Staff Editor on November 16th, 2019

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Sleater-Kinney’s electric energy — the 2019 version — was on full display Thursday night at the Hollywood Palladium, where the influential punk band performed in support of their new album “The Center Won’t Hold.”

The album, produced by St. Vincent, is their second full-length after a reunion brought Sleater-Kinney back in 2015 for “No Cities to Love.” The tour finds founding members Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker, who burst out of the Olympia, Wash., punk scene in the mid-1990s, carrying on without longtime drummer Janet Weiss, who departed the band in July. Angie Boylan was behind the kit Thursday, and the lineup was rounded out by touring members Katie Harkin and Toko Yasuda.

Thursday’s set — almost half of which was devoted to the new album (they performed every song on it, plus the new single “Animal”) — served as a rapid-fire look at Sleater-Kinney’s past and present. The encore, in fact, featured five songs from five different albums, capped in rousing fashion by “Call the Doctor” (1996) and “Dig Me Out” (1997).

Chicago pop singer Kaina opened the show.

Setlist: The Center Won’t Hold, Hurry On Home, Price Tag, The Future Is Here, Jumpers, Reach Out, Bury Our Friends, Ruins, What’s Mine Is Yours, All Hands on the Bad One, Bad Dance, One More Hour, Restless, Oh!, Ironclad, The Fox, Love, Can I Go On, A New Wave, Animal, The Dog/The Body, Entertain. Encore: Broken, Youth Decay, Modern Girl, Call the Doctor, Dig Me Out

Photos by Matt Cowan