Jenb Larson News Today

Several Milwaukee artists were featured in the book Hit Girls.

Summerfest turns 55, Black Widows surf into The Foundation, bicycle races in Bay View, QWERTYFEST MKE, Johanna Rose, SUGO at The Baaree, the return of Junior Brantley, Jen B. Larson’s Hit Girls and more—This Week in Milwaukee!

Milwaukee bands are included in this look back at the role of women in punk rock.

In 1983, the Seattle band Bam Bam, fronted by a talented, elegant Black woman named Tina Bell, created a sound and lyrical foundation for a genre white men with knit hats and plaid shirts would later make famous as "grunge." Bell was backed by husband Tommy Martin and lifelong friend Scott Ledgerwood (“Scotty Buttocks”). Jen B. Larson digs deep into the archives to give Tina Bell, who died in 2012, her props as the uncrowned "Queen of Grunge."