Sleater-Kinney are an all-girl indie rock trio from Olympia, Washington influenced by the riot grrrl movement of the 1990s. The band's name derives from exit 105 ("Sleater Kinney road") on the Interstate 5 expressway ("I-5") between Seattle and Portland.

The long-time critical darlings emerged from a series of other bands with their self-titled debut, Sleater Kinney on Chainsaw Records in 1995 and continued with more acclaimed albums like Call the Doctor (1996) and Dig Me Out (1997). In 1998, the band recorded "Big Big Lights", the first split single (with Cypher In The Snow ) in the series of recordings dealing with women's self defense entitled Free To Fight, and released on Candy Ass Records. Their next few albums pushed the band towards mainstream listeners, culminating in 2002's One Beat . The band, however, has remained fiercely faithful to their indie rock and feminist roots. All of their albums since Call the Doctor have been released through the independent record label Kill Rock Stars. In October 2004 they announced that their seventh album, The Woods , will be released on Sub Pop Records.

The band was founded by Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein. Currently, Janet Weiss (of Quasi ) is the band's drummer. Sleater-Kinney has no bass player. Both Carrie and Corin play guitar. Corin Tucker was formerly in the influential Riot Grrrl band Heavens to Betsy. Carrie was fomerly in the queercore band Excuse Seventeen . At present, as well as performing with Sleater Kinney, Corin also performs with Cadallaca with Sarah Dougher (formerly of The Lookers .

Discography

Albums

• Sleater-Kinney (1995) on Chainsaw Records
• Call the Doctor (1996)
• Dig Me Out (1997) on Kill Rock Stars
• The Hot Rock (1999) on Kill Rock Stars
• All Hands on the Bad One (2000) on Kill Rock Stars
• One Beat (2002) on Kill Rock Stars
• The Woods (2005) on Sub Pop Records

External links

• Sleater-Kinney official site
• Kill Rock Stars, Sleater-Kinney's record label