Bikini Kill Share Unreleased Track "Ocean Song"

Bikini Kill‘s 1991 demo tape Revolution Girl Style Now is getting reissued on September 22 via Bikini Kill Records. It comes with some unreleased tracks. After sharing “Playground”, check out “Ocean Song” via The New York Times.

The Times also interviewed Kathleen Hanna about the reissue. She said that although she was hesitant to revisit the old material, “I was just laughing the whole way through.”

“To hear this material kind of shows the link that we had to the Northwest and to the music scene there; I really love that, because I feel like a lot of times, that gets lost,” Hanna says. “It’s kind of written about like, ‘these freak feminist anomalies who sprung up out of nowhere.’ We actually were friends with people in so-called grunge bands, even though nobody called themselves grunge bands.”

Hanna said that “Ocean Song” was inspired by stories she heard while she worked at SafePlace, a shelter for survivors of sexual abuse and domestic violence in Olympia, Washington. Read the full interview here.

Read “Feeling Myself: Kathleen Hanna Gets Back to Work”.

Watch a trailer for the reissue:

Watch Kathleen Hanna and Kathi Wilcox’s current band the Julie Ruin perform “Ha Ha Ha” at this year’s Pitchfork Music Festival:

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