New Music Friday: Kathleen Hanna shouts back at street harassment on The Julie Ruin’s new album

The Julie Ruin, courtesy of Facebook. Part of being a woman in New York City, especially in the summertime, is dealing with a veritable Greek chorus of pick up lines. People process this phenomenon in different ways. Just take this beautiful poem I wrote, for example: Hey, sexy! SEXY! Why you walking away? Bitch. I’s tryna be nice. Some women write haiku to process their experiences with street harassment, while others address it through music — especially raw, powerful, female-fronted music, like the kind legendary riot grrrl pioneer Kathleen Hanna makes. Extra bonus points if said music is catchy as hell and fun to dance to, like the kind she makes with her latest band, The Julie Ruin. Their second album, Hit Reset, drops today, and it totally rips.  In case you didn’t know, Kathleen Hanna is kind of a big deal. She was a key player of the Riot Grrrl movement of the 1990s as the lead singer… Read More

New Music Friday: Kathleen Hanna shouts back at street harassment on The Julie Ruin’s new album : Brokelyn