Riot grrrl greats Bikini Kill will hit the road this summer with a North American tour scheduled to launch in August.
The run will begin with two shows at the Wiltern in Los Angeles, Aug. 15 and 16, with concerts scheduled through Sept. 11 at the Baltimore Soundstage in Baltimore. Tickets for all shows will go on sale Feb. 9 at 10 a.m. Et/7 a.m. Pt. Full info is available on Bikini Kill’s website.
Prior to their North American leg, Bikini Kill will play a bunch of additional dates around the world.
The run will begin with two shows at the Wiltern in Los Angeles, Aug. 15 and 16, with concerts scheduled through Sept. 11 at the Baltimore Soundstage in Baltimore. Tickets for all shows will go on sale Feb. 9 at 10 a.m. Et/7 a.m. Pt. Full info is available on Bikini Kill’s website.
Prior to their North American leg, Bikini Kill will play a bunch of additional dates around the world.
- 2/5/2024
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Kathleen Hanna will look back on her turbulent formative years and success as the singer for Bikini Kill and Le Tigre in a new memoir, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk, out May 14.
The book will chronicle the tumult that surrounded Hanna’s childhood, as well as her epiphanies at Olympia, Washington’s Evergreen College where she launched a fanzine called Bikini Kill and later a like-named band with drummer Tobi Vail and bassist-singer Kathi Wilcox. She’ll also recall how hard it was to tour, especially when,...
The book will chronicle the tumult that surrounded Hanna’s childhood, as well as her epiphanies at Olympia, Washington’s Evergreen College where she launched a fanzine called Bikini Kill and later a like-named band with drummer Tobi Vail and bassist-singer Kathi Wilcox. She’ll also recall how hard it was to tour, especially when,...
- 7/13/2023
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Riot grrrl greats Bratmobile officially returned to the stage after 20 years this weekend at the Mosswood Meltdown festival in Oakland (after making their unofficial return with a secret show in Los Angeles a few days before).
The Mosswood Meltdown set was punctuated by a special performance of the Runaways’ song, “Cherry Bomb,” which Bratmobile covered on their 1993 debut, Pottymouth. For the ecstatic closer, the band received an assist from the Linda Lindas, as well as the daughters of Bratmobile’s drummer Molly Neumann and keys player Audrey Mars (plus some...
The Mosswood Meltdown set was punctuated by a special performance of the Runaways’ song, “Cherry Bomb,” which Bratmobile covered on their 1993 debut, Pottymouth. For the ecstatic closer, the band received an assist from the Linda Lindas, as well as the daughters of Bratmobile’s drummer Molly Neumann and keys player Audrey Mars (plus some...
- 7/3/2023
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
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Riot girrl pioneers Bratmobile will reunite this summer for their first performance in more than 20 years.
Bratmobile will headline the 2023 Mosswood Meltdown festival in Oakland on July 2, with a lineup that features original vocalist Allison Wolfe and drummer Molly Neuman, alongside Rose Melberg on guitar, Audrey Marrs on keys, and Marty Key on bass. In a statement, Wolfe and Neuman noted that original Bratmobile guitarist Erin Smith would...
Riot girrl pioneers Bratmobile will reunite this summer for their first performance in more than 20 years.
Bratmobile will headline the 2023 Mosswood Meltdown festival in Oakland on July 2, with a lineup that features original vocalist Allison Wolfe and drummer Molly Neuman, alongside Rose Melberg on guitar, Audrey Marrs on keys, and Marty Key on bass. In a statement, Wolfe and Neuman noted that original Bratmobile guitarist Erin Smith would...
- 2/22/2023
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Riot grrrl icons Bratmobile have today announced their first live show in over 20 years. The band join a legendary lineup at the upcoming Mosswood Meltdown festival in Oakland, California, on July 2nd.
