Sleater-Kinney Calls It Quits

By MARK BAUMGARTEN

It's true, alas. Sleater-Kinney is calling it a day, or eleven years, rather. The following letter from Portland's hard-rocking trio of fashionable ladies was released Tuesday morning by Sub Pop, the Seattle label that released last year's excellent Sleater-Kinney album The Woods. The Sub Pop folks say that the band is not doing interviews, and that it wants this statement to speak for itself. Sleater-Kinney will finish its summer tour (which includes no Pacific Northwest dates!) and then hang it up.

Weep, Portland. You have lost a great band.

This is the end. My only friend. The end:

NOTE: This story pubslished on 6/27/2006

Summer Tour Dates:

July 29 at Mellwood Arts Center, Louisville, Ky.

July 31 at Starlight Ballroom, Philadelphia, Pa.

Aug. 1 at 930 Club, Washington, D.C.

Aug. 2 at Webster Hall, New York City, N Y.

Aug. 4 at Lollapalooza (Grant Park), Chicago, Ill.

Sleater-Kinney: www.sleater-kinney.com

Sub Pop: www.subpop.com

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