MINNEAPOLIS—A drummer for the 1990s rock band Babes in Toyland has been charged with a DUI.
Lori Barbero was charged after crashing her car through her garage and into her house early Monday. The 47 year-old was booked into the Hennepin County Adult Detention Center shortly before 3 a.m. and released a few hours later. According to the police, her blood-alcohol level was 0.20 percent–more than twice the legal driving limit. Barbero formed Babes in Toyland along with Kat Bjelland in the late 1980s and they were known as one of the first all-female bands to come out of the early-’90s grunge movement. Barbero was famous for her primal pounding drum style and flying dreadlocks and has been a staple of the Minneapolis music scene since the 1980s, when she was a booking agent at one of the city’s first punk rock clubs, the now-defunct Duffy’s.
Barbero could not be reached for comment and it is not clear whether she sustained any injuries.