Watch Sleater-Kinney Rip Through “Modern Girl” On Austin City Limits (Stereogum Premiere)

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Watch Sleater-Kinney Rip Through “Modern Girl” On Austin City Limits (Stereogum Premiere)

Scott Newton/KLRU

We’ve called Sleater-Kinney the best rock band of the past two decades, and they more than live up to the designation. They’re making their debut(!) appearance on Austin City Limits this weekend, alongside Heartless Bastards, and we’ve got video of them performing their timeless Woods track “Modern Girl” (also the origin of the title of Carrie Brownstein’s excellent recent memoir) below. Watch it!

UPDATE: Here’s them doing “I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone” via Pitchfork:

UPDATE 2: And here’s “Price Tag” via Spin:

The Sleater-Kinney/Heartless Bastards episode of Austin City Limits airs this Saturday on PBS. Check out our recent list of the band’s best cover songs.

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