Sleater-Kinney breaks up

Carrie's memoir did not paint the kindest portrait.

Band responds:

We are saddened by Janet’s decision to leave Sleater-Kinney. It has been an incredible privilege to work with such a talented musician and drummer over the course of so many albums, including The Center Won’t Hold.

We thank her for joining us on this journey many years ago; we will always cherish our friendship and our time together. We wish Janet all the best as she starts a new chapter in her life.

We are so excited for everyone to hear the record, and to see you on the road this fall and beyond.

Love,
Sleater-Kinney

Bummer

the kindest portrait of what

Herself. Which made it a good memoir but also made her seem like someone you'd actively avoid in real life.

Ugh, I just read the Jon Fine book, and tell me about it.

Because he is in the same category?

I enjoyed CB's book and didn't get that impression (unlike Kim Gordon's book) though "Carrie's 30 Seconds to Mars" feels painfully otm here

the thing with Carrie is that I wonder if anyone who hangs with Armison that much has to be sketchy too

i feel that. i basically stopped watching portlandia b/c they both started to seem creepy to me.

... but also made her seem like someone you'd actively avoid in real life.

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Ugh, I just read the Jon Fine book, and tell me about it.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, July 1, 2019 8:43 PM (twenty-six minutes ago)

loooooool i had the same reaction to his book + bonus near-certainty prediction that Jon Fine would treat me weird bc i am a woman in one way or another were we ever to meet

re: carrie, idk what to think about the transition from musician --> comedian ---> musician
has that happened before?

Jon Wurster, sort of(?)

I thought her book was ok. I finished it about the time it was announced there was going to be a TV pilot based on it. That sounded odd. But maybe these things get optioned like that just to loosely hang a show around a known figure.

Yeah Carrie's posturing is so affected imo I can't help but get this vibe too?

way to go, dudes

ugh

ugh

Wurster hasn’t stopped comedy, though maybe he’d only be in two full-time bands if he had a staff writing job

Armisen has a dayjob in music when he’s not doing comedy, but he is also still doing comedy

All drummers, huh

“what’s the DEAL with drummers?”

oh wait, my wires are crossed — Weiss is the drummer, lol

Janet Knows Comedy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyZ0tBqOqTA

Better than Armisen's entire Comedy For Drummers special.

All drummers, huh

Chevy Chase drummed for an early line-up of pre-Steely-Dan Steely Dan.

the drummer for '90s Sydney indie band The Fantastic Leslie quit for standup and won the Most Popular TV Personality award yesterday as a game show host (the lead singer / keyboardist went into political satire in print, radio & tv)

More who did the switch back:

Woody Allen never stopped playing jazz when he started standup, but did stop being funny ages ago, if that counts.

Steve Martin didn't have a serious musical career before comedy, but did serious music + comedy early on, then comedy for two decades, then mainly serious music for two decades, and just started performing comedy again alongside his music career two years ago

Just checked and Creed Bratton returned to music after nine years on The Office.

(not that Brownstein ever quit music for comedy, either, so I guess there's no need to be strict!)

would be remiss of me to not point out that gregg turkington began as a drummer

Maya Rudolph!

The Rentals -> SNL / movie star -> Princess

ice cube & ice t

I always liked Carrie's high kicks and windmills in the background. I don't know why it all feels off now because I am all for people doing many things in life. I just saw the movie Carol and was like "carrie brownstein!"

ice cube & ice t

the 45-second What About Sex skit on OG counts as a whole comedy career for Ice?

fin tutuola is hilarious

do not see what people don't like in the Fallon performance -- it's good! what's bad about it is the "this is how we do music on tv shows" staging/lighting stuff, which is superfluous anyway -- but I don't like what I've heard of the Clark-produced stuff at all; Clark's every-detail-accounted-for wide-lens style is fine for her but doesn't play to any of Sleater-Kinney's strengths imo

All drummers, huh

Keith Moon recorded a number of skits for BBC radio

with viv stanshall, no less

What could go wrong

https://thejohnfleming.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/keithmoon_vivstanshall.jpg

comedy is cancelled

JCLC I mean if you like it that’s fine but for me the energy is not there, the playing is limp, and the choreography looks uncomfortable and forced.

I can't believe Ut got dragged into this

Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if Stella Mozgawa turned up as their drummer, she's kind of perfect

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I'm really hoping that she tours as a part of whatever Desert Sessions recording thing she is rumored to have done with Josh Homme earlier this year, so please don't give her to Sleater-Kinney yet.

the playing is good! I don't like the choreography at all either, it feels very flown-in-from-someplace-else: what's that add to the song? to the presentation? zero afaic but some people get really invested in that end of things lately. I blame Sufjan

xp: wait, I might be wrong about that. Could be Carla Azar.

the direct lineage with the choreography would be David Byrne -> St Vincent -> Sleater-Kinney

I dunno, St. Vincent has been doing this cold formalist thing for a while. Byrne can be goofy and awkward, but at least to me he always exudes a certain warmth in his awkwardness. When Byrne toured with St Vincent her choreography was more in line with his. But when I have seen her on her own it was back to being cold and formalist.

Chachi way otm there - S-K need to sound ragged and jagged, not microcrystalline

And not to omit that St V does great things with formality and distance, spiritual heir to Laurie Anderson in a way

i mean doing choreography with Byrne was her stated inspiration for incorporating it into her show so heavily, though yeah she took it in a very different direction

She was doing formal schtick before the Byrne tour, iirc. She would stand stock still until it was time to solo, then she would kind of shuffle up in her tall shoes, do her guitar stuff, then shuffle back. I've seen Laurie Anderson perform, and her own brand of formalism was a lot more effective, iirc. Perhaps because she is often working in a slightly less traditional (pop/rock) medium?

spiritual heir to Laurie Anderson in a way

lol

yeah wtf

Lol @ Woody Allen bc I’ve always hated him but there are some people I like on that list — Ice Cube, Steve Martin, Maya Rudolph. More common than I thought!