While many reunited bands tend to polish their old songs, Bikini Kill kept the music raw and minimal. Indeed, the set at Irving Plaza was entirely a revisit to the Bikini Kill legacy of the1990s. Hanna has affirmed in interviews that the band has no immediate plans to compose or record new music. This week, original vocalist Kathleen Hanna, bassist Kathi Wilcox, and drummer Tobi Vail, along with touring guitarist Sara Landeau of the Julie Ruin, returned to New York City for two concerts. Undeterred, Bikini Kill rescheduled dates and returned to the stage in 2022.
The next surprise was that the musicians would be forced to take a COVID break in 20. Surprisingly after more than 20 years apart, the three original Bikini Kill musicians reunited, recruited a guitarist for a concert tour in 2019, and intended to continue live performances into the next year. The musicians joined several short-lived bands. Throughout the 1990s, Bikini Kill was outspoken against the status quo, although heard mostly by rock music aficionados, and the band became a musical mouthpiece for an underground network of angry and disenfranchised youth.īikini Kill disbanded in 1997 after two albums, several EPs, and two compilations. The feminist punk rock band uniquely pioneered the riot grrrl movement upon forming in 1990 in Olympia, Washington. There were skateboards, cartwheels, dancing, cool poses, and hanging upside down on monkey bars.Perhaps in some clairvoyant way, the increasingly volatile political and social climate in the United States necessitated a reunion of Bikini Kill. The Linda Lindas’ Mila recounts her experience: “We got to jump around and we even had a little circle pit.
It was shot while all of the artists were still observing strict covid protocols – but it didn’t stop them from having fun at the shoot. The video, directed by Cooler, captures the infectious kids-being-kids vibes of The Linda Lindas, as seen through a SoCal skate-punk lens. It’s meant to represent how sometimes there are so many ideas or thoughts or just things on your mind, which gets so busy, and it’s supposed to feel like just the right amount of too much.” It’s about feeling overwhelmed by everything bottled up in your brain and getting so lost in yourself you become unaware of your surroundings.”īella chimes in: “In the bridge, there’s this chaos. Lucia of The Linda Lindas commented on the songwriting process: “We all liked the idea of a call-and-response vocal thing in the verse, which really just took after the instrumental part. Having them on a track with Kathi also really fit with the general theme of the record we were making which was shaping up as an intergenerational lineup of lady rocker badasses.” I thought of asking Kathi to add bass because I just remember how much we all enjoyed playing with and being around The Linda Lindas when they opened for Bikini Kill at The Palladium in 2019. Lyle says, “When we came up with the music for this one, it just felt like a rager and it brought to mind for me the pure exuberance of The Linda Lindas, so I suggested we invite them to sing on it. Then they’d make the results available as a benefit record.
Lyle approached Cooler with the idea that they’d write songs together via file sharing ask their friends in their music community to add vocals, lyrics, and bass. The BandCamp exclusive album also features Kathleen Hanna, Kim Gordon, Alice Bag, Satomi Matsuzaki (Deerhoof), Kelley Deal, Mike Watt, Ah-Mer-Ah-Su, The Raincoats, Katie Alice Greer ( Priests), Palberta, Brontez Purnell, Rachel Aggs (Shopping) and many more.Īs with all of the other songs on LAND TRUST – including the record’s first two singles, made with Kathleen Hanna and Kim Gordon respectively – the song was the result of a remote collaboration between Lyle and Cooler that began in the early days of the pandemic. The Linda Lindas collab w/ Kathi & Erica from Bikini Kill & Vice Cooler in “Lost In Thought” video, LAND TRUST: Benefit for The NEFOC album out today.
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