Sonic Youth Gossip - Sleater-Kinney/Helium Supergroup: Wild Flag

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Bump.

Video trailer for Wild Flag's new album (It's been out there for a while according to the date on that vimeo page, but i saw it just now):
http://vimeo.com/26392316

I saw them at Aladin's.

Good stuff, but for a kid who literally grew up with S-K (seen them more than any other band but one) it was just like.... "uh. ok. But why not just regroup SK?"

Not that big of a fan any more anyway, so I didn't really care. They were very good live and well worth the two hour drive.

ps. this shit is old news, bros. :)

live i thought they didn't do enough mary songs, and only janet and carrie talked(saw twice) that's fine, but it does make it seem like a sleater rehash a bit...

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live i thought they didn't do enough mary songs, and only janet and carrie talked(saw twice) that's fine, but it does make it seem like a sleater rehash a bit...

mary has gotten a bit shy it seems, but its still not quite a sleater rehash, are you familiar with the Spells? Really, listening to the FULL album of Age of Backwards including tunes Carrie put out on NPR blog awhile back, you can clearly hear wild flag in that project from way back in 1999! rather, I'd say the wild flag sound is really an evolution of what mary and carrie have always done together, they sync well as musicians. I agree that mary needs to up her stage presence and showmanship a bit, she's not exactly a rookie, but they have a good banter between all four so its not just the janet and carrie show. Honestly it seems to me from that carrie really doesn't want to be the "leader" but has been kinda thrown into that roll by default cause even her banter has been quite awkward and forced at times, not like her old self in S-K, I can tell this band has a shyer, more subdued chemistry then the livelier S-K combination. I also adore hearing janet do her crazy polyrhythmic drumming! I been listening to bootlegs lately, I really don't even WANT the new album

if i remember the spells was split equally between mary and carrie(i think i actually got it from yr link) what i'm talking about is mary singing maybe 3 songs a set and carrie doing 10

i didn't say anything about the sound of the music or the showmanship. didn't have an issue with that....

as far as good banter between the 4... well the shows i went to mary talked once during the first show and it wasn't long or anything, and i think not at all the second show, and rebecca never talked.

carrie talked between almost every song, and janet would talk once at length per show and also have a bit of banter with carrie while mary and rebecca wait for the songs to start.

so that's what i'm talking about, not a lack of collaboration in the music or anything.

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http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/sho...postcount=1041

Thanks for the info.

Wild Flag's video for "Romance":
http://vimeo.com/27624987

"The most explosive rock album in years"
-Robert Christgau

http://social.entertainment.msn.com/...4-f3db6d65b4fe

yeah the album is really good, no complaints from me

honestly this album is sickeningly fun. janet's precise and funky drumming is like a rock version of harvey mason, i never thought of mary timony as being a shredder, but she shreds on this album. carrie may have become my joey ramone on this one, i'm not really a keyboard rock person, but the keys on this are pretty much always cool, never detracting from the music. good lyrics on the mary songs especially

live streaming thing starting very soon

http://www.npr.org/2011/10/18/141421...lag-in-concert

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live streaming thing starting very soon

http://www.npr.org/2011/10/18/141421...lag-in-concert

Sweet, thanks!

Wild Flag & Zounds Live on Terre T's Cherry Blossom Clinic:

http://freemusicarchive.org/curator/...ossom_ Clinic

Wild Flag's session for WBEZ's Sounds Opinions, including the debut of an unreleased song, "Nothing", with Mary Timony on vocals:

http://www.wbez.org/story/wild-flag-...-studios-93942

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Wild Flag's session for WBEZ's Sounds Opinions, including the debut of an unreleased song, "Nothing", with Mary Timony on vocals:

http://www.wbez.org/story/wild-flag-...-studios-93942

I don't think this the debut of "Nothing"; they've been playing it at least since October. But it doesn't matter - this is THE SHIT. I captured all four "HD" mov videos and they're facemelters of the highest caliber. HOO-WAH!

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I saw them at Aladin's.

Good stuff, but for a kid who literally grew up with S-K (seen them more than any other band but one) it was just like.... "uh. ok. But why not just regroup SK?"
)

I also cut my teeth on S-K gigs however..

we don't need a rehash of S-K because this group does just fine as a retool of the Spells ;)

besides, Corin's solo project is also a very good band, so why ruin two good things in exchange for potentially one?

Also, is anyone else extremely let down with the production on this album? I mean, I am so grateful for the massive collection of bootlegs posted on this thread because the album simply DOESN'T capture or duplicate in any way the real sound of wild flag, but the stage show is marvelously refreshing.

The only decently recorded track on the entire album is "Something Came Over Me" which is in fact simply sublime.

That being said, Wild Flag doesn't need Corin, what they need is to bring back John Goodmanson,

because the production on the s/t album is realistically shit.

(from facebook) We're playing the David Letterman Show Tuesday night.

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(from facebook) We're playing the David Letterman Show Tuesday night.

I just posted a taper alert on bt-dimeadozen-org.

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I stand corrected. Thanks for this and the dimeadozen alert.

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I just posted a taper alert on bt-dimeadozen-org.

for non-dime people

Wild Flag - Romance, on David Letterman show

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz3_C...layer_embedded

(thanks Patrick for the link)

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for non-dime people

Wild Flag - Romance, on David Letterman show

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz3_C...layer_embedded

(thanks Patrick for the link)

LETTERMAN: Whaddaya think, Paul?
SHAFFER: This is my new favorite band!
LETTERMAN: Tremendous!
:D

I WORSHIP AT THE ALTAR OF WILD FLAG

From Pitchfork's Best of 2011 Guest Lists:

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Wild Flag's Carrie Brownstein

Top Things

01. Eleanor Friedberger: Last Summer: Eleanor has one of the coolest voices in music; it's both insouciant and savvy. She's a sophisticated storyteller, seeming to toss off tales of heartbreak-- tales of the city--like she was merely a passerby. But there is no sense of detachment in these songs, Friedberger is undeniably at the core.

