Le Tigre’s Kathleen Hanna and Johanna Fateman have filed a countersuit against singer/songwriter Barry Mann after being sent a cease-and-desist notice by Mann claiming that their 1999 track “Deceptacon” infringes on the copyright of “Who Put The Bomp (Bomp, Bomp, Bomp),” which Mann sang and co-wr...

"One step forward! Five steps back! One cool record in the year of rock-rap!" That was Kathleen Hanna, gritting her teeth hard, on "FYR," a 2001 song from her band Le Tigre. "FYR" is not a triumphant song. It's a song about watching the idea of equality shudder and stall, about watching shit get worse…

Mayor Marty Walsh of Boston has proclaimed 4/9 “Riot Grrrl Day” in honor of Bikini Kill, Le Tigre, and the Julie Ruin front-woman Kathleen Hanna. Hanna will be performing and lecturing at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston’s theater district tomorrow, and she will be introduced by Joyce Linehan, who is Mayor Walsh&#82...

The new season of House Of Cards descended upon us today and, as previously reported, Pussy Riot make an appearance in one of the episodes. Nadezhda “Nadya” Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, the two most public members of the Russian protest group, play themselves as characters who speak out against a fictional Russian presi...

Le Tigre was a band that was never supposed to be. What was initially founded in 1998 as a backing band for riot grrl legend Kathleen Hanna’s lo-fi electronic solo project Julie Ruin ultimately became this trio of “underground electro-feminist performance artists.” Along with zine-maker Johanna Fateman and video and...