Babes In Toyland
Country	Minneapolis, Minnesota United States
Years active	1988–2001
Genre(s)	Punk rock, Alternative rock, Grunge
Label(s)	Twin Tone Records, Southern Records, Reprise Records
Members	Kat Bjelland Lori Barbero Maureen Herman

Babes in Toyland were an all-women band formed in Minneapolis in 1988. Members included Kat Bjelland (guitar and vocals), Lori Barbero (drums) and Michelle Leon (bass), who left the band and was replaced by Maureen Herman in 1992. Image File history File links Babes_In_Toyland_pic3. ... Nickname: City of Lakes Motto: En Avant Official website: http://www. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... The terms alternative rock and alternative music[1] were coined in the 1980s to describe punk rock-inspired bands which didnt fit into the mainstream genres of the time. ... Grunge music (sometimes also referred to as the Seattle Sound) is an independent-rooted music genre that became a commercially successful offshoot of hardcore punk, thrash metal, and alternative rock in the late 1980s and early 1990s. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Twin/Tone Records was a record label based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota that operated from 1977 until 1994 and helped several local groups receive national attention. ... Southern Records is an important record label closely associated with Dischord Records. ... Reprise Records was formed in 1960 by Frank Sinatra in order to allow more artistic freedom for his own recordings. ... Kat Bjelland (born December 8, 1963) is from Woodburn, Oregon. ... Lori Barbero (born November 27, 1961 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) was the drummer for the Minneapolis-based riot grrl band Babes in Toyland. ... Maureen Herman was from 1992 until 1996 the bass player for Babes in Toyland, a Minneapolis-based riot grrl band. ... hey u want 2 play come and play lets go over the insruecions oh wat the heck just register now or login and just have a little fun or alot of fun. ... This article is about the city in Minnesota. ... Kat Bjelland (born December 8, 1963) is from Woodburn, Oregon. ... The acoustic archtop guitar, used in Jazz music, features steel strings. ... In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings, i. ... Lori Barbero (born November 27, 1961 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) was the drummer for the Minneapolis-based riot grrl band Babes in Toyland. ... For other kinds of drums, see drum (disambiguation). ... Martin EB18 Bass Guitar in flight case The electric bass guitar (also called electric bass or simply bass) is an electrically amplified plucked string instrument. ... Maureen Herman was from 1992 until 1996 the bass player for Babes in Toyland, a Minneapolis-based riot grrl band. ...

Biography

The band achieved notoriety through Bjelland's "baby doll" image--sometimes referred to as the kinderwhore look--which contrasted dramatically with the raw power of her singing voice and her aggressive lyrics. Kinderwhore was an image used by a handful of American female Punk rock bands in the early/mid 90s. ...

The band's first major label album, Fontanelle, sold around 200,000 copies. The lead song on the album, "Bruise Violet," is said to be an attack on Courtney Love of Hole: "You see the stars through eyes lit up with lies/You got your stories all twisted up in mine." (Love is a former bandmate of Bjelland's.) The song's video was shown on Beavis and Butt-Head, where the band was described as "chicks" who could "rock." Fontanelle is a grunge album by Riot grrl band Babes in Toyland, released on August 11, 1992 (see 1992 in music). ... Courtney Michelle Love[1] (born July 9, 1964) is an American rock musician and actress, best-known as lead singer for the now-defunct alternative rock band Hole. ... Hole was an indie rock band formed in 1989 and (officially) disbanded in 2002, fronted by Courtney Love and co-founded by Eric Erlandson, and featuring Patty Schemel on drums (until 1998. ... Beavis and Butt-head is an American animated television series that originally aired on the cable television channel MTV from 1993 to 1997, and can now be seen in re-runs on MTV2. ...

The band was picked to take part in the 1993 Lollapalooza tour. (Also involved in that year's tour were Rage Against the Machine and Tool--two bands that included members from Herman's hometown of Libertyville, Illinois.) See also: 1992 in music, other events of 1993, 1994 in music, 1990s in music and the list of years in music // Events January 8 - The U.S. Postal service issues an Elvis Presley stamp. ... Lollapalooza is an American music festival featuring alternative rock, rap, and punk rock bands, dance and comedy performances, and craft booths. ... Rage Against the Machine, also known as Rage or RATM, was an American heavy metal band noted both for their diligent political conscience and for their pioneering blend of hard rock and rap which over time would come to be known variously as Rock, Rap Rock or Rap Metal (Both... Tool is an American rock band, formed in 1990 in Los Angeles, California, when drummer Danny Carey joined the rehearsal of his neighbour, singer Maynard James Keenan, and guitarist Adam Jones and bassist Paul dAmour, when nobody else would show up. ... Libertyville is a village located in Lake County, Illinois, United States. ...

While the band was inspirational to many performers in the riot grrrl movement, they never participated directly. Riot grrrl (or riot grrl) is a movement encompassing zines, festivals and hardcore punk rock music groups, known for its feminist stance. ...

The band was the subject of the 1994 book Babes in Toyland: The Making and Selling of a Rock and Roll Band by Neal Karlen, which dealt with the band's signing to Warner and the recording of Fontanelle. (Bjelland described the book as being "like cartoon caricatures of us," while Herman said that Karlen "would make a great fiction writer"--Minneapolis Star Tribune, August 18, 1994.) The band also appears in the 1992 documentary 1991: The Year Punk Broke. 1991: The Year Punk Broke was a 1992 documentary directed by Dave Markey showcasing a late 1991 European tour of a number of punk and punk-inspired bands. ...

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The band split and reformed throughout the 1990s, losing their record label when Herman left the band in 1996. Dana Cochrane, formerly of the band Mickey Finn, played bass with the band on live gigs in 1996[1]. Leon briefly rejoined for a short period in 1997. In 1998, the band was credited with the song Overtura: Astroantiquity/Attacatastrophy on the CD Songs of the Witchblade: A Soundtrack to the Comic Book, which Bjelland co-produced. The band then went into hiatus. Bjelland and Barbero played with a new bassist, Jesse Farmer, in 2000 (St. Paul Pioneer Press, November 24, 2000). But a year earlier, Bjelland had formed a new band, Katastrophy Wife, which seemed to replace Babes as her main vehicle. Babes in Toyland (with Farmer on bass) played a reunion show billed as "The Last Tour" on November 21, 2001--released as a live album called Minneapolism--and this seems to be the last official Babes activity; Bjelland played some shows in Europe in 2002 as Babes in Toyland with a new drummer and bassist, but stopped using the name after Barbero and Herman raised legal issues.[2] The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Discography

• Spanking Machine (1989, Twin Tone Records)
• To Mother EP (1991, Twin Tone Records)
• Fontanelle (1992, Southern Records / Reprise Records)
• Painkillers EP (1993, Reprise Records)
• Nemesisters (1995, Reprise Records)

A number of live albums have also been released. Twin/Tone Records was a record label based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota that operated from 1977 until 1994 and helped several local groups receive national attention. ... Fontanelle is a grunge album by Riot grrl band Babes in Toyland, released on August 11, 1992 (see 1992 in music). ... Southern Records is an important record label closely associated with Dischord Records. ... Reprise Records was formed in 1960 by Frank Sinatra in order to allow more artistic freedom for his own recordings. ...

External links

• All Music Guide: Babes in Toyland
• The Jungle Train; fan site
• Kat Bjelland: Babes in Toyland; fan site