Le Tigre

Le Tigre was Kathleen Hanna's next move after Bikini Kill: a New York City trio she started in 1998 with Johanna Fateman and Sadie Benning, whose self-titled 1999 debut plugged riot grrrl straight into a bank of cheap electronics. All of punk's bluntness and all of its politics are still in there, but now they're bouncing off playful samples, lo-fi beats and bubblegum hooks you can actually dance to. "Deceptacon", a jittery, bratty taunt of a song, became the one everybody knows.

Benning left in 2000 and JD Samson took the open spot, and that lineup kept the lyrics aimed squarely at feminist ideas while the live shows spilled over into multimedia and performance art. They put out their records on Mr. Lady Records, and This Island arrived in 2004, with "TKO" among its songs.

Three full-length albums and a lot of road later, exhaustion caught up with them, and in 2007 they called a hiatus. A few short reunions followed, including work alongside Christina Aguilera and Pussy Riot, before the band came back properly in 2023 with a tour of Europe and North America that mostly sold out.

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