From living rooms and barbershops to international festival stages, the '90s-influenced Grrrl Gang is putting their local scene on the map
If you walk into the right barbershop in Jakarta, Indonesia, you can expect to be transported back to the mood of a heaving, sweaty underground club from any Western city in the 1990s. It is one of the few regular spots in the city that plays host toAnthems like “Blue Stained Lips” and “Cool Girl,” with their spiky, punk-ish guitars, slacker, disaffected vocals and hooky, insistent melodies, file them somewhere between the twinkling pop of The Vaselines and the prickly attitude of Bikini Kill.
It is a glimpse of the reality of Grrrl Gang’s enterprising rise, which has taken the Jakarta-based trio to the point that they are releasing their debut albumthrough Kill Rock Stars on Sept. 22. Against an infrastructure that shows little interest in supporting them, Grrrl Gang have carved their own niche in their home nation, with their goal now to prove that Indonesian alternative rock music can rub shoulders with the world’s elite.
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