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Lead Performance: Bikini Kill; Genre: Punk

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By David Browne

David Browne

David Browne is EW's music critic and author of ''Dream Brother: The Lives & Music of Jeff & Tim Buckley'' (HarperCollins)

BIKINI KILL Reject All American (Kill Rock Stars) Best known for being slugged by Courtney Love last year, Kathleen Hanna possesses one of the great indie-rock voices; she's a melodic screamer who can sneer and wail with any of her Mohawked male peers. Her band's second and tightest album is 28 wonderfully concentrated minutes of unrelenting punk, with mid-tempo stops that pay homage to Kurt Cobain and Tony Randall. The Go-Go's as riot grrrls. A-

Posted Apr 12, 1996

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