Sleater-Kinney breaks up

Who said it's just going to be one more album? The fact that they bothered to record another album when they could have just reunited and toured indicates the creative juices are flowing. I dunno if we'll get another tour/record/tour cycle, but I bet/hope they keep releasing new stuff, in some form.

I heard whispers about this several months ago but the tru feelings of ecstatic joy didn't hit me til today

No Cleveland date, of course, since nobody ever comes here anymore, so I'll do either Pittsburgh or Chicago. (Or DC, maybe, since I still have a lot of friends down there I'd like to see.)

Terminal 5 sucks but I would still go see SK even if they were playing at the bottom of the East River.

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

Prepon
@prepxn
“@Carrie_Rachel: woke up 2 news my band #sleaterkinney back together & that we have new record coming.” No,sorry

xp the London venue is approx 3x the size of venues they were playing before fwiw

ah maybe the European venues they're hitting are bigger. but like, the 9:30 Club, they were selling out multiple nights at that place for ages, they could easily play bigger rooms in D.C.

@Sleater_Kinney
Not to worry, additional tour dates will be announced soon! #sleaterkinney

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

Maybe the entire season will take place on the bus?

As someone who lives near Spokane I find it sort of awesome and hilarious that their first show back will be there. I can't believe that there won't be some Portland or Seattle shows prior to that.

YOU GUYS

:D :D :D

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 . . .)