Wild Flag album out 9/13, single premiere tomorrow & fall tour dates

[Natasha Padilla]

FROM PITCHFORK: http://pitchfork.com/news/42885-wild-flag-announce-debut-album/

Wild Flag, the punk rock supergroup that includes former Sleater-Kinney bandmates Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss, Helium's Mary Timony, and former Minders member Rebecca Cole, will release their self-titled debut album September 13 on Merge.

After working out their songs at early shows, the band recorded the entire album live, save for vocals, with engineer Chris Woodhouse. First single "Romance" will debut on "The Cherry Blossom Clinic" show on the New Jersey radio station WFMU tomorrow afternoon between 3-4 p.m. Eastern.

Below, we've got the band's tour dates; they'll be all over North America for the next few months. Also, watch video of Wild Flag tearing shit up at SXSW, where they were easily one of the best bands I saw.

Wild Flag:

06-24-25 Calgary, Alberta - Sled Island
07-22 Chicago, IL - Subterranean
07-23 Chicago, IL - Wicker Park Festival
08-12 Brooklyn, NY - Williamsburg Waterfront *
10-03 Minneapolis, MN - Varsity Theatre
10-04 Omaha, NE - Waiting Room
10-05 Kansas City, MO - Record Bar
10-07 Champaign, IL - High Dive
10-09 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
10-10 Cleveland, OH - Grog Shop
10-11 Toronto, Ontario - Lee's Palace
10-14 Boston, MA - Paradise
10-15 Brooklyn, NY - Bell House
10-16 Hoboken, NJ - Maxwell's
10-18 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
10-19 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer
10-20 Washington, DC - Black Cat
10-21 Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle
10-22 Athens, GA - 40 Watt
10-24 Birmingham, AL - Bottletree
10-26 New Orleans, LA - One Eyed Jacks
10-29 Austin, TX - Emo's
10-31 Tempe, AZ - Rhythm Room
11-01 San Diego, CA - Casbah
11-02-03 Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour
11-04-05 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall
11-07 Arcata, CA - Humboldt State
11-09-10 Portland, OR - Doug Fir
11-11 Seattle, WA - Neumo's
11-12 Vancouver, British Columbia - Biltmore Cabaret
12-09 Minehead, England - ATP

* with Sonic Youth, Kurt Vile & the Violators

Merge announcement: http://www.mergerecords.com/blog/2011/06/wild-flag-announce-debut-album-fall-tour/
Merge accepting pre-orders: http://www.mergerecords.com/store/store_detail.php?catalog_id=751

MORE STORIES:
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2011/06/17/wild-flag-will-release-debut-album-in-september/

http://www.prefixmag.com/news/wild-flags-debut-album-due-out-in-september/53362/

http://www.bloginity.com/blog/2011/06/17/wild-flags-selftitled-debut-fall-2011-tour-dates/

http://consequenceofsound.net/2011/06/wild-flag-announces-debut-album-fall-tour/

Thanks,
Natasha

[Eleana Whitesell]

EEeeeeeee! Thank you Natasha!

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[Jim Keller]

Thanks Natasha!

Which one is Romance again?  Do we know it?

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"Peace, in the Middle East!"
Vanilla Ice

[Eleana Whitesell]

They've been playing it live, yeah.  "Hey man, you got me crawling, you got me reelin,..."

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[Natasha Padilla]

Eleana--ditto!

Jim--it's one of the girl gang vox songs. chorus: "we got our eyes, our eyes are on romance..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q25zB3lJqgY

Tix are already on sale for some shows:
http://www.ticketmaster.com/Wild-Flag-tickets/artist/1504817
http://www.ticketweb.com/snl/Search.action?query=wild+flag
http://www.ticketfly.com/calendar/?q=wild+flag

i just bought tix to maxwells & bell house.

--Natasha

[Jim Keller]

Ooh right!  Girl pop city.  I hope they put those two newer ones on there--names escape--they played one at Radio City, both at that bin in BK.

[Eleana Whitesell]

Oh man, thank you for the links! I just purchased my tickets for 11/9 and 11/10! woo. Plus now conjuring plans for travel to see more. Of course. :)

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[Natasha Padilla]

If only the US govt gave grants to go on tour. We could plan a cross-country trek!
=)

[Ana Carolina Ferraz]

:D I'm already excited for these.
Going to Neumos and maybe PDX and/or Vancouver. I can't waaaaaaaaaaait

C.
http://pmoon.zip.net