For Carrie Brownstein, the significance of filming the final season of "Portlandia" first hit home when Kyle MacLachlan had tears in his eyes. "It was a series wrap for him," Brownstein says of ...

Fred Armisen, Carrie Brownstein talk about the impact of their comedy show. — -- “Portlandia,” Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein’s sketch comedy TV show on IFC that lovingly lambasts ...

Carrie Brownstein, the star of IFC’s quirky Portlandia series, which pokes fun at Portland, and member of the punk band Sleater-Kinney. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times) By Greg Braxton.

Brownstein directed two episodes, one of which focuses on a fictional version of Fred and Carrie learning how to tell a good story. “I really loved it,” she said.

Carrie Brownstein: rocker, TV star, comedian, blogger—and now memoirist. In her new book, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, the Sleater-Kinney guitarist peels away any residual glamor and mythology ...

Much is made of Gibson’s Norlin era, the period from 1969 to 1986 when the Norlin Corporation took ownership of the brand. Gibson electric guitars from this stretch are roundly characterized as ...

Words don’t often fail Carrie Brownstein. In addition to writing songs for Sleater-Kinney, her iconic feminist punk band with Corin Tucker (playing The Studio at The Factory on March 5), she’s ...

Carrie Brownstein closed out her "Portlandia" run with two Emmy nominations and a passion for directing. She still wants the industry to be different and more representative.

Annie Clark (a.k.a. St. Vincent), left, director Bill Benz and Carrie Brownstein of “The Nowhere Inn,” photographed in the L.A. Times Studio at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney at the Masonic. May 2, 2015. (Photo: Gabe Meline) It’s a fitting format for a book about a band that was passionately pushing up against societal constraints, and ...

Portlandia star Carrie Brownstein is writing the screenplay for a music biopic based on the 1980s Seattle rock band Heart, led by sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

Carrie Brownstein is a feminist. The world could use a great new Sleater-Kinney record, especially after what a weird year for women in pop culture 2014 turned out to be.