Director, editor, and producer Maria Breaux taps into the bratty ferocity and cries for revolution of the 1990s riot grrrl movement with her crowdfunded feature film Vulveeta, premiering as part of the 40th iteration of Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival.
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Erica Dawn Lyle and Vice Cooler recruit feminist rocker friends for a collaborative benefit compilation
Land Trust: Benefit for NEFOC embodies the spirit of mutual aid that guides many punk communities. When Bikini Kill’s 2020 reunion tour was canceled, touring guitarist Erica Dawn Lyle and drum tech Vice Cooler wanted to make themselves useful. But during lockdown, they were isolated in their respective homes on opposite sides of the country—Lyle, […]
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The Linda Lindas are here to inspire the youth on their debut LP, Growing Up
When I first saw the Linda Lindas perform “Racist, Sexist Boy”—in the May 2021 video from the Los Angeles Public Library that took the Internet by storm—I got huge “industry plant” energy from them. But I wasn’t really mad about it. The four-piece, which is made up of girls between the ages of 11 and […]
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Let’s talk Riot Fest
The Reader crew start some conversations about Chicago’s loudest punk-rock institution: its lineup, its location, its role in the community, and more.
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Unsolicited advice for Riot Fest’s bookers
Riot Fest has its traditions, and it’s hard to hate Andrew W.K. or Gwar—but here are some bands we’d like to see.
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Hopping the Riot Fest nostalgia train
Reunions and full-album sets are Riot Fest’s specialty—so what does it have to offer this year, besides Bikini Kill?
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How Homocore Chicago propped open the gate for queer punks
Nineties concert series Homocore Chicago gave today’s queer punks a running start at the dramatically different hurdles they face.
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The Homocore Chicago series puts its legacy on exhibit for its 25th birthday
The Homocore Chicago series puts its legacy on exhibit for its 25th birthday, Smart Bar hosts 23 hours of continuous DJ sets, and more.
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Brave Like Them, The Bricklayers of Oz, and ten more new stage shows for the dog days
A “queer as f**k riot grrrl musical” and Chicago Dance Crash’s latest story-length hip-hop showcase are among this week’s best bets.
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Pitchfork gives it up for riot grrrls
Sleater-Kinney and Kathleen Hanna helped light a flame that still powers the likes of Waxahatchee and Courtney Barnett.
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Star Pimp played bizarre, infectious sludge that’s worth cleaning off 20 years of dust to hear
Of all the relics of noise-rock’s 90s golden age, Bay Area band Star Pimp might be the most unjustly forgotten.
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InFusion Theatre delivers a female-driven punk rock masterpiece
Riot grrrls come to terms with the past in Another Kind of Love, with music from Crystal Skillman and Heidi Rodewald.
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In Rotation: Metro publicist Jenny Lizak on a punk documentary to give teenage girls for Christmas
Current obsessions of Metro publicist Jenny Lizak, and Smart Bar booker Marea Stamper (aka the Black Madonna)
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Kathleen Hanna: Grrrl interrupted
The Punk Singer profiles a feminist rocker who walked away.
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Reader’s Agenda Wed 2/20: Wonder Women: The Untold Story of American Superheroines, Vacation Dad, and From Jail to Yale
What’s on the Reader’s Agenda for Wednesday, February 20, 2013.