Carrie Brownstein
Carrie Brownstein in 2005. (Photo by Eliah Hecht)
Background information
Also known as	Carrie Kinney
Born	September 27, 1974 (1974-09-27) (age 32)
Origin	Portland, Oregon
Genre(s)	Alternative rock Indie rock Punk rock
Occupation(s)	Musician
Instrument(s)	Guitar, Vocals
Years active	1993–2007
Label(s)	Villa Villakula, Chainsaw, Kill Rock Stars, K Records, Sub Pop
Associated acts	Sleater-Kinney Excuse 17 The Spells The Tentacles Tommy
Website	http://www.sleater-kinney.com/

Carrie Brownstein (born September 27, 1974), is an American musician and actress. She is best known for being a guitarist and vocalist in the currently-on-hiatus Portland, Oregon-based band Sleater-Kinney. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1171x900, 500 KB) Summary Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney. ... is the 270th day of the year (271st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Nickname: Location of Portland in Multnomah County and the state of Oregon Coordinates: , Country State County Multnomah County Incorporated February 8, 1851 Government  - Mayor Tom Potter[1]  - Commissioners Sam Adams Randy Leonard Dan Saltzman Erik Sten  - Auditor Gary Blackmer Area  - City 376. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Alternative rock (also called alternative music or simply alternative; known primarily in the UK as indie) is a genre of rock music that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. ... Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music often used to refer to bands that are on small independent record labels or that arent on labels at all. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. ... For other uses, see Guitar (disambiguation). ... In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings, i. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Chainsaw Records is an independent record label run by Donna Dresch, devoted to Queercore bands and operating out of Portland, Oregon. ... Kill Rock Stars is an independent record label founded in 1991 by Slim Moon and based in Olympia, Washington, United States, though it will be moving some of its operations to New York City and Portland, Oregon in 2007. ... K Records is an independent record label in Olympia, Washington, co-founded, owned, and operated by Calvin Johnson, formerly of the bands Cool Rays, Beat Happening, The Go Team, The Halo Benders and, at present, in the band Dub Narcotic Sound System. ... Sub Pop is a record label in Seattle, Washington that achieved fame in the 1990s for first signing Nirvana, Soundgarden, Mudhoney and many other bands from the local Seattle music scene. ... Sleater-Kinney are an indie rock trio from Olympia, Washington influenced by the riot grrrl movement of the 1990s. ... Excuse 17 is a punk rock queercore band from Olympia, Washington that performed and recorded in the mid 1990s. ... is the 270th day of the year (271st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. ... Nickname: Location of Portland in Multnomah County and the state of Oregon Coordinates: , Country State County Multnomah County Incorporated February 8, 1851 Government  - Mayor Tom Potter[1]  - Commissioners Sam Adams Randy Leonard Dan Saltzman Erik Sten  - Auditor Gary Blackmer Area  - City 376. ... Sleater-Kinney are an indie rock trio from Olympia, Washington influenced by the riot grrrl movement of the 1990s. ...

Background

Brownstein grew up in Redmond, Washington as a child of immense white privilege, and thusly attended the posh, expensive secular private school The Overlake School. She began playing guitar at 15, and received lessons from future Sunny Day Real Estate/The Fire Theft frontman Jeremy Enigk. She later said "He lived in the neighborhood next to mine, so I would just walk my guitar over to his house. He showed me a couple of open chords and I just took it from there. I'd gone through so many phases as a kid with my interests that my parents put their foot down with guitar. So [the instrument] ended up being the first thing that I had to save up my own money for - and maybe that was the whole reason that I actually stuck with it."^[1] Location of Redmond within King County, and King County within Washington. ... Private schools, or independent schools, are schools not administered by local, state, or national government, which retain the right to select their student body and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students tuition rather than with public (state) funds. ... The Overlake School is a private non-sectarian, co-ed, college prep day school located in Redmond, Washington. ... Sunny Day Real Estate or SDRE was an alternative rock band formed in Seattle, Washington. ... The Fire Theft, a band based in Seattle, Washington, was formed by vocalist/guitarist Jeremy Enigk, bassist Nate Mendel, and drummer William Goldsmith, all of whom were previously members of Sunny Day Real Estate. ... Jeremy Enigk (b. ...

After high school, she attended Western Washington University for a short time, before transferring to Evergreen State College (where Corin Tucker, Kathleen Hanna, and Tobi Vail were also students). She graduated with a degree in Sociolinguistics in 1997. After graduation, she stayed in Olympia for three years before moving to Portland. She later moved to Berkeley, California for a relationship but returned to Portland after six months. The Sleater-Kinney song "Jumpers" is partially based on her time spent there and Tad Friend's article from The New Yorker, "Jumpers".^[2] She is currently living in Portland, OR. Western Washington University (also referred to as WWU or Western) is one of six state-funded, four-year universities of higher education in the U.S. state of Washington. ... The Evergreen State College wordmark The Evergreen State College is an accredited public baccalaureate college, founded in 1967 in the state capital, Olympia, Washington. ... Corin Tucker (born November 9, 1972) is a singer and guitarist, best known for her work with rock band Sleater-Kinney. ... Kathleen Hanna (b. ... Tobi Vail (born July 20, 1969) is a musician, influential DIY punk zinester, and feminist theorist from Olympia, Washington. ... This article or section cites its sources but does not provide page references. ... Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern California, in the United States. ... Tad Friend is a staff writer for The New Yorker. ... The New Yorker is an American magazine that publishes reportage, criticism, essays, cartoons, poetry and fiction. ...

