Ad-Rock
Ad-Rock with the Beastie Boys in Barcelona, Spain on September 5, 2007.
Background information
Birth name	Adam Keefe Horovitz
Also known as	Adrock, King Adrock, Shadrach
Born	(1966-10-31) October 31, 1966 (age 45) South Orange, New Jersey United States
Origin	Manhattan, New York United States
Genres	Hip hop, rap rock, hardcore punk, alternative hip hop
Occupations	Rapper, musician, songwriter, guitarist
Instruments	Rapping, vocals, guitar, keyboards, sitar, Sp-1200
Years active	1981–present
Labels	Def Jam Records Grand Royal Records Capitol Records
Associated acts	Beastie Boys BS 2000
Website	www.beastieboys.com

Adam Horovitz - Ad-Rock 2007

Adam Keefe Horovitz (born October 31, 1966),^[1] better known as Ad-Rock or King Ad-Rock, is an American musician, guitarist, rapper, producer, and actor. He is best known as a member of the pioneering hip hop group the Beastie Boys.

Early life[link]

Horovitz was born in South Orange, New Jersey to Doris Horovitz (née Keefe) and playwright Israel Horovitz and raised in Manhattan, New York.^[2] His sister is producer Rachael Horovitz. His father is Jewish, and his mother, who was of Irish descent, was Catholic. He was raised in his Father's Jewish religion.^[3][4]

Career[link]

Horovitz began his music career with a stint in the punk rock band the Young and the Useless, who would often perform with the Beastie Boys. When Beastie Boys guitarist John Berry quit, Horovitz replaced him in 1982, when he was 16 years old.^[5] After Horovitz joined the band, the Beastie Boys changed their sound, evolving from a hardcore punk band to a more hip-hop oriented group. The band was signed to Def Jam, and released their debut album Licensed to Ill in 1986. The album was a huge commercial success, and spawned six hit singles. Seven further albums followed, and by 2010 the Beastie Boys had sold 22 million records in the United States alone, and 40 million worldwide. In 2012, the Beastie Boys were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

In addition to his work with the Beastie Boys, Horovitz also remixes numerous tracks for other artists under the alias 41 Small Stars.^[6]

Horovitz has also acted in several motion pictures and television shows. Some of his roles include Tim 'Chino' Doolan in Lost Angels (1989), Sam in Roadside Prophets (1992), and Repulski in Godspeed (2007).

Personal life[link]

He was married to actress Ione Skye from 1992-1999. Since 1997 he has been involved with riot grrrl artist Kathleen Hanna; they married in 2006. He wears a medical alert bracelet after suffering a full-on epileptic seizure.^[7]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Ad-Rock at the Internet Movie Database

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Audio Two were the Brooklyn, New York hip hop duo of emcee Kirk "Milk Dee" Robinson and DJ Nat "Gizmo" Robinson, most famous for its first hit, the classic "Top Billin'." The duo are also the older brothers of female hip-hop star MC Lyte.

History[link]

The duo’s debut single, "Make it Funky," was released in 1987, but it was the b-side, "Top Billin'," that hit, making not only the group instant stars but also making a deep cultural impact on hip hop. The beat by Daddy-O of Stetsasonic and Milk Dee's lyrics would be sampled and referenced time and time again, even by the group itself: both the group's full-length debut, 1988's What More Can I Say? and its 1990 follow-up, I Don't Care: The Album, were titled after lines from the song. However, the duo would never recapture its initial success. The singles of its second album, "I Get the Papers" and "On the Road Again," were only moderate hits. It was a time of rapid change in the hip hop market; gangsta rap was rising in popularity, and Audio Two found itself unsuccessfully struggling to maintain recording contracts and a fanbase. A third album, First Dead Indian, due for release in 1992, was canceled before it was released even though it had an assigned catalog number. Because of its downfall, the duo disbanded.

