These women rock.
It all made for a dazzling visual experience: Weiss' sticks a blur, Tucker's left leg punching the air while her head thrust back in midwail, and Brownstein pogoing and scissor-kicking with the glee of a teenager playing air guitar to AC/DC in front of the bedroom mirror.
The enthusiasm was justified, given the strength of the band's latest material. The trio played the bulk of "The Woods," and ventured into new territory during "What's Mine Is Yours." The band's normally tightly constructed songs gave way to an instrumental free zone, with Brownstein's feedback volleys answered by massive fuzz-toned bass harmonics from Tucker's guitar. A 15-minute take on "Let's Call It Love"/"Night Light" brought out a head-spinning vocal turn from Tucker, who looked as if she were reliving the passions and deceptions of a lusty encounter. Brownstein's funnel-cloud guitar solo answered, before Weiss restored order with an emphatic snare-drum flurry.
Brownstein's finger-pointing "Entertain" brought the set hurtling to a finish, and the trio was called back for two encores by a near-capacity audience. A cover of Richard and Linda Thompson's English folk-rock gem "I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight" gave each member of Sleater-Kinney a turn on lead vocals. It was the sweetest moment of an evening devoted to violence of the best sort: a three-headed juggernaut affirming just how much inspiration can still be drawn from guitars, drums and voices.
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