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Donna Dresch is an
American punk rock musician, perhaps best known as founder,
guitarist and
bass guitarist of
Team Dresch and the Queen of Grunge.
Dresch has been actively involved in the
queercore scene since the 1980s, as the creator of the
fanzine,
Chainsaw, and contributor to several other seminal
zines such as
Outpunk and
J.D.s, as well as contributing and being featured on the front cover of issue five of
Deke Nihilson and
Tom Jennings' zine
Homocore. Additionally, she was a contributor to
Tobi Vail's influential proto-
Riot Grrrl fanzine,
Jigsaw and
Tammy Rae Carland's zine
I (heart) Amy Carter. In 1992, she appeared in the
cult film The Yo-Yo Gang, by
G.B. Jones.
She founded the queercore
independent record label Chainsaw Records in the early 1990s. Shortly after, she joined forces with
Jody Bleyle and
Kaia Wilson to form Team Dresch. Once drummer
Marci Martinez was added to the line-up, the group began recording. The first single was released in 1994 on
Kill Rock Stars. Their debut album in 1994,
Personal Best and its follow-up,
Captain My Captain, were released jointly by Chainsaw Records and Jody Bleyle's label......
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