Kathleen Hanna is an American singer, musician and pioneer of the feminist punk riot grrrl movement, and punk zine writer. She is the lead singer of feminist punk band Bikini Kill and fronts the electropunk band Le Tigre. She has also recorded as the Julie Ruin.
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"I got this in the 80s when I was like 19 or something on cassette for my birthday. I had a very small birthday party in my apartment and someone stole the cassette, stole my birthday present. I'm still mad but I love VOR in all her incarnations."Watch this moment
"I loved this record as a kid. I grew up in Maryland and a lot of people in Maryland were really into the boss. I think this has 'Ooo Ooo I Got a Crush on You,' which was the first thing a boy ever gave me to tell me he had a crush on me."Watch this moment
"That album totally changed my life because he talks between like kind of like spoken word style but he tells these stories... it was one of the first times I saw somebody successfully mixing language with music."Watch this moment
"Freightwig, if you like any music I make, you have to get a Freightwig record. The record that really changed my life was 'Faster.' They had these songs that were like some singing about freedom from oppression and then some singing about like... great punk rock music."Watch this moment
"One of my very favorite things is the way that Chuck D is always like really close up on the mic and then Flavor Flav is always like kind of far away, so it's like he's yelling out of a window or it gives you this feeling that there's like this depth, you know, and that it's happening in this actual location. Almost everything about this record is completely perfect to me, so don't ever say anything bad about it."Watch this moment
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