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Honorable Mention - Sleater-Kinney
By Joe Uchill | Dec. 10, 2009The first, best and longest-lasting of the post-riot girl bands, Sleater-Kinney spent the decade recording music at its most harmoniously angular. Even now, going on four years since their break-up, they make for the 2000s easiest-to-identify band. If you couldn't recognize Corin Tucker's over-emotive voice, there was always the jutting guitar lines usually at odds with the drums (or each other), smoothed over by vocal harmonies. To take every album Sleater-Kinney recorded from 1996 to 2005 and play them back-to-back, it'd be hard to figure out where one ended and the next one began. But it would be just as hard to pick out songs that weren't essential.
