Sleater-Kinney breaks up

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The newsprint version of the article today has a new title:Riot Women. They're wearing heels in the photo, which takes up much of the Arts & Leisure section front page.

Riot Wmmmn

“In here,” Ms. Brownstein said, “it always seemed dark and insular, like we were assembling explosive devices and then wondering how and where they’ll detonate, and how big the explosion will be.”

It'll never happen irl, but I'm hearing a fantastic S-K cover of "Urban Guerrilla" in my head right now. Carrie sings the "So let's not talk of love and flowers/And things that don't explode" part.

I wonder if partially ripping the melody of Lita Ford's Kiss Me Deadly in Hey Darling was intentional.

These new songs are great.

I'm so bummed I missed the original pressing of the box set. 3,000 sold out quickly! A small number have shown up on Discogs but for mostly silly money. Did any of them make it to shops?

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I'd love to buy a first pressing of the box set if anyone has a (non-Discogs, where I got burned trying to buy it last month!) lead... thank you!

Every time this thread gets bumped, I think they've broken up again.

Live stream up

http://www.npr.org/2015/01/11/376085344/first-listen-sleater-kinney-no-cities-to-love

I would have thought there'd be at least some reaction by now!

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I accidentally streamed the John Carpenter song over the tail end of one of these songs and thought that there was an arpeggiated synth outro.

this is legit!

first song is pretty ragin' full on

fIREHOSE should reunite.

watt's new prog/fusion band w/the italian name is pretty awesome

btw - is it me or does a lot of this really sound like an actual bass guitar not just a down-tuned 6 string?

wanna wait for it in HQ

Yeah it definitely just sounds like an actual bass guitar this time.

I would have thought there'd be at least some reaction by now!

― Ned Raggett,

Golden Globes exhaustion

just finished, i liked it! i thought the first single was probably the worst song but overall it was solid, very frantic vibe & quick paced, like that they kept it short and punchy, running time can't be that long

overall it feels a bit like the mission of burma post reunion albums or dino jr. post reunion albums, a band just sort of magically picking up where they left off

is the first song about sourcing your produce

loving this album

some fuckin NOISES on this thing

on one listen i'm loving this better than any s-k album since one beat, which is my favourite of all their albums

you're loving this better than the woods

i've never been able to get into any s-k album other than one beat, it just seems a thousand times hookier than anything else they've done. but this is reminding me of it!

Yeah this was fantastic.

'one beat' is their hookiest to date (along with this) but the other albums are great too. however i think maybe you'd like the tunes from the other albums better live, because when i saw them live in 2000 everything clicked for me, they are incredible onstage.

title track is noice

yes! i bought tickets for me & my wife because they went on sale right before our anniversary and she's a huge fan but the show in minneapolis happens to actually be ON valentine's day so i was like wtf are we gonna do about babysitting but it turns out a friend of ours can so we can go :)

i figured i could flip the ticket because it sold out in like 15 mins but still psyched to be able to go

It took 2-3 tracks for the album to really "kick in" for me, but now we're rolling.

I still prefer The Woods to this but I'm not a serious S-K fan, so...

its not a new wave -- its just yooooo and meeeee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLwD1to3dZU

awesome

who is the mystery 4th person?

Love S-K, but something about that makes me want to see them less.

Love this. I don't know who the 4th person is either but those sounds in the breakdown were glorious.

As much as I love the chorus and breakdown of "A New Wave", I feel like the guitar line in the verse doesn't make much sense. Kinda melodically aimless or something.

Brooklyn Vegan reveals it is "Katie Harkin of UK band Sky Larkin who will be playing guitars and keyboards for their upcoming tour"

Harkin of Larkin

Is Corin playing a baritone?

yeah i thought it was bass on the record but maybe baritone?

Stupid Winamp/CDDB doesn't recognize this yet.

in the no cities to love video, I thought Natasha Lyonne was in orbit.

Xxxpost Evan I agree, didn't notice the part as much until seeing Carrie play it

It's just a bit wonky.

if I'm being honest with myself, it looks like they're cashing in-and hey, more power to them. they probably deserve it more than just about anyone I can think of off the top of my head.

I dunno you don't really need to bother with doing an album if you just want to cash in, cf Pavement, Archers, Outlast, etc etc

For some reason, almost all late show indie performances seem tossed off in this way, just kind of sarcastic and not committed-to.

"Fangless" sounds like Franz Ferdinand.