BIKINI KILL Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, April 26
“In this mercilessly distressing political climate, Bikini Kill are necessary and invigorating”
“YOU’RE doing great with ‘girls to the front!’” enthuses Kathleen Hanna to the women thronging the stage at the second of four Bikini Kill reunion shows at the 5,000-capacity Hollywood Palladium. The crowd respond by chanting the mantra that has come to define the riot grrrl punk movement Bikini Kill pioneered in the 1990s. “Girls to the front!” they shout – women, their partners and young daughters in protective earmuffs. It is both a
