Language can only go so far while describing music. If a picture is worth a thousand words, a three-minute composition is worth at least three times as much. Music journalism relies on a set of ...

The riot grrrl boom of the early 1990s was a game-changer for women in punk that inspired a generation of young feminists to pick up guitars and find like-minded activists to take a stand against ...

Welcome to Get Into This, KCRW's series of essential guides breaking down everything you need to know about musical styles, movements, and artists from the folks who know them best. Following them is ...

For all the energy that continues to be expended tracking the history of popular music, it’s disappointing to learn how little of it has been devoted to riot grrrl, the punk subgenre and feminist art ...

As the first episode of Sally Wainwright’s Riot Women has aired, learn more about Coping Saw - the 90s riot grrrl act from Leeds and their influence ...

By placing menopause at the centre of a punk-inflected drama, Wainwright opens a new televisual space for midlife women.

Thirty years ago, a movement was born in the Pacific Northwest that combined feminism, punk music, and politics. It came to be called riot grrrl – it’s meant to be pronounced with a growl. It was a ...

A recent resurgence of punk-powered feminism — or is that girl-powered punk? — raises the question: What was, or is, riot grrrl? A movement, a genre, an era, a scene? E Evelyn McDonnell and Elisabeth ...

Two of the young bands rocking out at Coachella this weekend have been trumpeted as the next wave of the ‘90s riot grrrl movement, but there’s just one problem: they don’t want the label. They are ...

None of us come out of the womb feminist. While I am unquestionably a feminist now, there were times during my youth when I resisted the title, buying into the persistent stereotype of feminists as ...