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...like, great, something for my grandmother to clip out and show to her friends,” Brownstein told FM. “I mean, we feel privileged and lucky. But declaring something the best is such an arbitrary, subjective thing. You can’t really internalize those kinds of accolades...
...media declared rock and guitars dead a couple of years ago, and they’ve resurrected it again, even though it’s always existed,” Brownstein said of the so-called rock revival. “And now that it’s back, it’s just another white boy with a guitar…. We don’t have a vocabulary yet in our society to include other people within this mold of what rock ’n roll...
...whether they were “good” at it or not, Sleater-Kinney’s musical virtuosity transcends politics. But the band contains multitudes, and predictably enough, refuses to choose among characterizations. “We are feminist, queer, pop, punk, rock,” said Brownstein matter-of-factly. “We’re all those things at once...
...There was a certain amount of futility people felt after what happened on Sept. 11,” said Brownstein. For the band, songwriting was “the antithesis of that kind of spiritual and psychological deadening of the tragic...
...last Monday, the force of counteraction wasn’t just palpable; it was crackling. The trio have a way of watching each other onstage, an easy, grinning conspiracy of companionship that has survived through six albums, multiple side projects and a short-lived romantic relationship between Tucker and Brownstein. No one fronts this triangular onstage configuration and Sleater-Kinney likes it that...