Tobi Vail (born July 20, 1969) is a musician, influential DIY punk zinester, activist, and feminist theorist from Olympia, Washington. She formed one of her first bands as the drummer for The Go Team when she was 15, later collaborating in several other groups like Bikini Kill, as well as being involved over the years with a prolific assortment of project bands, figuring prominently in the Olympia music scene. Currently she fronts the psychedelic...
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Tobi Vail (born July 20, 1969) is a musician, influential DIY punk zinester, activist, and feminist theorist from Olympia, Washington. She formed one of her first bands as the drummer for The Go Team when she was 15, later collaborating in several other groups like Bikini Kill, as well as being involved over the years with a prolific assortment of project bands, figuring prominently in the Olympia music scene. Currently she fronts the psychedelic-garage-punk band Spider and the Webs, plays drums in The Old Haunts, as well as running her own indie cassette label, Bands Against Bush, the Kill Rock Stars mail order department, and publishing various zines.
Vail was born on the day of the first moon landing and named after Toby Tyler, who ran away to join the circus. Growing up in a very musical family, she started playing music early.
Her younger sister Maggie Vail also plays drums, guitar, bass, clarinet and cello, and has played in such bands as Bangs, Gene Defcon, The Geoducks, The...
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