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Tiny Desk Premiere: Sleater-Kinney

At the Desk, Sleater-Kinney was all business — as wiry and vital as ever.
Sleater-Kinney perform a Tiny Desk concert.

For a roughly three-year stretch beginning in late 2007, 's Carrie Brownstein reached the pinnacle of a career that has included stints as , and . During that time, Brownstein wrote and appeared as a frequent. But she foolishly climbed down from that mountaintop in 2010 in order to launch the TV show and the band , among other dalliances.

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