Lynn Perko-Truell is an American musician, best known as the drummer, bass guitarist, and co-singer for the San Francisco indie rock band Imperial Teen.
Perko-Truell was an iconic figure and a pioneering female in the American hardcore punk and alternative rock movements of the 1980s and 1990s and remains active.
In 1980 at the age of 16 Perko took up the drums and joined the all-girl punk band the Wrecks with Helen Johnson, Bessie Oakely, and Joan Stebbins.
Perko moved to San Francisco in 1982 and met Gary Floyd, singer of the punk band The Dicks, which had formerly been based in Austin, Texas.
They did multiples US tours both as headliners and as support for other prominent alternative bands (Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr., The Mighty Lemon Drops, L7, and Soundgarden, The Replacements, 4 Non Blondes).