Sleater-Kinney was good in-and-outside of their gender

Sleater-Kinney was good in-and-outside of their gender

Sleater-Kinney was one of the best bands of the ‘90’s.  I’m not going to say all-girl band because their gender is both irrelevant and relevant. It was irrelevant because they were as good as any band—their dueling guitars and wailing vocals outpaced any stringy-haired lead singer's Adam’s apple-ly yells and audacious guitar strumming.  Their gender was relevant, however, because they were one of the most popular bands to emerge from the “Riot Grrl” movement in the early ‘90’s giving women and girls a radically feminist voice in arenas—like rock music—from which they had long been restricted.

But enough about their gender.  More about you deciding that they are damn good. Here’s “Jumpers” from their last—and best—album, released in 2006: