Carrie Brownstein

Raw Vegan Restaurants Have Fart Patios on Portlandia

In this week's Portlandia, Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein play two teachers who are just trying something that all their cool hip Portland students like: a raw vegan restaurant. They head to Prasad Cafe, which is actually real, vegan, and in Portland. But after dining -- "It felt like real foo ... More >>

PUT A BIRD ON IT

Your guide to Portlandia is here

Live: Alabama Shakes Keep It Short And Sweet At The Studio

Alabama Shakes The Studio at Webster Hall Tuesday, April 11 Better than: Their record. "Have you seen them live?" That's the first question people like to ask in regards to the Alabama Shakes. No, I had not—not until last night. The response I'd get from people who seem to really pay attent ... More >>

Spring Guide 2012: Vijay Iyer Brings Accelerando to Birdland

Duke meets Jacko

'Fred Armisen's Playlist Live!'

Live: Fred Armisen And Carrie Brownstein Turn The Music Hall Of Williamsburg Into Brooklandia

Portlandia: The Tour Music Hall of Williamsburg Friday, January 20 Better than: Watching television (but who has one anyway?). In the middle of a nearly two-hour set of live sketches, improv riffing, and unseen clips, Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, the stars of IFC's Portlandia, strapped on g ... More >>

Pazz & Jop 2011: Michael Tedder On Fucked Up's Majesty, Danny Brown's Cunning Skills, And The Joy Formidable's Outro Power

To supplement this year's Pazz & Jop launch, Sound of the City asked a few critics to expand on the reasonings behind their voting. Here, Michael Tedder breaks down his entire ballot, and along the way he talks about about the operatic heights of Fucked Up, the shredding ability of Annie Clark and R ... More >>

PUT A BIRD ON IT

Portlandia live on stage

This Weekend In New York: Brooklyn Gets Into The Seasonal Spirit With Solo Projects And Post-Punk

​ In Waste Of Paint, our writer/artist team of Jamie Peck and Debbie Allen will review goings-on about town in words and images. This weekend we learned Manhattan has no monopoly on holiday cheer. Sure, the decorations on Fifth Avenue might cost a little more, but not even the gaudiest depart ... More >>

WAVE IT HIGH

Wild Flag rock Bowery Ballroom

Adrian Sherwood and Wild Flag Show The Kids How It's Done

Masters of the game

Five Reasons You Should See Wild Flag Tonight

​The term "supergroup" is pretty well overused in this hyperadjectived age, so let's call Wild Flag—ex-Sleater Kinneyans Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss, former Helium mastermind Mary Timony, and onetime Minder Rebecca Cole—something more superlative, because they certainly deser ... More >>

Wild Flag's "Romance" Will Get You Up And At 'Em

​The bicoastal all-star quartet Wild Flag premiered "Romance," a track from their forthcoming self-titled debut, on WFMU's "The Cherry Blossom Clinic" over the weekend. And it is awesome; garage-rock stomp combined with the guitar pyrotechnics of Mary Timony and Carrie Brownstein and lyrics ab ... More >>

Summer Guide: Don't Take Brad Paisley to the Airport Strip Club

The country star likes six strings, not G-strings. Plus, summer music picks

We Want The Airwaves, Baby: 10 Songs About The Ramones

Joey Ramone would have been 60 years old on May 19. This week, in celebration of the birthday of the Queens-born gone-too-soon punk legend, Sound of the City will run a series of features on his life and his legacy. ​Imitation might be the sincerest form of flattery--and whose style has been ... More >>

Sonic Youth and Wild Flag Are Playing the Williamsburg Waterfront In August!

​Via Sonic Youth's Twitter comes this wonderful bit of news: The iconic New York rockers will storm the beaches of the Williamsburg Waterfront on August 12. Joining them will be the supergroup Wild Flag, made up of Sleater-Kinney members Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss, as well as Mary Timon ... More >>

Live: Bright Eyes Give The People What They Want At Radio City

Bright Eyes/Superchunk/WILD FLAG Radio City Music Hall Tuesday, March 8 Better Than: Oh, come on. I'm not making a Roseland Ballroom joke. We need to talk about Nate Walcott. You long ago made up your mind about Conor Oberst, and if you've never found in-house producer/utility man Mike Mogis' wa ... More >>

Carrie Brownstein, Renaissance Grrl

Life after Sleater-Kinney includes a comedy sideline and a new not-supergroup

Rock-Critic Pop Quiz #8: Can You Name All Three Members Of Sleater-Kinney?

