8 Bands Keeping The Riot Grrrl Spirit Alive

Altosaxo07 Mar, 2024Entertainment

Since the early '90s, the riot grrrl movement has served as a guide for music that addresses socio-economic issues and the exclusion of women in punk. Decades later, a new wave of female-fronted punk bands embody the attitude and ethos of riot grrrl. In the early 1990s, a group of women in Olympia, Washington, came together to address the pervasive sexism and male-dominated nature of their local punk scene. These women decided to spark a "girl riot" and gave birth to the riot grrrl movement, providing a platform for female-fronted bands in a male-dominated genre.