Kele Okereke of Bloc Party plays Random Rules at the Onion A.V. Club and guess what comes up..?

Sleater-Kinney, "Get Up"

KO: My favorite Sleater-Kinney song. I remember thinking the beat on the song was completely crazy, this weird kind of backward—I don't know. When I first heard it, [I was] bobbing my head incessantly, and that's how I define a good song, really, if it reaches you subconsciously and it forces you to react to it. I've loved Sleater-Kinney ever since. I think it's a real shame that they had to split up. I have more of their albums than I do any other band's. I just love the comparison between Corin Tucker's voice and Carrie Brownstein's voice, and I think what Corin does on the guitar is fantastic. They're definitely one of my favorite bands of all time.

"Sleater-Kinney can't be replaced"

thanks to cjc36 on the forums at Sleater-Kinney.net

tags: Sleater-Kinney | Carrie Brownstein | Corin Tucker | Janet Weiss

I'm taking three weeks off for my summer holidays, so Jeff has kindly agreed to step in again and keep an eye on things here for me, so when Carrie finally texts me to announce her new novel/album/internet dating site/whatever and Corin sends handwritten lyrics to her new limited edition 7", he'll make sure you hear about it. Back in the real world, you'll get more blurry video clips of Ms Weiss drumming her heart out and slagging off of pop legends when I'm back.

A bientôt.

For those who requested it here's the http://rapidshare.com/files/35530964/Hey-Soundguy.pdf file again. It's with rapidshare this time so I guess the link may not expire so quickly. You'll need the same password as last time.

It was 40 years and a day today since the most over-rated pop group in human history released the most over-rated LP in human history. The Oregonian celebrates the fact with better grace than I feel like doing and quotes Corin in the process,

"In the '80s all the music on the radio was hot girls and fast cars. But the Beatles told great stories. Anything could be a song. And the music is so layered and interesting; it's like an odyssey, with all these things happening. It's like the bedrock of how to make an album."

Thanks again to Portland Tim for pointing me to it.