Drummer Janet Weiss of Quasi officially joined the band for 1997’s Dig Me Out, a decade-defining statement powered by Weiss’ ferocious thrashing and Tucker and Brownstein’s interlocking guitar-and-vocal intensity. Formed in 1994 by two singer/guitarist powerhouses-Heavens to Betsy’s Corin Tucker and Excuse 17’s Carrie Brownstein-Sleater-Kinney grew out of Olympia, Washington’s riot grrrl scene, flexing their activist-punk roots on a pair of scrappy, snarky manifestos with their 1995 self-titled debut and 1996’s Call the Doctor. With a list of incredible artists like St Vincent, Low, Courtney Barnett, Jason Isbell, Wilco and more signed up to cover Dig Me Out’s songs in celebration of its 25th anniversary, its easy to see the impact of this landmark album is still widely felt.It took a few feminist punks from the Pacific Northwest to give rock music a much-needed dose of empowerment in a post-Nirvana world. They made that clear with the album’s front cover design, a homage to The Kinks’ The Kink Kontroversy, a gesture which signalled that their record could just as easily be filed alongside the classic rock records they so admired.

They were grouped into enthusiastic media write ups about the continuing rise of ‘women in rock’.Īrguably a rock document of the female experience Dig Me Out, a definitive moment in modern music, and certainly deserving of much wider acknowledgement and appreciation, Sleater-Kinney could care less about such gendered descriptions. There's the fiery charge of ‘The Drama You’ve Been Craving’, the stop start proclamation of ‘Words and Guitar’, the feverish temptations of ‘Turn It On’, the aching vulnerability of 'One More Hour' and Sleater-Kinney even make use of the chilly studio’s radiant heater heard in ‘Heart Factory’.ĭig Me Out was released in 1997, amid much critical praise and reference to their Riot Grrrl roots. How Sleater-Kinney shaped the sound of punk rock to come on Dig Me Out

These elements form the challenging backdrop of Sleater-Kinney's landmark third album Dig Me Out.īetween spurts of having to literally dig their frozen vehicles free of the grips of a massive snowstorm that had descended on the Pacific Northwest to get to their studio, then battling the icy cold space under tight deadline to deliver the wrought emotion of many of Dig Me Out’s songs, the tension, urgency and heartbreak is palpable from start to finish. Snowstorms, frosty studios and a painful breakup.

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