“Turn It On” by Sleater-Kinney

"Turn It On" comes off Dig Me Out, the third Sleater-Kinney album, which Kill Rock Stars released on April 8, 1997, and the writing credit tells you the band had a new engine: Carrie Brownstein, Corin Tucker and Janet Weiss. Dig Me Out was Weiss's first record with them, and she would hold down the drum stool longer than anybody else in the band's history.

John Goodmanson produced and recorded the track during the sessions at John and Stu's Place in Seattle, which ran from December 1996 into January 1997. The album took its muscle from old-school rock and roll and its words from heartbreak and survival, and critics fell hard for its energy and its feminist bite. Looking back, it's the record where Sleater-Kinney broke through.

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