Sleater-Kinney and Screaming Females release new songs

Sleater-Kinney and Screaming Females each released a new song today. The two bands have new albums slated for release early next year. They represent two of my most hotly anticipated albums for 2015. Sleater-Kinney, of course, has been broken up for most of the last decade. Their last album was The Woods in 2005.

Today the band released the song "Surface Envy" off their new album No Cities To Love, which drops on January 20. Stream the new song below. Sleater-Kinney plays a sold out show at the Riviera Theatre on February 17.

Sleater-Kinney is a hugely influential riot grrrl band from Olympia, Washington. They released seven albums in the mid to late nineties and early 2000s. Since the band's dissolution, guitarist and vocalist Carrie Brownstein and drummer Janet Weiss played together in the band Wild Flag. That band put out one excellent album in 2011 and now appears to be finished. Brownstein is one of the driving forces behind the IFC show Portlandia, which satirizes hipster culture in Portland, Oregon. Vocalist and guitarist Corin Tucker has released two solo albums since 2010.

Screaming Females released "Empty Head" today, the opening track off their new album Rose Mountain. Their sixth studio album comes out on February 24 on Don Giovanni Records. Screaming Females last released their live album, which was recorded by Steve Albini during two intimate shows right here in Chicago at the Hideout last January. I was lucky enough to attend one of those shows. Read about that here. Stream the new song below.