Sleater-Kinney
Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein built a two-guitar band that somehow never needed a bass player. Tucker's voice does half the low-end work, Brownstein's guitar does the rest, and Janet Weiss on drums from '97 onward made them unstoppable. Call the Doctor and Dig Me Out on Kill Rock Stars are the canonical records. The Woods in 2005 is the loud one — Dave Fridmann producing, guitars set to demolish. Hiatus from 2006 to 2014, back since, and still putting out great records thirty years in.
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Sleater-Kinney's co-frontwoman and owner of one of the most distinctive voices in rock — a vibrato-heavy wail that can carry a whole song's emotional weight without help. Heavens to Betsy before that. Solo records under her own name. Half of what Sleater-Kinney is.
Sleater-Kinney's other half. Guitarist, singer, writer (Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl), actor (Portlandia), and one of the most inventive rhythm guitarists of her generation — the interlocking riff work on Call the Doctor and Dig Me Out is basically its own tuning system. Excuse 17 before Sleater-Kinney.
Sleater-Kinney's drummer from 1997 through 2019. Also Quasi, Wild Flag, Jicks, Stephen Malkmus collaborations. Weiss plays drums with a muscular swing that turned Sleater-Kinney from a great band into a physically overwhelming one. Left in 2019. The band is still great but the records sound different without her.