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Sleater-Kinney: One Beat

John Aizlewood, The Guardian, 16 August 2002

THE RATHER inglorious tradition of shouty punk women began with the Slits, but trio Sleater-Kinney take their cue from long-forgotten compatriots Ut, whose celebration of discord and amateurism inadvertently blazed some sort of trail for grunge.

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