Le Tigre
Background information
Origin	New York City, New York, USA
Genre(s)	Punk Electronic Indie Rock
Years active	1998–present
Label(s)	Mr. Lady Universal Records
Website	Official site
Members
Johanna Fateman JD Samson Kathleen Hanna
Former members
Sadie Benning

This article deals with the musical artist Le Tigre. For their debut album, see Le Tigre (album). For the clothier, see Le Tigre (shirt).

Le Tigre is a feminist electro post-punk band formed in 1998 by Kathleen Hanna. Initially envisioned as a live back up band for Hanna's solo project Julie Ruin, Le Tigre mixes the politics and feminism of riot grrrl with fun electronic samples and lo-fi beats. Other members include Johanna Fateman and JD Samson. JD joined Le Tigre as a full member when co-founder Sadie Benning left the band before the Feminist Sweepstakes album was recorded. JD had previously worked with the band as a roadie and the operator of Benning's slide show during live performances in support of their first record. The self-proclaimed "underground electro-feminist performance artists" combine visuals, music and dance in their performances. The band mixes politically aware lyrics with dance music. Image File history File linksMetadata This_Island. ... Nickname: Big Apple, City that never Sleeps Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... Official language(s) English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  Ranked 27th  - Total 54,520 sq mi (141,205 km²)  - Width 285 miles (455 km)  - Length 330 miles (530 km)  - % water 13. ... 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. ... Electronic music is a term for music created using electronic devices. ... Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music often used to refer to bands that are on small independent record labels or that arent on labels at all. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Mr. ... Universal Records was founded in 1996, when Universal Music was created following the purchase of MCA Records by Seagram in 1996. ... Johanna Fateman is a writer, zine editor and musician who performs with the feminist post-punk rock band Le Tigre. ... JD Samson (born August 4, 1978, Cleveland, Ohio) is the stage name of Jocelyn Samson, a member of the feminist electro-punk band Le Tigre. ... Kathleen Hanna (Born 12 November 1969) is an American musician. ... Sadie Benning is a video maker, visual artist, and musician. ... Le Tigre is the debut album of feminist electro-punk trio Le Tigre. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Le Tigre Clothing. ... Feminism is a social theory and political movement primarily informed and motivated by the experience of women. ... Post punk generally refers to the particularly fertile and creative period following the initial punk rock explosion. During the first wave of punk, roughly spanning 1976-1983, bands such as The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Ramones and The Damned began to challenge the current styles and conventions of rock... Kathleen Hanna (Born 12 November 1969) is an American musician. ... Julie Ruin is the independent record produced by Kathleen Hanna in 1997, while taking a break from Bikini Kill. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Johanna Fateman is a writer, zine editor and musician who performs with the feminist post-punk rock band Le Tigre. ... JD Samson (born August 4, 1978, Cleveland, Ohio) is the stage name of Jocelyn Samson, a member of the feminist electro-punk band Le Tigre. ... Sadie Benning is a video maker, visual artist, and musician. ...

The song "Hot Topic" on Le Tigre's self-titled debut pays tribute to dozens of visual artists, musicians, writers, feminists and others who have inspired them. Among the honorees are: Yoko Ono, Aretha Franklin, Vaginal Creme Davis, Yayoi Kusama, Sleater-Kinney, Billy Tipton, James Baldwin, and Jean Genet. In a similar fashion the song "FYR" off the album Feminist Sweepstakes is a tribute to the chapter and ideals put forth in Shulamith Firestone's Fifty Years of Ridicule in her 1970 feminist work The Dialectic of Sex. Yoko Ono Yoko Ono Lennon (born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese musician and artist probably best known as the widow of John Lennon of The Beatles. ... Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American gospel, soul and R&B singer born in Memphis, Tennessee, but raised in Detroit, Michigan. ... Vaginal Davis is a punk rock drag queen and an avant-garde performance artist. ... Yayoi Kusama (草間弥生 ,born March 29, 1929) has been called Japans greatest living artist. ... Sleater-Kinney are an indie rock trio from Olympia, Washington influenced by the riot grrrl movement of the 1990s. ... Billy Lee Tipton (December 29, 1914 - January 21, 1989) was a United States jazz pianist and saxophonist. ... James Baldwin with Marlon Brando at the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C James Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was a novelist, short story writer, and essayist, best known for his novel Go Tell It on the Mountain. ... Jean Genet (December 19, 1910 - April 15, 1986), was a prominent, sometimes infamous, French writer and later political activist. ... Feminist Sweepstakes is a electro-punk album by Le Tigre. ... Shulamith Firestone (1945, also called Shulie Firestone) was a founding member of the Chicago Womens Liberation Union in 1969, and was a member of Redstockings and the New York Radical Feminists. ... Shulamith Firestone (born 1945) (also called Shulie Firestone) is a Jewish Canadian-born feminist. ...

