With the release of her 1993 debut album, Exile in Guyville, Liz Phair was quickly recognized as one of indie rock's most talented and exciting new songwriters. The album was praised extensively by the press and won Phair an enthusiastic following among alternative rockers. Liz Phair, who studied art at Ohio's Oberlin College, began making home-recorded tapes while living in Chicago. These lo-fi recordings caught the attention of the indie rock community, and soon Phair signed with Matador (who released her debut album). Phair went on to release several albums in following years and played at the famed female music festival Lilith Fair. Hit songs from Phair's career include "Supernova," "Why Can't I?," "Extraordinary" and "Everything to Me."
"How does brokenness walk? Or move through the world?" says guitarist/vocalist Carrie Brownstein about The Center Won't Hold, Sleater-Kinney's tenth studio album. "We're always mixing the personal and the political but on this record, despite obviously thinking so much about politics, we were really thinking about the person - ourselves or versions of ourselves or iterations of depression or loneliness - in the middle of the chaos."
The Center Won't Hold is Sleater-Kinney's midnight record on the doomsday clock. After twenty-five years of legendary collaboration, rock'n'roll giants Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker rise to meet the moment by digging deeper and sounding bigger than we've heard them yet. Here are intimate battle cries. Here are shattered songs for the shattered survivors. "The Center Won't Hold drops you into the world of catastrophe that touches on the election," says guitarist / vocalist Tucker of the title track. "We're not taking it easy on the audience. That song is meant to be really heavy and dark. And almost like a mission statement, at the end of that song, it's like we're finding our way out of that space by becoming a rock band."
With the release of her 1993 debut album, Exile in Guyville, Liz Phair was quickly recognized as one of indie rock's most talented and exciting new songwriters. The album was praised extensively by the press and won Phair an enthusiastic following among alternative rockers. Liz Phair, who studied art at Ohio's Oberlin College, began making home-recorded tapes while living in Chicago. These lo-fi recordings caught the attention of the indie rock community, and soon Phair signed with Matador (who released her debut album). Phair went on to release several albums in following years and played at the famed female music festival Lilith Fair. Hit songs from Phair's career include "Supernova," "Why Can't I?," "Extraordinary" and "Everything to Me."
"How does brokenness walk? Or move through the world?" says guitarist/vocalist Carrie Brownstein about The Center Won't Hold, Sleater-Kinney's tenth studio album. "We're always mixing the personal and the political but on this record, despite obviously thinking so much about politics, we were really thinking about the person - ourselves or versions of ourselves or iterations of depression or loneliness - in the middle of the chaos."
The Center Won't Hold is Sleater-Kinney's midnight record on the doomsday clock. After twenty-five years of legendary collaboration, rock'n'roll giants Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker rise to meet the moment by digging deeper and sounding bigger than we've heard them yet. Here are intimate battle cries. Here are shattered songs for the shattered survivors. "The Center Won't Hold drops you into the world of catastrophe that touches on the election," says guitarist / vocalist Tucker of the title track. "We're not taking it easy on the audience. That song is meant to be really heavy and dark. And almost like a mission statement, at the end of that song, it's like we're finding our way out of that space by becoming a rock band."