Sleater-Kinney breaks up

how can you blame me for saying their fans were ding-a-lings who'd never heard bikini kill. HOW?

Given the disparity in sales between Bikini Kill and S-K, definitely fair to say that a good number of S-K fans had never heard Bikini Kill. On the other hand, given that S-K themselves never really sold that many records, I think reducing their non-Bikini-Kill-hearing fans to ding-a-lings is less fair. They were a cult band even at their biggest, not something you just wandered into while looking for a Sheryl Crow CD.

Also, fwiw, I had heard Bikini Kill before I heard Sleater-Kinney, and I still liked Sleater-Kinney a lot more.

On Reddit in just under 90 minutes...

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/1901986_799306576795375_5327093098123334434_n.jpg?oh=97ba2703f9b6bbbac51b58862d17c804&oe=55153B98&__gda__=1426118565_4d58c9a39b812fafd99fca1d54d2d5e2

New song:

https://soundcloud.com/sleater-kinney/surface-envy

Sounds like S-K. Thumbs up.

Getting (more) excited!

Here's the reddit session: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2o26rc/we_are_sleaterkinney_aua/?limit=500

[–]-Bathtub-Gin- 7 points an hour ago
What is an artist you've always wanted to cover, but haven't gotten the chance to?
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[–]Sleater-Kinney[S] 15 points an hour ago
Devo.

Wow, the new song. Like they never left.

Half hour interview on NPR from a week or two ago: http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2014/11/20/365464686/sleater-kinney-2-0-the-band-talks-about-its-first-album-in-10-years

haha Trapt - The Acoustic Collection is a real doozy from that AV Club least essential list

wrong thread! But yes, you are correct.

lol sorry sleater-kinney!

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2o26rc/we_are_sleaterkinney_aua/cmj1i17

^_^

SK will be on The Chris Gethard Show tonight. 11pm EST, streaming live here:

http://thechrisgethardshow.com/

New song rocks. It's like Judas Priest or something.

Got tickets for the Chicago show, totally psyched.

So two authorized preview tracks now, also

http://cdn2.pitchfork.com/blog/581/bf116bd2.jpg

if won't show cover, it's a mixtape

a stupid fake mixtape

i guess it kind of makes sense for pitchfork to celebrate the return of a band gone for nearly a decade by doing some "lol what if indie rockers were rappers" humor from more than a decade ago

This new track is a lot better than the first one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onrHBN1cNFc#t=42

love the band for being such good sports about this show. taken me a long time, but i think i'm finally "getting" this band.

also, wrong to say, i guess, but i think i have a crush on all three members of sleater-kinney.

I'm 7 minutes into that and Tom Scharpling has been not paying attention and texting the entire time... What's he doing there?

He makes an awkward and shitty backdrop to the otherwise fun atmosphere.

never heard of the host but his nerdiness is kind of endearing.

I feel like I've seen him more than once but the one place I can remember him being in was a Real Estate video.

omg i wanna kill scharpling watching this

Dan - Chris Gethard is sort of a mid-level NY comedy institution. V hip. I think someone on the AV Club had mused (impossibly; improbably) that he should have taken over Late Night after Fallon went to Tonight Show

Having seen Seth Meyers' attempt to do that, I'd agree.

Scharpling ruled on the Gethard show

They just broke up again

More Dates!

03-02-15 Toronto, ON @ Sound Academy
04-16-15 Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater
04-17-15 Austin, TX @ Stubbs
04-18-15 Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live
04-19-15 New Orleans, LA @ The Civic Theatre
04-21-15 Atlanta, GA @ The Tabernacle
04-22-15 Raleigh, NC @ The Ritz
04-23-15 Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music Works
04-24-15 St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant
04-25-15 Columbia, MO @ The Blue Note
04-26-15 Kansas City, MO @ Uptown Theater
04-28-15 Albuquerque, NM @ Sunshine Theater
04-29-15 Phoenix, AZ @ Marquee Theatre
05-01-15 Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium
05-02-15 San Francisco, CA @ The Masonic
05-05-15 Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom
05-06-15 Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom
05-08-15 Seattle, WA @ The Showbox
05-09-15 Seattle, WA @ The Showbox

Presale starts tomorrow 10:00 AM local time.

Aww sweet!

SF show on a weekend too!

I'm supposed to be in Austin that weekend and free the night of their show.

Still really weird that I get to see the first show, kind of like they're warming up in front of the rubes before playing the real places.

Scored a ticket for Austin!

Can't get the SK site to load, it's just going through Ticketmaster, right?

Christ, Seattle sold out in ~30 seconds for both dates.

Ugh I blame Portlandia.

Xps I did it through the S-K main page, which links through to a non-Ticketmaster ticket site.

Remember though, this is just a presale allotment of tickets--more will be available soon.

Apparently SF sold out in seconds as well, so a lot of fun nonsense.

Before the general onsale Friday there will be a LiveNation pre-sale tomorrow at 10 AM in some markets. You can access this presale if you have the LiveNation Mobile App or with a password. Does anyone have the password?

The password is "presents" not sure if this is for all markets (this is for the SF show)

thanks. the SF sale on the site today was a pain in the ass.

Got my LiveNation presale, more expensive than the SK presale but general sale is almost definitely going to be a frenzied rush.

what is the SF password? presents doesn't seem to work

maybe the whole thing went to shit as usual with these presales

oh it was a flash issue. why the fuck are they still using flash on ticketmaster/LN? jesus. ticket obtained.

I think I asked this once before but didn't get any responses, so: is this one of the few exceptions to the "Don't wear a band's t-shirt to their concerts" rule?

i have a picture of me and janet weiss at a 2002 show in which i'm wearing a SK shirt, which has always kind of embarrassed me :(

You need to get that picture on a shirt and wear it to the show.

And get another picture with Janet, naturally.