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First Listen: Petrol Girls, 'Cut & Stitch'

These are songs that rip through time, across borders and into psyches with feminist post-hardcore that engages at it rampages.
Petrol Girls' <em>Cut & Stitch</em> comes out May 24.

Punk is an unruly but ultimately loving teacher. As a teenager, you come for the music — fast, angry, visceral, sometimes blissful — but even as political and personal issues change, you grow to absorb some of punk's core messages: Call out injustice, make sure everyone has a good time. Increasingly, that has meant making punk a safe space for women and non-binary

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