Riot Girl: still relevant 20 years on

Two decades after the Riot Girl movement showed a generation of young women they could be masters of their own rock'n'roll destiny, its legacy lives on, says Jessica HopperNearly 20 years after its zenith, Riot Girl, the fiery flash of a feminist movement born of the American punk rock scene, is living on – its legacy playing out in the sound and ideas of a new crop of young female musicians. "If it wasn't for Riot Girl, right now I would be in a godawful heavy blues band." Marissa Paternos...

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