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List of riot grrrl bands

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List of riot grrrl bands

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The following is a list of notable bands associated with riot grrrl from the early 1990s to the present, mainly in the United States and United Kingdom.

NB: some of these bands significantly pre-dated the original riot grrrl era (e.g. Frightwig, Fifth Column, Mecca Normal, Scrawl, L7), while others may be more accurately categorized as grunge – see also 'foxcore' (e.g. Lunachicks, Babes in Toyland, Dickless, Calamity Jane), alternative rock (e.g. Jack Off Jill), hardcore (e.g. Spitboy, Pantychrist), garage punk (e.g. Red Aunts), queercore (e.g. Tribe 8, Team Dresch, the Third Sex, Sta-Prest, the Butchies, the Need), post punk/no wave (e.g. Erase Errata), digital hardcore (Lolita Storm) or indiepop (e.g. Angelica).

Other bands did not identify with riot grrrl during its first wave of the early 1990s but became associated via personal and artistic connections (e.g. 7 Year Bitch), or by fans and/or the media due to aesthetic and genre similarities (e.g. Hole, the Gits). Such groups have sometimes been called "riot grrrl adjacent". have led to the label being disputed.

A list of notable bands that specifically self-identified as riot grrrl during the initial early 1990s period would be small, potentially including only Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, Heavens to Betsy, Excuse 17, Emily's Sassy Lime, and Lucid Nation in the US, and Huggy Bear, Linus, Pussycat Trash and Skinned Teen in the UK.

A

  • Adickdid
  • Angelica
[[Bikini Kill

B

  • Babes in Toyland
  • Bad Static
  • Bangs
  • Be Your Own Pet
  • Big Joanie
  • Bikini Kill
  • Blood Sausage
  • Bratmobile
  • The Butchies

C

  • Cat Crash
  • Cadallaca
  • Calamity Jane
  • Care Bears on Fire
  • Cheap Perfume
  • Casual Dots
  • Childbirth
  • The Coathangers
  • Cold Cold Hearts
  • Coping Saw
  • Courtney Love
  • Cub

D

  • Daddy Issues
  • Dickless
  • Dominatrix
  • Dream Nails
  • Dream Wife

E

  • The Element of Crime
  • Emily's Sassy Lime
  • Erase Errata
  • The Ethical Debating Society
  • Excuse 17

F

  • Fabulous Disaster
  • Fifth Column
  • Finally Punk
  • Frantic Spiders
  • Free Kitten
  • Frightwig
  • Froggy
  • The Frumpies

G

  • Girlpool
  • The Gits
  • Gossip (early)
  • Grrrl Gang
  • gSp
  • GURR
Huggy Bear

H

  • Heartless Martin
  • Heavenly
  • Heavens to Betsy
  • Hole (early)
  • Huggy Bear

J

  • Jack Off Jill
  • The Julie Ruin

K

  • Kenickie (early)
  • Kitten Forever
  • Kate Nash (after 2010)
  • The Kut

L

  • L7
  • Le Tigre
  • The Linda Lindas
  • Linus
  • Lois
  • Lolita Storm
  • Lucid Nation
  • Lunachicks
  • Lung Leg

M

  • Mac N' Toss
  • Mambo Taxi
  • Mecca Normal
  • Mika Miko

N

  • The Need
  • Nots

O

  • Otoboke Beaver

P

  • Pantychrist
  • Partyline
  • Period Pains
  • Petty Crime
  • Phantom Pregnancies
  • Pinkshift
  • Problem Patterns
  • Pussycat Trash
  • Pussy Riot

Q

  • Quixotic
  • The Quails

R

  • Red Aunts
  • Red Monkey
  • The Regrettes

S

  • Scrawl
  • Screaming Females
  • The Shondes
  • Shoplifting
  • Shrag
  • Sidi Bou Said
  • Sister George
  • Skating Polly
  • Skinned Teen
  • Skinny Girl Diet
  • Slant 6
  • Sleater-Kinney
  • Slutever
  • Spider and the Webs
  • Spitboy
  • Splendora
  • Sta-Prest
  • Suture
  • Swan Island

T

  • t@b grrrl
  • Tacocat
  • Tattle Tale
  • Team Dresch
  • The Third Sex
  • Throwing Up
  • Tribe 8
[[Wild Flag
  • Tunabunny
  • The Tuts

V

  • VIAL
  • Voodoo Queens

W

  • Wetdog
  • Wild Flag
  • White Lung
  • The Wimmins' Institute

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