The first two recordings by the band were released on the independent label Mr. Lady Records, run by Kaia Wilson of The Butchies and artist Tammy Rae Carland. Feminist Sweepstakes (2001) came out on Chicks on Speed's record label. The album This Island (2004) was Le Tigre's first on a major label (Universal/Strummer). Ric Ocasek of the Cars produced one track, "Tell You Now." The concept of an independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of one of the major record labels, which are generally defined to be the handful of media corporations which have recently dominated the recorded music industry in the West. ... Mr. ... The Butchies are a ground-breaking Lesbian-Feminist band from Durham, North Carolina. ... Tammy Rae Carland is a zine editor, artist, filmmaker and owner of the independent lesbian music label Mr. ... Chicks on Speed are a female electropop group which got its origins in Munich, formed in 1997 after the members had met through the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. ... This Island is the third album from feminist electro-punk trio Le Tigre. ... Ric Ocasek (born Richard Otcasek on March 23, 1949, in Baltimore, Maryland) is the former vocalist and frontman for The Cars and a producer for several other groups, including Bad Brains and Suicide. ... The Cars were a popular American New Wave band, fronted by Ric Ocasek, that emerged out of the early punk scene in the late 1970s. ...

Even after signing with Universal, Le Tigre has continued to work with independent labels. In 2005 they released This Island Remixes with Chicks on Speed.

In 2005 Le Tigre performed at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival. The festival has been criticized for its womyn-born-womyn admittance policy, which prohibits transgender women from attending. The Michigan Womyns Music Festival (MWMF) is an international feminist music festival occurring every year in August in Michigan. ... // History This term was developed as a response to patriarchy in Western culture during Feminisms 2nd Wave. ... Transgender (IPA: , from trans (Latin) and gender (English) ) is an overarching term applied to a variety of individuals, behaviors, and groups involving tendencies that diverge from the normative gender role (woman or man) commonly, but not always, assigned at birth, as well as the role traditionally held by society. ...

Le Tigre licensed two of their songs for use in advertisements by Canadian telephone provider Telus and Australian jewellery chain Goldmark. A sample from 'Deceptacon' plays in the background of a 2006 television commercial for Nivea cosmetics. TELUS (TSX: T, NYSE: TU) is a telecom company from Canada, the countrys second-largest telecommunications carrier after Bell Canada, with C$8. ... NIVEA is a large global skin- and body-care brand, owned by German company Beiersdorf. ...

As of the second half of 2006, Le Tigre are on hiatus.[1]

Discography

Albums

Le Tigre (1999) Mr. Lady

Feminist Sweepstakes (2001) Mr. Lady

This Island (2004) Universal

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EPs and singles

• Hot Topic (1999)
• From the Desk of Mr. Lady EP (2001)
• Remix (2003)
• Standing In The Way Of Control 12" split EP with The Gossip on Kill Rock Stars
• This Island Remixes Volume 1 EP, Chicks On Speed Records
• This Island Remixes Volume 2EP, Chicks On Speed Records

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Compilations

• "Revolt" from Giggles In The Dark, Lesbians On Ecstasy Remixes, Alien8 Recordings, (2005)

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See also

• List of all-women bands

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External links

• Le Tigre World (official site)
• Le Tigre's live show
• Fake French, a song submitted to the Creative Commons