Brooklyn Vegan — Portlandia partners Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen appeared on Conan last night to discuss the show's brand new season and, among other things, the reunion of Carrie's band Sleater-Kinney. Conan clarifies to Fred that Sleater-Kinney is "a band yo... more info

Time — The Sleater-Kinney guitarist talks the new season of Portlandia and the band's first new album in a decade more info

Perez Hilton — Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein are back with a brand new invention! JK, Portlandia isn't brand new! And neither are these moves! The IFC comedy hit is returning for its fifth season, and in a move that would make Chris Pratt proud, they're starti... more info

Stereogum — Portlandia’s season premiere, titled “The Story of Toni and Candace,” will break from the show’s usual sketch-oriented format to tell one narrative throughout the half-hour. Specifically, the episode fills in the backstory of how the two owne... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — We'll have to wait until 2015 for the reunited Sleater-Kinney to give us a new album and tour, but they'll be making a non-musical appearance this week. Corin Tucker, Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss will be on this week's... more info

Stereogum — After Sleater-Kinney recorded their comeback album No Cities To Love, Carrie Brownstein joined Fred Armisen to film the fifth season of Portlandia. The series doesn’t return until January, but a new goth-themed teaser video arrived today just in ti... more info

Stereogum — Joan Jett recruited a whole bunch of people to appear in her women’s rights PSA that encourages people to vote in the upcoming midterm elections. “There are candidates running for office this November that have backwards views on women’s rights... more info

Stereogum — People have been speculating about a Sleater-Kinney reunion forever — especially since Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss’ other band Wild Flag broke up a year ago — and Brownstein didn’t exactly shoot down the idea in her interview with Stere... more info

Stereogum — Mary Timony has indie rock O.G. status. She started out in the D.C. punk trio Autoclave, led the great and underrated Helium for most of the ’90s, and, most recently, held down co-frontlady duties with Carrie Brownstein in Wild Flag. Timony’s new... more info

Stereogum — Long ago, Carrie Brownstein went from being a furiously talented punk rock singer and guitarist and songwriter to a furiously talented punk rock all-around media presence. At this point, Brownstein is more famous for Portlandia than for any of her mu... more info