The last time singer Allison Wolfe and drummer Molly Neuman performed together was on September 9th, 2002; for this reunion, they’ll be joined by guitarist Rose Melberg (of the pioneering indie pop group Tiger Trap), Audrey Marrs on keys, and Marty Key on bass.
“It’s been more than 20 years since our last tour, and life has changed and grown in many ways,” Wolfe and Neuman write in a press release. “In 2019, we got the original lineup back together to play a big birthday party for our band sister, Tobi Vail of Bikini Kill. After the show, we talked about playing again, but it wasn’t the right time, and then… 2020. Now we are both living in Los Angeles,...
The last time singer Allison Wolfe and drummer Molly Neuman performed together was on September 9th, 2002; for this reunion, they’ll be joined by guitarist Rose Melberg (of the pioneering indie pop group Tiger Trap), Audrey Marrs on keys, and Marty Key on bass.
“It’s been more than 20 years since our last tour, and life has changed and grown in many ways,” Wolfe and Neuman write in a press release. “In 2019, we got the original lineup back together to play a big birthday party for our band sister, Tobi Vail of Bikini Kill. After the show, we talked about playing again, but it wasn’t the right time, and then… 2020. Now we are both living in Los Angeles,...
- 2/22/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
Bikini Kill have announced the rescheduled dates for their 2020 tour, which was previously postponed due to Covid-19.
It was supposed to kick off in March — right as the pandemic was taking hold in the United States — with a pair of hometown shows in Olympia, Washington. In 2021, the band will still launch the tour there, with shows at the Capitol Theater September 2nd and 3rd. The trek will then stretch through the fall, wrapping November 20th at Iron City in Birmingham, Alabama.
Original tickets will be honored at the rescheduled dates,...
It was supposed to kick off in March — right as the pandemic was taking hold in the United States — with a pair of hometown shows in Olympia, Washington. In 2021, the band will still launch the tour there, with shows at the Capitol Theater September 2nd and 3rd. The trek will then stretch through the fall, wrapping November 20th at Iron City in Birmingham, Alabama.
Original tickets will be honored at the rescheduled dates,...
- 7/14/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Gender is over in Seth Bogart’s new song “Boys Who Don’t Wanna Be Boys,” which arrived with a video featuring cameos from Kate Berlant, John Early, RuPaul’s Drag Race star Tammie Brown, Jd Samson, Brooke Candy and San Cha. The song will appear on Bogart’s upcoming album, Men on the Verge of Nothing, out June 26th on the musician’s own Wacky Wacko label.
Crispy snares and guitar feedback open the punk-tinged track as Bogart sings languidly, “Boys/who don’t wanna be boys/Boys/who don’t wanna be boys.
Crispy snares and guitar feedback open the punk-tinged track as Bogart sings languidly, “Boys/who don’t wanna be boys/Boys/who don’t wanna be boys.
- 5/19/2020
- by Brenna Ehrlich
- Rollingstone.com
“Since Trump was elected, there’ve been all these times when the news is on and I’m singing a Bikini Kill song in my head,” says Kathleen Hanna. “It’s like I need to hear these songs.”
She’s not alone. Since reuniting with Bikini Kill bassist Kathi Wilcox and drummer Tobi Vail in 2019, ending a 22-year break, Hanna has been performing songs like 1993’s “Rebel Girl” for their biggest crowds ever. “With the #MeToo movement and a president who says, ‘Grab them by the pussy,’ it’s hard not to feel like,...
She’s not alone. Since reuniting with Bikini Kill bassist Kathi Wilcox and drummer Tobi Vail in 2019, ending a 22-year break, Hanna has been performing songs like 1993’s “Rebel Girl” for their biggest crowds ever. “With the #MeToo movement and a president who says, ‘Grab them by the pussy,’ it’s hard not to feel like,...
- 3/3/2020
- by Brenna Ehrlich
- Rollingstone.com
All three Vivian Girls miss the rain.
“It replenishes,” says Cassie Ramone, singer, songwriter, and guitarist. “It nourishes life!”
