Le Tigre
Fri June 13
Roseland
NYC-based electro-pop trio Le Tigre’s most recent release, Remix, is “their vision for a hardcore dance genre infused with radical politics.” It can bump a system.
Do you have any idea about why there isn’t more pop dance music that’s…
Kathleen Hanna, Le Tigre’s lead vocalist: Smart?
Yeah.
Kathleen: Well, it’s the capitalist system, and they just wanna make products that make people feel bad about themselves so they buy more products. So I feel like we make products, but our product is nourishing, you know what I mean? And that product doesn’t really fit into the food chain very well because if you have something that’s self-sustaining like how the energy companies don’t want you to buy solar homes, or electric cars and stuff. We are the electric car of that mini-genre. And why would we be that viable as something that would sell if we’re not encouraging people to go buy more products? We’re encouraging people to make their own culture.
Do you ever get discouraged?
Definitely. As Jo and JD can attest to my constant griping, yeah. It’s annoying when you see Fred Durst making billions and billions of dollars and you’re like, I can’t make rent this month and I have to sell CDs or whatever. And you feel like you’re making something that is actually good for the world instead of being more like baditudes. So yeah, it’s frustrating. I’m not gonna lie. But at the same time, I get to go home at the end of the day and feel really good about what we’re doing and I’m still my own boss. I’m not creating more landfill bullshit at somebody else’s request. I’m making what I wanna make.
Quantum physicists are seriously considering the possibility of alternate dimensions. If you had two other dimensions to plan, what would you be doing?
In one, I would be water-skiing with one hand while holding a beer. And in the other one, I would probably just be a bright speck of light.