Feedback, and Flying Habits: Las Fokin Biches at Rebellion

Concert ReviewRebellionWOMEN TO THE FRONT AT REBELLION PART 3

Oct 28

***Dztor Biche*** of ***Las Fokin Bitches****—Photo courtesy of* *©dickslaughter.com*

By far my favorite discovery at Rebellion Festivals 2025 was Las Fokin Biches. They hit the Loud Women Stage like a Molotov cocktail wrapped in rosary beads. The stage is a vital platform for feminist and queer voices and has become one of the festival’s most important spaces; it reeks of everything I believe punk was supposed to be about: inclusion, defiance, and danger. Las Fokin Biches didn’t just fit there; they owned it.

***Dztor Biche and Luna Biche*** of Las Fokin Bitches—Photo courtesy of *©dickslaughter.com*

They walked out in nuns’ habits, lit up the amps, and blew the crowd away within seconds. By the end of the first song, frontwoman Dztor Biche had already dropped her habit, both literally and somewhat symbolically. It was theatrical, raw, and entirely sincere. You could feel the tension and release in every riff, a blend of humor and holy rage that left the crowd cheering like they’d just witnessed a ritual exorcism through feedback.

***Luna*** ***Biche*** of Las Fokin Bitches—Photo courtesy of *©dickslaughter.com*

Since coming home I studied up on Las Fokin Biches and found I was very late to the Fokin party. Formed way back in 2009 in the conservative city of Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico, Las Fokin Biches have been killing it for over a decade. In interviews they don’t present themselves as a “girl band” but as a punk or rockabilly band that uses provocation as a tool to spark reflection and discomfort. Led by Dztor Biche on voice and guitar, they’re usually a five-piece, but it was a stripped-down version at Rebellion with a mystery man on drums. but that didn’t lessen the impact or power of the performance.

*We weren't sure of the drummer's name, so we are calling him* ***Mr. Biches*** of ***Las Fokin Biches****—Photo courtesy of* *©dickslaughter.com*

Their songs were like pointed, poetic weapons. The single PERRAS pays tribute to women who put their bodies on the line to defend others, from journalists to human rights defenders and environmental activists. “We practice sisterhood,” they said in Indie Rocks! Magazine, “by opening a space called Somos Chingonas, where artists of diverse nationalities can share their work.” That project, born during the pandemic, turned isolation into connection, creating a digital stage for women to collaborate and be heard.

Las Fokin Biches won the Culto Joven Festival competition, jointly run by FONCA (Mexico’s National Fund for Culture and the Arts) and Circo Volador, the Mexico City cultural center. Winning that program was a real achievement, officially recognizing the band for both artistic quality and social relevance, especially their feminist and activist message. Over the years they have played everywhere — fairs, markets, prisons, orphanages, bars, and festivals across Mexico. They even made a special appearance in the 2014 film Eddie Reynolds and the Iron Angels (2014), performing their song Perro Jarioso, and contributed music to the 2023 film God Is a Bullet, directed by Nick Cassavetes and starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Maika Monroe, and Jamie Foxx.

At Rebellion their set was the kind of beautiful mess that reminds you why punk still matters. No filters, no pop gloss, just the real thing. Women with guitars and guts tearing through expectations. It is not every day you see a band channel both the saints and the sinners and make them dance together. Las Fokin Biches is more than a punk band. They are a movement that remembers punk’s original mission to provoke thought, confront power, and celebrate freedom. Judging from the response from the crowd at the Loud Women Stage, the message landed loud and clear.