Newsday.com has a writeup of the first show titled Passion and Fury Without The Hype.
Sleater-Kinney is everything an alt-rock band should be: passionate, energetic, inventive and fun. The only thing lacking from the Portland, Ore., trio - singer-guitarists Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein and drummer-singer Janet Weiss - is the big-money hype machine to let people know how great they really are.
Sleater-Kinney is deeper than The White Stripes, more original than The Strokes. The trio rocks without The Hives’ manufactured puffery and careens between poppy and ferocious without The Vines’ studied volatility. It delivers one consistently stellar album after another - including the latest album-of-the-year candidate “One Beat” - yet somehow the blandly pleasant Michelle Branch and Vanessa Carlton are considered the new standard-bearers for women in rock.
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