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Hanna performing with Bikini Kill in 1991. Later, Hanna started another band called Viva Knievel that toured the United States for two months before disbanding. Upon returning to Olympia in 1990, Hanna began collaborating with Evergreen student, drummer and punk zinester Tobi Vail after seeing a performance of the Go Team (a band made up of Vail, Billy Karren, and Calvin Johnson) and ...
Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 – c. April 5, 1994) was an American musician. ... Tobi Vail of the riot grrrl band Bikini Kill, ...
The title derives from a phrase written on Cobain's wall by his friend Kathleen Hanna, singer of the riot grrrl band Bikini Kill: "Kurt smells like Teen Spirit." [12] [13] Hanna meant that Cobain smelled like the deodorant Teen Spirit, which she and Tobi Vail, his then-girlfriend, had discovered during a trip to the grocery store. [14]
David Browne of Entertainment Weekly opined that the album is "28 wonderfully concentrated minutes of unrelenting punk, with mid-tempo stops that pay homage to Kurt Cobain and Tony Randall. The Go-Go's as riot grrrls." [5] Robert Christgau praised Kathleen Hanna's vocals and Billy Karren's guitar playing, stating that they add definition and ...
Tobi Celeste Vail (born July 20, 1969) is an American independent musician, music critic and feminist activist from Olympia, Washington.She was a central figure in the riot grrl scene—she coined the spelling of "grrl"—and she started the zine Jigsaw.
Kurt Cobain studied the Beatles and loved R.E.M., and the DNA of both is seen clearly in Nevermind, in its emphasis on the tension between parts. Each song is a constant ebb and pulse of energy ...
But now, it has been disguised by "Gen-Z speak," with Kurt Cobain’s death at the center of the conversation. On Friday, a social media user tweeted an image from the Nirvana exhibit at the ...
For instance, while it references the deaths of Kurt Cobain, Michael Jackson, and Prince, the late David Bowie is oddly overlooked. ... YouTube killed MTV. Spongebob. Golden State Killer caught ...