Wild Flag, Mission of Burma & Ted Leo play free Celebrate Brooklyn show tonight (and other dates)

Wild Flag at Pitchfork Fest 2012 (more by Fred Pessaro // BBG)

Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein’s IFC show Portlandia is currently working on its third season, and if you want to see it in action, you can now go to Portland and see Fred and Carrie filming episodes for the new season (via Huliq). There’s also an ongoing bicycle tour of where past and future episodes have been shot.

In related news, you can catch Carrie Brownstein in NYC TONIGHT (8/3) at Prospect Park where her band Wild Flag will play a FREE Celebrate Brooklyn show that they’re co-headlining with Mission of Burma. Ted Leo will open the show with a solo set. Doors are at 6 and Ted Leo goes on at 7, followed by Mission Burma at 7:45 then Wild Flag at 9:15. Ted Leo, who plays in NYC a lot, is saying that this is his only hometown show until the end of October. It’s also Wild Flag’s only upcoming show except for FYF Fest, but Mission of Burma have a bunch of upcoming dates, all of which are listed below.

As mentioned, Wild Flag and Mission of Burma have a split 7″ with WF’s “Boom” and MoB’s “What They Tell Me,” which will be available exclusively at tonight’s show. There’s also a limited edition poster for the show which you can enter to win if you RSVP to the show’s facebook event. That poster, the 7″ cover art, streams of both songs from the 7″, and a list of all dates are below.

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Mission of Burma – “What They Tell Me”

Wild Flag – “Boom”

Mission of Burma — 2012 Tour Dates
08.03 Prospect Park (Brooklyn, NY) w/ Wild Flag and Ted Leo
08.03 The Beachcomber (Wellfleet, MA)
09.07 Union Transfer (Philadelphia, PA
09.08 Black Cat (Washington, DC)
09.13 Fitzgerald’s (Houston, TX)
09.14 Dan’s Silverleaf (Denton, TX)
09.15 Antone’s (Austin, TX)
09.26 Shank Hall (Milwaukee, WI)
09.27 400 Bar (Minneapolis, MN)
09.28 High Noon Saloon (Madison, WI)
09.29 Lincoln Hall (Chicago, IL)
11.30 ATP Nightmare Before Christmas (East Sussex, UK)