I just got back from seeing Sleater-Kinney play a show at the Warfield in San Francisco. And as always, they totally kicked my ass. Janet Weiss is such an awesome drummer, words just can't describe it. Which isn't to say that Corin and Carrie don't kick-ass as well. That's not what I'm trying to say at all!

The started off with "The Fox", the first track from their new album, "The Woods". I'm still not down with this new album yet, but I've only listened to it a half-dozen times. They played pretty-much everything off of the new album, including the poppy-fun song "Modern Girl" (which I think that Janet messed up), and my super-all-time-favorite (I really like this song): "Night Light". I think that "Let's Call It Love" segued right into "Night Light", just like on the album.

They also played a fair number of songs from "One Beat", including: "Combat Rock", "Step Aside", "Sympathy", "Light-Rail Coyote". But by far, the real treat, was that they played some older songs, including:

• "Was It A Lie?" (from "All Hands On The Bad One")
  
• "Not What You Want" (from "Dig Me Out")
  
• "I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone" (from "Call The Doctor")
  

In fact, the entire encore was all old songs (there are probably a few that I'm forgetting). It's probably bad that I really appreciated the older stuff, but I'm still holding out hope that I'll fall in love with "The Woods", as I have with every other Sleater-Kinney album...

-Andy.