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LISTEN: Sleater-Kinney’s new song ‘Surface Envy’

By Michael Loring

During their Reddit AMA today, Sleater-Kinney today dropped a new song, “Surface Envy,” from their upcoming album “No Cities to Love.”

Read the entire chat here.

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