Sleater Kinney / Wild Flag / Quasi / related bands

[joostone]

[Jorge]

That is such a bad song and they look so uncomfortable playing it

[tragabigzanda]

[VinylGuy]

I didnt get that vibe at all. I thought they were having fun...hell, Corin is all smiles.

But i do love the song and that live rendition.

[bodysnatcher]

I could probably go the rest of my life without hearing Carrie Brownstein on lead vocals.

[VinylGuy]

I could probably go the rest of my life without hearing Carrie Brownstein on lead vocals.

yeah, specially when you have Corin there. My god, her voice.

[Leatherhead]

I just watched this, and then came here to post about it. Figured it was already here. That was fuckin' awesome, I'm with VG. So stoked to seem them in 4 days.

[MadTIGERmaN]

That is such a bad song and they look so uncomfortable playing it

1 - I love the song
2 - when I saw them play it live in Milwaukee almost a month ago, they were having so much fun playing it
3 - did not get that vib at all watching the video either

They seriously seem to be in a great places as a band IMO

[digster]

It's been a very odd turnaround in terms of the broader public's perception of the band (I mean, as broad as a public actually cares about SK). A few months ago, they were seen as having effectively killed their career in the span of a few weeks. I think a lot of the credit has to go to their drummer; she had massive shoes to fill and is seemingly filling them (I didn't see them this tour, but friends who did raved about the show). The whiplash year this band has had has been wild.

[verb_to_trust]

I think they are entirely capable of putting on the time of our lives front to stick it to Janet and the fans who think the new record sucks.

[epilogue]

Or maybe they're just you know having fun.

[verb_to_trust]

Or maybe they're just you know having fun.

Both are possible

[epilogue]

I suppose, sure

[swan]

I’ll be at the hometown shows tomorrow & Wednesday. Hopes are high, I’ve avoided any live videos so no idea what they’ll sound like. Will report back, they’ve never disappointed at a Portland show before.

[epilogue]

I’ll be at the hometown shows tomorrow & Wednesday. Hopes are high, I’ve avoided any live videos so no idea what they’ll sound like. Will report back, they’ve never disappointed at a Portland show before.

Haven't you heard? The band hates you and music in general and this is some big scam. You shouldn't be excited at all, it's clearly just some mean ruse. Idiot

[Leatherhead]

I'm waiting for SK to take the stage.

[Leatherhead]

I’ll be at the hometown shows tomorrow & Wednesday. Hopes are high, I’ve avoided any live videos so no idea what they’ll sound like. Will report back, they’ve never disappointed at a Portland show before.

I'll raise my hand if you raise yours.

[Leatherhead]

That was epiiiic!

[swan]

Happy to report they still kick all kinds of ass. Will elaborate tomorrow.

[XWayne]

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/musi ... st-915033/

Janet Weiss Opens Up About Sleater-Kinney Exit: ‘The Rules Changed Within the Band’

“I said, ‘Am I just the drummer now?’ They said yes. And I said, ‘Can you tell me if I am still a creative equal in the band?’ And they said no. So, I left,” drummer said
By Daniel Kreps

Janet Weiss opened up about her exit from Sleater-Kinney and her difficult decision to leave the band for the first time in a new interview.

Speaking to the Trap Set With Joe Wong podcast, the drummer revealed that her diminished role within the punk trio while working on their latest album The Center Won’t Hold led to her departure.

“The rules changed within the band, and they told me the rules changed,” Weiss said of her former band mates Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker. “I said, ‘Am I just the drummer now?’ They said yes. And I said, ‘Can you tell me if I am still a creative equal in the band?’ And they said no. So, I left.”

Weiss said that, prior to her exit, the Sleater-Kinney members entered into counseling — like in 1998, the drummer noted — in an effort to work through their problems as a band. Ultimately, Weiss decided the shift in her role signaled it was “time for me to move on,” as Weiss tweeted in July 2019 after announcing her split from the group.

“I thought about it a lot. I mean, I will never play with two people like that again. They are totally unique, incredible, intuitive players. It’s a lot to walk away from. It’s my sisters, my family. But I couldn’t be in that band and have it not be equal, especially with what it represents to me. It represents equality… How can we be fighting for equality and not have it in our band; it just became a disconnect,” Weiss told Wong’s drummer podcast.

“I don’t think [Brownstein and Tucker] saw it like that. They’re not evil people, I just think the two of them are so connected and they really agree on almost everything, they just thought, ‘We’re gonna take this band somewhere and we want to be in charge of that, the two of us.’ I think I was a threat to where they wanted the band to go, and who I am, and that felt bad to me.”

Weiss also expressed reluctance to perform songs from The Center Won’t Hold — an album that lacked the drummer’s usual contributions — on a tour in support of the St. Vincent-produced LP; following Weiss’ exit, Angie Boylan has stepped in as Sleater-Kinney’s drummer on tour.

“The new record was made sort of without me and it would have been challenging to get up there on stage and deliver those songs like they were mine, when they weren’t mine at all. It just got real lonely for me,” Weiss said.

“As band mates and partners and people I’ve had a relationship with all this time, I wanted to be not a threat and not someone to hold at arm’s length, but someone to embrace and to go together where we wanted to go. But they had very specific ideas of what they wanted, and I just didn’t fit anymore. We couldn’t get on the same page. It was really hard, it was not something I took lightly at all… But I love them and they seem happy; they’re doing the thing the way they want to do it. It doesn’t have to be the three of us; it could be this pure thing with the two of them,” she said.