College

While attending the Evergreen State College, Brownstein was in the queercore band Excuse 17. Around this time, she met and later dated Corin Tucker, who was in the band Heavens to Betsy. The two bands toured together and both contributed to the Free to Fight compilation. They formed Sleater-Kinney as a side project, and released the Free to Fight split single with Cypher in the Snow. The Evergreen State College wordmark The Evergreen State College is an accredited public baccalaureate college, founded in 1967 in the state capital, Olympia, Washington. ... Queercore is a cultural and social movement that began in the mid 1980s as an offshoot of punk. ... Excuse 17 is a punk rock queercore band from Olympia, Washington that performed and recorded in the mid 1990s. ... Corin Tucker (born November 9, 1972) is a singer and guitarist, best known for her work with rock band Sleater-Kinney. ... Heavens to Betsy was an all girl punk rock band from Olympia, Washington. ... Free To Fight is a 1995 double album jointly released by Chainsaw Records and Candy Ass Records. ... Sleater-Kinney are an indie rock trio from Olympia, Washington influenced by the riot grrrl movement of the 1990s. ... Cypher in the Snow are an all women queercore band from San Francisco. ...

Sleater-Kinney

After both Excuse 17 and Heavens to Betsy split up, Sleater-Kinney became Brownstein and Tucker's main focus. They recorded their first self-titled album during a trip to Australia in early 1994, where the couple were celebrating Tucker's graduation from Evergreen^[3] (Brownstein still had three years of college left). It was released the following spring. They recorded and toured with different drummers, until Janet Weiss joined the band in 1996. Following their eponymous debut, they released six more critically acclaimed albums before going on indefinite hiatus in 2006. Janet Weiss performing with Quasi, Los Angeles, CA in 2006. ...

Side Projects

Brownstein created The Spells with Mary Timony, who released one EP titled The Age of Backwards. She also had a role in the short film Fan Mail, as well as Group and the Miranda July film Getting Stronger Everyday. Mary Timony (born in Washington, D.C., 1970) is an American indie rock singer, guitarist, keyboardist, and violist. ... Miranda July Miranda July (born February 1, 1974) is a performance artist, musician, writer, and film director. ...

Recent

Since the hiatus of Sleater-Kinney, Brownstein has begun working at Portland ad agency Wieden+Kennedy.^[4] Her former bandmate Janet Weiss worked there before she joined Sleater-Kinney,^[5] and has called the company "an evil advertising empire," saying she "quit and washed her hands of it."^[6] Brownstein has also started a comedy team with SNL castmember Fred Armisen, titled "ThunderAnt". The two film comedic shorts that are posted on their website, thunderant.com. ^[7] Sleater-Kinney are an indie rock trio from Olympia, Washington influenced by the riot grrrl movement of the 1990s. ... Wieden+Kennedy (W+K) is an independently owned American advertising agency best known for its work for Nike. ... Janet Weiss performing with Quasi, Los Angeles, CA in 2006. ... Sleater-Kinney are an indie rock trio from Olympia, Washington influenced by the riot grrrl movement of the 1990s. ... SNL could mean: Saturday Night Live Scots National League This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Fred Armisen (born December 4, 1966 in Valley Stream, New York) is an American musician, comedian, and actor, best known for his work as a castmember on Saturday Night Live. ...

Personal

Brownstein was infamously outed to her family and the world by Spin magazine when she was 21 years old. The article discussed the fact that she had dated bandmate Corin Tucker in the beginning of Sleater-Kinney (the song "One More Hour" is about their breakup^[8]). After the article was out, she said, "I hadn't seen it [the Spin article], and I got a phone call. My dad called me and was like, 'The Spin article's out. Um, do you want to let me know what's going on?' The ground was pulled out from underneath me... My dad did not know that Corin and I had ever dated, or that I even dated girls."^[9][10][11] Spin is a music magazine that reports on all the music that rocks. Founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione, Jr. ... Corin Tucker (born November 9, 1972) is a singer and guitarist, best known for her work with rock band Sleater-Kinney. ...

She later said "It was something that I’d been planning [to tell them] when it felt like the right time. The process was rapidly sped up for me with the aid of a national magazine. It’s fine now, and my family is very supportive . . . it’s just not the way I wanted to go about doing it."^[12]

External links

• Official Sleater-Kinney Site
• Official Sleater-Kinney Fan Site
• Sleater-Kinney at MySpace
• Carrie Brownstein at MusicBrainz
• Carrie Brownstein at Discogs
• Interview with AVClub
• Thunderant

MySpace is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos. ... MusicBrainz (MusicBrainz. ... Discogs, short for discographies, is a website and database of information about music recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and certain bootleg or off-label releases. ...

References

1. ^ http://sleater-kinney.net/index.php?go=library_rock_decade
2. ^ San Francisco Bay Guardian
3. ^ http://sleater-kinney.net/index.php?go=library_spin_june05
4. ^ http://wkstudio.typepad.com/studio/wk_twelve/index.html
5. ^ http://www.wweek.com/editorial/2839/3023/
6. ^ http://youtube.com/watch?v=XjTz3sT91ms
7. ^ http://www.thunderant.com/
8. ^ http://www.undertheradarmag.com/sleaterkinneylastreview.html
9. ^ http://www.indiedarlings.20m.com/articlepages/outmagazine.html
10. ^ [1]
11. ^ http://www.sptimes.com/2004/04/01/Floridian/_Queer__no_longer_sti.shtml
12. ^ Curve: Vol. 7 #2