Kevin Morby played a Sleater-Kinney song with Carrie Brownstein
My whole life was like a picture of a sunny day: Carrie Brownstein and Kevin Morby

Kevin Morby played a Sleater-Kinney song with Carrie Brownstein

Indie-folk stalwart Kevin Morby released the rather pretty Little Wide Open last week, and it's enjoying more attention than an established middlebrow star's eighth album normally would.

He's on tour currently, and last night at Portland, OR's Revolution Hall, he brought out a guest extremely relevant to that city: Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney, whom Rolling Stone recently declared made the fifth-best punk album of all-time with 1997's Dig Me Out. She was also the star of the 2010s IFC sketch-comedy hit Portlandia (had no idea it was on for eight whole seasons).

Morby basically got out of her way at his own show so Brownstein could sing "Modern Girl," the fan-favorite ballad from Sleater-Kinney's otherwise molten-rock behemoth The Woods. She performed a spirited version of it on vocals and guitar, and Morby helped out on harmonica. Brownstein even boldly asked the crowd at someone else's show to sing along if they know the words, and by George they did. Queen.

Enjoy the whole thing below.

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