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Le Tigre’s Radical Dance Party Returns
A new generation has discovered the infinitely danceable punk and electro-pop of Le Tigre and their songs of pride and protest. More than a decade after the trio went on indefinite hiatus, teenage TikTokers have begun attaching clips of frustration and hope to the thumping basslines and Casio keyboard hooks of 1999’s “Deceptacon,” as singer Kathleen Hanna wails “Wanna see me disco?/Let me hear you depoliticize my rhyme!” For their first seven years as a band, Le Tigre was the most ferocious and infectious dance party around, singing of feminist and queer identity with riot grrrl chants and a raw pop sensibility. In 2005, the band of Bikini Kill frontwoman Hanna and singer-musicians Johanna Fateman and JD Samson went into hibernation after three albums. But this weekend, Le Tigre reunits on...
The Strokes, LCD Soundsystem, Le Tigre Highlight Rebooted This Ain’t No Picnic Festival Lineup
Calling all ’90s indie-rock geeks! In a throwback nod to the original 1999 and 2000 festivals, This Ain’t No Picnic Festival is coming back next year. The fest will return August 27-28 at Brookside by the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. It is set to host the first and only Le Tigre reunion show of 2022 and will feature headliners The Strokes and LCD Soundsystem, and performers including Phoebe Bridgers, Beach House, Jorja Smith, Kaytranada, IDLES, Four Tet + Floating Points, Honey Dijon, Wet Leg, Genesis Owusu, Courtney Barnett, Descendents, Yves Tumor, Godspeed You!, Black Emperor, Caroline Polachek, Turnstile, Earl Sweatshirt, among many more. If that’s not enough, a sixth “stage” for Despacio, a custom-built disco sound system was designed by LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy. The 1999 ...