Audio Two did, however, pave the way for the duo's younger sister MC Lyte, who would launch her career with the hit single "I Cram To Understand You (Sam)," which went to #1 on the Billboard Hip-Hop chart in 1989. Lyte's 1998 album Seven & Seven would feature a remake of "Top Billin'"—with the original instrumental—this time a duet between her and her older brother. In 1994, Milk released a solo EP titled Never Dated on Rick Rubin's American Recordings. While the EP was notable for its single "Spam," a duet with the Beastie Boys' Adrock with drum programming by Mike D, aside from the devoted Beastie Boys fanbase the album generated little interest. Milk would eventually rediscover success by producing singer Eamon, who recorded the 2004 hit "Fuck It (I Don't Want You Back)."

In 2007, Milk Dee recorded a verse for a remix of "I Get Money" by 50 Cent, thanking all the music artists that sampled "Top Billin'," which earned him royalties.

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

• 1988: What More Can I Say?
• 1990: I Don't Care: The Album
• 1992: First Dead Indian

Singles[link]

• 1986: "A Christmas Rhyme / Audio Two's Jam"
• 1987: "Make it Funky/Top Billin'"
• 1987: "Hickeys Around My Neck"
• 1988: "I Don't Care"
• 1988: "Many Styles" / "The Questions"
• 1989: "Paquito el chocolatero"
• 1989: "I Get the Papers"
• 1990: "On The Road Again" / "Interlude One"

References[link]

External links[link]

• Who Is Milk D at BeastieMania.com
• Milk D's Never Dated review at RapReviews.com
• Milk Dee Interview at HoodHype.com
• Milk Dee interview at RiotSound.com
• MC Milk Dee at MySpace.com

Mike D
Background information
Birth name	Michael Diamond
Also known as	Mike D, Country Mike, The King of Lunch, Meshach
Born	(1965-11-20) November 20, 1965 (age 46)
Origin	New York City, United States
Genres	Hip hop, rap rock, hardcore punk, alternative hip hop
Occupations	Rapper, musician, songwriter, drummer
Instruments	Rapping, vocals, drums, percussion, keyboards
Years active	1979–present
Labels	Def Jam Records Grand Royal Records Capitol Records
Associated acts	Beastie Boys The Latch Brothers
Website	www.beastieboys.com

Michael Diamond, better known as Mike D (born November 20, 1965^[1]), is a founding member of New York City hip hop group the Beastie Boys. Mike D raps, sings, and plays drums alongside fellow members MCA, Ad-Rock and Mix Master Mike.^[2]

Early life[link]

Mike D was born in New York City. Mike was raised in an upper-middle-class Jewish household.^[2] He attended Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York for six months.^[3]

Career[link]

In 1979, Diamond co-founded the band The Young Aborigines. In 1981, Adam Yauch, aka MCA, a friend and follower of the band became their bass player, and from the suggestion of their then-guitar player, John Berry, the band changed their name to the Beastie Boys.^[4] By 1983, Adam Horovitz (Ad-Rock) joined to form the lasting Beastie Boys trio, and their sound began to shift away from punk to hip-hop.^[5] In 1992, Mike D founded the Beastie Boys' now-defunct record label Grand Royal Records.

Personal life[link]

In 1993, Mike married film, television and music video director Tamra Davis. They have two boys, Skyler and Davis.^[6] He has two brothers, Stephen and David.

References[link]

Adam Yauch
Yauch performing in 2007
Background information
Birth name	Adam Nathaniel Yauch
Also known as	MCA Nathanial Hörnblowér, Abednego
Born	(1964-08-05)August 5, 1964 Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Died	May 4, 2012(2012-05-04) (aged 47) Brooklyn, New York, U.S.[1]
Genres	Hip hop, rap rock, hardcore punk, alternative hip hop
Occupations	Rapper, musician, songwriter, director, film distributor
Instruments	MC, vocals, bass guitar, keyboards
Years active	1979–2012
Labels	Def Jam Grand Royal Capitol
Associated acts	Beastie Boys
Website	www.beastieboys.com
Notable instruments
ARP-2600 Ampeg AEB-1 Fender Jazz Ampeg Electric Upright Roland TR-808

Adam Nathaniel Yauch (pronounced /ˈjaʊk/; August 5, 1964 – May 4, 2012) was an American rapper, songwriter, film director, and human rights activist. He was best known as a founding member of the Beastie Boys - a hip hop group that recorded between 1985–2012, with many of their releases becoming certified platinum selling. He was frequently known by his stage name, MCA, and sometimes worked under the pseudonym Nathanial Hörnblowér.

