Corin Lisa Tucker (born November 9, 1972) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known for her work with rock band Sleater-Kinney.

[2][3] Entertainment Weekly writes, "Corin Tucker’s place in rock history is already set in stone, and her work in the riot grrrl era is pretty much peerless, thanks to the muscular guitar style, otherworldly wail, and knack for punchy, pounding three-minute blasts she brought to such great heights with riot queens Sleater-Kinney.

[6] Tucker was born in State College, Pennsylvania, and spent her childhood in Grand Forks, North Dakota.

[9] Her other musical influences include the Soundtrack from The Wizard of Oz, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts' I Love Rock 'N' Roll, The B-52's, Pat Benatar's Get Nervous, Television's Marquee Moon, and Bikini Kill.

[7] In 1990, Tucker attended Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, where she studied film, political economy, and social change.

[2] The documentary included footage of early shows by Bikini Kill and Bratmobile, and interviews with Beat Happening and Nirvana.

[8] In 1999, Esquire wrote that Tucker "has been the most interesting singer in pop music since 1991, when she first opened her mouth in public, in a two-woman drums-and-guitar punk band with the wonderful name of Heavens to Betsy.

"[12] Tucker was a founding member of the influential riot grrrl band Heavens to Betsy along with Tracy Sawyer, a longtime friend from Eugene, Oregon.

[2][13] Tucker played the first public show of her career when the band performed at the International Pop Underground Convention in August 1991.

[16] After Heavens to Betsy split in 1994, Tucker formed Sleater-Kinney with Excuse 17 member Carrie Brownstein and friend Lora McFarlane.

[17][18][19] While in Sleater-Kinney, Tucker worked on a side project, Cadallaca, with organist Sarah Dougher and drummer STS of The Lookers.

"[22] She cited post-punk acts like the English Beat, The Raincoats, The Slits, and Sinead O'Connor's The Lion and the Cobra as influences for 1,000 Years.

[26] Rolling Stone wrote, "She's not shredding the awesome vocal cords so much, but she gets fierce in other ways, trying on cellos and piano ballads.

"[26] Pitchfork said, "This album's strengths—its intimacy, its containment, its subtlety—are not the qualities that made Sleater-Kinney great, but it would be ungenerous to dismiss this because it's not as thrilling, confrontational, or exuberant.

"[26] However, an Entertainment Weekly reviewer wrote that the album's songs "sound scrapbooked from other ’90s-centric acts (Liz Phair, Pavement) but never take on a form of their own.

"[5] The resulting songs cover "the finite nature of existence, the stalemate of our political climate, a moment in the transition from girlhood to womanhood…[and] love of different kinds.

[4] One reviewer wrote, "This album harks somewhat to the glory days of the Riot Grrrl Olympia scene of the late ’90s, but it’s by no means retrospective or reactionary.

[32][9] She sang a duet with Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam for the title track of John Doe's EP The Golden State in 2008.

[2] In 2013, she covered the title track "Shine On," for the album released by The Jim Henson Company as part of the Fraggle Rock's 30th anniversary celebration.

[7] Tucker is in the following films portraying herself: The Punk Singer (2013), Burn to Shine 03: Portland, OR (2006), and Don't Need You: The Herstory of Riot Grrrl (2005), as well as an episode of the television show The L Word (2006) and the web series Sound Advice (2015).

[44] She briefly dated bandmate Carrie Brownstein at the beginning of Sleater-Kinney in May 1994, a fact that was revealed to the world in a now-infamous Spin article.