In 1999, a fan wrote a letter to Rolling Stone magazine.

He was advocating for one of his favorite bands.

He wrote,

One of the most important female bands in American rock has been buried without a trace.

And that is Fannie.

It takes a lot of food loving. race. And that is Fannie.

They were one of the finest fucking rock bands of their time in about 1973. They're extraordinary. They wrote everything. They played like

motherfuckers. They were just colossal and wonderful and nobody's ever mentioned them.

There's as important as anybody else who's ever been ever, it just wasn't their time. Revivify Fannie,

and I will feel that my work is done. That fan? David Bowie. The David Bowie.

I'm Jessica Hopper, and from KCRW, this is Lost Notes. In this episode, it's all about Fanny.

I think the first time I remember here, I didn't hear about Fannie. I read about Fannie.

And they were just in a list of all female bands or female fronted bands. That was just a list in Bikini Kill number two.

The YouTube algorithm brought them to me. I was just looking for stuff to DJ at my DJ night, and they came up,

and it was a cover with a baby doll, like an LP cover with a baby doll, and it had sparkly star

sunglasses on it and bright pink lipstick, and I identified with that image. So I clicked play.

This is Dylan Tupper Rupert. She's a writer based in Los Angeles.

When I finally heard Fannie, I was really struck by how timeless they were.

I thought they would sound like some relic of the 70s, but so much of what they're doing sounds like it could be happening now.

They were great.

The first female rock band basically ever was started by two teenage sisters who were

immigrants from the Philippines. They were queer. They're women of color. That's something that I would feel

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