Sleater-Kinney Tour Updates HERE Please
 

With the 2015 S-K tour set to kick off in about a week, I think we should post show updates here, ok? I'll be seeing them on April 21st in Atlanta and am pretty amped about it!

I'm going sometime in April, who the fuck knows when, but I already got a ticket and that's whats important.. and I'm trying my best to not listen to the record until I hear those tracks at the show. Its a hard fight...

S-K's discography is pretty bullet-proof if you ask me. Directionally, I would rank their output as follows:

TOP TIER:
The Woods
Dig Me Out

NEXT TIER:
One Beat
Call The Doctor
No Cities To Love
All Hands On The Bad One

BOTTOM TIER:
The Hot Rock
Sleater-Kinney

ALL of it's worth owning - for sure - and their new album is yet another SOLID contribution!

HOW DA FUGG DO YOU HAVE THE HOT ROCK ON BOTTOM TIER?? NOT ONLY IS IT A SELF REFLECTIVE, COLLEGE ROCK MEETS MATH ROCK MASTERPIECE, ITS ONE OF MY SINGLE FAVORITE RECORDS OF ALL TIME.

my list in order..

The hot rock
Dig me out
All hands on the bad one
One beat
The woods
Self titled
Call the doctor

And i haven't heard the new one but ive gleaned from reviews it belongs somewhere in the middle

Also, how is Atlanta? Im seriously considering moving there..

Ok, I'll give The Hot Rock another spin - it has been 10+ years since I've done so. I remember running out to get it while still buzzing from Dig Me Out , listening to it several times, and then declaring it a huge disappointment. I'll try it again.

Atlanta's a cool town...young and progressive. It has a good music scene and lots of good venues. BE PREPARED TO DRIVE. EVERYWHERE. Sprawl. Los Angeles sprawl.

Well since im born and raised in LA i think sprawl will feel down right cozy

Listening to The Hot Rock right now. Yes, it's very good. Great? We'll see. The nuance around their instrumentation is noticeably more focused, for sure. 'The End of You' is stupid good...like one of the best-ever S-K tracks good. Wow. More later...

Setlist from Sleater-Kinney’s Feb. 8 show at the Knitting Factory in Spokane, WA:

Price Tag
Fangless
Start Together
Oh!
No Anthems
Get Up
Ironclad
One Beat
Bury Our Friends
What’s Mine Is Yours
One More Hour
No Cities to Love
Surface Envy
Words and Guitar
Sympathy
A New Wave
Entertain
Jumpers

Encore:
Gimme Love
Dig Me Out
I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone
Turn It On
Modern Girl

Nice set-list - thanks for posting!

Dig...

http://www.inlander.com/Bloglander/a...off-in-spokane

Damn its a trip to see this! I now it is corny but it still doesn't feel real to me until im at the show in May

Glad you liked it!

S-K swapped the 'Thurston Moore' lyric with 'Kim Gordon' in Chicago the other night...

http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/0...a-theatre-217/

Fucks the fuck yeah

ha ha ha ha-- awesome!

They've been replacing Thurston's name with Kim's every time they've
played "Joey Ramone" this tour.

By the by, on their March 29, 1998 show at the Middle East in Cambridge, MA, they sang "I wanna be your Mary Timony" - the gig ended with a Sleater-Kinney + Helium "space jam".

This appeared on their Facebook page a few days ago, but I just saw it. The Hot Rock's cover revisited - PRICELESS:



http://www.timeout.com/newyork/music...eir-new-record

GODDAMMIT I JUST TUNED IN TO THEIR LIVE AUSTIN CITY LIMITS STREAM! I missed over 20 minutes! FUCK!

EDIT: Oh, wait, you can rewind shit all the way to the very beginning... NICE!


Does anybody know how to record this thing before the KKK takes my babies away?

In other news, their April 30 show at the Hollywood Palladium in L.A. will feature special guests Body/Head...

