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This Time / Here Today 7" Single (RSD24 EDITION)

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    Sleater-Kinney's Little Rope is one of the finest, most delicately layered records in the bandís 30-year career. On the surface, Little Rope veers from spare to anthemic, catchy to deliberately hard-turning. But beneath that are perhaps the most complex and subtle arrangements of any Sleater-Kinney record. Following the critically acclaimed release of Little Rope, Sleater-Kinney present two special bonus tracks from the original recording session on RSD exclusive 7î.

    Sleater-Kinney

    Little Rope

      Sleater-Kinney has announced their eleventh studio album, Little Rope, which will be released via Loma Vista Recordings. Recorded at Flora Recording and Playback in Portland, Oregon with Grammy-winning producer John Congleton, Little Rope is a powerfully honest and soul-baring album by one of modern rock’s most vital bands.

      Little Rope is one of the finest, most delicately layered records in Sleater-Kinney’s nearly 30-year career. To call the album flawless feels like an insult to its intent – it careens headfirst into flaw and brokenness – a meditation on what living in a world of perpetual crisis has done to us, and what we do to the world in return. On the surface, the album’s 10 songs veer from spare to anthemic, catchy to deliberately hard-turning. But beneath that are perhaps the most complex and subtle arrangements of any Sleater-Kinney record, and a lyrical and emotional compass pointed firmly in the direction of something both liberating and terrifying: the sense that the only way to gain control is to let it go.

      STAFF COMMENTS

      Barry says: Little Rope is by far the most emotionally intense Sleater-kinney outing to date, but it's on tracks like 'Hell' that SK really shine. Perfectly juxtaposing near-weightless arty post-punk with clashing, punky mayhem. A beautifully written, cathartic milestone for the band, and a great addition to any collection.

      TRACK LISTING

      1. Hell
      2. Needlessly Wild
      3. Say It Like You Mean It
      4. Hunt You Down
      5. Small Finds
      6. Don’t Feel Right
      7. Six Mistakes
      8. Crusader
      9. Dress Yourself
      10. Untidy Creature

      Sleater-Kinney

      Path Of Wellness

        Sleater-Kinney's 10th studio album was recorded in Portland, Oregon during the summer of 2020 ' against a backdrop of social unrest, devastating wildfires, and a raging pandemic. It's music for an imagined togetherness. This marks the first Sleater-Kinney album produced by the band members themselves.

        STAFF COMMENTS

        Barry says: This newest Sleater-Kinney outing presents a band completely comfortable with their considerable powers, ranging from grooving country-tinged rock to more upbeat groove-led numbers echoing the dynamism of their early years but infused with the anxieties of a changed world, and all the better for it. It's a warmingly familiar but not at all staid sound, and one that they clearly excel at.

        TRACK LISTING

        Path Of Wellness
        High In The Grass
        Worry With You
        Method
        Shadow Town
        Favorite Neighbor
        Tomorrow’s Grave
        No Knives
        Complex Female Characters
        Down The Line
        Bring Mercy

        The Center Won’t Hold is the tenth studio album by Sleater-Kinney. It addresses transformation as it relates to the corrosion and decomposition of forms. Fractured and frayed by age or by loss, by internecine politics, by trauma or depression, these eleven songs ask what remains of a body, a human spirit, a relationship, a city, a country. The narrators herein sing from the brink of madness, corruption, loss, or grief. And though they speak to us from the narrow, near desperate strands to which they are consigned by others, or upon which they’ve self-exiled—feeling small, fearing obsolescence—they ask to be heard on the most sprawling of canvasses. By couching these personal stories in a sonic palette that unabashedly takes up space, what remains is a tale of survival: a treatise on female friendship, inner strength, resilience, and community.

        If The Center Won’t Hold forces a reconsideration of a band people thought they knew, it’s due to the methodologies employed in the writing and making of the album. The tools upon which Sleater-Kinney had relied proved inadequate, both metaphorically and literally, so they sought new ones. They used the geographical distance between them, along with the larger uncertainty and brokenness swirling around them, as a means of inducing and exploring sonic change. Most concretely, they worked with producer Annie Clark (St. Vincent), who treated each song as its own world, letting them find a specific vernacular through careful construction and deliberation.

