Wild Flag is a Portland, Oregon- and Washington, DCbased
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; playing together
felt almost inevitable. 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. After collaborating on a score for a
documentary, the ease with which they worked
together proved infectious and promising. Wild Flag
was formed.
In April 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.
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