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Fuck the Strokes. Forget the White Stripes. The best rock ’n roll band in America is Sleater-Kinney...
Smart, bold and political, Sleater-Kinney emerged from the Pacific Northwest with roots in riot grrrl, a movement of mostly youthful feminist and queer women who defied the sexist art and music establishments to revitalize punk rock. Despite widespread acclaim and a passionate fan base, the band has remained stubbornly independent and has little of the mainstream name recognition of those who have been crowned rock’s new hope...
Right on to TIME for naming Sleater-Kinney America's best rock band [AMERICA'S BEST, ARTISTS & ENTERTAINERS, July 9]. Not best girl band, not best band you've never heard of, not best independent band, but best band! I hope this is an indication of the future of music. SARAH STOLLAK Lansing, Mich...
Tucker has an almost unnaturally huge voice, but when momentum builds inside a Sleater-Kinney rhythm and then arrives like a flash flood, the sound makes Tucker's seem the only appropriate voice to speak of what's at stake: in Youth Decay, love and hate, life and death...
...Sleater-Kinney also plays any number of light, happy tunes that don't threaten anybody--that's what one is supposed to say after talking about a song like Youth Decay, to take the edge off. But with Sleater-Kinney the edge is never off. It's what the band was created to pursue: "2001 will be a space odyssey for us, and we won't...be here," Brownstein said from the stage at Sleater-Kinney's most recent show, last November in San Francisco. In the midst of their brief hiatus, Brownstein, Tucker and Weiss remain off the radio...