Youre fucking shitting me. I got tix for that show

FUCK YOU!
:D

Fuck me with a stick, somebody already posted it!

Sleater-Kinney - 2015-04-15 Austin City Limits Live at the Moody Theater Webstream 720

Unfortunately i dont have tix for the thursday show, its the friday. Maybe body/head will play both dates ;)

The tour stopped in Atlanta last night. They were stupid-good as I expected. They were tight on very on point. I had mild concern about how Corin Tucker’s voice might show it’s age. It didn’t. She wailed like a banshee and was in control the entire time. Carrie Brownstein is a full-on rock star in the vein of Pete Townsend or something. Her onstage showboating (leg kicks, attitude, and snarl) was a thing of beauty. Her guitar playing was equally as good...she has become quite the player. Just watching her would’ve been worth the price of admission. During ‘Entertain’ (which was an absolute highlight) she knocked over her mic stand in a fury by accident, but then made a point of continuing to beat it up. It was a totally in-the-moment slice of punk-rock cake. Janet Weiss is a BEAST on drums. She plays SO HEAVY and propels every song. Her backing vocals and harmonies are critical too (never appreciated that before). The Atlanta crowd was amped and, early on, SK made a point of saying we might be the best crowd so far on tour. They meant it. The show before ours in New Orleans was the tour debut of ‘The Fox’. Well, we got it mid-set. During the noise-swirl frenzy Corin Tucker channeled (vocally) something from another dimension. She sounded possessed and I loved it. That 30 seconds may have been the best 30 seconds of the show. Simply amazing. ‘Jumpers’ (probably my favorite SK song) delivered every penny’s worth right before the encore. ‘Oh!’, ‘Words and Guitar’, and ‘One More Hour’ were the other major highlights. Great, great show.

Carrie upped her rockstar game with wild flag.. janet's drumwork has just aged like wine, and corin has improved her singing through the corin tucker band.. im looking forward to next week like a kid at Christmas

Uggh... Thursday night gets Body/Head and yet friday gets Ian Rubbish(fred armenson) making fun of punk?? Lame..

THEEsatisfaction were some badbitchez yo, real hip hop

So it was a different SK but not a cliched half assed reunion show. It was surreal to see them all together, i mean ive seen Wild Flag, Corin Tucker Band, and even ex-hex buts its been over ten years! It was like every other SK tour, they brought a different sound than their last tours, a kind of progression. Weirdly it sounded like picking up somewhere where the last tour left of musically. The energy was a bit slower and more of a groove. Im glad i waited for the show to finally be introduced to the new music. It was not what i expected, had a more groove to it. They also had more chemistry and energy on the new songs. They played all of those and also many of my favs.. Youth Decay, Oh, All hands on the bad one, sympathy, one more hour, dig me out, words+guitar, the fox, wilderness, jumpers, entertain, get up, all hands on the bad one, living in exile, one beat, Light rail coyote, lets call it love..

You can tell me such-and-such is the greatest band in the world only so many times before I shut down. I don't like SK anymore and it's the media's fault.

However, I'm collecting boots from the latest tour because sooner than later people will turn on them, at which point I'll listen to the boots and re-discover my love of their music while everyone else will be complaining about how over-rated they are.

In San Francisco, "Ian" was joined onstage by Bob Mould! I take it that wasn't the case in L.A.?

I was drinking inthe parking lot, got in there in middle of THEEsatisfaction set.. but SK was so damned good i didn't mind missing body/head at all

Sheesh. When I go to a concert and I don't have a numbered seat I show up crazy early and I CHEAT BEG STEAL AND LIE to secure a prime posish right in front of the performer. That's how I roll...

My pit skills are on point, i never missed the front row at any GA shows in my life (including at SK) yet never get there early, i hate lines and standing around. Id rather drink and toke outside then squeeze/maneuver/shimmy/coerce my way to the front

I only stay in back at reggae shows so i can dance