake id, ladyflash (or the huddle flash kevin shields remix), and i never needed it now so much :) but honestly anything by them! other bands id recommend with a similar sound: dressy bessy, heavenly and tacocat!

[midnightswithdearkatytspb]

✨WandaVision a Playlist

Vision had taught her that grief was love preserving, and in turn she taught him she created him with her sadness & hope & love.

Tracklist:

A Newlywed Couple by Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez, Sara Mann, Jessica Rotter, Cindy Bourquin, Elyse Willis, Laura Dickinson, Eric Bradley, Greg Whipple, Gerald White, & Jasper Randall

Unchained Melody by The Righteous Brothers

My Girl by The Temptations

I Want To Hold Your Hand - From “Across The Universe” Soundtrack by T.V. Carpio

WandaVision! by Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Rober Lopez, Sara Mann, Jessica Rotter, Cindy Bourquin, Elyse Willis, Laura Dickinson, Eric Bradley, Greg Whipple, Gerald White, & Jasper Randall

Daydream Believer by The Monkees

(Today I Met) The Boy I’m Gonna Marry by Darlene Love

Stand By Me by Ben E. King

At Last - Single Version by Etta James

We Got Something Cooking by Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez, Laura Dickinson, Elyse Willis, Eric Bradley, & Gerald White

Lean On Me by Bill Withers

Love Of My Life by Queen

I Don’t Like Mondays by The Boomtown Rats

Making It Up As We Go Along by Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez

Every Breath You Take by The Police

Take My Breath Away - Love Theme from “Top Gun” by Berlin

Who Wants To Live Forever by Queen

Let’s Keep It Going by Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez, & Kathleen Hanna

I Will Always Love You by Dolly Parton & Vince Gill

Absolutely (Story of a Girl) - Radio Mix by Nine Days

Hey Leonardo (She Likes Me for Me) by Blessid Union Of Souls

Secret Garden by Bruce Springsteen

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Le Tigre by Le Tigre

Official album review by MacArthur Radio

I’d recommend this album for fans of ‘90s alternative, punk, grunge rock bands and artists like Veruca Salt, Garbage, Nirvana, Bikini Kill, and more modern artists such as Rina Sawayama, Miley Cyrus, (specifically her Plastic Hearts album, Grimes (specifically Art Angels and Miss Anthropocene) Ashnikko, Rico Nasty, and Avril Lavigne and just anyone who likes intense, punk music that can sometimes be beautiful.

Le Tigre's self titled is one of the defining albums of the riot grrrl genre, and is an unapologetic, perfectly pretentious, cohesive record that makes you wanna simutaneously throw shit around, dance slowly in your bedroom, and protest against the government.

This album has really intense, angry, "RAHHHHH" energy songs like "Deceptacon" and "Let's Run" that are so satisfying and make you wanna whip your hair back and forth like Willow Smith, to very strange, conceptual songs like Phanta, which is written from the point of view of hippies hidden in a bunker as they await the apocalypse and are hiding from a supposed monster outside (based on true events that happened in 1967-1968 when scientists realized the asteroid named 1566 Icarus would be coming close to Earth).

Then there's the ethereal almost-ballad "Eau 'd Bedroom Dancing", to the political, feminist, thought provoking statements on life and art spoken entirely throughout tracks like "Hot Topic" and "Slideshow at Free University".

The closing track Les and Ray is also a criminally underrated, hidden gem. One of the cutest, most purest, songs I've ever heard that I didn't expect to hear on an album that goes this hard. Kathleen Hanna (lead singer) sings from the perspective of a nine year old thanking her neighbors Les and Ray for playing a big role in her loving music and holding out hope that her life could be better one day as she sings "You were my oxygen/The thing that made me think I could escape/This is a thank you song for Les and Ray." The song's instrumental sounds both like you're listening to music playing at a party by your next door neighbors, and a soothing music box lullaby.

Otherwise, most of this album's sound is heavy punk guitar riffs, passionate and raw punk vocals by Kathleen Hanna full of frustration, anger, but also a very "fuck you!" type of pure, unadulterated joy, very experimental and unique songwriting, samples, and production, that I think people who are fans of alternative, punk rock, punk pop (like Miley Cyrus's latest album which I love), experimental music will really enjoy.

This is one of the most unique, memorable, and enjoyable albums I've ever heard.

Fav songs: Deceptacon, The The Empty, Phanta, Eau 'd Bedroom Dancing, Let's Run, and Les and Ray

SOURCE: (for 1967/1968 story of hippies fleeing due to fear of doomsday)

https://www.nytimes.com/1968/06/14/archives/hippies-flee-to-colorado-as-icarus-nears-earth-hundreds-camping-in.html