Over the past few years we’ve seen reunions (most of them fruitful) of bands including Outkast, The Afghan Whigs, Mazzy Star, Soundgarden, Pixies, The Replacements and Slowdive. It’s been a popular trend in music, and continues today as one of rock’s most influential all-female groups, Sleater-Kinney, releases their eighth album, No Cities to Love. Sleater-Kinney formed in 1994 in Olympia, Washington. Named after an actual road - exit 108 on I-5 in Lacey, Washington, the band has served as one of the pioneering acts of Riot grrrl, a feminist punk rock movement that's mostly known to have originated in Washington D.C. in the early 1990s and, later, in the Pacific Northwest. Sleater-Kinney released several albums from 1995 to 2005 – all of which received positive acclaim upon release. Sleater-Kinney was named “America’s Best Rock Band” by Time magazine in 2001. In 2006, after the release of their album The Woods, Sleater-Kinney entered an unexplained hiatus which resulted in all members
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