Yauch founded Oscilloscope Laboratories, an independent film production and distribution company based in New York City. A Buddhist, he was involved in the Tibetan independence movement and organized the Tibetan Freedom Concert.

Early life[link]

Yauch was born an only child in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Frances, a social worker, and Noel Yauch, a painter and architect.^[2] His father had been raised a Catholic and his mother was Jewish; Yauch himself received a non-religious upbringing,^[3][4] although his and his bandmates' Jewish heritage was often referenced in media.^[5][6][7][8]

Yauch attended Edward R. Murrow High School in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn. In high school, he taught himself to play the bass guitar.^[9] Yauch formed the Beastie Boys with John Berry, Kate Schellenbach, and Michael Diamond.^[10] They played their first show — while still a hardcore punk band in the vein of Reagan Youth — on his 17th birthday. He attended Bard College for two years before dropping out.^[11]

Career[link]

When Yauch was 22, the Beastie Boys, now performing as a hip hop trio (via Rick Rubin), released their first album Licensed to Ill on Def Jam Records. Under the pseudonym "Nathanial Hörnblowér", Yauch directed many of the Beastie Boys' music videos.^[11][12]

In 2002, Yauch built a recording studio in New York City called Oscilloscope Laboratories. He began an independent film distributing company called Oscilloscope Pictures.^[13] Yauch directed the 2006 Beastie Boys concert film, Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That!, although in the DVD extras for the film, the title character in "A Day in the Life of Nathanial Hörnblowér" is played by David Cross. He also directed the 2008 film Gunnin' For That#1 Spot about eight high school basketball prospects at the Boost Mobile Elite 24 Hoops Classic at Rucker Park in Harlem, New York City. Yauch produced Build a Nation, the comeback album from hardcore/punk band Bad Brains. Oscilloscope Laboratories also distributed Adam Yauch's directorial film debut, basketball documentary Gunnin' For That#1 Spot (2008) as well as Kelly Reichardt's Wendy and Lucy (2008) and Oren Moverman’s The Messenger (2009).^[14]

The Beastie Boys had sold 40 million records worldwide by 2010.^[11] In April 2012, the group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Yauch was inducted in absentia due to his illness.^[9] His bandmates paid tribute to Yauch; a letter from Yauch was read to the crowd.^[15]

In 2011, Yauch received the Charles Flint Kellogg Award in Arts and Letters from Bard College, the college he attended for two years. The award is "given in recognition of a significant contribution to the American artistic or literary heritage."^[16]

Personal life[link]

Yauch was a practicing Buddhist.^[17] He became an important voice in the Tibetan independence movement.^[18][19] He created the Milarepa Fund, a non-profit organization devoted to Tibetan independence, and organized several benefit concerts to support the cause, including the Tibetan Freedom Concert.^[9][14][20]

Yauch was also a strong supporter of feminism and LGBT rights, apologizing for early lyrics which he retroactively deemed offensive. In 1999, the Beastie Boys sent a letter to Time Out New York apologizing for homophobic lyrics, and in their song "Sure Shot" Yauch sings "I want to say a little something that’s long overdue/ The disrespect to women has got to be through/ To all the mothers and sisters and wives and friends/ I want to offer my love and respect to the end."

^[9][21]

He and his wife, Dechen Wangdu, had a daughter, Tenzin Losel, in 1998.^[9][21]

Illness and death[link]

In 2009, Yauch was diagnosed and treated for a cancerous parotid gland and a lymph node and underwent surgery and radiation therapy, delaying the release of Hot Sauce Committee Part Two and the subsequent tour.^[22][23] He was unable to appear in music videos for the album. Yauch can be seen chewing gum in almost all of his performances after his diagnosis, the gum was used to help with his moisture and mouth issues.^[9][14] Yauch became a vegan under the recommendation of his Tibetan doctors.^[24] At the time, Yauch described the cancer as "very treatable".^[25]