        The most succinct thing to say about The Center Won’t Hold is that Sleater-Kinney continue to challenge the idea of what three women sound like when they create music together over the course of twenty-five years.


        STAFF COMMENTS

        Barry says: Sleater-Kinney have been one of the most interesting outfits to have come out of the 90's post-grunge indie boom, and have remained a fierce musical force since then. Through a myriad of splits / reformations and stylistic turns they have returned with their beautifully crafted powerhouse, 'The Centre Won't Hold'. Huge stadium choruses and anthemic turns are infused with snapping percussion and echoing distorted guitar, all topped with those unmistakable vocals.

        TRACK LISTING

        CD
        1. The Center Won’t Hold
        2. Hurry On Home
        3. Reach Out
        4. Can I Go On
        5. Restless
        6. Ruins
        7. LOVE
        8. Bad Dance
        9. The Future Is Here
        10. The Dog / The Body
        11. Broken

        DELUXE VINYL
        Disc 1 (LP)
        SIDE A
        1. The Center Won’t Hold
        2. Hurry On Home
        3. Reach Out
        4. Can I Go On
        5. Restless
        SIDE B
        1. Ruins
        2. LOVE
        3. Bad Dance
        4. The Future Is Here
        5. The Dog / The Body
        6. Broken
        Disc 2 (7” Vinyl)
        1. Hurry On Home

        ‘Live In Paris’ is the first official record of Sleater-Kinney’s famously blistering stage performance.

        The thirteen track album, which features Carrie Brownstein, Corin Tucker, Janet Weiss and touring member Katie Harkin, was captured on March 20th, 2015 at the Paris’s historic La Cigale venue during the band’s sold out international tour in support of their acclaimed eighth album, 2015’s ‘No Cities To Love’.

        ‘Live In Paris’ includes songs from nearly every Sleater-Kinney album, including ‘No Cities To Love’, ‘The Woods’, ‘One Beat’, ‘The Hot Rock’, ‘Dig Me Out’ and ‘Call The Doctor’.

        The recording was mixed by John Goodmanson at Avast and mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound.

        STAFF COMMENTS

        Barry says: I know live records can sometimes get a bit of a tough rep, but this one has none of that shaky sound or hefty interval nonsense associated with it, it sound like their trademark technical melodic indie fare but with the overwhelming energy and vibes of a live show. If you like Sleater-Kinney, it's an essential, only slightly more essential that if you simply like a good old-fashioned rock-out.

        TRACK LISTING

        Price Tag
        Oh!
        What’s Mine Is Yours
        A New Wave
        Start Together
        No Cities To Love
        Surface Envy
        I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone
        Turn It On
        Entertain
        Jumpers
        Dig Me Out
        Modern Girl

        Sleater-Kinney

        No Cities To Love

        “We sound possessed on these songs,” says guitarist / vocalist Carrie Brownstein about Sleater-Kinney’s eighth studio album, ‘No Cities To Love’. “Willing it all - the entire weight of the band and what it means to us - back into existence.”

        The new record is the first in 10 years from the acclaimed trio - Brownstein, vocalist / guitarist Corin Tucker and drummer Janet Weiss - who came crashing out of the 90s Pacific Northwest riot grrrl scene, setting a new bar for punk’s political insight and emotional impact.

        Formed in Olympia, WA in 1994, Sleater-Kinney were hailed as “America’s best rock band” by Greil Marcus in Time Magazine and they released seven searing albums in 10 years before going on indefinite hiatus in 2006.

        However, the new album isn’t about reminiscing. It's about reinvention, the ignition of an unparalleled chemistry to create new sounds and tell new stories. “I always considered Corin and Carrie to be musical soulmates,” says Weiss, whose drums fuel the fire of Tucker and Brownstein’s vocal and guitar interplay. “Something about taking a break brought them closer, desperate to reach together again for their true expression.” The result is a record that grapples with love, power and redemption without restraint.

