Sleater-Kinney/Helium Supergroup: Wild Flag
 

SOUNDS GOOD TO ME


Sleater-Kinney are currently on indefinite hiatus, but now two-thirds of that great punk rock trio are, once again, in a band together. Singer/guitarist Carrie Brownstein and drummer Janet Weiss are members of the new outfit Wild Flag, which also features former Helium leader Mary Timony and the Minders' Rebecca Cole.
The band has signed to Merge and are currently recording their first album, with plans to release it next year. They've also got a Facebook page and a few West Coast dates coming up; we've got those listed below.




Besides the Sleater-Kinney history, the members of Wild Flag have all sorts of connections. Brownstein and Timony released a great EP as the Spells in 2000, and in 2008, Brownstein released a few more tracks that they recorded during those sessions. Weiss and Cole are both members of the side project the Shadow Mortons. And all the members' previous bands toured together in various configurations. These ladies know each other well.
Talking to Pitchfork earlier this year, Brownstein told us that she and Weiss had worked on a film score together, but she also shot down reports that she and Weiss had started a new band together: "Let's not say that there's a new band [laughs]. We'll let you know when there is." And now, hey! Look at that! New band!


http://pitchfork.com/news/40144-slea...oup-wild-flag/

tour dates.

11-10 Olympia, WA - The Northern
11-12 Seattle, WA - High Dive
11-13 Portland, OR - Doug Fir
11-17 Sacramento, CA - The Hub
11-18 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill
11-19 Los Angeles, CA - Spaceland
11-20 San Diego, CA - Casbah
11-21 Pomona, CA - Alladin's

Just bought tickets! Thank you.

nice, that spells EP is great and i like it more than most sleater kinney records

SO excited! love them all. carrie is prob my fav female guitarist, can't wait to see them live again. im going to the pomona show. :)

Soon as they hit up DC--and they will--the J & P Show is there.

I can't wait to hear what they sound like, I was just lamenting hoe there wouldnt be another sleater kinney record this week but this makes up for it.

just got my tickets for the spaceland. I am ridiculously excited, I was just thinking about how much I missed seeing s-k shows and then I googled searched cuz I remembered Corin had done a solo gig at a record shop a last year, then I saw that Corin Tucker Band was playing! but I couldn't get anyone to roll out there..

this should be a lot of fun!

I saw them last night and they were ok. The S/K girls should just focus on backing Timony up in my opinion.

It was nice to see Timony smiling and seemingly having fun. That has NEVER happened.

#%#%@!$#%@!!!!!

carrie is backup to nobody

Timony's songs (and voice) are way better.

...

They're packing my tiny 20x40 venue tonight. Sold out in 30 hours with limited promotion. I hope that some of their fans have a sense of humor about how raw this venue is.

holy shit when whas this hwaaaaaaaatttt???????

!!!

Damn it I never saw this.

Can't wait for this in Los Angeles.

im loving the song "future crimes"

playboy, y'all missed out fo sho!



i'm rollin out 2nite, I adore the shitty little spaceland..

spaceland is the only venue I have been to in LA. decent.

I seen
White Out feat Thurston
and

deftones secret show

at the Spaceland, and now Wild Flag, all fucking almost divine gigs! LA still has a shitload of good venues..

the El Rey, the Smell, the Troubadour, the Henry Fonda, the Key Club, the Roxy, the House of Blues Sunset, the Dragon Fly, the Knitting Factory, the Echo Plex (downstairs)..