Yauch died at age 47 on May 4, 2012, after a three-year battle with throat cancer.^[1][26][27] Upon his death, Russell Simmons of Def Jam Records said that Yauch "was incredibly sweet and the most sensitive artist, who I loved dearly." Ben Stiller tweeted that Yauch "stood for integrity as an artist."^[11] Rapper Q-Tip shared a personal message, sending his condolences out to the trio's surviving members, tweeting "RIP yauch and thank u mike and adam n adam 4 all of your help, the tours, the bball games, n great times. a humanitarian a tru friend."^[28]

Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam said that Yauch was "a crazy talent whose contributions with his band were inspirational and consistently ground breaking".^[29] Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke wrote, "We looked up to the Beastie Boys a lot when we were starting out and how they maintained artistic control making wicked records but still were on a major label, and the Tibetan Freedom Concerts they organized had a very big influence on me personally and the way Adam conducted himself and dealt with it all impressed me a lot. He was a mellow and [very] smart guy. May he rest in peace."^[30] Eminem said in an interview, "Adam Yauch brought a lot of positivity into the world and I think it's obvious to anyone how big of an influence the Beastie Boys were on me and so many others."^[31]

Beastie Boys rapper Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz posted a note on the band's Tumblr page about the death of Yauch. He wrote, "As you can imagine, shit is just fkd up right now. But I wanna say thank you to all our friends and family (which are kinda one in the same) for all the love and support. I'm glad to know that all the love that Yauch has put out into the world is coming right back at him."^[32]

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Adam Yauch

• Oscilloscope homepage
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Adam Yauch on Charlie Rose
• MCA at the Internet Movie Database
• Works by or about Adam Yauch in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• MCA at the Notable Names Database

Interviews

• Interview in Shambhala Sun
• Audio interview on the.LIFE Files
• Interview on "Gunnin' For That #1 Spot" at IFC, June 2008

Kathleen Hanna
Kathleen Hanna with Bikini Kill: January 17, 1996
Background information
Also known as	Julie Ruin
Born	(1969-11-12) November 12, 1969 (age 42) Portland, Oregon, USA
Origin	Calverton, Maryland
Genres	Punk, riot grrrl, electroclash, indie rock
Occupations	Musician, activist, writer
Instruments	Vocals, guitar, bass guitar, sampler, drums, drum machine
Years active	1990–present
Associated acts	Bikini Kill, Le Tigre, Julie Ruin The Julie Ruin

Kathleen Hanna (born November 12, 1969)^[1] is an American musician, feminist activist, and punk zine writer. In the early- to mid-1990s she was the lead singer and songwriter of Bikini Kill, before fronting Le Tigre in the late 1990s and early 2000s. In 1998, Hanna released a solo album under the name Julie Ruin and since 2010 has been working on a project called The Julie Ruin.

Biography[link]

Childhood[link]

Born in Portland, Oregon, Hanna moved with her family to Calverton, Maryland in 1971. As Hanna's father changed occupations, the family moved several more times. Hanna's parents were divorced while she was in high school.

Hanna first became interested in feminism around the age of nine, after her mother took her to a rally in Washington D.C. where feminist icon Gloria Steinem spoke.

Though several years would pass before she became an outspoken feminist, the event left an impression on her. In a 2000 interview with BUST magazine, Hanna recalled:

In the 2006 documentary, Don't Need You: the Herstory of Riot Grrrl, Hanna elaborates on the effect feminism had on her in childhood, recalling that her interest grew when her mother checked out a copy of Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique" from the library. Yet Hanna and her mother's involvement in the women's rights movement had to be done quietly in the years before her parents' divorce, due to her father's disapproval.^[3] Hanna has also appeared in the documentary Who's Afraid of Kathy Acker? Don't Need You: The Herstory of Riot Grrrl is titled after a Bikini Kill song.^[4]

College[link]

Hanna attended The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington in the late 1980s. During this time she began working as a stripper to support herself while studying photography. Working with fellow Evergreen student and photographer Aaron Baush-Greene, she set up a photo exhibit featuring the pair's photography, which dealt, respectively, with sexism and AIDS. However, the school administrators took the photos down before they got the chance to be viewed, an act of censorship that prompted what Hanna refers to as her "first foray into activism"–the creation of an independent feminist art gallery called Reko Muse with friends Heidi Arbogast and Tammy Rae Carland. The three women then formed a band called Amy Carter, which put on shows before the art exhibitions.^[5]

