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For the past two years, Spin has done a listing
called the "40 Most Vital Artists in Music Today." Our beloved S-K made
the list both times - at #35 in 1997, and #27 in 1998. What Spin
had to say about them is below.
1997 - "Corin Tucker sings "I'm not waiting till I grow up/To be a woman," or "I wanna be your Joey Ramone," her screams as craggy and cannily plotted as a rock climber's handholds. Guitarist, covocalist, and Boston fan Carrie Brownstein surges in behind her. And Riot Grrrls Sleater-Kinney approach incandescence. Neither the subject matter or the sound is unique, but the way Sleater-Kinney achieve the pure pleasurability of a real band with a terrific vocalist, yet never sacrifice an ounce of intensity getting there, just may be. With no disrespect at all intended, these are Riot Wmmmmn."
1998 - "Rock thrives on both the margins and in the mainstream, but indie rock's worldview rarely extends beyond its own halogen-lit corner. Their peers may be too self-conscious to believe in their own transcendence, but not Sleater-Kinney, a Pacific Northwest trio that kicks the treble and swings the heartache like nothing you've ever heard. Over the course of three albums, they've forged a brutally direct sound much greater than the sum of their simple machines; the bric-a-brac interplay of guitarists Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein, the got-your-back vocals, and the anchors-aweigh drumming of Janet Weiss. Undeniably political,Sleater-Kinney's music doesn't merely articulate what it's like to be female, or queer - it articulates what it's like to be anyone swept up in music. When Corin Tucker sang she needed "words and guitars" on last year's Dig Me Out, you knew she'd find what she was looking for. "I like that they're women who shove things in people's faces,: says Ur-grrrl Joan Jett. Punk because it's so raw, postpunk because it's so tender, Sleater-Kinney stakes out its own territory but still manages to welcome the rest of the world." - Greg Milner
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