Ordinarily there'd be some sort of joke in this caption, but at the moment we're a little intimidated.​For weeks now, our weekly music-writer embarrassment session "Are You Smarter Than a Rock Critic?" has puttered along innocently, proving just how precious little this generation of Wikipedia ... More >>

Fred Armisen's Portlandia to Poke Fun at Food Culture in Portland

From freeganism to hyper-locavorism, food culture in Portland is like Brooklyn dining on organic housemade crack. Fred Armisen of Saturday Night Life and Carrie Brownstein write and star in Portlandia, a comedy show premiering on IFC next month that pokes fun at, among other things, food culture i ... More >>

Live: The Corin Tucker Band Charms Girls With Glasses at the Bowery Ballroom

Hi The Corin Tucker Band Tuesday, October 26 Bowery Ballroom Better than: Quasi at SXSW 2010 Watching the Corin Tucker Band at the Bowery Ballroom is akin to seeing a favorite essayist discuss a novel (or vice versa): this may not be the body of work you want to hear this seminal figure address, ... More >>

QUIET RIOT

A less-furious Corin Tucker brings relief to Sleater-Kinney fans

Corin Tucker Band

Revolution, Girl-Style—Shhh!

RIOT GRRRL MOVES OUT OF THE STREETS AND INTO THE LIBRARY

New St. Vincent Video: "Laughing With a Mouth of Blood," Featuring Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein

Not news that St. Vincent's Annie Clark has all kinds of special friends--she just came off a week in NYC that involved performing with everyone from David Byrne to Bon Iver's Justin Vernon to the National. So of course she pulled ThunderAnt, who go by Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein when not d ... More >>

The Yummy Fur Are Reuniting, Playing Newish DIY Venue 171 Lombardy

​The Yummy Fur, the delightfully skuzzy Glasgow indie-pop band, didn't make it across the ocean in their initial 1992-1999 run; college radio love never quite did buy anybody a plane ticket, either then or now. But being in Franz Ferdinand definitely is good for a transatlantic flight, and so ... More >>

Halloween With Weezer

Bug costumes: Scary. New album: Way, way scarier.

Ah, And While We're At It: The Best Music Writing 2009 Reading Is Tonight

​At Housing Works in Soho. Starring Greil Marcus, Jace Clayton, Carrie Brownstein, Josh Eels, Charles Taylor, Jace Clayton, Paul Ford, Nick Sylvester, Bill Hogeland, and Jesse Serwer. The dude who wrote that rad essay about being a schoolteacher in New Orleans and how much his students revered ... More >>

In Defense of Those (OK, Yeah, Kind of Terrible) New Weezer Songs

So Sleater-Kinney/NPR goddess Carrie Brownstein's righteous Weezer diss made quite the rounds yesterday: Regarding live clips of two new tracks (the unfortunately named "I'm Your Daddy" and "The Girl Got Hot"), she opined, "I don't know if Weezer hates its fans or just the (apparently) stifling co ... More >>

KEEP YOUR SHORTS ON

Eat your heart out, Andy Samberg!

Don Draper Drinks PBR, Owns an iPhone?

Girls Rock!

One time, at band camp...

The Best Original Song Oscar: Still Mattering, Against Odds

Status Ain't Hood's Favorite Live Shows of 2006

Sleater-Kinney's Last New York Show

Eulogy for Ladymen

Indie princesses dissipate; their fans' adoration does not

Sleater-Kinney Breaks Up

Spoon Makes It Look Easy

Unsprung

Three Olympia women-not-girls turn their trampoline solid, intuit their din into the red

A New Voting Age for Women: 26

Take the Long Way Home

Talk Talk

The Crying Games

The Targets Shoot First

A Long Short Story

The Go-Betweens in Love

Chaos Theory

In Pop Music, It’s Anyone's Guess

Sticky Little Fingers

Consumer Guide

Conjugal Visit