To celebrate their 25th anniversary, evrrryone's favourite riotgrrrl group, Bikini Kill are re-issuing the entirety of their back catalogue. As a platform to release this stuff, Bikini Kill have formed a record label, the amazingly titled Bikini Kill Records. They shall also sift through their archives to find varoius memorabilia, such as flyers and posters, to sell to your good selves. Clearly, sticking it to the man doesn't pay. But it does make for rather excellent music, see below!
McCafferty 's recent EP, Forest Life, is one of The Alternative Tone's favourite releases so far this year. I caught up with Nick to get a track-by-track on the EP, in order to give us more insight into McCafferty's fabulous imagery and lyrical themes. Jeff There was a girl I was friends with in high school named Becky and she was in a relationship with this guy from freshman year until last summer, when their relationship fell apart she told me it happened really fast, that's why the song is so short. I wanted to explore the aspect of a relationship with so much feeling that just ends abruptly and the emptiness that you feel after. I've had people message me and say they wish Jeff was longer, but that's the exact reason I made it so short. Snakes I wrote "Snakes" with the mindset of making a song that sort of pokes fun at all these dogs out there in the DIY scene about smoking and partying, it's really simplistic in the lyrics b...
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