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Intentionally or not, Bar Italia have cultivated an air of inscrutability with their approach to being a rock band that, depending on your POV, is standoffish, wry or just the right side of pretentious. As they bid the underground goodbye, the time is apt to find out who they really are

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Galvanised by our fractious political era, the pioneering feminist band bristle with renewed urgency. We meet with Corin Tucker, Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss to talk politics, love and the #MeToo movement

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