Sleater-Kinney at Chicago's Riviera Theatre: How have you still never heard of this band?

CHICAGO — Sleater-Kinney, the great Olympia, Washington, band that played Thursday night at the Riviera Theatre in Uptown, has been together exactly 30 years. This is worth noting because founding members Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker never mentioned it themselves during the show, and neither the tour nor the merchandise were splashed with “30th Anniversary.” It’s worth noting because, after decades of anthemic shredding that flirts lovingly with classic rock bombast, this absence of self-aggrandizement — or perhaps, punk nonchalance — has left Sleater-Kinney one of the last great rock