Hanna also began doing spoken word performances that addressed sexism and violence against women, issues with which she became concerned after volunteering for a domestic violence organization over the next two years. Eventually she abandoned spoken word in favor of music, being inspired by one of her favorite writers, countercultural icon Kathy Acker. Hanna recalled, "Acker asked me why writing was important to me, and I said, 'Because I felt like I'd never been listened to and I had a lot to say,' and she said, 'Then why are you doing spoken word—no one goes to spoken word shows! You should get in a band.'"^[6]

Hanna later started another band called Viva Knievel that toured the United States for two months before disbanding. Upon returning to Olympia, Hanna began collaborating with fellow Evergreen student and punk zinester Tobi Vail after seeing a performance of The Go Team, (a band made up of Vail, Billy Karren, and Calvin Johnson) and recognizing Vail as the mastermind behind the fanzine Jigsaw, which Hanna greatly admired and loved.

Bikini Kill[link]

Hanna and Tobi Vail's first collaboration was a zine called Revolution Girl Style Now. This led to a later zine titled Bikini Kill, a response to sexism in the punk rock scene, written with fellow Evergreen student and friend Kathi Wilcox. The three women decided to form a band to personify their ideals and recruited Vail’s bandmate Karren as the fourth member, naming the band after their zine.

Bikini Kill soon became part of the seminal Olympia, Washington music scene of the early 1990s, which was characterized by political awareness, a strong artistic do-it-yourself ethic, and an emphasis on local collaboration and support.

The band's first release for the Kill Rock Stars label was a self-titled EP produced by Ian MacKaye of Fugazi. Bikini Kill then toured the UK, recording a split LP with UK band Huggy Bear. This tour was filmed and the band was interviewed by Lucy Thane for her documentary, It Changed My Life: Bikini Kill In The UK. Upon returning to the U.S., the band began working with Joan Jett, who produced their single, "New Radio/Rebel Girl". After the release of this record, Hanna began co-writing some songs with Jett for her new album.

At the same time Hanna produced several solo pieces for the Kill Rock Stars "Wordcore" series of recordings, including the 7" single "Rockstar" and the song "I Wish I Was Him" (a song written by Ben Lee and originally recorded by his band Noise Addict about alternative rock heartthrob Evan Dando^[7]) on the KRS compilation Rock Stars Kill.

In 1994, Hanna appeared in the Sonic Youth video for Bull in the Heather.

The first two Bikini Kill EPs were released on CD as the appropriately and very literally-titled The C.D. Version of the First Two Records in 1993.^[8] The band released two more full-length albums, Pussy Whipped in 1994 and Reject All American in 1996, and in 1998, Kill Rock Stars released Bikini Kill: The Singles, a collection of the group's seven inch and compilation tracks. Bikini Kill broke up on friendly terms around April 1998.

Influence on Riot Grrrl[link]

In 1991, the band spent a summer in Washington, D.C., where Hanna began collaborating with Allison Wolfe, Molly Neuman and Jen Smith from the band Bratmobile on the zine riot grrrl, which became a call to action for increased feminist activity and female involvement in the punk rock scene. In a 2000 interview with Index Magazine, Hanna related:

Hanna also earlier stated:

^[9]

Le Tigre[link]

Hanna performing with Le Tigre in the early 2000s, in Indianapolis, Indiana.

In Portland, Oregon, Hanna began working with friend and zine editor Johanna Fateman on a live show for Julie Ruin. The collaboration resulted in the two briefly forming a band called The Troublemakers, named after a G. B. Jones film,^[10] which ended when Fateman relocated to New York City to attend art school.