        Produced by longtime Sleater-Kinney collaborator John Goodmanson, who helmed many of the band’s earlier albums including 1997 breakout set ‘Dig Me Out’, ‘No Cities To Love’ is indeed formidable from the first beat.

        Sleater-Kinney’s decade apart made room for family and other fruitful collaborations, as well as an understanding of what the band’s singular chemistry demands. “Sleater-Kinney isn't something you can do half-assed or half-heartedly,” says Brownstein. “This band requires a certain desperation, a direness. We have to be willing to push because the entity that is this band will push right back.”

        “The core of this record is our relationship to each other, to the music, and how all of us still felt strongly enough to about those to sweat it out in the basement and to try and reinvent our band,” adds Tucker. With ‘No Cities To Love’, “we went for the jugular.”

        TRACK LISTING

        Price Tag
        Fangless
        Surface Envy
        No Cities To Love
        A New Wave
        No Anthems
        Gimme Love
        Bury Our Friends
        Hey Darling
        Fade

        Sleater-Kinney

        Call The Doctor - 2014 Remastered Edition

          “Sleater-Kinney is America's best rock band” - Greil Marcus, Time (2001)

          Sleater-Kinney is an acclaimed American rock band that formed in Olympia, Washington in 1994.

          The band's core lineup consists of Corin Tucker (vocals and guitar), Carrie Brownstein (guitar and vocals), and Janet Weiss (drums).

          Sleater-Kinney were known for their feminist, left-leaning politics, and were an integral part of the riot grrrl and indie rock scenes in the Pacific Northwest.

          ‘Call The Doctor’ is Sleater-Kinney’s second studio album. It was produced by John Goodmanson and released on March 25, 1996 by Chainsaw Records.

          The album is often considered to be Sleater-Kinney's first proper album because Tucker and co-vocalist and guitarist Carrie Brownstein left their previous bands, Heavens to Betsy and Excuse 17, at the time of its recording.

          The line-up featured Corin Tucker (vocals, guitar), Carrie Brownstein (guitar, vocals) and Lora Macfarlane (drums, vocals).

          ‘Call the Doctor’ appeared at number three in The Village Voice's ‘Pazz & Jop’ critics' poll for 1996.

          In 2010, the album was ranked number 49 in the list of the 100 greatest albums of the nineties by the editors of Rolling Stone.

          “Trades sex-worker role-playing, doll parts, gender-bending, and other common female-rock tropes for stories of everyday struggle [...] Sleater-Kinney proves that punk still offers new ways to say no" - Johnny Ray Huston, SPIN

          The album has been freshly remastered by Greg Calbi for this release.

          TRACK LISTING

          Call The Doctor
          Hubcap
          Little Mouth
          Anonymous
          Stay Where You Are
          Good Things
          I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone
          Taking Me Home
          Taste Test
          My Stuff
          I'm Not Waiting
          Heart Attack

          Sleater-Kinney

          One Beat - 2014 Remastered Edition

            “Sleater-Kinney is America's best rock band” - Greil Marcus, Time (2001)

            Sleater-Kinney is an acclaimed American rock band that formed in Olympia, Washington in 1994.

            The band's core lineup consists of Corin Tucker (vocals and guitar), Carrie Brownstein (guitar and vocals), and Janet Weiss (drums).

            Sleater-Kinney were known for their feminist, left-leaning politics, and were an integral part of the riot grrrl and indie rock scenes in the Pacific Northwest.

            ‘One Beat’ is the sixth studio album from Sleater-Kinney, originally released on August 20, 2002 by Kill Rock Stars.

            It was produced by John Goodmanson and recorded between March and April 2002 at Jackpot! Studio in Portland, Oregon.

            The album peaked at number 107 in the United States on the Billboard 200 and entered the Billboard Top Independent Albums at number five.

