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Kathleen Hanna is no stranger to social justice movements. As the riot grrrl punk icon best known for fronting both Bikini Kill and Le Tigre, she has spent decades producing raucous feminist anthems and songs that searingly critique the status quo. Along the way, she’s fostered an underground activist scene …

Kathleen Hanna, Tegan and Sara, and Amanda Palmer are among the 300-plus musicians who have signed an open letter supporting the Internet Archive as it faces a $621 million copyright infringement lawsuit over its efforts to preserve 78 rpm records. The letter, spearheaded by the digital advocacy group Fight for …

At long last, the great Bikini Kill performed live on late-night television, taking the stage on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Monday, July 15. The riot grrrl pioneers marked the occasion with a ground-shaking, speaker-rattling rendition of their classic 1993 single, “Rebel Girl.” “When she walks, the revolution’s …

For the past 30 years, Kathleen Hanna has made a career unapologetically —and often uncomfortably — speaking truth. Whether fronting bands like Bikini Kill, Le Tigre, and Julie Ruin; raising money for the education of young girls in West Africa by selling screen-printed tees of her and her friends’ bands …

Kathleen Hanna first met Beastie Boys‘ Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz on a 1995 Australian festival called Summersault where her band, Bikini Kill, and the Beasties shared a bill. As soon as she saw him, she decided he was “the sexiest boy in the world,” as she wrote in her upcoming memoir, …

Kathleen Hanna returned to the hallowed space that is the Jeopardy!clue board, serving as part of an answer to a question that, ultimately, none of the contestants were cool enough to get. The clue popped up during “Double Jeopardy” as the $1200 answer in the “Let’s Rock & Roll” category: …

Riot grrrl greats Bikini Kill will hit the road this summer with a North American tour scheduled to launch in August. The run will begin with two shows at the Wiltern in Los Angeles, Aug. 15 and 16, with concerts scheduled through Sept. 11 at the Baltimore Soundstage in Baltimore. …

Punk great Kathleen Hanna will hit the road next spring for a special book tour supporting her upcoming memoir, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk, out May 14 via Ecco. The book tour will begin May 14 in Brooklyn and include stops in Washington D.C., Cincinnati, Chicago, Los …

Kathleen Hanna will look back on her turbulent formative years and success as the singer for Bikini Kill and Le Tigre in a new memoir, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk, out May 14. The book will chronicle the tumult that surrounded Hanna’s childhood, as well as her …

Le Tigre will return to the road for their first tour in 18 years. The electro-punk trio will play a lone show in Philadelphia on May 27 before heading over to Europe and the U.K. The North American leg of the tour will officially begin July 1 with a set …