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Sleater-Kinney

Sleater-Kinney

Since 1994 · United States

Sleater-Kinney formed in Olympia, Washington in 1994, emerging from the riot grrrl scene's DIY, explicitly feminist punk tradition without ever quite settling inside its boundaries. Their story

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Who they shaped

Behind them, left to right: X-Ray Spex, Bikini Kill, Sonic Youth, Bratmobile.

In front, left to right: Snail Mail.

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Dig Me Out (1997)

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Dig Me Out tightens Sleater-Kinney's interlocking guitar interplay into some of the most urgent songwriting of their career, Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein's voices overlapping in tense, unresolved harmony. The title track sets the tone immediately, Janet Weiss's drumming — her first record with the band — giving the songs a propulsive backbone the earlier records sometimes lacked. Nothing about the arrangement relies on a bassist to hold the low end down; the two guitars do all the structural work themselves. It's the album most responsible for establishing Sleater-Kinney as one of the decade's defining American punk bands.

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Sleater-Kinney

Dig Me Out · 1997

Sleater-Kinney formed in Olympia, Washington in 1994, emerging from the riot grrrl scene's DIY, explicitly feminist punk tradition without ever quite settling inside its boundaries. Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein's interlocking guitars — trading melody and rhythm roles rather than fixing either player into a single function — gave the band's sound an unusual urgency, with no bassist to fall back on and both guitarists' voices often overlapping in tense harmony.

Dig Me Out (1997), the band's third album and first with drummer Janet Weiss, sharpened that interplay into some of the most immediate songwriting of their career, trading some of the earlier records' rawer edges for tighter arrangements without losing any of the intensity. The album became a critical breakthrough that established Sleater-Kinney as one of the definitive American punk bands of the decade, and the trio's steady evolution across the records that followed kept them at the center of conversations about American underground rock for years afterward.

Since 1994 · United States

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Riot Grrrl

Olympia · 1990–1994

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Arrived in 1994, later than the other two, out of the same Olympia network; the band has since named both Bikini Kill and Bratmobile as direct influences.

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