“You create opportunities for yourself. You don’t want to be limited. You want to feel relevant to yourself. To me, it doesn’t matter as much what other people think of me. But I want to feel that what I’m doing is something that feels important to me, something that makes me excited to wake up in the morning. You never want to feel like your best years are behind you, mostly for your own sense of self-worth…. No artist has a retirement plan.” — Carrie Brownstein, PARIS LA*

Sleater-Kinney—Brownstein, Corin Tucker, and Janet Weiss—headline Day Two of the Music Tastes Good festival this weekend. The festival features appearances by Los Lobos (performing Kiko), Alvvays, Of Montreal, Ween, and many others, and a Taste Tent brings together top chefs from New Orleans and Long Beach.

 

SLEATER-KINNEY, Sunday, October 1, at 8:30 pm.

MUSIC TASTES GOOD FESTIVAL, Saturday and Sunday, September 30 and October 1, noon to 10 pm.

MARINA GREEN PARK, 386 East Shoreline Drive, downtown Long Beach.

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“No Retirement Plan: Kim Gordon and Carrie Brownstein in Conversation with Dorothée Perret,” PARIS LA 15 (Spring 2017): 28.

Sleater-Kinney. Image credit: NPR.