Sleater-Kinney

Sleater-Kinney — The Woods

With a penchant for viscerally intense rockers and unrelenting wails, Sleater-Kinney have made themselves one of the most revered rock trios around. Consistently releasing great albums puts on a lot of pressure to repeat, and fortunately on The Woods they do. The disc immediately kicks off with a heavy fuzz attack and Corin Tucker's ear-damaging...
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Sleater-Kinney - The Woods

Johnny Marr of The Smiths to guest star in Portlandia

For those who have yet to see the relatively new comedy series Portlandia, let me break it down for you: It's an excellent hipster-mocking sketch comedy show on IFC featuring former Saturday Night Live cast member Fred Armisen alongside Carrie Brownstein, whom you may recognize from her former band Sleater-Kinney and her current band Wild Flag. A...
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Song Of The Day: Wild Flag's "Romance"

Wild Flag, the riot grrl supergroup featuring ex-Sleater Kinney members Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss, Helium's Mary Timony and The Minders' Rebecca Cole, will release their self-titled debut album on Sept. 13. "Romance" will be one of the tunes on it, and boy oh boy does it ever sound like Brownstein and Weiss' former band. There's a bit more...
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I Read The News Today... For Sept. 22, 2010

Bedouin Soundclash and Sloan will play a free show tomorrow at Toronto's Yonge-Dundas Square beginning at 7:30 p.m. It's part of a full day of CBC-related activities, which will also include Jian Ghomeshi hosting his Q Live program with appearances from Zeus and City And Colour's Dallas Green, among others. —The Stroumboulopouli Montreal DJ CFCF's...
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I Read The News Today... For July 13, 2010

Women have made "Eyesore," the first single from their upcoming Public Strain sophomore album, available for free download. Morrissey's Bona Drag singles compilation will be reissued on Sept. 27. —NME Here's quite possibly the nerdiest collaboration we've heard of in a while: Ben Folds and High Fidelity author Nick...
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I Read The News Today... For June 8, 2010

Marvin Isley, one of the Isley Brothers, who are known for such hits as "Shout" and "Fight The Power," died Sunday (June 6) in Chicago. —NME Crystal Castles have announced some American tour dates extending through September. That means you have even more chances to get hit in the face by Alice Glass' microphone. —Prefix...
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Carrie Brownstein Vs. Weezer

Former Sleater-Kinney singer/guitarist Carrie Brownstein really, really isn't impressed with the new songs Weezer debuted at the Jisan Valley Rock Festival in South Korea last weekend. Brownstein, writing on her National Public Radio Monitor Mix blog, called Weezer "the ultimate novelty band" and dissed "I'm Your Daddy" and...
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Sleater-Kinney's Corin Tucker Plays New Songs, Fuels New Album Rumours

With Sleater-Kinney no more, the only active member has been drummer Janet Weiss, who's been performing with the Stephen Malkmus-led band, The Jicks. However, while it might be too early to definitively declare it, it appears that S-K guitarist/singer Corin Tucker could be readying new material for release. According to Sleater-Kinney.net, a...
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Lollapalooza 2006 Day One

Photographer: 
Will Taylor
Venue: 
Grant Park
City: 
Chicago, IL
Date: 
August 4, 2006
Sleater-Kinney's Carrie Brownstein

Lollapalooza 2006 Day One

Photographer: 
Noah Love
Venue: 
Grant Park
City: 
Chicago, IL
Date: 
August 4, 2006
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Sleater-Kinney Give Up The Ghost... For Now

It royally sucks anytime one of your all-time favourite bands decides to call it quits. More than a few people will probably be saddened by the news that Sleater-Kinney have announced that they're going on indefinite hiatus, which is new millennium slang for "break-up." "After 11 years as a band, Sleater-Kinney have decided to go...
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Pearl Jam Tour Diary #5: Please Don't Play The Hits

You've probably read on the site that Bono made an appearance at Monday night's Pearl Jam gig. Our touring fan had a different take on the incident than those of you who lost your shit when the Bononator took to the stage... he's just happy the U2 frontman didn't ruin the whole night. Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto After being reinvigorated by the...
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Pearl Jam

Caribou Hold Steady

Things on the tops of all of the charts have fallen in a predictable rut this week — there were no changes in the top three on main chart. Caribou's The Milk Of Human Kindness is locked into #1 spot for the third week, followed by Spoon's Gimme Fiction at #2 and Hot Hot Heat's Elevator at #3. Of Montreal's The Sunlandic Twins moves up one spot to...
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