Carrie Brownstein

…joined Sleater-Kinney guitarist and singer Carrie Brownstein and producer Jonathan Krisel to create the IFC sketch comedy show Portlandia, which was filmed in Portland, Oregon, and satirizes the city’s politically liberal, hipster lifestyle. Armisen had met Brownstein in 2003, and over the years they had made several video shorts, some…

) and Carrie Brownstein (b. September 27, 1974, Seattle, Washington), of the early 1990s riot grrrl bands Heavens to Betsy and Excuse 17, respectively. (Sleater-Kinney was named after a street in Olympia.) The two singer-guitarists recruited drummer Lora MacFarlane (February 20, 1970, Glasgow, Scotland) to record their…

…and rock musicians Chrissie Hynde, Carrie Brownstein, Bruce Springsteen, Joe Strummer, and Jonny Greenwood.