Sleater-Kinney are a power combo from Portland, Oregon. The twin guitars and Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker combined with the snare pummeling of Janet Weiss have made for some of the most intense and moving music to come from the pacific northwest over the last ten years. Their latest The Woods is being hailed everywhere (including here at MagnaPhone) as a bona-fide classic. I got a chance to briefly chat with Carrie Brownstein this past May.

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