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With this new comp, Lauren Denitzio — former vocalist/guitarist of New Brunswick pop-punk outfit the Measure — has collected tracks by 17 of the best current underground female-fronted pop punk bands … … … . . Denitzio’s effort is a result of the frustrating truth that, even after years of playing and touring, women are still often mistaken for merch girls or girlfriends in the male-dominated music scene.
— from my October 2011 review of “Are You With the Band? A compilation of female-fronted pop punk” for the Boston Phoenix
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I felt powerless not because I was weak but because I lived in a society that drained girls of power. Boys harassed me not because I invited it but because they were taught it was acceptable and saw that no one intervened. These things weren’t my fault, but we could fight them all together.
— Sara Marcus, Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot-Grrrl Revolution (p. 8)
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Found the first outline of the 30-something page paper that originally inspired this blog. Hope to start using this more regularly
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From “The Importance of Being Ian: Fugazi front man Ian MacKaye does women justice and men proud” by Cathie Glassby in the Winter 2000 issue of BUST.
