UNDER THE RADAR: Sleater-Kinney – “Bury Our Friends” (feat. Miranda July). “Bury Our Friends” from the January 2015 Sleater-Kinney album, No Cities to Love. One of the most singular and influential bands of the last twenty years, Sleater-Kinney ended their original sixteen-year run as one of America’s most revered and ferocious bands. Singer/guitarists Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein both cut their teeth in the riot grrrl movement in Olympia, Washington before founding Sleater-Kinney in 1994. Built around the duo’s complimentary characteristics – Tucker’s soaring wail and thick rhythmic guitar with Brownstein’s inimitable sneer and stabbing leads – and, from 1996 onwards, the thunderous pounding of drummer Janet Weiss, Sleater-Kinney took the passionate, feminist spirit of riot grrrl and used it to take on indie rock as a whole, climbing the ranks of the club circuit while racking up critical accolades on both sides of the Atlantic for their seven albums. After the tour behind 2005’s masterful The Woods, the band went on hiatus; Tucker intermittently embarked on a solo career while raising children, Weiss played with Quasi, Bright Eyes, Wild Flag (with Brownstein) and Stephen Malkmus, and Brownstein created and starred in the sketch comedy show Portlandia. After an abstract suggestion from Brownstein’s Portlandia partner Fred Armisen in late 2012, the trio clandestinely made strides towards reactivating Sleater-Kinney, writing and rehearsing songs throughout 2013 and recording them in early 2014, resulting in the band’s eighth album, No Cities to Love. Follow – > songssmiths.wordpress/ Like -> facebook/songssmithssongssmiths
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