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Sleater-Kinney: The Roxy, Los Angeles

Marc Weingarten, Rolling Stone, 15 April 1999

THE THRIFT-shop slummers and the baby-T cutie-pies who crammed the Roxy for Sleater-Kinney's L.A. performance only drove home what's become painfully obvious: This Olympia, Washington, trio has outgrown its cult status. And why not? Rock this dirty-sweet is a rare and precious commodity.

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