Pushkin. This is talk easy. I'm San Francisco so welcome to the show. Today I'm joined by Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker of Sleater Kenny.

The punk rock group which formed in Olympia, Washington in 1994, has a new record out called Path of Wellness.

It marks both their 10th album and their first since 1996 without longtime drummer Janet Weiss.

The trio became a duo back in 2019 over creative differences. But in the absence of Weiss remains an

irrepressible spirit, a sound born out of the Riot Girl movement that

illuminated as the great Jessica Hopper writes what it means to be alive, queer,

feminist, and disgusted by America.

Ten records in, the band continues to illuminate and to fight.

Here's a bit from the title song of Sleater Kenny's latest,

Path of Wellness. From your evaluation I received an incomplete, but lacking higher when it's all the pure indeed.

Do I seek approval? Is it something that I need?

You call your cure a candy, turn my sour into sweet and I think.

You can never love me enough.

You can never love me enough. You can never love me enough.

You can never love me enough.

Turn me of my toxins, train me of the life I need. Now this album was made during the summer of 2020 in Portland, Oregon as a city

experienced mass protests, wildfires, and a raging pandemic.

As the world began to change around them,

Carrie and Corin got to work.

The ritual and routine of making music had a regenerative effect, a way of processing

this turbulent period. The result, a record now available wherever you listen or buy or stream your music.

It's called Path of Wellness.

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