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...when the underground prevalence of feminist political magazines bearing titles like “Diabolical Clits” and “The Adventures of Baby Dyke” was groundbreaking. The concept of women drawing empowerment from platform heels has long past reached its expiration date. The Riot Grrl has taken her place with the Girl Friday as something of an anachronism, and the Modern Woman is on the rise—but who is she? Laurel T. Ulrich’s best-known quotation, a bumper-sticker staple, reads: “Well-behaved women seldom make history...
...bands listed below have Myspace.com sites featuring more information and streaming tracks).Plan B for the Type A’sAs Harvard’s only all-girl punk group, Plan B for the Type A’s, who bill themselves as “hot grrl rock,” have their work cut out for them. Wading into a tightly-packed, male-dominated music circle two years ago, the ladies of Plan B never disappointed and never looked back. “We don’t play to please the audience so much as we play...
...first year at Harvard, enterprising guitarist Amy R. Klein ’07 began a poster campaign across campus to solicit interest in a fresh and dangerous idea she had, an all-grrl Harvard punk band...
...first listen might reveal Sahara Hotnights as nothing but a B-league Sleater-Kinney, but after a few spins it’s clear that this band makes no pretensions to the riot-grrl ideology usually accompanying any girl-group aspiring to produce punk-pop. In short, they are playing this music without any agenda but fun, and this veneer permeates every moment. This band doesn’t need videos of themselves waterskiing in formation or cavorting playfully around a fountain to prove themselves as true to their declared image: the music of Kiss & Tell speaks for itself
Tracy and the Plastics, a riot-grrl band fronted by critically renowned visual artist Wynne Greenwood, WHEN performed at the Cabot House Underground Theatre—but the singer’s bandmates and instruments were nowhere to be found onstage, appearing only on the video screen behind...