WILD FLAG is a Portland, OR and Washington, DC based quartet consisting of Carrie Brownstein, Mary Timony, Rebecca Cole, and Janet Weiss. (This fansite has no affiliation with the band.) twitter updates:
site admin: Recommended:All four women laughed ruefully about the practice space they’d used in Portland to record the Wild Flag album—a cramped, windowless room packed with musical equipment. In the room next door, ‘a really loud drummer would be just bashing the hell out of the drums,’ Brownstein recalled. ‘I thought, at one point, that his therapist must have sent him here. There was this horrible wheat-free bakery next door—I mean, you’re not going to be craving spelt. I couldn’t write another album there, but I’m glad we did that one, because there’s an urgency to it that probably could only come from our trying to crawl our way out of there.’
(Source: newyorker.com)
“We got together in Portland, and we were just kind of jamming on that song, and then I found the vocals. That’s pretty rare, when the whole essence of the song just appears instantly like that. There were months when we wouldn’t go back to that song, because we couldn’t figure out where to go with it. We just thought, ‘Oh, we’re not going to record it,’ and then all of a sudden, it was the beast it was meant to be…It’s mostly one vocal take. I drank some whisky and just went for it.” - Carrie Brownstein (roughly transcribed from Sound Opinions)
Brownstein’s fandom might come full circle with Sleater-Kinney, which might be ending its hiatus in the future. That is, if Brownstein, Weiss and guitarist/vocalist Corin Tucker, who guest-starred in Portlandia’s first season, can align their disparate schedules to resuscitate one of the most powerful, relevant bands in music history.
“Corin and I are still the best of friends, and we have been talking a lot about Sleater-Kinney as something to do again,” said Brownstein.
Tucker confirmed that she and Brownstein have talked about putting the band back together, which Tucker said she “would love to do someday.”
“But I’m working on a record with my band this year, and Wild Flag is touring, and there’s a couple of other things happening too,” Tucker said in an e-mail to Wired.com. “We’ll see!”
“I’ll try to squeeze it into the one day I have free in 2012!” Brownstein laughed.
Janet Weiss is the best drummer of all time, regardless of gender. She’s better than John Bonham,” said a fifty-something guy in glasses and a trucker hat with a fanatical gleam in his eye.
Janet Weiss articulates my theory of life:
What kind of cultural expectations were you trying to challenge with this [Wild Flag] record?
JW: I just feel like it’s very difficult for women to be heroes. When you think about the heroes in our culture, most of them are men. I just want to be allowed the space to explore the idea of being heroic and causing people to fantasize, to dream about music and about their lives and what is possible and what their potential is.
(Source: fuckyeahwildflag)
I don’t think I’ve ever really made a record before that sounds like the music I really like.
(Source: The A.V. Club)
