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Pop Rock 

Ronnie Spector: Somewhere Over the Rainbow

January 17, 2022January 17, 2022 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments Be My Baby, Frankie Lymon, Frankie Valli, George Harrison, interview, Joey Ramone, John Lennon, Johnny Thunders, Kill Rock Stars, Ronnie Spector, She Talks To Rainbows, The Cleftones, The Four Seasons

“I want to be one of those voices like Ruth Brown,” she proclaimed in this epic interview

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New Wave Post-Punk Remembrance 

Delta 5 Singer Julz Sale Dies In Thailand

September 23, 2021September 23, 2021 Deborah Sprague 0 Comments Apple+, Delta 5, England, Gang of Four, iPhone, Julz Sale, Kill Rock Stars, Leeds, Mind Your Own Business, Post-Punk, RIP, The Mekons

Alongside the Mekons and Gang of Four, she was a key figure in the famed Leeds post-punk movement

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Indie Rock Post-Punk Punk 

ALBUMS: Sleater-Kinney’s Path of Least Resistance

June 14, 2021June 14, 2021 Jason Thurston 0 Comments Kill Rock Stars, Mom + Pop Records, Path of Wellness, Portlandia, SLEATER-KINNEY, Sub Pop Records, The Center Won't Hold

On their first album without Janet Weiss, Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein rebuild their center on an impressive new album

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Indie Rock Punk 

“They Want To Simplify Your Needs And Likes To Sterilize You”: A Quarter Century Of Call The Doctor

March 23, 2021March 24, 2021 Ian King 0 Comments 1996, Call the Doctor, Carrie Brownstein, Chainsaw Records, Corin Tucker, Donna Dresch, Kill Rock Stars, SLEATER-KINNEY

Looking back at 25 years of the second Sleater-Kinney LP

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Electronics Emotional Punk Rock aka Emo New Wave Pop Post-Hardcore 

Le Tigre and the Dismemberment Plan Took Punk Into the Next Millennium

October 28, 2019October 28, 2019 Dan Weiss 0 Comments 1999, 20th Anniversary, DeSoto, Kathleen Hanna, Kill Rock Stars, Le Tigre, The Dismemberment Plan, Travis Morrison, Travistan

How two of indie-rock’s greatest albums broke down every remaining barrier in one day

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Punk 

Fall Down on the World Before it Falls on You

March 6, 2019March 6, 2019 Samantha Lauren 0 Comments 1999, 20th Anniversary, Kill Rock Stars, SLEATER-KINNEY

Sleater-Kinney’s The Hot Rock turns 20

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Punk 

Safe To Breathe

March 6, 2019April 11, 2019 Dan Weiss 0 Comments 1999, 20th Anniversary, Kill Rock Stars, SLEATER-KINNEY

The complexity of romance sparked the creative fervor of Sleater-Kinney’s classic 1999 LP The Hot Rock

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