Some very good recent news: Sleater-Kinney (the last rock band to which I personally paid much attention) has gotten back together with an album due to be released early next year. Glad Carrie Brownstein has transcended her Portlandia celebrity; when she started doing Amex commercials I figured her riotgirrrl phase was gone for good.

In any event, here’s a good morning video from Sleater-Kinney: “Get Up.”

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Ed Kilgore is a political columnist for New York and managing editor at the Democratic Strategist website. He was a contributing writer at the Washington Monthly from January 2012 until November 2015, and was the principal contributor to the Political Animal blog.