Spawn of Sleater-Kinney / Producer Dave Cobb

SPEEDY ORTIZ This Massachusetts foursome are as inspired by S-K’s social conscience as their riffage; they launched a hotline for fans to ensure performance spaces are safe. Singer Sadie Dupuis has long admired SleaterKinney’s work. “It was (and is) important not only to fans of their music, but also to the sheshredders who saw from S-K’s lead that it’s okay to be fearless on your instrument, regardless of your gender.” WAXAHATCHEE Their third album, Ivy Tripp, launched Katie Crutchfield’s band to new heights, and they end 2015 on tour with Sleater-Kinney. “Something about their music feels fearless, and I have always been so inspired by that,” Crutchfield says. “As a young artist there is nothing cooler to me than a band that have been consistently relevant for over 20 years and still make great records.”

Sleater-Kinney were pioneers of a mid-’90s

Pacific Northwest rock movement, bursting forth with an explosive combination of brash noise and feminist ideals. After seven albums, then a decade-long hiatus, they stormed back with No Cities

to Love, quashing any doubt that the band’s faculty for fierce, riveting rock music had changed. What has changed is the world that the album was unleashed upon; in a decade without Sleater-Kinney, a new generation of bands sprouted up that remain both in debt to and in awe of the one that declares on “Bury Your Friends” that: “We’re wild and weary, but we won’t give in.” HOP ALONG These Philadelphia punks turned heads with Painted

Shut, keeping the tradition of crunchy guitars and guttural-but-melodic shout-singing alive. Frontwoman Frances Quinlan says that after she heard Sleater-Kinney, “music was never the same again.” DILLY DALLY Toronto’s Dilly Dally, who released critically acclaimed debut Sore in 2015, operate in a post-Sleater-Kinney music world. “It’s possible they’ve paved the way for a lot of female songwriters,” says singer Katie Monks. “It all feels so natural now to me.” GIRLPOOL This still-teen grunge-pop duo, newcomers to the same Philadelphia scene that spawned Waxahatchee, had the benefit of growing up with not just SleaterKinney, but a wave inspired by them. If their debut

Before the World Was Big

is any indication, this band could be inspiring their own deluge of bold, brazen artpunk years from now.