Miniskirt – Be Nice

Miniskirt - Dive Bar Darlings

Combine 1960s American garage (the Girls in the Garage series, in particular) with early 1980s British post-punk (say, Girls at Our Best) and you’ll end up somewhere in Chicago. That is where Miniskirt is from, a four piece who appear only one quarter female but have this great female (or feminist) punk energy that makes those influences (and also Miniskirt) so good. On a recent EP Dive Bar Darlings, where each song plays tribute to a local venue, this Be Nice (“on the way back home”) may be about an unfortunate side of going clubbing in Chicago. Or anywhere, really.

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