Bikini Kill's song " Rebel Girl " is number 445 in Blender's The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born.

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.

Immediately after Kirk's departure from Disney he kept busy appearing in several of the 1960s beach party films and teen movie films, notably in American International Pictures ' Pajama Party ( taking Frankie Avalon's usual lead role opposite Annette Funicello while Avalon only appears in cameo role ), The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini ( with Deborah Walley ), and later in the independent It's a Bikini World ( paired again with Walley ).

Kathleen Hanna was the lead singer of Bikini Kill: a riot grrrl band formed in 1990.

At Lollapalooza on July 4, 1995, in George, Washington, Love punched Bikini Kill singer Kathleen Hanna in the face and pelted her with candy and a burning cigarette, after Hanna had allegedly made a drug joke about Love's two-year-old daughter.

The Bikini Kill song, " Rebel Girl ", as well as the title track on Luecking's CD Big Broad, were inspired by Luecking's friendship with Bikini Kill singer Kathleen Hanna.

* Kathleen Hanna's Bikini Kill Archive at Wordpress. com

Le Tigre is an American electroclash band, formed by Kathleen Hanna ( formerly of Bikini Kill ) and Johanna Fateman in 1998 in New York City.

Julie Ruin is the independent record produced by Kathleen Hanna under the name Julie Ruin in 1997, while taking a break from Bikini Kill.

In December 2010, Kathleen Hanna and former Bikini Kill band mate Kathi Wilcox previewed a performance of their new project The Julie Ruin at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn.

Tobi Vail went on to form Bikini Kill with Kathleen Hanna, Kathi Wilcox and occasional Go Team member, Billy Karren.

Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre cites this as one of her favorite films.

Contributors to Girl Germs included Kathleen Hanna and Tobi Vail who authored their own zines, Jigsaw and Bikini Kill.

Like Hanna and Vail who reappropriated the name Bikini Kill for their own band, Wolfe and Neuman joined with guitarist Erin Smith to form their own, Bratmobile, in 1991.

The term " Metal Bikini " refers to the iconic slave girl costume worn by Princess Leia when she was held captive in Jabba the Hutt's palace, at the beginning of Return of the Jedi.

Although the label's music has never reflected just a single genre or underground music movement, it is arguably most notable for releasing the work of various riot grrrl bands during the mid -' 90s, some of which, especially the aforementioned Bikini Kill, generated a good deal of press attention.

Rising up in tandem with the Olympia, Washington-based riot grrrl movement led by feminist bands such as Bikini Kill, Huggy Bear called themselves " boy-girl revolutionaries ," both in reference to their political philosophy and the gender makeup of their band.

Their avant-garde debut EP, Rubbing the Impossible to Burst, was released in 1992, and in the same year they began working closely with Bikini Kill as riot grrrl's popularity peaked on both sides of the Atlantic, culminating in a split album on Catcall Records ( Huggy Bear ) and Kill Rock Stars ( Bikini Kill ) called Our Troubled Youth / Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah, the names of the Huggy Bear and Bikini Kill sides, respectively.

Along with Washington D. C., Olympia was a center for the riot grrrl movement in the early 1990s ( Olympia's Bikini Kill and Bratmobile being arguably the most prominent proponents of the movement ).

Riot grrrl is a form of punk rock which arose in Olympia, Washington in the 1990s and was led by bands like Bikini Kill, known for their militant feminism and raw, uncompromising sound.

Riot grrrl consisted of feminist punk bands such as Bikini Kill and Bratmobile, and their zines, meetings and songs.

Of the possible places given serious consideration, including Ecuador's Galápagos Islands, Bikini offered the most remote location with a large protected anchorage, suitable weather, and a small, easily moved population.

Major bands from this era included Beatrice, who had moved from disco to punk and folk-influenced rock and were known for their splashy, uncensored and theatrical performances, P. Mobil, Bikini, Hobo Blues Band, a bluesy duo, A. E. Bizottság, Európa Kiadó, Sziámi and Edda művek.

Major bands from this era included Beatrice, who had moved from disco to punk and folk-influenced rock and were known for their splashy, uncensored and theatrical performances, P. Mobil, Bikini, Hobo Blues Band, a bluesy duo, A. E. Bizottság, Európa Kiadó, Sziámi and Edda művek.

* 1946 – Bikini goes on sale after debut during an outdoor fashion show at the Molitor Pool in Paris France

* 1954 – Nuclear testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.

** U. S. officials announce that a hydrogen bomb test ( Castle Bravo ) has been conducted on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.

That job was made the priority, and by the time he returned from the testing at Bikini Atoll in July 1946, the NOL computer project was shut down due to lack of progress, again on the advice of von Neumann.

He had a top-secret and atomic-energy clearance and on March 1, 1954 he witnessed the Bikini H-bomb test.

" However, less than two days after this announcement the dirty version of Bassoon, called Bassoon Prime, with a uranium-238 tamper in place, was tested on a barge off the coast of Bikini Atoll as the Redwing Tewa shot.

Many of the characters have taken trips to the fictional " Bikini Beach " which is actually a nearby California beach, and there have been scenes around the Forrester Creations building which appear to be shot somewhere on the lot or inside of CBS Television City.

They began working together on a fanzine called Bikini Kill and, with the addition of former Go Team guitarist Billy Karren, formed a band of the same name.

After an independent demo cassette, Revolution Girl Style Now !, Bikini Kill released the Bikini Kill EP on the indie label Kill Rock Stars.

* Bikini Kill EP on Kill Rock Stars ( 1991 )

Neuman's friend Calvin Johnson, an indie musician in the Olympia scene, asked her to play a show on Valentine's Day in 1991 with Bikini Kill and Some Velvet Sidewalk.

After the war, his experience reporting on the Bikini Atoll nuclear experiments turned him into a pacifist and a founding member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

The 167 Bikini islanders first learned their fate four days later, on Sunday, February 10, when Navy Commodore Ben H. Wyatt, United States military governor of the Marshall Islands, arrived by seaplane from Kwajalein.

The city name gained international prominence over the Daigo Fukuryū Maru Incident, in which a Yaizu-based fishing vessel was irradiated by atomic testing at Bikini Atoll on March 4, 1954.

The album also featured the first extensive contributions from outside musicians, most notably longtime stage-tech Jerry Busher, who added percussion on a second drum set to several of the album's songs as well as Kathi Wilcox of Bikini Kill and Bridget Cross of Unrest who provided additional backing vocals.

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 Bikini Line: This is the least extreme form.