Hanna joined Fateman on the East Coast, and with the addition of filmmaker Sadie Benning, they started another band called Le Tigre (French for The Tiger). This band continued to pursue a more electronic style of music similar to the sampler-driven sound Hanna had begun to explore with Julie Ruin. The band recorded for the Mr. Lady Records label, its first recording being the self-titled Le Tigre, which included the singles "Hot Topic" and "Deceptacon." After the first record, Sadie Benning left the band to be replaced by JD Samson for the follow-up CD Feminist Sweepstakes. When Mr. Lady Records closed down, the group switched labels to Universal Records for the 2004 release of This Island.

Le Tigre is currently on hiatus. According to the Le Tigre website, during her time off from the band Hanna has been volunteering as a band coach for "The Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls". She also taught an art class at NYU's grad school in the Fall 2007 semester.^[11] She is married to Adam Horovitz, a.k.a. Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys. The two have been involved since 1997, and were married in 2006.

The Julie Ruin[link]

In 2010, Hanna announced she was reprising her 1997 act Julie Ruin into "The Julie Ruin" with Kenny Mellman and Kathi Wilcox, and that they would be creating a new record. On December 11 at the Knitting Factory in New York City, the new The Julie Ruin played its first show, mostly consisting of covers.^[12][13]

Abortion[link]

In interviews, Hanna has been frank and willing to openly discuss her decision to have an abortion when she was younger, saying in one particular interview: "It was one of the first things I did on my own; I worked at McDonald's, raised the money and did it. I'm really, really passionate about pro-choice, because I wouldn't be here talking to you right now if I'd had a kid at 15." Hanna has expressed her belief that talking about her abortion will encourage other women to openly discuss the topic as well, helping to decrease the social stigma that often accompanies such discussion and also helping to sustain political momentum and further progress with regard to the pro-choice movement.^[14]

In popular culture[link]

• She was mentioned in an episode of The L Word. A group of friends are playing celebrity at a dinner party, when the character Shane McCutcheon selects her name. Most of the lesbians seem to know it's her from the description -"Le Tigre, and Julie Ruin, Bikini Kill"- yet the straight people at the party have no clue who she is. This results in the character of Alice joking, "Oh, she just pretty much started the whole riot grrrl music scene, but hey...", which leaves one straight man asking, "What's the riot grrrl music scene?"^[15]

• Although she did so unintentionally, Hanna inspired the name for Nirvana's 1991 breakthrough single, "Smells Like Teen Spirit", when she wrote "Kurt Smells Like Teen Spirit" on Kurt Cobain's wall. At the time, Kurt was unaware that Kathleen was referring to a deodorant marketed specifically to young women, and thought that besides having a nice ring to it, the phrase also helped to succinctly summarize, organize and unify the then-nascent song's seemingly-disparate lyrical content into a theme.^[16][17]

• On the Fourth of July, 1995— while playing at the Lollapalooza Music Festival, Courtney Love punched Hanna in the face, after pelting her with candy and throwing a lit cigarette at her. Hanna had allegedly instigated the fight by making a joke about Love's daughter shooting up heroin in a closet.^[18] This is also referenced in the below-mentioned NOFX song "Kill Rock Stars" with the lines "I wish I could have seen Courtney/demonstrate some real misogyny."

• Hanna wrote the introduction to performance artist Karen Finley's ten-year summary of work, The Reality Show, published by The Feminist Press in 2011.

• The Pinhead Gunpowder song "Kathleen," from the EP "Shoot the Moon" is written about Hanna

• The NOFX song "Kill Rock Stars," from the album So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes, is written about Hanna, referencing her by name ("Kill the rockstars? How ironic, Kathleen. You've been crowned the newest queen"). It is supposedly about singer Fat Mike's feelings that Hanna's feminist views are rather anti-men; "I thought the goal here was mutual respect" and "can't change the world by hating men" are two lines from the song. The song's title itself is a reference to riot grrrl record label Kill Rock Stars. Hanna responded in Le Tigre's song "Deceptacon" with the lyrics "Linoleum floor, linoleum floor/Your lyrics are dumb like a linoleum floor," referencing the NOFX song "Linoleum."

