Sleater-Kinney breaks up

Carrie (and Janet) were awesome in Wild Flag, so I don't blame Carrie's career. I'm happy blaming Fred, though.

xpost Phil's son has been playing drums, they can get him, then.

If Phil Collins’ son gets this job, I’m crying foul! Nepotism sucks.

They could get Phil's son, Ringo's son, Bonham's son, Max Weinbergs son ...

Rick Nelson's son Jax...

Nielsen, my bad.

Daxx Nielsen, goddammit!

Jeff Tweedy's son, etc.

Where are the drumming daughters?

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

Or the drummer from Savages

Jordan just posted all of my thoughts, thank you!!

Stella M is the likely I think

Yeah, Stella otm. Wasn't the first SK drummer Aussie, too?

Letterman performance:

https://youtu.be/gYAitpi6Dhg

Goes to show how the drummer is essential and what that Fallon performance is missing. She made the right call to leave imho

I bring this up because before it seemed more of en equality among three members with maybe Corrine getting more attention. And now it's definitely playing into Carrie's 30 Seconds from Mars.

― Yerac, Monday, July 1, 2019 5:38 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

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

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.

― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Monday, July 1, 2019 8:43 PM (twenty-six minutes ago)

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