Sleater-Kinney's 1997 album "Dig Me Out" is built on Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein's competing guitars, Janet Weiss's muscular rhythms, and layered vocals that teeter between an urgent, banshee-like vibrato and a lower accompaniment. "Dig Me Out" was the band's third studio album, but the first one written and recoded with Weiss. It inaugurated Sleater-Kinney into a lineup that would span its two-decade career.

This 33 1/3 follows the narrative of "Dig Me Out" from its inception in Olympia to its recording in Seattle and its reception across the United States. It's anchored in a...