By Brett Milano

If you ever cross Winona Fighter frontwoman Chloe (Coco) Kinnon, the odds are good that she’ll wind up writing a snarly, catchy punk-pop song about you. “Just the other day, someone said to me, ‘You know, your enemies really fear you’,” she said this week. “That to me is a good thing.”

Killer hooks and copious attitude, and no lack of tongue-in-cheek humor, are all over the Winona Fighter’s recent debut album “My Apologies to the Chef,” and will be on display when the band hits the Crystal Ballroom tonight. And it’s something of a homecoming for Kinnon, who grew up in Boston before heading South.

“My favorite thing in Boston was always going into the city to see bands, and the coolest part is that it would be some of the bands, like Four Year Strong (from Worcester) that we’re sharing bills with now,” she says. “I went to Nashville for college, but that only lasted for a year. There isn’t much of a punk or alternative scene there at all — so you can either mail it in and do country, or you can do punk and try to build a scene of your own. We’d do our little set and throw people for a loop, because it wasn’t what they expected and we looked so crazy up there.”

It was bassist Austin Luther who came up with the band’s attention-grabbing name. Says Kinnon, “I said no at first, but kept coming back to it. I will say that I love Winona Ryder. I just feel that name is the perfect mix of sweet and tough, masculine and feminine, so it represents us.”

The band is a trio with lead guitarist Dan Fusion. And the drummer is Kinnon herself, one of the few drumming frontwomen in punk history (they bring a touring drummer onstage, but she plays them all on record). “When I was in the Boston scene it was mostly as a drummer, but I went so crazy on the drums that it was natural to step upfront. Maybe the drumming comes from the math side of the brain and being a frontwoman takes more creative energy, but they probably meet in the middle.”

To judge from Kinnon’s lyrics, she’s had her share of encounters with unsavory people. The title of the current single, “You Look Like a Drunk Phoebe Bridgers” doesn’t appear in the lyric, but it does stem from something she was actually told after a hostile nightclub encounter. “I was completely sober at the time, but I knew the guy had given me a great song title. What I hear is that (Bridgers) knows about the song, but hasn’t said anything because she might not like it. So officially, she hasn’t heard it.”

Other tunes have more serious origins, the anthemic “I’m in the Market to Please No One” stems from a real experience of domestic violence. “That was not fun, but the good part was that I got to use my voice. We take our music very seriously, but we don’t take ourselves seriously — so when I write a song like that I’m looking for ways to make it an easier pill to swallow. I’m glad if that song gives people an outlet for something that they can relate to. So they can think ‘Maybe it’s not just me. Maybe I’m not the only one who attracts every ass on planet Earth’.”