02. Beginners by Mike Mills: I really related to this movie, and not just because my dog has been talking to me for years. Beginners is an elegant tale about the inelegant, confounding and often gut-wrenching nature of transitions.

03. St. Vincent, live in concert: The best metal show of the year.

04. Quitting Facebook: I'd say that this felt liberating except that I'm sitting here wondering-- as one wishes they could do at their own funeral-- how many "likes" and comments I got for leaving. Plus, now I'll never know what some friend of mine from high school had for breakfast today. Oh wait, I'll check Twitter.

05. The Future by Miranda July: One of the most powerful and elegiac meditations I've seen on the fine line between connection and disconnection. It's the out-of-focus of nearness, the clarity of distance, and the devastating realization of that disparity. I really don't get the argument that July's work is twee. So what if a cat narrates this film? Cats can claw your eyes out. This shit is hardcore.

06. Dancing to Flo Rida and Drake in a tiny airstream trailer in Birmingham, Alabama: Dance parties should always be: spontaneous, sweaty, seductive.

07. Plushy convention near Wesleyan University in Connecticut: My band was supposed to stay at a hotel that was hosting a Plushy Convention, but our tour manager promptly checked us out after realizing we were the only non-Plushy guests. (Note to tour manager: don't you want us to have any fun?) In other words, this is the "best of" that never was. I still dream of a man dressed as a squirrel serenading me with Soundgarden songs transposed on a lute, and of throwing back whiskey shots with three zebras and a Snoopy. And that's before the lights go out. 2012 for sure.

08. Philip Larkin poems: I get a little homesick on tour, and though we all want it to, sometimes listening to "The Load Out" by Jackson Browne just won't suffice as a summary of life on the road. Thus, I turn to this Larkin line: "Home is so sad. It stays as it was left/ Shaped to the comfort of the last to go/ As if to win them back."

09. Childish Gambino: Camp: The best way to describe my relationship with this album is enamored. It has an energy, a searching, a sincerity and a freshness that I want to climb into over and over again.

10. Homemade Kombucha: I had a dogsitter who left three vats of the stuff in my bathroom cabinet. As if in a hippie-themed horror film, I followed a strange scent upstairs until I discovered the source of the stench. There are two ways to describe what I saw: 1) a pancake taking a bath. 2) A stillbirth. Either way, the pancake baby is still there because I don't own a Hazmat suit. Why is this on my best of 2011 list? Because if I can get rid of this stuff before January 31st, it will make my year.

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LETTERMAN: Whaddaya think, Paul?
SHAFFER: This is my new favorite band!
LETTERMAN: Tremendous!
:D

I WORSHIP AT THE ALTAR OF WILD FLAG

Wild Flag deserves the attention, s-k got a lot of magazine spin but never really broke, even after The Woods, still they were really only popular among music writers, but I was a fan since 1996 and it was always kind of underground. It took a decade for s-k to get onnetwork TV, and its good that Wild Flag can build on this wave..

seeing this thread come back to the top always gets my hopes up for a new song being released or something, one of these days that will happen though, and it will facking rule

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LETTERMAN: Whaddaya think, Paul?
SHAFFER: This is my new favorite band!
LETTERMAN: Tremendous!

Words are meaningless in the 21st Century. But yeah, I liked the performance.

(from facebook)

"Hello! We're excited to be playing Late Night with Jimmy Fallon tomorrow, Friday at 12:35. Hope you can tune in."

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(from facebook)

"Hello! We're excited to be playing Late Night with Jimmy Fallon tomorrow, Friday at 12:35. Hope you can tune in."

Dime taper alert and private message on their way!

for non-dime peeps I just put it up on youtube but I fear it will soon be deleted... http://youtu.be/tQWiUZDC4RY

EDIT: it's blocked

EDIT#2: Gonna try putting it on Vimeo instead....

I need some help, Vimeo has a 500.00MB limit and the file I have is supossed to be 500mb but must be ever so slightly over. The video is .ts format and none of the software I have will edit it. I can find free trials for programs that will do this but they leave a watermark on the video... any ideas?

Wild Flag - Short Version - Late Night with Jimmy Fallon 7th January 2012
http://vimeo.com/34738549

picked the album up the other day and love it. its got a lovely smmer time jam thing going on

i'm always late to these things

halfeatencake: Thank you so much for the beautiful polaroids!

I'm curious about the new songs (There's a recording of the show in Paris also with new songs on the set-list).

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picked the album up the other day and love it. its got a lovely smmer time jam thing going on

i'm always late to these things

that is ok, its never too late to find great new music, I discover gems from the 1970s all the time!

I must admit though, I've been anticipating this project since Carrie posted the previously unreleased B-sides for the Spells Age of Backwards EP of her and Mary which I have also posted eleswhere somewhere on the forum. It seemed obvious to me then that something was in the works, and then I went to the first show I could see in LA, and waited almost a year for that album living on bootlegs. PS, the bootlegs are much better!

Bump.

The Soup Nazi (and everyone interested in Wild Flag): You need to watch (and rip this one for your archives) if you already haven't:
http://vimeo.com/37389080