These are not lines you’d expect to hear in a Sleater-Kinney song, at least not without remove or reproach. But not only do the lines appear–in “Sympathy,” the final song on the band’s latest album, ...

[Welcome to our second annual “SAY NICE THINGS ABOUT PORTLAND” issue! Read it online here, or if you like physical, paper-y things, you can find it in more than 50 locations all around the city!—eds] ...

Sleater-Kinney started out as a side project for a couple of musicians in Olympia, Washington’s riot grrrl scene in the early to mid-’90s. Yet here are Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein, as revered ...