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Carrie Brownstein gives us hope for a Sleater-Kinney reunionOut musician Carrie Brownstein is mostly known for being one-third of the now-defunct legendary band Sleater-Kinney. Since their hiatus in 2004, she's kept herself busy by doing anything unrelated to music. She's kept a regular blog for NPR, written pieces for Slate.com and also films short comedic video pieces as part of a duo called ThunderAnt. (Her partner in crime is Saturday Night Live's Fred Armisen.) Carrie and Fred As somewhat of a Brownstein superfan, I was psyched to learn that she'd released some new songs in collaboration with Mary Timony, except they are actually a few years old. Previously unreleased under the moniker of The Spells, the four tracks (two available for download on her blog) are a brief reminder of what we're missing with Brownstein not playing music. In an interview with Pitchforkmedia.com today, she said she was completely happy to be doing anything but. "I've mostly been focusing on writing, and I've really enjoyed not playing music [laughs]," she said. "It will always be part of my life, but I don't feel the immediate need to be playing for people. Yeah, I got kind of tired of playing, I think. But I think it will be part of my life again, maybe. Maybe not right now."
So what about a Sleater-Kinney reunion? Is that at least something that's not only in our hopes and dreams, but our future? "Yeah, I don't think we're ruling it out," she said. "But it's not going to be any time soon. We probably wouldn't use the word 'reunion' [laughs]. We would say that the hiatus is off. It's just semantics, but yeah [laughs]. 'Reunion' is a scary word. There's some horrible connotations in the word 'reunion' [laughs]. It involves a lot of, like, face makeup, and everyone commenting about how much older we look. It's precarious: the longer you wait, I think it gets worse."
Until then, we can look forward to a non-fiction book and other freelance pieces in Brownstein's future, and also an appearance in a Portland indie film called Some Days Are Better Than Others, also starring James Mercer from The Shins. And we'll always have our favorite Sleater-Kinney albums to keep us company until they return to the stage. Submitted by on November 21, 2008 - 10:00am. |
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Wow wow wow
A Sleater-Kinney reunion might mean I actually have some hope of seeing them live. Wow.
I downloaded those 2 tracks. Can't help but compare them to Sleater-Kinney and at the moment am listening to Bat Vs Bird. I like but it makes me want some new Sleater-Kinney stuff. Now. Please??!
omg!
on the one hand, i'm almost crying at the possibility of more sleater-kinney music. on the other hand, i'm a little sad that all that money i spent to attend their last two shows wasn't spent on their last two shows.
i wonder if the interview mentions the retrospective dvd... i asked janet about it at siren fest and there was no release date yet.
It doesn't, but I would sure
I would cry
I think I would cry with tears of joy if SK got back together... Just knowing it might be possible is getting me so excited and I am now reminiscing all the SK gigs I have been to.
Once in 2000, or maybe it was 1999, I can't remember, they played on my birthday in a medium sized city in England (Leicester) so me and a friend decided to go. We tried to buy tickets in advance and were told we couldn't. Anyway, we showed up and the pub was empty. We were starting to get really worried that the gig wasn't happening (nobody was manning the door so we had got in for free) when we saw the 3 of them walking in, each of them holding a bag of chips they had gotten from the local fish and chips.
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Fingers crossed!
Fingers crossed!
yes,yes,yes
hmmm im still doubtfull, im not ready for them yet, i spend alottt of money to see there last 2 shows in portland, i dont think my bank could handle it!
Im also wondering where this DVD is?!
either way its nice to hear from her,in the nicest way possible i hope she gets bored of writing and picks up that gibson sg...*heaven*
OMG!
See, that sounded kinda promising to me! After doing the same thing for as long as they have I'd want a break too for a few years, but you can tell they love it, and maybe that was lost and once they've been not playing together for so long I'm sure they'll miss and love it again!
I've been consuming all things S-K for over a month now and I'm ALL caught up and something special happens on that stage with them they all love each other and have AMAZING musical chemistry! Can't just throw that away....at least not forever!
And she's right it's all about semantics but I've been very optimistic because the word "hiatus" instead of the term "break-up" being used to describe their current status!:-)
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