Noise/Crush

11 July 2013

Top 3@3:33 - Riot Grrrl

AaAAarrrrrGGGhHHH!!! I just read this rather good and properly infuriating Guardian article - it firstly made me question why people have to be such enormous douchebags, it secondly made me find a Bikini Kill track on Youtube, crank up the volume and dance around a bit. 

As I'm sure many of you will know, riot grrrl started in the early '90s and is essentially punk-inspired, incendiary music: hard-edged, grungy, raw and gritty. It has a political and social message, with a feminist agenda. Lyrically, and stylistically, it's confrontational, challenging, liberating and empowering - here are my top 3 riot grrrl tracks: 






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