Le Tigre
The Roxy, Boston, MA
August 30, 2002

The Le Tigre show wasn't quite the mesmerizing frenzy that the previous night's Liars show was, but it was a good performance nonetheless. Worlds better than when I saw them play at Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco in 2000, where they looked totally incompetent. I loved their first album, but it's worn off a bit for me since I first heard it. Or maybe the whole electro-dance-punk thing is wearing a bit thin for me. Who knows. There was a group of transsexuals protesting Le Tigre's supposed support of anti-transsexual legislation, or lobbying, or something. Very strange, because everything I know about Kathleen Hanna leads me to believe she is outspokenly pro-trans. Probably a vitriolic response to an innocuous comment. I just don't understand these reactionary politics. In Kathleen Hanna's book that probably makes me the enemy. Whatever.

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