Sleater-Kinney breaks up

Seriously. . . does the world need ONE MORE S-K album?

― i blow goat farts, aka garts for a living (waterface), Monday, October 20, 2014 9:39 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

If the other nine songs are as good as Bury Your Friends, then the answer is yes.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, October 20, 2014 9:41 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

JF OTMFM. Listening to this now, and it easily would've made my poll ballot. That opening riff is just so fantastic; I can't think of anything else in their catalog that swings like that.

OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG.

Won't be able to sleep till the California dates are announced.

the world needs like three more SK albums, waterface.

Surely this'll be the exception to the "Don't Wear a Band's T-Shirt to Their Gigs" rule, right??

New song is great! And so instantly sounds like S-K rather than Wild Flag or the Corin Tucker Band or their other things.

My wife ordered the box set, UPS just delivered it, personally sent by the singer from Mudhoney:

http://i.imgur.com/1ZUd8ar.jpg?2

Touch Me, I Ship

haha

new song is awesome.
one of the more better things they done imo.

WTF? Mudhoney put an album out last year:http://www.allmusic.com/album/vanishing-point-mw0002487014

In all seriousness, I think Arm has had a day job at Sub Pop for good long time now.

he is the warehouse manager there..

Yeah I remember reading that somewhere, I just think it's funny to personalize the return shipping label like that.

There's only so much touring they can do without interrupting Portlandia's shooting schedule, right?

― Johnny Fever, Monday, October 20, 2014 11:25 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

boy...what a...shame...that would be.......

I'm not saying I care (I don't), but the success of that show has surely levied certain expectations on Carrie's time.

I just opened my copy of Start Together. It's beautiful. The nicest box set I've purchased.

TIL Carrie has "DIG ME OUT" tattooed on her rib cage.

It's been bugging me all day, but I finally figured out what the main riff in "Bury Your Friends" reminds me of: "Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)."

re: Carrie's acting career, she's also a recurring actor on Transparent and was/is working on the new Todd Haynes movie.

just got two tickets via presale; trying not to lose my chill

yeah, I just got two for the Pittsburgh show.

Tickets acquired for twin cities

It's been bugging me all day, but I finally figured out what the main riff in "Bury Your Friends" reminds me of: "Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)."

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, October 21, 2014 3:36 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes!

Christgau:

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6289241/sleater-kinney-material-girls?mobile_redirection=false

There's only so much touring they can do without interrupting Portlandia's shooting schedule, right?

― Johnny Fever, Monday, October 20, 2014 11:25 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

boy...what a...shame...that would be.......

― some dude, Monday, October 20, 2014 5:20 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Fred was a full time SNL cast member when Portlandia started and Carrie toured w/Wild Flag when it was going

thank god for modern air travel

and calendaring / assistants

Spokane show apparently has sold out 3 minutes in, I didn't get page to load until 4. I'm wondering if everyone in Portland and Seattle were trying to get tickets? Venue starts selling them on Friday so who knows.

Their official site still has an order button for the Feb 8. Spokane show.

maybe SEA/PDX (and god knows where else if ppl are thinking of flying in for the first show) + secondary market scum = quick sellout in Spokane. because while Spokane is a nice place, it's not exactly a "sell out the S-K show in three minutes" town, right?

i just went to the Knitting Factory site and it says tix aren't even on sale yet and won't be till 10 a.m. Pacific, which it obviously is.

i know ppl got Replacements in MPLS tix like 90 minutes after being told they were gone. you should keep trying if you have the time/patience.

Their official site still has an order button for the Feb 8. Spokane show.

