Sleater-Kinney breaks up

Get Up is still one of my all-time favorite songs though.

Get Up sounds better on record than it does live. Last night, the songs from The Woods got the biggest reaction from the audience. My favorite thing they did was Sympathy, or maybe One Beat.

Since the first time I listened to the album, "Price Tag" has stood out as being overly on the nose. I dunno, it sounds good but it rubs me the wrong way lyically.

"One More Hour" came up on Spotify this morning - I don't think I've ever had a breakup that bad but goddamn that song still hits hard almost 20 years after I first heard it.

How can something be "overly on the nose"?

Never mind, I don't feel like arguing. Dislike the songs you want to dislike. I mean, god knows I do.

list tracking what songs are being played on this tour:
http://www.setlist.fm/stats/sleaterkinney-3d6ed5b.html?tour=No+Cities+to+Love

Pittsburgh show was fantastic - drove in with a friend from Cleveland and they played to a sold out house. Loved Lizzo and her DJ. After her performance, I told my friend "I guess we've got a riot grrl Nicki Minaj now" and he said he had been thinking the exact same thing.

This was my first time seeing S-K, and my friend's fourth, but I've seen both Wild Flag and the Corin Tucker Band. The tightness and confidence they all have in playing together is a totally different thing, though. Off the new album they played Surface Envy, Fangless, A New Wave, No Anthems, Gimme Love (weird to see Corin singing and not playing!), Bury Our Friends and Price Tag. Nothing off Call the Doctor, but we got Entertain and Jumpers in an amazing one-two punch, Words and Guitar, One More Hour, Dig Me Out, Get Up, Let's Call It Love, Oh!, Start Together, One Beat, Modern Girl and Light Rail Coyote. The sound in the venue was absolutely fantastic.

Distant pic I took:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/10942497_10205229243867365_4773196686939643371_n.jpg?oh=074a774f12812f0eeee6a13361138d6e&oe=55732E80&__gda__=1435110399_6009172f302b1757b62df41578f225d8

so fuckin jealous you got Youth Decay AND Let's Call It Love

though we got Little Babies and Sympathy (!!!!!!!) in Philly so I guess it's a fair trade

totally cried at least 4 or 5 times during the show

What's funny is as they got towards the end of the set my friend said, "Hey, maybe I'll get lucky and they'll do 'Let's Call It Love,' but it's awfully long." I'm going to let him pick Powerball numbers for me.

Oh Stevie I was at the Philly show as well! I thought the sound was a little flat... band likely not at fault, but we still had SUCH a great time! Brought me right back to seeing them on one of their last shows in 2006 right around the corner.

Like something about the mixing made some of the hooks in particular feel really flaccid despite being played wonderfully, like No Anthems and No Cities To Love.

pre-show soundtrack at the first new york show was eno's discreet music. is that normal for them? it was chill.

In Philly we got an all Andy Stott mix before they took the stage.

hahaha I was at that Starlight Ballroom show too. Remember how fucking HOT it was because they didn't have an AC? Janet started handing out bottles of water to the crowd at one point. The sound at UT is usually great but yeah I remember also thinking that the guitar sounded kind of awful and not very rich at all.

The pre-show music we got was the new Andy Stott record and my friend was like "uhhhh what the fuck is this are they like watching a documentary about whales backstage or something?"

I was like "oh shit I know this song!" and she was just like "how do you even recognize this, it's just vague weird sounds"

Evan are you a Philly dude or did you travel in to see them?

Did Janet tell her psychiatrist joke at the other shows?

no, but Carrie did a bit of crowd banter that was pretty geuinely funny

like telling a crowd of screaming fans to "watch the vocal cords, guys" with mock-concern as she gently touched her throat, followed by "just kidding scream your fucking heads off"; i lol'd

Traveled from Hoboken, but stopped in Bethlehem first to carpool with friends who live there.

And YES that show in 06 was so so so hot. And yeah, they started playing the new Andy Stott but I noticed a few songs in they started playing Luxury Problems instead. It's funny you say that about your friend because I remember thinking that there must be a few people wondering why we were listening to fog horns in between sets.

Janet's joke: "A guy walks into a psychiatrist's office wearing nothing but underwear made out of saran wrap. The psychiatrist says, 'Well, I can clearly see you're nuts.'" [Your nuts!]

Forgot about the guy next to me who was so drunk and so excited that all he could do was respond to nearly every song with its title bracketed by "fuck yeah." FUCK YEAH WORDS AND GUITAR FUCK YEAH! FUCK YEAH ENTERTAIN FUCK YEAH!

Sounds kinda like he wanted everyone to know that he was a big enough fan to know the song names?

I feel like the first T5 show was amateur hour. It was good but carrie seemed bored. If they tour again for the NEXT album then I will believe

also t5 is some basic shit so it's confirmation bias ig

http://m.pitchfork.com/thepitch/689-notes-from-sleater-kinney-first-timers/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=general&utm_campaign=thepitch

Another highlight: watching Corin introduce "Gimme Love" with a speech about women's reproductive health and a shout to Planned Parenthood, who had a presence at every date of the tour (now some of us have little bags of condoms with illustrations of Sleater-Kinney's faces on them).

^^This just made the Texas dates that much more interesting.

amazing, good for them

http://acltv.com/2015/03/10/sleater-kinney415/

Slayed last night in Austin.

Seeing them in Nashville this week, psyched.

New album is really holding up for me, at least if four months is a long enough time period to determine "holding up."

If it's been in reg rotation that's ages, cool to hear

Nashville show was tremendous, new songs sounded great live. They're a more powerful band now than the last time I saw them, in 2000. They're less punk, more rawk. Really thundering in places.

I GOT TICKETS TO SEE SLEATER-KINNEY AGAIN
WITH MY BEST FRIEND WHO LIVES IN ANOTHER STATE
IN A DIY VENUE THAT HOLDS 300 PEOPLE

WHAT IS LIFE EVEN

Market Hotel or

ya dude ✌🏻😎

that sounds like a blast! I saw them in a kinda-shitty venue 'round here but still had fun, & friends make everything better

Carrie Brownstein's on Fresh Air this morning (will be archived), re her memoir. Really impressed by the chapter here:
http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/no-normal

Not bad!

She's making the rounds. I saw a short NY Times interview and this Washington Post one

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/style-blog/wp/2015/10/27/carrie-brownstein-never-had-groupies-and-once-fled-from-an-orgy/

Getting the book in the mail today!

Listening to the rest of it on station's replay: amazing on "the theater of anorexia," in which her mother would avidly prepare elaborate meals for Dad 'n' kids, yet somehow manage to consume, at most "the biggest plate of lettuce I've ever seen in my life---but it was about 50 calories."

Brownstein book was OK, mostly felt like an expanded magazine article with a bit about her upbringing (wish there was a bit more about her mom and sister) and a chapter on rescuing animals. Rest really was a sort of loose history of S-K, which I suppose was interesting, to get this snapshot of that particular era of pre-internet indie, which I remember quite well; she's otm that before everyone knew everything, your musical knowledge and record collection was a sort of social shorthand. I also respect her discipline, keeping the focus almost exclusively on the band (which was a lot more quarrelsome than I imagined) with literally just one passing mention at the end of Portlandia; she saves all her celebrity cameos for the thank yous and acknowledgements.

A little over halfway - it's breezy but interesting. For some reason it now makes complete sense that she and sorta-creepy Fred Armisen are BFFs.

Finished. Somewhat annoyed that she doesn't say whether or not she took the dogs back.

?

(Book ends with a chapter on her foster animals, including a pair of bad dogs.)

ah