Brownstein joined Morby onstage at his show in Portland (naturally) to play the 2005 favorite
Carrie Brownstein and Kevin Morby (Getty Images)
Where else but Portland? Last night (May 20), Kevin Morby played the Oregon city’s Revolution Hall, where he was joined onstage by a certified local hero: Portlandia star and Sleater-Kinney founder Carrie Brownstein. Together, they performed the band’s 2005 classic “Modern Girl,” a track so essential within Sleater-Kinney’s enduring catalog Brownstein named her 2015 memoir after it. Watch the surprise performance below.
Morby is currently touring in support of his new album Little Wide Open, which came out on Dead Oceans earlier this month and marked his first solo LP since 2022’s This Is a Photograph. He’ll be on tour in support of the record through mid-July, making stops across North America before heading over to Europe. Sleater-Kinney’s most recent record, Little Rope, arrived in 2024. Later that year, they dropped Frayed Rope Sessions, a three-song EP featuring alternate versions of tracks from the album.
Revisit Jenn Pelly’s profile Life and Death in Kevin Morby’s Midwest.
Correction: A previous version of this story referred to Portland as Oregon’s capital city. The capital of Oregon is Salem.