You're listening to Song Exploder,
where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
My name is Tao Nguyen.
Slater Kinney was formed in 1994 by singer and guitarist Corin Tucker and singer and guitarist Carrie Brownstein.
Drummer Janet Weiss was a member of the band from 1997 until 2019.
In Time Magazine in 2001, author and critic Grill Marcus named Slater-Kinney America's Best Band.
Over the years, they've made nine albums,
including this year's The Center Won't Hold, which was produced by Annie Clark of St. Vincent.
In this episode,
Corin Tucker and Kerry Brownstein break down how the song The Future Is Here was made.
It began with a visit to the LA music venue, Zebiwar.
This is Corin Tucker from Slater Kinney.
And this is Carrie Brownstein, also from Slater Kinney.
So Corin was visiting me in L.A., and I said,
there's this really great performance art slash comedy night that I go to once a month at Zebulon.
It's called Weirdo Night.
And we saw a performer named Joseph Keckler there, who is basically an opera singer.
There was a whole performance art aspect to his performance as well.
Yeah, it was beautiful and funny and sad.
Yeah, a little heartbreaking.