Radio Sloan

Radio Sloan
Radio Sloan in 2006.
Radio Sloan in 2006.
Background information
Birth nameShannon Sloan
OccupationMusician
InstrumentGuitar
LabelsYoyo Records
Mr. Lady Records
Kill Rock Stars
Chainsaw Records

Radio Sloan is a musician from Olympia, Washington.

They are best known as a guitarist for The Need, the band they formed with Rachel Carns. In 2022, they formed Sky Lions with longtime friend and vocalist, Outer Stace. Releasing their first album in 2023. Their other bands include Ce Be Barns Band, The Circuit Side, Fact or Fiction, Grandpa's Ghost Stories; and Courtney Love's short-lived all-female backing band The Chelsea along with Lisa Leveridge, Emilie Autumn, Dvin Kirakosian, and Samantha Maloney.[1] They appeared as a guest with Los Angeles band Scarling., with whom they played bass guitar. They are also a member of Electroclash punk artist Peaches' live band, The Herms with JD Samson and Samantha Maloney.

Radio and singer Kathleen Hanna lived in a women's house at one time called "the Curse".[2] Later, they played guitar on Le Tigre's 2004 album This Island.

Sloan performing with Peaches and the Herms in 2006.

Radio Sloan is interviewed and appears with The Cebe Barns Band in the 1997 movie She's Real, Worse Than Queer, a documentary by Lucy Thane about women involved in the Queercore scene.[3]

  1. ^ IGN Music (2004-10-07), Courtney Love & The Chelsea Tour, archived from the original on 2011-05-27, retrieved 2011-01-14
  2. ^ "Kathleen Hanna Herstory". Archived from the original on 2012-08-30. Retrieved 2006-08-31.
  3. ^ Answers.com article