Duke meets Jacko
Wild Flag rock Bowery Ballroom
Masters of the game
The term "supergroup" is pretty well overused in this hyperadjectived age, so let's call Wild Flagex-Sleater Kinneyans Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss, former Helium mastermind Mary Timony, and onetime Minder Rebecca Colesomething more superlative, because they certainly deser ... More >>
The country star likes six strings, not G-strings. Plus, summer music picks
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 >>
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 >>
Life after Sleater-Kinney includes a comedy sideline and a new not-supergroup
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 >>
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 >>
A less-furious Corin Tucker brings relief to Sleater-Kinney fans
Stephen Malkmus gets his wavy-gravy jam on
Eno's Music for Airports at a 26-hour fete; Bright Eyes triumphantly caps a seven-night run
Indie princesses dissipate; their fans' adoration does not
Three Olympia women-not-girls turn their trampoline solid, intuit their din into the red
Spring music rites and wrongs
Girls Take Center Stage in Their Own 'Warped Tour' Spin-0ff and Other Shows Around the City
Jack and Meg Find a Little Place to Fight 'Em Off
The Go-Betweens in Love
In Pop Music, Its Anyone's Guess
