10 Notable Artists With Incomplete Catalogs On Spotify

9. Bikini Kill

Considered to be the pioneering band of the riot grrrl movement, Bikini Kill formed in Olympia, Washington in 1990. The influence of Bikini Kill goes well beyond the music, as frontwoman Kathleen Hanna helped Nirvana's Kurt Cobain with the name for the Nirvana anthem "Smells Like Teen Spirit."

Hanna was the subject of a 2013 documentary, The Punk Singer, and has since fronted the band Le Tigre; she has been married to The Beastie Boys' Adam Horovitz since 2004.

While awareness of Hanna has increased in recent years thanks to appearances on recordings by Green Day and Mykki Blanco, most of the Bikini Kill catalog is not currently available on Spotify. What can currently be found is nine songs from the soundtrack to the aforementioned doc Punk Singer and one song on a compilation released by the record label Kill Rock Stars.

This means that Bikini Kill's Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah album - which went to number 12 on the UK Albums Chart - is unavailable, and songs like White Boy and This Is Not A Test cannot be streamed. Interestingly, Bikini Kill covers by Los Campesinos!, The Luna Sequence and Craig Owens, which one can easily locate on YouTube, also are not available on Spotify.

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Darren Paltrowitz is a New York resident with over 20 years of entertainment industry experience. He began working around the music business as a teenager, interning for the manager of his then-favorite band Superdrag. In the years following, he has worked with a wide array of artists including OK Go, They Might Be Giants, Mike Viola, Tracy Bonham, Loudness, Rachael Yamagata, and Amanda Palmer. Darren's writing has appeared in dozens of outlets including the New York Daily News, Inquisitr, The Daily Meal, The Hype Magazine, All Music Guide, Guitar World, TheStreet.com, Format Magazine, Businessweek, The Improper, Chicago Tribune, the L.A. Times, and the Jewish Journal. Darren is also the host of the "Paltrocast With Darren Paltrowitz" podcast, as co-produced with PureGrainAudio. He is also the author of two published books, including 2018's "Pocket Change: Your Happy Money" (Book Web Publishing) and 2019's "Good Advice From Professional Wrestling" (6623 Press).