Sleater-Kinney breaks up

I have to admit I was incredibly let down with the version I found of the "Hunger Strike" duet with Pearl Jam - Corin seems to be holding herself back from really taking the Chris Cornell part, which she should be totally capable of rocking. With her singing a good octave lower than Chris just doesn't cut through the sturmundrang the way it should. In fact, I would think it was Carrie singing if not for Eddie's declaration at the end: "Senora Corin Tucker... and I don't know, uh, yo no se en Espanol, but, uh, I love to, Chris Cornell too. [pause for massive wave of applause] Bueno amigo." Oh well. She sort of picks it up halfway through, so maybe this was just a weak night on the tour that got mp3ized...

DC show webcast tomorrow

tonight was awesome and i don't particularly like them!

Seconded, I love their live "More than a Feeling" rendition.

Rescheduled for tonight. I am looking forward to it.

My favorite is Springsteen's The Promised Land, which they used to do a few years back. No covers last night sadly, but it was still one of the best times I've seen them.

They opened with Start Together.

NOthing from the first album.
Only thing from Call The Doctor was the title track.

5 from Dig Me Out: Dig Me Out, One More Hour (last song) Turn It On(2nd to last song) Words and Guitar, and The Drama You've been Craving.

Hot Rock: Title track, Start Together, Get Up and a couple more.

All Hands on the Bad ONe: Ladyman, Youth Decay and a few others. I haven't listened to that record in years so I'm not as familiar.

One Beat: Light Rail Coyote, Sympathy, Oh, and a few others. Sadly no title track which as of today is my favorite song of theirs.

The entire new record, which got the most exicting responses.

were all you dudes there too? i thought the sound sorta sucked at the beginning, but maybe it was where i was standing, and things got pretty great pretty fast, and epic-ish around the midpoint, peaking with the Let's Call It Love/Entertain jam (of course). the greatest-hits mini second-set/first encore was just gravy, and i loved the bittersweet version of one more hour. lol at carrie spraying the crowd with water.

Start Together
The Fox
The Drama You've Been Craving [these two might be switched]
Wilderness
Jumpers
Things You Say
The Hot Rock
Rollercoaster
Ironclad
Night Light
What's Mine is Yours
Modern Girl
Light Rail Coyote
Let's Call it Love
Entertain
Words and Guitar

Encore:
Jenny
Ballad of a Ladyman (audience chose this over Milkshake 'n' Honey)
I Want to be Your Joey Ramone
Dance Song '97
One More Hour (another audience pick)

At Tramps, after the show my friends told me that Kim Gordon from Sonic Youth literally walked right into me. I didn't even notice, I was so transfixed with what was happening onstage.

The way they act I hope it's really just to take a break for a year or two because I've never seen them that happy onstage. Corin, flirting with the audience (in JEANS!?); Carrie, the baddest dervish on the planet; Janet, playing so hard she went through her tom; the whole band so loud you had to lean forward to not get blown away... Picts to follow with any luck.

I gave my friend the setlist, which wasn't nearly as career spanning as the DC list. Mostly from "The Woods," plus "Turn It On."

Oh, yeah, they were good. I'm shocked at the number of people who apparently skipped S-K for the Violent Femmes. Who are find and all, but who also play every other street festival in Chicago each summer.

http://www.sleaterkinneytorrents.com/ (no that's not a joke, it's a real site)

and the msg board on sleater-kinney.net; there's a trading forum.

At Tramps, after the show my friends told me that Kim Gordon from Sonic Youth literally walked right into me. I didn't even notice, I was so transfixed with what was happening onstage.

wow, tramps! how soon after that show did tramps close? the last show i remember seeing there was in '96, i think.

I leared today that it's hard to shoot while dancing; also, I shoot better while dancing than Ryan P'fork does standing around, so fuck you 930 for trying to take my camera.

The show I saw, they were real tight, nailed everything, excellent performance. I mean, you can hear it on NPR.

But for some reason the experience didn't blow me away completely? Not sure why. I enjoyed it as much as I could. Maybe because at some point the music felt awkward to rock out to. I mean, I've always loved them on record, I don't know why they weren't stunning.
But the crowd was enthusiastic, that was great, and I'm happy I finally did see them live.

https://www.subpop.com/news/2014/09/02/sub_pop_to_release_7xlp_sleater_kinney_box_set_oct_21st

today:
Robert Christgau ‏@rxgau

The Sleater-Kinney Box coming out Tuesday was solid out in preorder early this month. Any preorderer who'd like to tell me why, let me know.

huh?

That fuckin guy.

dude depends on the kindness of strangers more than blanche dubois

some s-k vinyl is oop and goes for relatively big bucks. i'm not signing up to twitter to tell him that tho.

http://www.discogs.com/sell/release/693317?ev=rb

That dude should learn to google. Took me 5 seconds to see that the new limited edition colored vinyl sold out in advance, but that they are already repressing in black vinyl.

PLEASE READ THIS VERY IMPORTANT UPDATE, AS IT WILL HELP INFORM YOU AS TO WHAT YOU ARE BUYING!
*The limited edition, colored vinyl box set is SOLD OUT.*
-However, due to overwhelming demand for this pre-order, we are creating a second edition of the deluxe box set which will be pressed on black vinyl, that will be expected to ship by mid-December. (Updated 10/10/14; 2:50pm PST)

Maybe he was waiting for Sub Pop to tell him personally?

Back in the day, Ahmet Ertegun himself would hand deliver new releases to Xgau's door.

which he would answer naked

tempted to respond 'so you can write a glib, shitty one-line review of it.'

haha -- writing one-line reviews of SK is exactly what he didn't do.

S-K? O-K."

"These diamonds in the rough rock hard. A girl's best friend, a guy's best friend, they belong to everyone, unless you, like me, don't want to share."

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