Get ready for sick, dirty and grungy riffs as the Riot Girl heroes Bikini Kill rerelease their 1991 class album with a few new bells and whistles.
Get ready for sick, dirty and grungy riffs as the Riot Girl heroes Bikini Kill rerelease their 1991 class album with a few new bells and whistles.
On Sept. 22, Bikini Kill’s ‘Revolution Girl Style Now’ reissue will drop with a few new tracks and you can hear one of them, “Playground,” below:
It’s been about 25 years since ‘Revolution…’ was released, but the band’s 90’s sound is as solid as ever. It’s not hard to see modern bands like Perfect Pussy and others pulling from these amazing trend setters.
Rolling Stone caught up with bands members Kathleen Hanna and Kathi Wilcox ahead of the new release.
Check out some of the interview below and read the full story here:
Revolution Girl Style Now is one of the band’s earliest recordings. What was it like to revisit that nearly 25 years after it was first made?
Hanna: I thought it was really funny. When I listened to it, I laughed a lot.
Wilcox: Yeah, I did too [both laugh].
Hanna: When we got together to work on this video trailer for it, I was like, “Did you laugh? I was totally laughing.” It’s just how young we were, I think, and how different we sounded. It brought me back to that feeling of… I used to have this white truck, and I would drive in it and listen to cassettes from our practices, and I would make up lyrics in the truck, like singing at full volume. That’s how “Double Dare Ya” came about, and a whole bunch of other songs — and that really came back to me full force when I was listening to the demos.
There are a few unreleased tracks on the reissue. Why did you decide to pull those out of the vault now?
Hanna: Those were recorded at the same time, but for some reason we didn’t mix them. I’m pretty sure there wasn’t enough room on the cassette tape.
Wilcox: That’s what it was. We just picked the songs that would fit on the cassette. Maybe it was the songs we liked best at the time. I don’t remember how we chose, but they wouldn’t all fit on the cassette.
Hanna: It was definitely a mixture of the two. What would fit, and within those parameters, what were the best songs, so we had to leave three off. But it’s really interesting to listen to those three songs. I think you said, Kathi, something about how they sound more “grunge” than our other stuff [laughs].
