L7

Confrontational and uncompromising since their emergence in 1985, L7 is a punk band that brings together attitude, volume, and energy for a sound that's brilliant in its straightforwardness. In their earliest days, L7 was often lumped in with the grunge scene or riot grrrl, though they were an example of feminist punk that was around before both movements and were cut from a different cloth than either. Owing as much to the hard-charging metal of Motörhead as the no-frills attack of Ramones and Frightwig, the band's sound was a collision of throat-shredding vocals, crunchy rif...