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Le Tigre: Feminist Sweepstakes (Mr. Lady)

Eric Weisbard, Spin, November 2001

OFTEN RADICALS get so entrenched they even distrust their own sense of pleasure. But Kathleen Hanna is such a great rocker that at the very moments she most exemplifies this principle, she'll make you get off on the process. Le Tigre revived what Hanna started in Bikini Kill, with more drum machine instead of guitar, glamour assumed instead of disdained, and exactly the same sense of what's at stake: no revolution without rapture; no rapture without revolution.

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