            "[Sleater-Kinney’s] sharpest statement yet" - Caryn Ganz, SPIN (#12 in SPIN’s Albums Of The Year 2002).

            “Years at the top haven't dulled their willingness to take risks, and that's just what they do, spectacularly, on ‘One Beat’” - Brendan Reid, Pitchfork (9.1). · The album has been freshly remastered by Greg Calbi for this release.

            TRACK LISTING

            One Beat
            Far Away
            Oh!
            The Remainder
            Light Rail Coyote
            Step Aside
            Combat Rock
            O2
            Funeral Song
            Prisstina
            Hollywood Ending
            Sympathy

            Sleater-Kinney

            Sleater-Kinney - 2014 Remastered Edition

              “Sleater-Kinney is America's best rock band” - Greil Marcus, Time (2001)

              Sleater-Kinney is an acclaimed American rock band that formed in Olympia, Washington in 1994.

              The band's core lineup consists of Corin Tucker (vocals and guitar), Carrie Brownstein (guitar and vocals), and Janet Weiss (drums).

              Sleater-Kinney were known for their feminist, left-leaning politics, and were an integral part of the riot grrrl and indie rock scenes in the Pacific Northwest.

              ‘Sleater-Kinney’ is the first effort from the group, recorded by Nick Carrol at 486 Victoria Street in Melbourne, Australia, and produced by Tim Green and the band at the Red House in Olympia, Washington.

              The album was originally released in 1995 by the independent queercore record label Chainsaw Records.

              The line-up featured Corin Tucker (vocals, guitar), Carrie Brownstein (guitar, vocals) and Lora Macfarlane (drums).

              “While their same-sex one-on-ones aren't exactly odes to joy, they convey a depth of feeling that could pass for passion” - Robert Christgau, Consumer Guide (Grade: A-).

              The album has been freshly remastered by Greg Calbi for this release.

              TRACK LISTING

              Don't Think You Wanna
              The Day I Went Away
              A Real Man
              Her Again
              How To Play Dead
              Be Yr Mama
              Sold Out
              Slow Song
              Lora's Song
              The Last Song

              Sleater-Kinney

              The Hot Rock - 2014 Remastered Edition

                'Sleater-Kinney is America's best rock band' - Greil Marcus, Time (2001)

                Sleater-Kinney is an acclaimed American rock band that formed in Olympia, Washington in 1994.

                The band's core lineup consists of Corin Tucker (vocals and guitar), Carrie Brownstein (guitar and vocals), and Janet Weiss (drums).

                Sleater-Kinney were known for their feminist, left-leaning politics, and were an integral part of the riot grrrl and indie rock scenes in the Pacific Northwest.

                ‘The Hot Rock’ is the fourth studio album by Sleater-Kinney, originally released on February 23, 1999 by Kill Rock Stars.

                It was produced by Roger Moutenot and recorded at Avast studio in Seattle, Washington in July 1998.

                ‘The Hot Rock’ reached number 181 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart and number 12 on the Heatseekers Albums chart, becoming the first Sleater- Kinney album to enter the charts.

                ‘The Hot Rock’ appeared at number 23 in The Village Voice's ‘Pazz & Jop’ critics' poll for 1999.

                Similarly, Spin placed The Hot Rock at number 18 in its list of 'The Top 20 Albums of 1999'.

                In 2002, Rolling Stone ranked the album at number 17 on its list of 'Women in Rock: The 50 Essential Albums'.

                “The expansive new sound gives Sleater-Kinney room to experiment with their Husker Du-style storytelling... They've earned the right to keep reinventing themselves” - Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone.

                “Tucker explores what her voice can do when it's not in overdrive, stretching vowels like a religious supplicant or spewing prosody like Patti Smith. At the same time, Brownstein blossoms as a singer herself [...] braiding lines with Tucker so artfully the result sounds like the voicings of a single restless mind” - Will Hermes, Entertainment Weekly (Grade A).

                The album has been freshly remastered by Greg Calbi for this release.

