Eight Gigs: Bleached

Bleached bashes out near-perfect bubblegum punk songs laden with killer hooks and subversive lyrics. But being musically crafty and lyrically smart isn’t enough when you’re a quote-unquote “female-fronted band.” During press tours the band says it faced an onslaught of “sexist” and “insulting” questions about what it means to be women in music. In response, it released a new zine and EP called Can You Deal?—as in “can you deal with women playing rock ’n’ roll yet?” Well, can you? Find out when the band opens for The Damned, the legendary all-male punk group.