thanks to Tal for posting Laura Barton's 'legacy of riot grrrl' piece. it's (obviously) the briefest of overviews without any info that you probably don't know already, but a nice came-out-of-nowhere article nonetheless (peep the comments too!).
strange, as i just did a writeup at Oh Wowee! on the Raincoats first album, which i would not have discovered (at the age i did) if it weren't for the RG scene. umm you should check out Oh Wowee! regularly, btw, for free out of print goods and fantastic writings.
another great mystery of things in threes: an email a few weeks ago from a former prof asking for some information from my undergraduate thesis (appropriately titled: "Suck My Left One").
hmm.
Weirdly, I first heard of the Raincoats because of Kurt Cobain. I saw weirdly because I was never a Nirvana fan, yet I accepted him as a taste-maker.
ReplyDeleteso many people i know learned about the Raincoats via Cobain! he wrote really great liner notes in i think "insecticide" about being in London and trying to track down a 2nd copy of the LP.
ReplyDeleteI believe the liner-notes to my copy of their first record actually goes so far as to say it was being released on cd mainly because of the interest Cobain generated. I seem to remember him also getting them back together, to tour with Nirvana in the UK.
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