The band, who grew up and made their name on the East Coast, live in Los Angeles now. It’s far from the New Jersey basement shows, the 24-hour diners they frequented together as teens, and the tattoos they got to commemorate it all. Now, in West Hollywood’s Murakami Sushi, they’re in a mood to reminisce. Ramone, now 33, singer-bassist Katy Goodman, 34, and drummer Ali Koehler, 32, have been secretly rehearsing for months.
“It replenishes,” says Cassie Ramone, singer, songwriter, and guitarist. “It nourishes life!”
The band, who grew up and made their name on the East Coast, live in Los Angeles now. It’s far from the New Jersey basement shows, the 24-hour diners they frequented together as teens, and the tattoos they got to commemorate it all. Now, in West Hollywood’s Murakami Sushi, they’re in a mood to reminisce. Ramone, now 33, singer-bassist Katy Goodman, 34, and drummer Ali Koehler, 32, have been secretly rehearsing for months.
- 7/23/2019
- by Suzy Exposito
- Rollingstone.com
Rock royalty Joan Jett joined legendary punks Bikini Kill onstage Tuesday night, for a live performance of their anthemic 1993 single, “Rebel Girl.” Set in Brooklyn’s Kings Theatre, it was the band’s seventh stop on their prodigious reunion tour.
Bikini Kill delivered nothing short of a thunderous performance in Brooklyn that night. Frontwoman Kathleen Hanna offset her sobering, Trump-era stage banter with the occasional feminist standup routine — including epic jabs at ageism among Bikini Kill’s own fans. “Don’t call me ‘Mom!'” she warned showgoers: “First of all,...
Bikini Kill delivered nothing short of a thunderous performance in Brooklyn that night. Frontwoman Kathleen Hanna offset her sobering, Trump-era stage banter with the occasional feminist standup routine — including epic jabs at ageism among Bikini Kill’s own fans. “Don’t call me ‘Mom!'” she warned showgoers: “First of all,...
- 6/5/2019
- by Suzy Exposito
- Rollingstone.com
“This is like a time machine!” Kathleen Hanna panted to the crowd of 5,000 at Bikini Kill’s first full show in two decades. Thursday night was the first of four blockbuster sold-out shows at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Palladium. This show was more than just a nostalgia trip for Nineties feminist punks reveling in those were the days camaraderie — the crowd was equally, if not more so, filled with younger fans, mostly women, who were graced with the Easter-adjacent miracle of their favorite band rising from the great beyond.
In the 22 years since Bikini Kill split,...
In the 22 years since Bikini Kill split,...
- 4/26/2019
- by Dylan Tupper Rupert
- Rollingstone.com
On the morning of October 31st, 1991, Kurt Cobain received some good news: His band Nirvana’s new album, Nevermind, had just turned gold. The record had only been out for a little more than a month, but it had already sold half a million copies. On tour in support of the record, Nirvana headed to Seattle, where they were scheduled to spend Halloween at the Paramount Theater — their first hometown show as a successful rock band.
With family and friends in the crowd and a film crew documenting the action,...
With family and friends in the crowd and a film crew documenting the action,...
- 4/3/2019
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Feminist punk pioneers Bikini Kill have announced they will reunite for a handful of dates this spring. The lineup includes singer Kathleen Hanna, drummer Tobi Vail and bassist Kathi Wilcox, along with guitarist Erica Dawn Lyle who replaces guitarist Billy Karren. Tickets go on sale on Friday.
The shows – which will take place on April 25th at Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, California, May 31st at Brooklyn Steel in Brooklyn, New York and June 1st at Terminal 5 in New York, New York – are the first full shows the group will...
The shows – which will take place on April 25th at Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, California, May 31st at Brooklyn Steel in Brooklyn, New York and June 1st at Terminal 5 in New York, New York – are the first full shows the group will...
- 1/15/2019
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
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