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Corin Tucker's band played NYC, Wild Flag hopefully will soon

by BBG

I have it on good authority that…
Corin Tucker had more than one leg at Bowery Ballroom… (photo by killerfemme)
Corin Tucker

The Corin Tucker Band played Maxwell’s on 10/23 (with Screaming Females) and Bowery Ballroom on 10/26 as part of a short leg of East Coast dates in support of the new LP 1,000 Years. The shows were part of Tucker’s first tour in the East since selling out Webster Hall with Sleater-Kinney in 2006 as part of the band’s final leg of dates before going on hiatus. Flanked by a supporting cast of Sara Lund of Unwound and Seth Lorinczi of Golden Bears, Tucker’s new project won over the crowd at Bowery with a combination of bombast and tranquility:

At Tuesday night’s show, the turned-to-11 jams (like “Riley” and “Doubt,” the latter of which sounds the most like Sleater-Kinney) got the biggest reactions, but Tucker’s quieter moments were the most stunning. The band paused for a brief acoustic interlude (including strings) for runs through gorgeously-arranged new epics like “It’s Always Summer” and “Dragon,” both of which began small and swelled to surprising crescendos. “Miles Away,” which opened Tucker’s encore and features little more than her gentle, dynamic voice and a rolling piano riff, is lovely on the album but became a full-blooded torch song on stage. Sleater-Kinney’s songs mostly all swirl and no release, but Tucker’s new approach seems to be about resolution. -[MTV]

Meanwhile Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss of Sleater-Kinney have a promising new band of their own called Wild Flag also featuring Rebecca Cole (the Minders) and Mary Timony (Helium, Autoclave, Soft Power). The band will record their debut LP for Merge Records and tour on a larger scale in 2011, but so far have only scheduled a handful of West Coast dates (below).

And in case Wild Flag and The Corin Tucker Band just don’t do it for you, take comfort in the fact that Tucker also recently told the Seattle Weekly the following in response to questions about a Sleater-Kinney reunion: “We’re all still friends and we have talked about doing Sleater-Kinney in the future again… I’m hopeful that that will happen.”

The Corin Tucker Band’s 1,000 Years is out now via Kill Rock Stars. Video from Tucker’s Maxwell’s and Bowery Ballroom sets are below, along with all Wild Flag dates…


THE CORIN TUCKER BAND – Doubt – MAXWELLs NJ october 23 2010

The Corin Tucker Band – “Dragon” 10/26 at Bowery Ballroom

Miles Away – The Corin Tucker Band Boston 10/25

WILD FLAG – 2010 TOUR DATES
Nov 10 Olympia, WA The Northern
Nov 12 Seattle, WA High Dive
Nov 13 Portland, OR Doug Fir
Nov 17 Sacaramento, CA The Hub
Nov 18 San Francisco, CA Bottom of the Hill
Nov 19 Los Angeles, CA Spaceland
Nov 20 San Diego, CA Casbah
Nov 21 Pomona, CA Aladdins