{"id":487,"date":"2011-08-10T20:08:39","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T00:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=487"},"modified":"2015-10-17T20:42:22","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T00:42:22","slug":"wild-flag-release-debut-albu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=487","title":{"rendered":"Wild Flag release debut album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The debut self-titled album from Wild Flag, a\u00a0Portland, OR\u00a0\/ Washington, DC-based\u00a04-piece indie rock band consisting of Carrie Brownstein, Rebecca Cole, Mary Timony, and Janet Weiss, will be available online and in stores on September\u00a013 via Merge Records.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: inherit; font: normal normal normal 15px\/normal 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.625; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"><a style=\"color: #1b8be0; font: normal normal normal 15px\/normal 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.625; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/wild-flag-cd-cover1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-492\" style=\"color: inherit; font-variant: normal; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.625; float: left; display: inline; margin-right: 1.625em; height: 248px; max-width: 97.5%; margin-bottom: 1.625em; background-color: #eeeeee; margin-top: 0.4em; padding: 6px; border: 1px solid #bbbbbb;\" title=\"wild flag cd cover\" src=\"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/wild-flag-cd-cover1.jpg?w=300&#038;resize=248%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Wild Flag has a very good indie rock pedigree. The members of\u00a0Wild Flag\u00a0have played in numerous and notable\u00a0bands including Sleater-Kinney, Helium, Quasi, The Minders, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, and others. Here are the connections that eventually formed Wild Flag.\u00a0Brownstein and Weiss were in Sleater-Kinney and regularly toured with Timony\u2019s band Helium. Brownstein and\u00a0Timony played in a side project called The Spells. Rebecca Cole\u2019s band The Minders frequently opened for Sleater-Kinney. Weiss and Cole play together in the 1960\u2019s garage-rock cover band The Shadow Mortons. After collaborating on a score for a documentary, future practices were scheduled, songs were written, Wild Flag was formed.<\/p>\n<p>You can sample all the tracks in the album trailer below, which was\u00a0directed by Andrew Ellmaker &amp; Lara Gallagher.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wild Flag - Album Trailer\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/26392316?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Take a listen to the first single <em>Romance<\/em>\u00a0below from the album.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"81\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F17497862&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&visual=false&show_comments=true&show_user=false&show_reposts=false&color=f2f2f2\"><\/iframe>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n<strong>Wild Flag tour schedule:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>October<\/p>\n<p>03 Minneapolis, MN Varsity Theatre<br \/>\n04 Omaha, NE Waiting Room<br \/>\n05 Kansas City, MO Record Bar<br \/>\n07 Champaign, IL High Dive<br \/>\n08 Chicago, IL Empty Bottle<br \/>\n09 Chicago, IL Empty Bottle<br \/>\n10 Cleveland, OH Grog Shop<br \/>\n11 Toronto, ON Lee\u2019s Palace<br \/>\n14 Boston, MA Paradise<br \/>\n19 Philadelphia, PA Union Transfer<br \/>\n20 Washington, DC Black Cat<br \/>\n21 Carrboro, NC Cat\u2019s Cradle<br \/>\n22 Athens, GA 40 Watt<br \/>\n24 Birmingham, AL Bottletree<br \/>\n26 New Orleans, LA One Eyed Jacks<br \/>\n28 Dallas, TX The Loft<br \/>\n29 Austin, TX Emo\u2019s<br \/>\n31 Tempe, AZ Rhythm Room<\/p>\n<p>November<\/p>\n<p>01 San Diego, CA Casbah<br \/>\n02 Los Angeles, CA Troubadour<br \/>\n03 Los Angeles, CA Troubadour<br \/>\n04 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall<br \/>\n05 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall<br \/>\n07 Arcata, CA Humboldt State<br \/>\n09 Portland, OR Doug Fir<br \/>\n10 Portland, OR Doug Fir<br \/>\n11 Seattle, WA Neumo\u2019s<br \/>\n12 Vancouver, BC Biltmore Cabaret<\/p>\n<p>December<\/p>\n<p>09 Minehead, UK ATP Nightmare Before Christmas<\/p>\n<p>For more info on Wild Flag, visit\u00a0<a title=\"Wild Flag Myspace\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/wildflag\" target=\"_blank\">www.myspace.com\/wildflag<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The debut self-titled album from Wild Flag, a\u00a0Portland, OR\u00a0\/ Washington, DC-based\u00a04-piece indie rock band consisting of Carrie Brownstein, Rebecca Cole, Mary Timony, and Janet Weiss, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=487\" title=\"Wild Flag release debut album\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[23,25,28],"tags":[562,764,945,1068,1207,1244,1316,1317],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indie","category-live","category-music","tag-helium","tag-merge-records","tag-quasi","tag-sleater-kinney","tag-the-spells","tag-tour","tag-wichita-records","tag-wild-flag"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/wildflag_photo.jpg?fit=450%2C300&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-7R","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1037,"url":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=1037","url_meta":{"origin":487,"position":0},"title":"Hospitality to release Merge debut album","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"October 14, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Merge will release the self-titled debut album from Brooklyn\u2019s Hospitality on January 31, 2012. 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