                TRACK LISTING

                Start Together
                Hot Rock
                The End Of You
                Burn, Don't Freeze!
                God Is A Number
                Banned From The End Of The World
                Don't Talk Like
                Get Up
                One Song For You
                The Size Of Our Love
                Living In Exile
                Memorize Your Lines
                A Quarter To Three

                Sleater-Kinney

                The Woods - 2014 Remastered Edition

                  'Sleater-Kinney is America's best rock band' - Greil Marcus, Time (2001)

                  Sleater-Kinney is an acclaimed American rock band that formed in Olympia, Washington in 1994.

                  The band's core lineup consists of Corin Tucker (vocals and guitar), Carrie Brownstein (guitar and vocals), and Janet Weiss (drums).

                  Sleater-Kinney were known for their feminist, left-leaning politics, and were an integral part of the riot grrrl and indie rock scenes in the Pacific Northwest.

                  ‘The Woods’ is the seventh and final studio album from Sleater- Kinney, released on May 24, 2005 by Sub Pop.

                  It was produced by Dave Fridmann and recorded from November 2004 to December 2004 at Tarbox Road Studios in Cassadaga, New York.

                  ‘The Woods’ reached #80 on the US Billboard Top 200 chart and #2 on the Independent Albums chart.

                  The album appeared at number four in The Village Voice's ‘Pazz & Jop’ critics' poll for 2005.

                  “They bash Eighties nostalgia, tell a feminist fairy tale and even quiet down for a couple sensitive love songs – needed breaks from music so intense you wonder how they can contain its explosiveness” - Rolling Stone (100 Best Albums of the 2000’s).

                  “To survive these days, you have to be either suicidal or superficial. Sleater-Kinney, meanwhile, get by simply sounding fucking supersonic” - Stephen Deusner, Pitchfork (9.0).

                  The album has been freshly remastered for this release.

                  TRACK LISTING

                  The Fox
                  Wilderness
                  What's Mine Is Yours
                  Jumpers
                  Modern Girl
                  Entertain
                  Rollercoaster
                  Steep Air
                  Let's Call It Love
                  Night Light

                  Sleater-Kinney

                  All Hands On The Bad One - 2014 Remastered Edition

                    “Sleater-Kinney is America's best rock band” - Greil Marcus, Time (2001)

                    Sleater-Kinney is an acclaimed American rock band that formed in Olympia, Washington in 1994.

                    The band's core lineup consists of Corin Tucker (vocals and guitar), Carrie Brownstein (guitar and vocals), and Janet Weiss (drums).

                    Sleater-Kinney were known for their feminist, left-leaning politics, and were an integral part of the riot grrrl and indie rock scenes in the Pacific Northwest.

                    ‘All Hands On The Bad One’ is the fifth studio album by Sleater- Kinney, originally released on May 2, 2000 by Kill Rock Stars.

                    The album was produced by John Goodmanson and recorded from December 1999 to January 2000 at Jackpot! Studio in Portland, Oregon and John & Stu's Place in Seattle, Washington.

                    Upon release, ‘All Hands On The Bad One’ reached number 177 on the US Billboard Top 200 chart and number 12 on the Heatseekers Albums chart.

                    ‘All Hands On The Bad One’ appeared on several end-of-year lists and received a nomination for Outstanding Music Album at the 12th Annual Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Awards.

                    The Village Voice placed it at number 10 in its 2000 ‘Pazz & Jop’ Critics' Poll.

                    “The band's most melodic, playful, sarcastic, and punchy album to date” - Brent DiCrescenzo, Pitchfork (8.3).

                    The album has been freshly remastered by Greg Calbi for this release.

                    TRACK LISTING

                    The Ballad Of A Ladyman
                    Ironclad
                    All Hands On The Bad One
                    Youth Decay
                    You're No Rock N' Roll Fun
                    #1 Must Have
                    The Professional
                    Was It A Lie?
                    Male Model
                    Leave You Behind
                    Milkshake N' Honey
                    Pompeii
                    The Swimmer


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