Thursday night marked a big-time, blow-out show at Washington DC's famed 9:30 Club for the hardest working ladies of indie-rock, Sleater-Kinney.

Formed over a decade ago in Olympia, Washington (the band takes its name from an exit along the I-5 corridor), Sleater-Kinney's she-rockers Corinne Tucker, Janet Weiss and Carrie Brownstein have been steadily turning out albums from the Pacific Northwest since the first Clinton Administration.

In an indie-rock world dominated by greasy-haired, ironic t-shirted boy bands, Sleater-Kinney has managed to carve out a space for female rockers. Yet it's not just about being female. As one New Yorker writer opined, "It's insulting to call Sleater-Kinney the best female rock band in the world when they're one of the best rock bands, period."

That said, nothing last forever, and the band's most recent album The Woods may just be their last. An "indefinite hiatus" is going to occur at the end of the current tour, so you'd better see them now. The band plays next in Chicago.