Sleater Kinney

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Sleater Kinney
Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker in 2019.jpg
General information
origin Olympia , United States
Genre (s) Punk rock , indie rock
founding 1994, 2013
resolution 2006
Website www.sleater-kinney.com
Current occupation
Corin Tucker
Vocals, guitar
 Carrie Brownstein
former members
Janet Weiss (1994-2019)

Sleater-Kinney is an American indie rock band from Olympia (Washington) . The women's trio formed in connection with the riot grrrl movement of the 1990s and announced its breakup in June 2006, but later found their way back together. The band's name refers to the Sleater Kinney Road , an exit of the US Federal Highway 5 (I-5) between the cities of Seattle and Portland .

history

Sleater-Kinney was founded by Corin Tucker (vocals, guitar) and Carrie Brownstein (guitar, vocals). Since 1997 Janet Weiss (from the band Quasi ) has been a drummer. Brownstein was a member of the queer core band Excuse Seventeen . Tucker used to play in the riot grrrl band Heavens to Betsy . Before the release of their debut album Sleater-Kinney on the Chainsaw Records label (1995), the band members had played in various other formations. The first album was positively received by the critics, as well as the following releases Call the Doctor (1996, Matador Records) and Dig Me Out (Matador Records 1997). Dig Me Out is a dynamic rock album, the lyrics of which are simple, yet ambiguous and purposeful. Dig Me Out brought the band offers from bigger labels. Sleater-Kinney, however, returned to their roots in the scene community with close personal contact with the audience and refused. The follow-up album The Hot Rock (1999, all Matador Records / Kill Rock Stars) was characterized by greater musical maturity, but could - as well as the following albums All Hands on the Bad One and One Beat (both Kill Rock Stars Records) - do not follow the successes of Dig Me Out .

The band always kept a strong connection to their roots in independent music and the feminist thought that shaped them. For this they were honored by Le Tigre in the song Hot Topic as the initiator of the women's movement at the time . All albums since Call the Doctor (1996) were released on the independent label Kill Rock Stars , while their seventh and final album The Woods was released on Sub Pop .

On June 27, 2006, the band announced on their homepage that the Sleater-Kinney project would be put on hold for an indefinite period.

On October 20, 2014, a new vinyl box, Start Together, was released with all seven of the band's albums plus a white 7-inch record. Shortly thereafter, the reunion was announced and on January 20, 2015, the album No Cities to Love was released , which, according to the online radio station ByteFM, “became a pamphlet for feminine self-determination, grassroots democracy and against patriarchal social structures” with a dimension of criticism of capitalism and social empathy adds.

In May 2019, a new single was released, Hurry On Home , lead single / harbinger of the album The Center Won't Hold (2019), which was released in August. As a producer, Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent ) gave the cut. The musicians sound rougher and more tense, have taken risks and, according to critics, have reinvented themselves. The core line in the song Love is the following thought: “There is nothing more terrifying and obscene than a body marked by life that demands to be seen.” In the final song “Broken” Corin Tucker describes her emotions at the hearing from Christine Blasey Ford on the abuse allegations against the US Supreme Court judge Brett Kavanaugh, who was enforced by Trump . A few weeks earlier, however, the drummer Janet Weiss announced on Twitter that she was about to leave the band. In spring 2020, Sleater-Kinney are planning a European and German tour.

According to Sleater-Kinney

Tucker currently plays in the band Cadallaca with Sarah Dougher . In 2010 she released the album 1,000 Years with the Corin Tucker Band . Janet Weiss played until 2011 as the drummer for Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks , the band of the Pavement front man Stephen Malkmus . Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss have been playing with Mary Timony (Helium) and Rebecca Cole (The Minders) in the band Wild Flag since 2010 . Together with Fred Armisen, Brownstein played a major role in the comedy series Portlandia , in which Corin Tucker was also represented with a guest appearance (as a band member of Echo Echo, Ep. 5/1). Brownstein also has a recurring role in the television series Transparent , in which she plays a friend of the main character Ali Pfefferman (played by Gaby Hoffmann ).

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
The hot rock
  US 181 03/13/1999 (1 week)
All hands on the bad one
  US 177 05/20/2000 (1 week)
One beat
  US 107 07.09.2002 (2 weeks)
The Woods
  US 80 06/11/2005 (3 weeks)
Start Together - 1994-2006
  US 176 11/08/2014 (1 week)
No Cities to Love
  UK 27 31/01/2015 (3 weeks)
  US 18th 02/07/2015 (5 weeks)
The Center Won't Hold
  DE 73 08/23/2019 (1 week)
  CH 83 08/25/2019 (1 week)
  UK 45 08/29/2019 (1 week)
  US 27 08/31/2019 (1 week)
Singles
Get up
  UK 98 05/08/1999 (1 week)
You're no rock n 'roll fun
  UK 85 05/13/2000 (1 week)

Albums

  • Sleater-Kinney (1995)
  • Call the Doctor (1996)
  • Dig Me Out (1997)
  • The Hot Rock (1999)
  • All Hands on the Bad One (2000)
  • One Beat (2002)
  • The Woods (2005)
  • No Cities to Love (2015)
  • The Center Won't Hold (2019)

Compilations

  • Start Together (2014)

swell

  1. ^ Sleater-Kinney - Bury Our Friends at humancannonball
  2. ↑ Philip Rhensius: Sleater-Kinney - "No Cities To Love" (review). In: byte.fm. January 22, 2015, accessed August 16, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Torsten Hempelt: "The former Riot Grrrls have grown up" . deutschlandfunkkultur.de, August 14, 2019; Review; accessed August 15, 2019
  4. ^ Katie Cutforth: Review of The Center Won't Hold album. loudandquiet.com, 12. August 2019; Review; accessed August 15, 2019
  5. ↑ Chart sources: DE - CH - UK - US

Web links

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