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Features Interviews Lists. I mean, I didn't grow up with parents who listened to alternative or indie music or punk music or anything: We listened to a lot of Lynyrd Skynyrd and Molly Hatchet, me and my sister. When playing live they actively highlighted the limitations of their musicianship, switching roles and instruments mid set, or even mid song, to those they felt less comfortable with. And we just knew exactly what to do: We walked down the stairs and Tobi started playing that beat, and we sang with them. The music of Riot Grrrl was a distraction: its purpose was never to give the music press another handy catchphrase to pigeonhole and thus dismiss a certain type of music. Perversely, considering the importance Bikini Kill placed on communication and inclusiveness, these methods were dubbed by some as exclusive.

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Bikini Kill favoured immediacy over mastery. Similar Artists See All. Thousands of kids aged 8 to 18 — mostly girls, though a few coed sessions aim to educate boys and welcome non-binary children — form their own bands, write their own songs and encounter riot grrrl's feminist, anti-racist, LGBTQI-positive principles. In reporting on this song I've found it's used in music education programs all over, not just at girls' rock camps. Daoud Tyler-Ameen edited this interview for the Web. Real ideas that are also helpful and pleasing to the beneficiary are obviously also very important.

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Taking place at Brixton Academy on June 10, the group will play a one-off show in the UK following the recent announcement that they had reunited for a trio of live shows in the US. And the material feels very fresh, because we just started doing it again. We were in the dressing room, and we kind of just kept putting more and more makeup on, trying to avoid going downstairs, because we were scared: "Wait, should we cancel? Because I realized that in my childhood head I had set out this thing that someday we'd be on a, you know, rocking chair porch together or something. The band stayed together for seven years, releasing a small discography full of nonstop attacks on sexism and celebrations of independence and self-love.

We had a thing in Bikini Kill where whoever looked best in an outfit got to keep it. Bikini Kill's members found other ways to do the work they pursued in that band. Thought I better rectify that, and fast. And they yell out the inspiring, secretly deep lyrics to "Rebel Girl" in instrument classes and at camp showcases, to instructors and parents who loved it back when and hear it reborn in the voices of the girls they love. If punk was the attitude, then politics — specifically feminism — sparked the expression.