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tix for Sleater-Kinney's NYC shows on sale; Carrie Brownstein shares 'Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl' cover art

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Sleater-Kinney‘s five NYC shows all go on sale today. Tickets for Market Hotel and Irving Plaza go on sale at 10 AM; Music Hall of Williamsburg, Terminal 5 and Kings Theater go on sale at noon.

In other news, Carrie Brownstein shared the cover design of her memoir, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, and that’s it above. The book’s out October 27 and here’s the official PR:

Before Carrie Brownstein became a music icon, she was a young girl growing up in the Pacific Northwest just as it was becoming the setting for one the most important movements in rock history. Seeking a sense of home and identity, she would discover both while moving from spectator to creator in experiencing the power and mystery of a live performance. With Sleater-Kinney, Brownstein and her bandmates rose to prominence in the burgeoning underground feminist punk-rock movement that would define music and pop culture in the 1990s. They would be cited as “America’s best rock band” by legendary music critic Greil Marcus for their defiant, exuberant brand of punk that resisted labels and limitations, and redefined notions of gender in rock.

HUNGER MAKES ME A MODERN GIRL is an intimate and revealing narrative of her escape from a turbulent family life into a world where music was the means toward self-invention, community, and rescue. Along the way, Brownstein chronicles the excitement and contradictions within the era’s flourishing and fiercely independent music subculture, including experiences that sowed the seeds for the observational satire of the popular television series Portlandia years later.

Brownstein will going on a book tour this fall, so stay tuned for details on that.