The Punk Singer
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No, I knew nothing about Kathleen Hanna, nothing about her first band, Bikini Kill, very little about the riot grrrl movement to which she helped give birth. More's the pity, but I see some upcoming additions to the iPod.For those of you who were similarly ignorant, well, see the damn film, but I'll tell you this much: Hanna overcame the kiss of death that polemics usually plants on pop, doing straight-up unapologetic feminism in a context of straight-up rocking rock. She was SuperGrrrl, unstoppable except by a kryptonite deer tick, and then only for a while. She's now back with a band named for her solo album Julie Ruin, with a The tossed in for good measure.
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