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Sleater-Kinney are Corin Tucker, Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss and to my mind they are legends of the indie rock scene. Sleater-Kinney have been in existence for over a decade now and in that time some of them have become mothers and divorcees.

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Q and Not U are part of the intelligentsia of punk rock. I had the chance to chat at length, and using particularly long words, with the band, about DIY, touring and their politics when they played the Camden Underworld in July.

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Silent Front are truly phenomenal, punching out beautiful songs based around staccato beats, passion and a raging guitar. Influences range from the obvious likes of Fugazi to the more esoteric. This interview was done at the Bull and Gate in Kentish Town, London during the summer of 2004.

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Strike Anywhere are one of those odd bands who are intensely political without trying desperately to force weightless polemics down your throat. Their music is about their world and their life, they talk about it without granting it undue brevity, whilst at the same time refusing to co-opt it’s power.

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Pretty Girls Make Graves interview at Bayswater shopping centre London. Andrea, Jay and Eric. Interview done early 2004.
RN: I guess it must be something like your fourth time in the UK in the past year. I don’t know how many times you’ve been over here but it seems like a lot.
E: Really.
A: I think this […]

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Surely no introduction is necessary for the Gossip. Awesome post-Riot Grrrl goodness out of the backwaters of Arkansaw with bass-lines to melt you legs, and lyrics to melt your heart!
RN: You’ve been around as a band for a while now. How’s it going? What have discovered and what lessons have you learnt along the way?
Gos: […]

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I know from experience that zines are quite often put a very long way below bands or record labels in terms of importance within the “scene”. Strangely though it’s the world of zines where there are almost as many girls actively involved as there are boys. It’s certainly far more equal than the number of […]

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We live in a world where Americans buy nine million copies of Penthouse, Hustler and Playboy a month, where sex tourism is widespread, where across the internet pornographic images of any kind can be found, where English school boys will see, for many, their first glimpses of naked women and information about sex via magazines […]

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Alison Wolfe to many people is a legend in her own right. she was involved in the riot grrrl movement of the early 90s with her zines, music and other activities, even being attributed the claim of coining the name; and with her band Bratmobile which combines feminism, politics neat little hand claps and having […]

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‘Feminism – the radical notion that women are people’ screams the frontwoman from Antiproduct and they have a point. Feminism is not some threat to men, only those in unfair positions of patriarchal power and in our society that’s a lot of men. For this reason feminism has been trivialised, marginalized and excluded in much […]

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