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Sleater-Kinney are now a duo who refuse to rest on their laurels, making and performing quality new music.

Sleater-Kinney, American rock band that arose from the feminist punk rock movement known as “riot grrrl” and was acclaimed for recordings that combined a lean and aggressive sound with passionate socially conscious lyrics. Sleater-Kinney originated in Olympia, Washington, as a collaboration between friends Corin Tucker (b. November 9, 1972, State College, Pennsylvania, U.S.) and Carrie Brownstein (b. September 27, 1974, Seattle, Washington), of the early 1990s riot grrrl bands Heavens to Be...