“It almost succeeded,” writes Carrie Brownstein of a concert video blasted into uselessness by bad lighting. “That could be our band biography: Almost, by Sleater-Kinney.” This is not a band biography. It’s a memoir by Brownstein, one of the Sleater-Kinney’s two guitarists and singers (Corin Tucker is the other; the third member is drummer Janet Weiss). But it is also, predominantly, about Brownstein as a member of Sleater-Kinney: how she became the kind of person who wants to be in bands, how she joined bands, what being in her band was like.

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