― My Life with the Thrillho Kult (Leee), Tuesday, October 21, 2014 10:05 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol not anymore.

mmmyeah, it's possible i have no idea what i'm talking about xpost

THIS IS THE 3RD OVER-HYPED ARTICLE THAT I'VE SEEN ABOUT THIS BAND WITHIN THE LAST TWO DAYS. Frankly, I personally have keep abreast of Pop & Rock music since the late-1960s (and that CERTAINLY would include the 1990s) and I have NO IDEA who this band is. Can anyone reading my "comment" here please name SOME SONG for-which this Sleater-Kinney band might actually be KNOWN. By the way -, may I opine that if (for instance) a band simply had an occasional appearance on MTV's "120 Minutes" program way-back-when in the `90s -, THAT circumstance wouldn't and doesn't constitute being "well-known" (... and considering all of the hyperbole contained in these articles, I would EXPECT that they WERE supposed to have been "well-known, at SOME point in the past).

Hoping for the Philly show I think. Friends are going to that over NYC plus T5 sucks.

Where's that from?

that guy's a prize. re daft punk:

I guess that one observation about this song "Be Lucky", is that it does sound somewhat "derivative" of The Who's earlier material.
~ HOWEVER -, other than that minor shortcoming -, I ABSOLUTELY LOVED this song from the opening chords ! It's music and lyrics are "catchy". The music has lots of "pop" "energy". Simply put -, it "KICKS ASS" !
~ Every-now-and-then it will occur to me, "I wonder what it would sound like if we had musicians who would capitalize on the marvelous digital-recording capabilities of the modern era -, and yet STILL make INSPIRING Rock music, like bands did during the 1970s ?" Well -, HERE IS WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE !!
~ TO THINK -, that a couple of guys around the age of SEVENTY -, that were the "stars" of the ORIGINAL Woodstock Festival -, can "put to shame" 90% of the other Rock that gets made these days. There again, I'm not sure if that is so-much a compliment to The Who, or just a sad commentary the state of contemporary Rock music. ... what meager "real Rock" that gets made these days, anyway.

Haha, that reminds me of Jeffrey Wells' comments about the Big Star doc. ( . . . these CHARLIE NOBODIES . . .)

i assumed it was Rosie O'Donnell xp

the lefsetz is strong in this one

^^Which reminds me...http://ludostories.com/2013/07/29/my-night-with-the-sleater-kinney-masturbator/

new song didn't do much for me :/

"kinda refreshing to see a reunited band book a bunch of the same-sized venues they were playing before instead of going straight for the festival payday"

well, they're pretty clearly playing Coachella (over that Boise fest I'm assuming) and, probably, Sasquatch (after some NW shows, perhaps) and maybe others to follow. and Terminal 5 is bigger than any NYC club I remember them playing.

and good for them. is there a reason the best (rock) band in the world (or US, among their age cohort, whatever) shouldn't get paid accordingly?

LOL @ Lefsetz. That he has no idea who SK is says it all about him.

Oh, and this is great and all obv, but what ever happened to that Carrie/Peter Buck/Scott McCaughey PNW supergroup? That would rule.

i'm not begrudging the festival payday at all. but it seems like there have been a lot of groups reuniting/returning from hiatus the last few years who do only festivals, or do a bunch of festivals before any club/theater gigs, and it always seemed like such a clear decision to prioritize profit over giving the diehard fans the headlining sets they've been waiting X years for.

More like only festivals can dangle the cash it takes to get these bands to reunite. Does piss me off when the only way to see the Replacements or Outkast or whomever is to pay for a festival ticket. It's sort of like being made to buy a crappy burger to get the awesome fries.

The last place S-K played here, after they announced the end of was nigh, was Lollapalooza, fwiw.

There's also the fact that they're putting out a new record before the tour which feels more admirable than coasting totally on nostalgia

I only ever saw them as an opener for Pearl Jam, but they got pretty close to a full-hour set iirc.

Saw them four times, once opening for PJ in April 2003, which did not go over well with the crowd. The open air amphitheater acoustics were hell on their dynamic too.

Not even one Canadian date. Sigh.

They've already said more dates are coming. This is just the first leg.

Glasgow tickets bought. Saw them at Leeds Festival after 'The Woods' came out and thought they were great, much more powerful than I'd expected based on the records (pre-'The Woods'). Hadn't expected the way they played off each other, they were tight but the songs didn't feel rigid.