Red Aunts

Female punk rockers the Red Aunts were a rough, raw, raunchy combo who appeared during the California punk revival of the '90s. Both praised and dismissed for their garage band amateurishness early on, the band crafted a grimy, scuzzy sound inflected with subtle strains of blues, country, and pre-Beatles rock & roll. That sound matched well with their lyrics -- the Red Aunts weren't really political or explicitly feminist, they just wanted to rock out, and many of their songs had a trashy sense of humor that descended from avowed influences the Lunachicks. At least musically, ...