In October of 1992, the 15 minute-long Bikini Kill EP was released on vinyl by Kill Rock Stars, an independent label which was just about a year and a half old, with fewer than 10 releases to its name. Recorded by Fugazi frontman Ian McKaye, Bikini Kill was loud, rough, angry, and raw. The music was a message: feminist revolution starts now, but the third-wave looked (and sounded) a lot different than the first or the second.
This introduction to the Olympia, Washington band told us, in a quarter of an hour, nearly everything we needed to know about them. The sound (what we would now refer to as “low-fi”) was abrasive; the songs sounded at points as if they would fall apart in a fit of howls and unevenly played instruments. Like...
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