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Sleater-Kinney have reshaped the world of rock | 90- second history
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today we're celebrating a game-changing
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band whose uncompromising feminist
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spirit and badass Rock smarts have
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cemented them as one of the most
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influential groups of the last 30 Years
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sler Kenny sler Kenny formed in 1994 in
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Olympia Washington founded by
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co-vocalist and guitarists Carrie
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Brownstein and Corin Tucker with drummer
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Janet Weiss joining soon after the band
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emerged from the midst of the pioneering
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Riot Girl Movement at odds with the
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hugely male dominated Rock Landscapes
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before their searing vocals political
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lyrics and incendiary attitude swiftly
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pushed them to the Forefront of the sea
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releasing seven albums over their first
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stretch together including now Classics
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call the doctor and dig me out the band
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used their platform to Rally against
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old-fashioned patriarchal ideals
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championing marginalized groups and
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Progressive attitudes and when following
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a Hiatus from 2006 to 2014 they returned
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with new music and toe the continued
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need for bands to stand up for these
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ideas only cemented their importance you
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can see the legacy of Le Kenny written
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all over 21st century alternative music
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from St Vincent to Big Joan dream wife
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to the Linda lindas the list of bands
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who've taken influence from s Kenny's
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defiant attitude is huge three decades
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on there are band that have reshaped the
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work Wild for the better as long-term
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fan Beth jit of the gossip put it as
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long as Le Ken are making art and music
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then there's always going to be a place
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in the world for women to be taken
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seriously
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