Song from the 70s, that sounds like a girl group from the 60s, but would feel perfectly at home in the 2019 indie rock scene (The release year of this compilation of their songs). A band I would love to greedily keep to myself, but will instead shout from the rooftops that you should listen to them. Theyāre a precursor to the riotgrrl movement and to indie rock as we know the genre. Underrated gem of the post punk scene.
May 18, 2025
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Iāve never understood why this band is relatively obscure in America. Amber Webber is one of my favorite contemporary vocalists; her voice has body and ooze and just generally captures that forlorn hauntedness I like in a singer. āAntonia Janeā is a song I return to annually, then listen to on repeat for a few weeks. Their latest album, Nostalgia Killer, has another song that sounds like an instant classic called āWrecked.ā Lightning Dust started out as an offshoot of Black Mountain, who have more psychedelic leanings and who are worth checking out as well. Basically, take a figurative musical detour to Vancouver BC and see whatās going on.
Jan 16, 2024
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the classics / circa ~90s: bikini kill, hole, bratmobile, 7 year bitch, le tigre, veruca salt, babes in toyland, L7, jack off jill, tribe8
more recent/newer bands: the shiverettes, mommy long legs (LOVE them), team dresch, pom pom squad, destroy boys, THICK, slutever, tacocat, butch baby, dazey and the scouts, sorry mom?, the oozes, childbirth, queen chimera
(most of these are explicitly riot grrrl - a few are def queer punk, DIY etc but idk if theyād all specifically describe themselves as riot grrrl but have an adjacent sound and vibe for sure)
Feb 26, 2025
Numero Group has just released a gorgeous boxed setĀ of the D.C. band Tsunamiās collected works. Their first record,Ā Deep End, was a part of the soundtrack to my 1990s (they were involved with the Riot Grrl movement) and revisiting it now, it still packs a punch. Thereās such great interplay between the singers, Jenny Toomey and Kristin Thomson, and the songs are ragged and noisy while also being deeply melodic. Jenny's DIY mentality (she also founded Simple Machines Records) and genuinely indie/alt ethic certainly helped put them on the map, which then charted the course for so many bands which came along after them. What with '90s indie-pop having its moment (think: bands like Soccer Mommy, Alvvays, Snail Mail, and Mannequin Pussy), thereās no better time to return to the source, to a time when politics was kinda boring and the insidious dismantling of the democratic process was only in its infancy.
Heroines. The title track to their sophomore release, 1994's "The Heart's Tremolo," gives a good sense of that oh-so-Tsunami thing without diving headfirst into their noisier mudbaths.
Nov 5, 2024
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I canāt think of a specific moment because Iām an endlessly awkward person. I think a lot of times when weāve said the wrong thing upon meeting someone, or have a tendency to put our worst foot forward, we get too caught up in our own thoughts about it to recover. Let other people hold the awkward feelings for you, if they feel weird thatās their problem. But you donāt have to feel weird for trying to connect to others in your own way.
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