Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook According to Google, a riot grrrl (noun) is “a member of a movement of young feminists associated ...

Welcome to Get Into This, KCRW's series of essential guides breaking down everything you need to know about musical styles, movements, and artists from the folks who know them best. Following them is ...

Riot grrrl left a legacy and … it’s complicated. A lot of the bands that were inspired by the movement don’t want to be directly associated with it any longer. We’ll dig into that and hear from bands ...

None of us come out of the womb feminist. While I am unquestionably a feminist now, there were times during my youth when I resisted the title, buying into the persistent stereotype of feminists as ...

Before Bikini Kill cemented its name as a feminist punk legend, the band was integral to catalyzing the underground punk movement in the Pacific Northwest. Founded in 1990 in Olympia, Washington, the ...

As incels around the country mockingly chant “Your body, my choice” from their moms’ basements, suddenly the music of riot grrrl feels urgent yet again. The movement — a loose collective of bands that ...

BIPOC and queer fans and musicians didn’t always feel welcomed by riot grrrl. But some managed to claim space in the movement anyway. We dig into what it was like for people who were “aerating the ...

Here are five records that helped define the '90s Riot Grrrl movement. In the early 1990s, a new kind of punk was brewing; it was raw, political, loud, and unapologetically feminist. The Riot Grrrl ...