Mika Miko was a punk band from Los Angeles from 2003 - 2010.
New projects of ex Mika Miko members:
Jenna Thornhill DeWitt played in The Strange Boys and plays in Crazy Band.
Michelle Suarez joined Le Face, though they have since disbanded. She now plays in C.R.A.S.H.
Jessie Clavin is in Bleached and Cold Showers. She has also played live in La Sera and Puro Instinct.
Jennifer Clavin is also in Bleached and played live with Cold Cave.
Seth Densham played in The Strange Boys and his band is Superstitions.
Kate Hall plays in Dunes.
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Mika Miko Discuss Why They Left Kill Rock Stars
“Honestly, we loved them, and they were so cool to us, and everyone who works there is awesome, but it started to feel like we weren’t fitting in anymore,” Suarez said. “I felt like when we were with them it was always about us being a girl band on Kill Rock Stars, and we weren’t about that at all. It was just a coincidence that we were all girls,” Clavin added. “We didn’t purposely start the band like, ‘Okay, girls, we’re gonna start a band! Let’s do this!’ Then when we started getting more recognition it was always like, ‘all-girl punk outfit Mika Miko’ or “riot grrls Mika Miko.’ We never said we were riot grrls,” comments Suarez.
Interview with Jessie Clavin
Mika Miko
“I don’t remember the first show we played at The Smell but we probably played in the front room and there were probably like, thirty people there or something. I remember it was Jim who invited us to play.”
- Jennifer Clavin
![Mika Miko Interview in Skyscraper Magazine
“[Michelle] met fellow punks and future Mika Miko vocalists Jennifer Clavin and Jenna Thornhill at a public high school in the San Fernando Valley […] Clavin had fashioned herself a Slits backpack and, upon meeting, Suarez knew immediately that they’d be friends.”](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4inuvuqIC1qi9drao1_500.jpg)
Mika Miko Interview in Skyscraper Magazine
“[Michelle] met fellow punks and future Mika Miko vocalists Jennifer Clavin and Jenna Thornhill at a public high school in the San Fernando Valley […] Clavin had fashioned herself a Slits backpack and, upon meeting, Suarez knew immediately that they’d be friends.”
“Storytime with Mika Miko”
Mika Miko Interview at Primavera Club, Barcelona
Mika Miko/No Age/Abe Vigoda Interview at the Smell for Anthem Magazine
Mika Miko interview
The band has never had to turn down an interview, but there’s some topics Michelle will not talk about. “Immediately when someone asks like, ‘what’s it like being in an all-girl band?’ or talks about riot grrrl I’m automatically like ‘Fuck this’, I don’t wanna talk about this anymore, you know.”
In the popularity contest, there’s always someone willing to dig at Mika Miko for being an all-girl band. Somehow trying to justify that girls could never make music as good as boys. Michelle’s heard it all before, “I remember a long time ago when I was dating this guy who was in a band and he was like,’you know the only reason people like your band is because you’re all girls, right?’, or something like that, and I was like ‘actually I didn’t but that’s cool’… if people think we’re gimmicky they can fuck off, I don’t care.”
Mika Miko Interview and Performance with Kill Rock Stars
