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kicking giant was Rachel Carns and Tae Won Yu, two musicians and skilled graphic designers who met at Cooper Union in New York City.

Their first show was in the storefront window of a Brooklyn junk shop; Carns stood up and played just one drum, a floor tom. Kicking Giant played around NYC and the northeast with bands like Codeine, Uncle Wiggly, and fellow “love-rockers” Sleepyhead; Carns continued to expand her stand-up kit, building around the central upturned floor tom, anchor to Yu’s whirling guitar and bedrock of their unique sound. Live, their largely improvised mash of punk, free jazz, sugar-candy pop, and pure poetry meant that Kicking Giant never played the same set, or even the same song, twice. Photographer Robert Frank filmed some live Kicking Giant shows; Carns later appeared in his film The Last Supper (1992) along with Taylor Mead, Zohra Lampert, and Chemical Imbalance magazine’s Mike McGonigal. While in New York, Kicking Giant recorded songs on Yu’s 4-track and released a number of homemade cassettes (including songs recorded with Kramer); circulating bootlegs soon garnered the band a fierce cult following, particularly in England and Japan. Through the underground fanzine network, Yu became penpals with Liz Phair and members of Bratmobile, trading tapes and letters and zines and introducing the band to Riot Grrl, a movement that merged Do It Yourself culture and feminism.
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