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MRG411 | Release Date 2011
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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. 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. If someone drew a visual representation illustrating the ways in which all indie bands are interconnected, Brownstein, Cole, Timony, and Weiss would be in the same tiny sphere, so playing together felt almost inevitable. After collaborating on a score for a documentary, the ease with which they worked together proved infectious and promising. Future practices were scheduled, songs were written, Wild Flag was formed.

In April of 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.



TRACK PLAY SONG TITLE DURATION PRICE MP3 TRACK
1 Romance 03:52$0.99
2 Something Came Over Me 04:03$0.99
3 Boom 02:45$0.99
4 Glass Tambourine 05:29$0.99
5 Endless Talk 03:00$0.99
6 Short Version 03:34$0.99
7 Electric Band 03:33$0.99
8 Future Crimes 02:44$0.99
9 Racehorse 06:40$0.99
10 Black Tiles 04:30$0.99