Le Tigre

Anyone else?


www.myspace.com/letigre

Expressway To Yr Skull:

Here, From Wikipedia:
Le Tigre is a feminist electro post-punk band formed in 1998 by Kathleen Hanna. Initially envisioned as a live back up band for Hanna's solo project Julie Ruin, Le Tigre mixes the politics and feminism of riot grrrl with fun electronic samples and lo-fi beats. Other members include Johanna Fateman and JD Samson. JD joined Le Tigre as a full member when co-founder Sadie Benning left the band before the Feminist Sweepstakes album. JD had previously worked with the band as the roadie and operator of the slide show created by Sadie Benning for Le Tigre's live performances of the first record. Le Tigre live shows are quite famous. The self proclaimed underground electro-feminist performance artists combine visuals, music and dance into their performances.

The band mixes politically aware lyrics with dance music.

The song "Hot Topic" on Le Tigre's self-titled debut pays tribute to dozens of visual artists, musicians, writers, feminists and others who have inspired them. Among the honorees are: Yoko Ono, Aretha Franklin, Vaginal Creme Davis, Yayoi Kusama, Sleater-Kinney, Billy Tipton, James Baldwin, and Jean Genet. In a similar fashion the song "FYR" off the album Feminist Sweepstakes is a tribute to the chapter and ideals put forth in Shulamith Firestone's Fifty Years of Ridicule in her 1970 feminist work The Dialectic of Sex.

The first two recordings by the band were released on the independent label Mr. Lady Records, run by Kaia Wilson of The Butchies and artist Tammy Rae Carland. Feminist Sweepstakes (2001) came out on Chicks on Speed's record label. The album This Island (2004) was Le Tigre's first on a major label (Universal/Strummer). Ric Ocasek of the Cars produced one track, "Tell You Now."

Even after signing with Universal, Le Tigre has continued to work with independent labels. In 2005 they released This Island Remixes with Chicks on Speed.

Le Tigre has licensed two of their songs for use in advertisements by Canadian telephone provider Telus and Australian jewellery chain Goldmark.

In 2005 Le Tigre performed at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival. The festival has been criticized for its womyn-born-womyn admittance policy, which prohibits transgender women from attending.



And of course, as we all know, Kathleen was in Bikini Kill before Le Tigre and did additional vox on Letterbomb.
'nuff said

Put up info and links, or it will be locked.

I made an LT thread a while ago, it got locked, oh well.

Here, From Wikipedia:
Le Tigre is a feminist electro post-punk band formed in 1998 by Kathleen Hanna. Initially envisioned as a live back up band for Hanna's solo project Julie Ruin, Le Tigre mixes the politics and feminism of riot grrrl with fun electronic samples and lo-fi beats. Other members include Johanna Fateman and JD Samson. JD joined Le Tigre as a full member when co-founder Sadie Benning left the band before the Feminist Sweepstakes album. JD had previously worked with the band as the roadie and operator of the slide show created by Sadie Benning for Le Tigre's live performances of the first record. Le Tigre live shows are quite famous. The self proclaimed underground electro-feminist performance artists combine visuals, music and dance into their performances.

The band mixes politically aware lyrics with dance music.

The song "Hot Topic" on Le Tigre's self-titled debut pays tribute to dozens of visual artists, musicians, writers, feminists and others who have inspired them. Among the honorees are: Yoko Ono, Aretha Franklin, Vaginal Creme Davis, Yayoi Kusama, Sleater-Kinney, Billy Tipton, James Baldwin, and Jean Genet. In a similar fashion the song "FYR" off the album Feminist Sweepstakes is a tribute to the chapter and ideals put forth in Shulamith Firestone's Fifty Years of Ridicule in her 1970 feminist work The Dialectic of Sex.

The first two recordings by the band were released on the independent label Mr. Lady Records, run by Kaia Wilson of The Butchies and artist Tammy Rae Carland. Feminist Sweepstakes (2001) came out on Chicks on Speed's record label. The album This Island (2004) was Le Tigre's first on a major label (Universal/Strummer). Ric Ocasek of the Cars produced one track, "Tell You Now."

Even after signing with Universal, Le Tigre has continued to work with independent labels. In 2005 they released This Island Remixes with Chicks on Speed.

Le Tigre has licensed two of their songs for use in advertisements by Canadian telephone provider Telus and Australian jewellery chain Goldmark.

In 2005 Le Tigre performed at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival. The festival has been criticized for its womyn-born-womyn admittance policy, which prohibits transgender women from attending.




And of course, as we all know, Kathleen was in Bikini Kill before Le Tigre and did additional vox on Letterbomb.
'nuff said

Jesus Christ Supermarket:

And of course, as we all know, Kathleen was in Bikini Kill before Le Tigre and did additional vox on Letterbomb.

she was?
*goes check*
omg! for real, I like the 'Nobody Likes You' part in Letterbomb like hell, so i'm cool with her

I'd never listened about Le Tigre before, btw

I Didn't Kill Tom Cruise.:

I'd never listened about Le Tigre before, btw

=o! No way!
Listen to Deceptacon first!
It's great =].

I Didn't Kill Tom Cruise.:

Jesus Christ Supermarket:

And of course, as we all know, Kathleen was in Bikini Kill before Le Tigre and did additional vox on Letterbomb.

she was?
*goes check*
omg! for real, I like the 'Nobody Likes You' part in Letterbomb like hell, so i'm cool with her

I'd never listened about Le Tigre before, btw

ahhhh! i never actually put that together! i know of le tigre and the people and i know who sang in letter bomb but i never even considered that they were the same person

April?!:

I Didn't Kill Tom Cruise.:

I'd never listened about Le Tigre before, btw

=o! No way!
Listen to Deceptacon first!
It's great =].

I love the video for Deceptacon, i tried jumping for that long, and it proved near impossible...wonder how they do it...

I've only heard a couple songs by them. But they sound pretty good.

Melancholy:

I've only heard a couple songs by them. But they sound pretty good.

same. I like that whole electro-punk-new wave-riot grrrl thing they have going on. it's like music that I can dance to that I actually like.

I only like a few songs but they are really good at what they do

The Island has been in constant rotation my CD player

This is what democracy looks like,
This is what democracy sounds like

I like their S/T way more than This Island.

I like Bikini Kill beter, but Kathleen Hanna is amazing.