Le Tigre

MAKE SOME NOISE

Looking back at Riot Grrrl

Avicii - Radio City Musical Hall - 9/26/2012

Avicii Radio City Music Hall Wednesday, September 26 Better than: The Rockettes In the promo video for last night's Avicii show, 52,171 viewers found the producer/DJ walking through the Times Square venue that he would soon play and sitting in the seats around which his fans would soon dance. "I m ... More >>

Live: Pussy Riot's Cause Is Celebrated At The Ace Hotel

The dungeon-black walls of the hip Ace Hotel's underground room, appropriately called Liberty Hall, are relieved by vintage speakers stacked floor-to-ceiling like a rock wall. The decorative recycling of defunct gear, lit with candles like a sanctuary, made a righteous backdrop for a reading of lett ... More >>

MALE BONDING

JD Samson & MEN rock the CBGB Fest

Friendz With Benefits

Fall for Tami Hart

Stop-and-Frisk Protesters Protest Stop-and-Frisk

The NYPD is on track to stop and frisk 700,000 people this year.​About a hundred people gathered outside Pace University this afternoon to protest stop-and-frisk, the NYPD policy under which, over the last eight years, more than 3 million innocent New Yorkers -- overwhelmingly black and Latino ... More >>

Live: Two 7-Inch Singles That Should Come Out Of Last Night's Permanent Wave Covers Show

Permanent Wave's Halloween Covers Show Death by Audio October 27, 2011 Better than: Scrambling to put together my own costume. Last night, Brooklyn's Permanent Wave collective took over Death by Audio with what they were billing as a "ridiculously fun night of cover sets by some of our favorite l ... More >>

Q&A: Director Kerthy Fix on Her Endearing Film Who Took the Bomp? Le Tigre On Tour

DVD cover We are on the cusp of a riot-grrrl resurgence, or so we hope. Early last year, NYU's Fales Library announced that the institution had acquired Kathleen Hanna's 1989-1996 papers. Then in the fall, news of a Hanna documentary spread, with activist/poet/Sister Spit staple Sini Anderson at th ... More >>

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MUSIC TO MY EYES

A visual evolution of the New York sound

Live: Kathleen Hanna And Friends (Kim Gordon! Amy Andronicus! Care Bears On Fire!) Invade The Knitting Factory

Murray Hill introduces the night's star attraction. The Kathleen Hannah Project The Knitting Factory Saturday, December 12 Better than: Any actual battle of the bands that I've ever attended. We are gathered here tonight at the Knitting Factory to praise Kathleen Hanna, not bury her. Though it ... More >>

'Rah! Rah! Replica!: The Kathleen Hanna Project a/k/a Who Told You Christmas Wasn't Cool?'

No Age's Adrenaline Stage Continues

Everything in Between cements the L.A. semi-punks' graduation to Their Own Sound

THE WARMTH OF THE SUN

Have an arty party

Here Is the Real Christina Aguilera/Le Tigre/Peaches Collaboration, "My Girls"

You know it's the real one this time, among other reasons, because she actually shouts out two out of three Le Tigres--plus Peaches--on the song. Funny how Xtina run through the Kathleen Hanna filter ends up sounding something like fake patois; "female friendship, strength," and partying may be wh ... More >>

Week in Review: We Are A Viking Raiding Party of Good Will and Intention

These Are Powers, Secret Project Robot, Confetti. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne​In the week that everybody finally went outside for the summer, we hung out on a few rooftops ourselves. Twin Sister? Rooftop. The SFNY party? Rooftop. Good Co.? BBQ, outdoors, ground floor. So yeah. The rain drove us in ... More >>

Christina Aguilera's Le Tigre Song Is Here Not Here : "I Hate Boys" [Updated]

In the battle between Xtina's titantic, firehose voice and the 2010 zeitgeist--in the persons of Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj, and now Le Tigre, whose songwriting shows up on Aguilera's newest, "I Hate Boys" [cancel that: see below]--her singular bellow is winning handily, but that's not a bad thing. Re ... More >>

Correction: Christina Aguilera's "I Hate Boys" Is *Not* Co-Written By Le Tigre (Or Peaches, For That Matter)

​Right, mea culpa: that Xtina song that leaked earlier today, supposedly co-written by downtown New York femme punks Le Tigre? Not actually co-written by Le Tigre! This according to someone who has seen the liner notes to Christina's new record. Nor does the song feature Canadian electro-porns ... More >>

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Perez Hilton Was Right: Le Tigre are Contributing to Christina Aguilera's Bionic

First things first: credit where credit is due. From Perez Hilton rumor to Pitchfork speculative item to Le Tigre official confirmation--Xtina's album, when (er, if) it comes out in April, will feature songwriting contributions from NYC's most badass electro-feminist OGs. "Needless to say," writes ... More >>

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GIMME SHELTER

Helping your fellow animals

HAPPY BUST DAY

A glossy gets her Quinceañera

Former Le Tigre Member's Stuttering Sexuality

Sadie Benning draws a line at the Orchard Gallery

The Neurotic Boys of Summer

Battling sweltering temperatures and frail suitors as global warming takes over

The Birthday Party

Reminisces on last night's, last year's, and the last half-decade's parties as Fly Life turns five

World Music for Amateur Sexual Predators

Turning Gunk Into Fluff

Juicy dance veins and chic lobby minimalism from DFA

Sleepover Camp

Wide-eyed pop tunes with worn-out cassette production

Miss America Would Be Quaking in Her Dyed-To-Match Heels

Women Who Really Rock: Christina and Britney Be Damned

Indie's Clit-Rock Revolutionaries Throw a Bigger Slumber Party

Moonlighting

James Iha and John Cameron Mitchell take a break from the daily grind

There She Is, Miss L.E.S.: She'll Take the Town by Storm

Beer Babe

Minneapolites Visit New Belsen; See History but No Future

Listings

Runway Rundown

Music

Gay Pride

Clarify Your Dissent

Listings

Twat’s Going On

Chaos Theory

In Pop Music, It’s Anyone's Guess

Atomic Punks

Indie Rock Gets Mechanized

Flak On Both Sides

Moby and Merritt Vs. Hitters and Cheerleaders in a Bad Year for Nerds

Slaps in the Face

From Bedroom to Polemic, Indie Stays That Way

Brooklyn Collage

photographs by Sandra-Lee Phipps

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