Janet Weiss

…2008–11 included former Sleater-Kinney drummer Janet Weiss. Weiss, like Malkmus, lived in Portland, Oregon, where slacker collegiate types had bought homes and become parents. Even before the breakup of Pavement, Malkmus and Nastanovich had begun a side project with David Berman, recording as Silver Jews. Malkmus also recorded the solo…

Sleater-Kinney originated in Olympia, Washington, as a collaboration between friends Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein, of the early 1990s riot grrrl bands Heavens to Betsy and Excuse 17, respectively. (Sleater-Kinney was named after a street in…