Kathleen Hanna

'Smells Like Teen Spirit' Is the Stunningly Original Title of a New CBS Comedy

Hope no one has any emotional attachment to the phrase "Smells Like Teen Spirit" -- either the song, its mystique, or the band that played it -- 'cause if so, they're about to get quite a mindfuck. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is the (working) title of a new family sitcom just sold to CBS, about "an 1 ... More >>

An Open Letter to Bikini Kill: We Still Need You!

Dear Bikini Kill, Do you have any idea how much we've missed you? We just wanted you to know how thrilled we are to hear that you're launching your own record label -- Bikini Kill Records -- and re-issuing your back catalog on CD (we'd love it if you could do some vinyl too, but one thing at a ... More >>

Is Courtney Love Mentally Ill?

​In case you missed it, last Saturday, while performing at Brazil's SWU festival, Courtney Love had a minor meltdown after an audience member repeatedly held up a photo of Kurt Cobain. "I don't need to see a picture of Kurt, asshole!" she yelled. "And I'm going to have you fucking removed if you ... More >>

The Top 10 Hottest Women in Grunge

Sure, the grunge era produced its fair share of long-haired, flannel-loving, Converse-wearing male beefcake. But early '90s rock also made famous a bunch of strong-minded, talented -- and really, really sexy -- female rockers. As Nirvana's Nevermind turns 20 this week, and Pearl Jam celebrates two d ... More >>

Feminists in Machismo-Land

R.I.P. Poly Styrene, X-Ray Spex Singer and Punk Pioneer

Fabrizio RamoneR.I.P. Poly Styrene​ Legendary punk pioneer and X-Ray Spex frontwoman Poly Styrene, born Marianne Elliott Said, passed away last night from breast cancer at the age of 53. In an unfortunate coincidence with the passing last week of TV on the Radio's Gerard Smith, her new solo al ... More >>

Oh Cancer, Up Yours: Appreciating Poly Styrene

​ A tiny, curly-haired creature pressed into a life-size test tube, smiling just slightly with braces and wrapped in a bright yellow coat with dark tights. Posing on the cover of the landmark X-Ray Spex album, Germ-Free Adolescents, in 1978, Poly Styrene (née Marianne Joan Elliott-Said) looke ... More >>

Getting Orff

Riot Grrrls Return

Dum Dum Girls and the new wave of feminist punk.

Homage to the Girl Band

As a kid, I owned nearly all of Joan Jett's and Lita Ford's solo albums; theirs were my first cassette tape and CD respectively, so with the opening of The Runaways today, I'm getting myself amped and setting the mood with some videos of girl bands that have stolen and/or paid homage to the jailbait ... More >>

Pop Soup

Denmark's Junior Senior brings a mishmash of club styles

All the Sweet Stuff

The hilarious homofabulous-ness of Gravy Train!!!!

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Kind of Blue

Le Tigre has taken its feminist electro-punk to major-label land. What can the Democratic Party learn from that?

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

SF Weekly Music Awards 2002

A galaxy-spanning journey through space and sound!

Gone to See the River Man

Nick Drake has a skin too few

Comet Gain

Réalistes (Kill Rock Stars)

Music Lesson

At Noise Pop, Alex Chilton proves you can be a fucked-up rock star and survive

Desaparecidos

Read Music/Speak Spanish (Saddle Creek)

Gang of Four

Local all-girl outfit Erase Errata finds the common ground between noise and dance music

House Of Tudor

16 Horsepower; Le Tigre; Wammies

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