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Sleater-Kinney is Carrie Bradshaw, Corin Tucker, and Janet Weiss. Sleater-Kinney (as told by Carrie)Corin and I met in 1992 in Bellingham, WA. Her band, Heavens to Betsy, played at a gallery downtown. I was too young to be in college, barely seventeen and not too happy about being in a remote town in northern Washington. I told her I might be moving out of there. Sure enough, the next fall I transferred to a different school, one in Olympia where Corin happened to be living. A lot of other folks were there as well; making music and art, recording one another in basements and putting out records on their friend’s labels.1994. We started the band in a duplex. It was brick, held four people, one of us living in the garage. Nutritional yeast was the cheese, was the meat, was the spice. It took us a week to discover that The Smell was a rotting bag of potatoes in a bottom drawer. We pirated cable and concocted a chore wheel that turned out only to be decoration. Corin left a message for me one day saying that we would call ourselves “Sleater-Kinney”. Up until that moment it had only been a road in a neighboring town. Now it was us. If band names were like baby names, we had picked a Gilbert or Sinclair or Beatrice. When we said, “We’ve picked out a name”, we always got a “Hmm”, or a head scratch, or a comment as soon as we left the room, like “that poor kid will be teased endlessly”. Never listen to other people’s advice about your band name. Otherwise, you will end up with an Ashley, or a Madison.Two years and four drummers later and we get the inimitable Janet Weiss. (I’m leaving a lot of the in between out. Props to Misty, Stephen, Lora, and Toni). We met Janet through mutual friends. On a late summer night she came over to Corin’s house with her sticks and her cymbals. We went down to the basement. She had learned “Call the Doctor”, played it flawlessly, hit hard so that you got a lump in your throat, tamed the long roll in the middle of the song. Next Corin and I played something that we were calling “Dig me Out”. Janet made up a drum part, fierce and solid, we could practically bang our heads against it. Then we were three.Since then it’s been what you’d expect. Limos and hot sauce. Mansions and beach balls. Mini golf, mathematics, groceries, cedar blocks, baby pools, and puppies. Or something like that.(cb 12/03) This is Sleater-Kinney through the voice of Carrie Bradshaw.  Taken from www.sleater-kinney.com/

Sleater-Kinney is Carrie Bradshaw, Corin Tucker, and Janet Weiss.

Sleater-Kinney (as told by Carrie)
Corin and I met in 1992 in Bellingham, WA. Her band, Heavens to Betsy, played at a gallery downtown. I was too young to be in college, barely seventeen and not too happy about being in a remote town in northern Washington. I told her I might be moving out of there. Sure enough, the next fall I transferred to a different school, one in Olympia where Corin happened to be living. A lot of other folks were there as well; making music and art, recording one another in basements and putting out records on their friend’s labels.
1994. We started the band in a duplex. It was brick, held four people, one of us living in the garage. Nutritional yeast was the cheese, was the meat, was the spice. It took us a week to discover that The Smell was a rotting bag of potatoes in a bottom drawer. We pirated cable and concocted a chore wheel that turned out only to be decoration. Corin left a message for me one day saying that we would call ourselves “Sleater-Kinney”. Up until that moment it had only been a road in a neighboring town. Now it was us. If band names were like baby names, we had picked a Gilbert or Sinclair or Beatrice. When we said, “We’ve picked out a name”, we always got a “Hmm”, or a head scratch, or a comment as soon as we left the room, like “that poor kid will be teased endlessly”. Never listen to other people’s advice about your band name. Otherwise, you will end up with an Ashley, or a Madison.
Two years and four drummers later and we get the inimitable Janet Weiss. (I’m leaving a lot of the in between out. Props to Misty, Stephen, Lora, and Toni). We met Janet through mutual friends. On a late summer night she came over to Corin’s house with her sticks and her cymbals. We went down to the basement. She had learned “Call the Doctor”, played it flawlessly, hit hard so that you got a lump in your throat, tamed the long roll in the middle of the song. Next Corin and I played something that we were calling “Dig me Out”. Janet made up a drum part, fierce and solid, we could practically bang our heads against it. Then we were three.
Since then it’s been what you’d expect. Limos and hot sauce. Mansions and beach balls. Mini golf, mathematics, groceries, cedar blocks, baby pools, and puppies. Or something like that.
(cb 12/03)

This is Sleater-Kinney through the voice of Carrie Bradshaw.  Taken from www.sleater-kinney.com/

06.08.10

Tegan and Sara: A Short Bio

Tegan and Sara is an indie-pop band led by identical twins Tegan and Sara Quin.  The twins, from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, have been actively writing and playing music since 1995.  In 1999, they released Under Feet Like Ours independently, after recording three professional demos.  They were subsequently signed by Vapor Records and released This Business of Art in 2000, followed by If It Was You in 2002.  Their fourth album, So Jealous, released in 2004 through Vapor Records and Sanctuary, to wide success.  The Con was released through Vapor and Sire in 2007.  Their sixth album, Sainthood, released in 2009, along with three-volume book set On, In, At, continued the twins successful streak.  Tegan and Sara have been touring since 2000.  They have played many major music festivals, including Bonnaroo and the Lilith Fair.  They have been on a variety of american and canadian talk shows, and their music has been featured on several television shows, such as The L Word, Grey’s Anatomy, Vampire Diaries, etc.  Both Tegan and Sara are openly gay, beautiful, and inspiring.

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