5/17/2023 0 Comments Jennifer miro![]() However, it was more than just something to do. To a certain extent, Riot Grrrl was born out of a typical school’s-out-boredom familiar to many college students. The bands were on hiatus due to the absence of some members, and so looking for other ways to fill their time. It was a combination of these riots and the Supreme Court’s upholding of the gag rule that wormed their way into her mind and prompted her to write a letter to Allison about the upcoming summer containing the words “girl riot.” 4 When Revolution Summer Girl Style Now finally came, the DC city murder rate hit an all-time high, and protest felt relevant. Jen was in DC through the Cinco de Mayo riots of 1991 that erupted after a Salvadoran immigrant was shot by a police officer. During that same week, they met DC scenester Jen Smith. In Spring 1991 Bratmobile, the band that Molly and Allison had started with almost no experience, went to DC and recruited Erin Smith, the girl behind Teenage Gang Debs, a fanzine about old TV shows. 3 A year later, they had come out with Girl Germs, a zine that Molly printed on the copy machine of a Capitol Hill office where she has interned in high school. Tobi already produced a fanzine, Jigsaw, which Sara Marcus describes as “thick and hyperliterate” and gave a copy to University of Oregon freshmen Allison Wolfe and Molly Neuman. With their diverse experiences and versions of feminism, they came up with the title Revolution Girl Style Now to describe their shared vision. Jennifer Miro of the punk band Nuns remembers that “women didn’t go to see punk bands anymore because they were afraid of getting killed.” 2 At the turn of the decade, Tobi Vail and Kathleen Hanna had just started their female punk-rock band Bikini Kill. ![]() 1 These had a more aggressive sound and performed a consciously macho persona, so it’s no wonder that the mosh pit became a place for violence and anger. ![]() But as the ‘80s drew on, hyper-masculine bands emerged, especially along America’s West Coast. Zines and Punk RockĮarly history of American punk rock is full of women such as Patti Smith in the east and the Go-Go’s in the west. ![]() Olener and Miro resurrected the Nuns in the late 90s, although their trashy goth rock fixations by now seemed rather dated.Click on zine page to expand and view footnotes. The Nuns re-formed again in 1986, without Escovedo, to record a completely different record, the icy, dance-fixated Rumania. Alejandro Escovedo, San Antonio, Texas, USA guitar), Jennifer Miro (keyboards, vocals), Mike Varney (bass) and Jeff Raphael (drums) were among those passing through the Nuns’ ranks, of whom Escovedo subsequently joined Rank And File and the True Believers, before embarking on a solo career. Ritchie Detrick (vocals), Jeff Olener (vocals), Alejandro Escovedo (b. ![]() Their work appeared on several compilations, including Rodney On The Roq and Experiments In Destiny, but having split up in 1979, they re-formed the following year to complete The Nuns, only to disband once more. Their insubstantial progress was further limited by continual line-up problems, but such frustrations coalesced to astonishing effect in their ‘Savage’/‘Suicide Child’ single. Formed in San Francisco, California, USA, in 1977, the Nuns were one of the city’s leading punk/new wave attractions, forerunning the rock and outrage antics of the Dead Kennedys. ![]()
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