Warpaint: 'Ari Up never lost her ability to captivate an audience'

Emily Kokal supported the Slits with her band Warpaint. She describes how Ari Up helped her find a voice, and how she felt when she first saw the cover for CutI heard the Slits a lot when I was growing up, through my parents and their friends, but I only became aware of them in high school. A friend had a copy of Cut and I just remember seeing the art work of them standing topless, covered in mud and thinking: "Wow, they don't give a fuck." Even then I didn't actually listen to their music prope...

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