Sleater-Kinneys 1997 album Dig Me Out is built on Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownsteins competing guitars; Janet Weisss muscular rhythms; and layered vocals that teeter between an urgent; banshee-like vibrato and a lower accompaniment. Dig Me Out was the bands third studio album; but the first one written and recoded with Weiss. It inaugurated Sleater-Kinney into a lineup that would span its two-decade career.This 33 1/3 follows the narrative of Dig Me Out from its inception in Olympia to its recording in Seattle and its reception across the United States. Its anchored in a short period of time ndash; roughly from mid-1996 to mid-1998 ndash; but it encompasses a series of battles over meaning that continued to preoccupy Sleater-Kinney in the coming decades. The band wrestled with the media about how they would be presented to the public; it contended with technicians about how their sound would be heard in clubs; and they struggled with pervasive social hierarchies about how their work would be understood in popular culture. The only instance where the band didnt have to put up much of a fight was when it came to their fans. The acclaim Sleater-Kinney received from their listeners in the late 1990s; and continue to receive today; speaks to a need for icons who challenged normative notions of culture and gender. This story of Dig Me Out chronicles how Sleater-Kinney won the fight to define themselves on their own terms ndash; as women and as musicians ndash; and; in the process; how they redefined the parameters of rock.
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