Discography[link]

Bikini Kill[link]

Albums[link]

• Revolution Girl Style Now! self-released cassette (1991)
• Bikini Kill (EP) on Kill Rock Stars (1991)
• Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah split LP with Huggy Bear on Catcall Records in the UK, Kill Rock Stars in the US (1993)
• Pussy Whipped on Kill Rock Stars (1993)
• The C.D. Version of the First Two Records, compilation (1994)
• Reject All American on Kill Rock Stars (1996)

Singles[link]

• Wordcore Volume 1 7" single on Kill Rock Stars
• New Radio/Rebel Girl 7" single on Kill Rock Stars (1993)
• The Anti-Pleasure Dissertation Single on Kill Rock Stars (1994)
• I Like Fucking/I Hate Danger 7" single on Kill Rock Stars (1995)

Compilations[link]

• "Feels Blind" on Kill Rock Stars LP/CD (1991)
• "Candy" on Throw: The Yoyo Studio Compilation on Yoyo Records (1991)
• "Daddy's Lil' Girl" on Give Me Back LP, Ebullition Records (1991)
• "Suck My Left One" on There's A Dyke In The Pit, Outpunk Records (1992)
• Bikini Kill: The Singles (1998)
• Sinner, Joan Jett, contributes to the songs "Five", "Watersign", "Baby Blue" and "Tube Talkin" (2007)

Julie Ruin[link]

• Julie Ruin on Kill Rock Stars (1997)

Le Tigre[link]

Full-Length albums[link]

• Le Tigre (1999) Mr. Lady
• Feminist Sweepstakes (2001) Mr. Lady
• This Island (2004) Universal

Singles and EPs[link]

• Suture - "Good Girl" Split - Dischord 76.5 & Decomposition 1. Recorded at WGNS Studios 8/91
• Hot Topic (1999)
• From the Desk of Mr. Lady EP (2001)
• Remix (2003)
• Standing In The Way Of Control 12" split EP with The Gossip on Kill Rock Stars
• This Island Remixes Volume 1 EP, Chicks On Speed Records
• This Island Remixes Volume 2EP, Chicks On Speed Records

Miscellaneous[link]

• Real Fiction, The Fakes, Kill Rock Stars
• Inside Out, Internal External, K Records
• Featuring..., Internal External, K Records
• Rock Star / Mean (wordcore v. 1) as Kathleen Hanna and Slim Moon, Kill Rock Stars^[19]
• Rock Stars Kill, includes Hanna's "I Wish I Was Him", Various Artists, Kill Rock Stars, 1994
• Ball-Hog or Tugboat? LP/CD "Heatbeat"-Mike Watt
• Decomposition 00, Suture, Kill Rock Stars, 1991
• Suture!, Suture, Kill Rock Stars, 1992
• Home Alive, The Art Of Self Defense, Epic, 1996, includes "Go Home", written and performed with Joan Jett and Evil Stig
• Realistes, Comet Gain, Hanna featured on the track "Ripped-Up Suit"
• Play Pretty For Baby, The Nation of Ulysses, includes backing vocals by Hanna
• American Idiot, Green Day, the song "Letterbomb" begins with vocals by Hanna as Whatsername
• Viva Knieval 7" single, Ultrasound Records, 1990
• "60 second wipe out" Atari Teenage Riot Hanna featured on lead vocals on the song 'No Success' 1999
• "Playgroup" Playgroup Hanna featured on lead vocals on the song 'Bring it on' 2001
• "Wordy Rappinghood" Chicks on Speed features Hanna on vocals 2003
• "Kiss on the lips" from the album 'Naked' from Joan Jett is a duet with Hanna 2004
• "Hey Hey My My Yo Yo" Junior Senior Hanna featured on the song 'Dance, Chance, Romance' 2007

Bibliography[link]

Fanzines[link]

• My life with Evan Dando: Popstar
• The Kathleen Hanna newsletter
• Le Tigre zine/tour program

References[link]

External links[link]

• Laurie Weeks interviews Kathleen Hanna
• Salon.com audio "RockStar" mp3
• Kathleen's Herstory from the Le Tigre site
• Two interviews with Hanna on the NPR show Fresh Air: one from 2000, and one from 2001
• Kathleen Hanna at the Internet Movie Database
• Kathleen Hanna site
• Kathleen Hanna article in Ms. Magazine
• Kathleen Interview by Hilary Frey