On the cover: Scott Walker – In a rare interview, the singer and
composer talks Mike Barnes through his ambitious, brutal and
absurdist new album, Bish Bosch. Inside: Peter
Brötzmann redux, Wyrd sounds from the West Country, Jonas
Mekas, David S Ware, Pinch, the Slowfoot label,
Fontanelle, and much more.
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A decade ago, Kathleen Hanna's Bikini Kill
heralded the days of rage that led to Riot Grrrl, one of the few
90s movements that felt like punk actually happened. Now, Hanna's
new trio Le Tigre (and side projects ranging from plunderphonic IDM
to conceptual art stunts) are spearheading a rapidly spreading
network of feminist flavoured electropunk while defining new
parameters for politicised noise in their search for an
electronique feminine. Words: Joy Press. This article originally
appeared in The Wire 215 (January 2002).