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New York welcomes its heroes home with a ticker tape parade; Portland does it with a Friday night slot at Crystal Ballroom in front of a jubilant crowd. “We are very happy to be home in Portland,” Sleater-Kinney singer and guitarist Carrie Brownstein announced from the stage. “This has been a very long tour and we’ve been looking forward to this night for a long time.” The feeling was decidedly mutual. The record they were...

Sleater-Kinney is back with new music and tour

There is a legion of Sleater-Kinney fans who were big fans of the Olympia, WA, riot grrrl trio long before founding member Carrie Brownstein turned her attention to acting and starred with SNL alum Fred Armisen in the offbeat television sketch comedy show “Portlandia.” (Sleater-Kinney was in the middle of a six-year hiatus at the time.)

On its second album without the drummer who helped define it, Sleater-Kinney seems enervated and uninspired.

We chat with Carrie Brownstein, who performs with Sleater-Kinney at Warfield and Regency Ballroom in San Francisco.