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On my radar: Carrie Brownstein’s cultural highlights

Written By Unknown on Sunday, December 11, 2016 | 6:43 AM

The Sleater-Kinney riot grrrl and Portlandia creator on sci-fi, Steve Gunn’s guitar-playing and the joy of simple curry

Born in Seattle, Carrie Brownstein studied sociolinguistics at Olympia College in Washington, centre of riot grrrl, the feminist art movement. There she founded rock band Sleater-Kinney in 1994 with Corin Tucker. They worked with several drummers before finding Janet Weiss in 1996, and released their third, breakthrough album, Dig Me Out, in 1997. Following 2005’s The Woods, the band took a backseat while Brownstein wrote music criticism for NPR, co-fronted punk band Wild Flag, and conceived Emmy-winning sketch show Portlandia with Fred Armisen. In 2015, Sleater-Kinney reunited to make No Cities to Love, and Brownstein released her memoir, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl. The book is out now in paperback (Virago £7.99).

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