Wild Flag / Wild Flag

Merge

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CD
$13.75
MRG 411 CD
673855041124
Street Date:
September 13th, 2011
Ship Date:
September 5th, 2011
LP
$17.25
MRG 411
673855041117
Street Date:
September 13th, 2011
Ship Date:
September 5th, 2011

WILD FLAG is a Portland, Oregon and Washington, DC-based quartet consisting of CARRIE BROWNSTEIN, REBECCA COLE, MARY TIMONY and JANET WEISS. The members of Wild Flag have played in numerous and notable bands including SLEATER-KINNEY, HELIUM, QUASI, THE MINDERS, STEPHEN MALKMUS AND THE JICKS, and others. The four musicians who make up Wild Flag have known one another for well over a decade; playing together felt almost inevitable. Brownstein and Weiss were in Sleater-Kinney and toured with Timony’s band Helium on numerous occasions. Brownstein and Timony played in a side project called THE SPELLS. Rebecca Cole’s Portland-based band The Minders was a frequent opener for Sleater-Kinney. Weiss and Cole play together in the 1960’s garage-rock cover band The SHADOW MORTONS. After collaborating on a score for a documentary, the ease with which they worked together proved infectious and promising. Wild Flag was formed. In April 2011, they went to Sacramento, California, where they recorded their self-titled album with engineer CHRIS WOODHOUSE at the Hangar. All tracks were recorded live except for the vocals. (STREET DATE - 9/13/2011)