The Bowery Presents (Venue Partner)
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WILD FLAG
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Sunday Apr 1 (7:30pm)
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- Price
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$25.00 day of show / $22 advance
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- Sold Out!
“Wild Flag caused a minor sensation with the mere announcement of their existence: the band, possibly the least ego-stroking outfit ever to be dubbed a supergroup, is comprised of she-rock notables Mary Timony (ex-Helium), Rebecca Cole (ex-Minders), and Janet Weiss and Carrie Brownstein (ex-Sleater-Kinney). They delivered on the mercifully non-inflated expectations with their fine self-titled debut (Matador, 2011). Fans expecting S-K Redux found fewer sharp angles, less agitation, and more bottom end (via welcome keyboard lines) — although no one abandons their past musical selves, just reincorporates them. Still, you really want to hear them live.”
Stephen Gossett, Flavorpill
Wild Flag is a Portland, Oregon- and Washington, DC-based quartet consisting of Carrie Brownstein, Rebecca Cole, Mary Timony, and Janet Weiss. The members of Wild Flag have played in numerous and notable bands including Sleater-Kinney, Helium, Quasi, The Minders, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, and others. The four musicians who make up Wild Flag have known one another for well over a decade. Brownstein and Weiss were in Sleater-Kinney and toured with Timony’s band Helium on numerous occasions. Brownstein and Timony played in a side project called The Spells. Rebecca Cole’s Portland-based band The Minders was a frequent opener for Sleater-Kinney. Weiss and Cole play together in the 1960’s garage-rock cover band The Shadow Mortons. If someone drew a visual representation illustrating the ways in which all indie bands are interconnected, Brownstein, Cole, Timony, and Weiss would be in the same tiny sphere, so playing together felt almost inevitable. After collaborating on a score for a documentary, the ease with which they worked together proved infectious and promising. Future practices were scheduled, songs were written, Wild Flag was formed.
