Carrie Brownstein

Coachella in Your Backyard: Nine Good Local Shows That Aren't Sold Out

The Shins' Port of Morrow: A First Listen

​Let's be real: bands don't change your life more than, oh ... once. So if we were lucky to get two excellent albums from James Mercer and whoever happens to be with him, it's no slouch that a third pretty-good album added three more perfect tunes to the canon: "Australia," "Phantom Limb," and "Gi ... More >>

Live Review, 2/23/12: Thao Nguyen Brings Out the Badass at Bottom of the Hill

Thao Nguyen John Vanderslice Bird by Snow Garrett Pierce Thursday, Feb. 24, 2012 Bottom of the Hill Better than: Every live performance Thao has given to date. If anything is left standing at Bottom of the Hill after last night's Noise Pop festival show, it is certainly by the good graces of powe ... More >>

Watch: Carrie Brownstein, Fred Armisen, Thao Nguyen, and Mirah Cover 'Push It' on Portlandia's S.F. Live Tour Stop

Fred, Thao, and Carrie onstage in S.F.​ No, dammit, we didn't get to go to the S.F. stop of the live Portlandia, either, and in case we all need any evidence that missing it was a huge bummer, here it is: A sizzling clip of the show's co-creators and stars, Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen, ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

Fred, Thao, and Carrie onstage in S.F.​ No, dammit, we didn't get to go to the S.F. stop of the live Portlandia, either, and in case we all need any evidence that missing it was a huge bummer, here it is: A sizzling clip of the show's co-creators and stars, Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen, ... More >>

IFC's Portlandia Is Coming to San Francisco with Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen

Any of you eco-conscious hippies, fem-lit-reading bookstore owners, and musician-politicians find that IFC's West Coast bohemia-skewering Portlandia doesn't hit close enough to your S.F. home? Since, you know it's technically about a city some 600 miles away? Well, consider yourselves lucky: Portla ... More >>

Live Review: Wild Flag Gets a Grinning Reception at Great American Music Hall

Wild Flag at Great American Music Hall on Friday.​ Wild Flag Drew Grow and the Pastors' Wives Nov. 4, 2011 Great American Music Hall Better than: FM 107.7 The Bone -- usually. Wild Flag played its fifth-ever live show in San Francisco almost a year ago, for a sold-out, ecstatic crowd at Bott ... More >>

Forget Pedigree: Wild Flag Is a Great New Rock Band

Wild Flag at Great American Music Hall on Friday.​ Wild Flag Drew Grow and the Pastors' Wives Nov. 4, 2011 Great American Music Hall Better than: FM 107.7 The Bone -- usually. Wild Flag played its fifth-ever live show in San Francisco almost a year ago, for a sold-out, ecstatic crowd at Bott ... More >>

In Print: Wild Flag Is More Than a 'Supergroup'

Wild Flag​Wild Flag: The concept of a "supergroup"-- wherein performers with cool and/or exciting pedigrees find themselves in something resembling a "band" -- dies hard. Imagine your favorite musicians playing together! Frequently, expectations exceed results -- a collection of individuals do ... More >>

Wild Flag's Self-Titled Debut: A First Listen

​ I don't know why I've been dreading this Wild Flag album exactly. Sleater-Kinney is one of my three favorite bands (the other two are Sonic Youth and the Dismemberment Plan, in case you're wondering), and as such I should trust Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss harder to carry a band that al ... More >>

Arthouse Movie Listings for April 13-19, 2011

​ I don't know why I've been dreading this Wild Flag album exactly. Sleater-Kinney is one of my three favorite bands (the other two are Sonic Youth and the Dismemberment Plan, in case you're wondering), and as such I should trust Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss harder to carry a band that al ... More >>

Last Night's VVM SXSW Party: Wu-Tang Packs It, Wild Flag Rocks It, and Yelawolf Goes Shirtless

Shannon CottrellWu-Tang Clan​Still only on Day 2 of this ridiculous conflagration, last night forced even more torturous decision-making on festival-goers with a crazy-stacked series of shows. (The Strokes even had fireworks!) But the Village Voice Media party at Austin Music Hall, featuring Wu-Ta ... More >>

Our SXSW Party: Wu-Tang Clan, Erykah Badu, Wild Flag, and More

​And so we join the SXSW deluge: Village Voice Media, the parent company of SF Weekly, yesterday announced the details of our annual SXSW party: We'll deign to spare you any unfortunate lyrical references to the Wu-Tang Clan but it is headlining. Other eyebrow-poppers you'll want to check out ... More >>

SF Weekly Gets a Shout-Out on IFC's Hipster-Mocking New Show, Portlandia ('I Loved It!')

The Independent Film Channel has finally followed hipster-mocking to its logical conclusion: a television show based entirely around lampooning the death of Western civilization and a group that "did not yield a great literature, but it made good use of fonts." (Oh, you thought it was all about bla ... More >>

Wild Flag Rocks Our Faces Off, Covers the Stones and the VU at Bottom of the Hill

Wild Flag at Bottom of the Hill last night​Wild FlagGrass WidowRoyal BathsNovember 18, 2010@ Bottom of the HillBetter than: Performing in a toilet.Carrie Brownstein, you are way too fucking modest. "We're just up here learning how to be a band," she said, near the end of Wild Flag's fifth sho ... More >>

Canada's PS I Love You Spread the Love Stateside on First Tour

Vanessa Heins​San Francisco, meet PS I Love You. They're new here, and they're psyched to meet you. The Kingston, Ontario duo of Paul Saulnier and Benjamin Nelson are a few dates into their first U.S. tour, weathering the ups and downs of the road and bringing their clamorous caterwaul to the ador ... More >>

Tropicália’s Swedish Stars

Vanessa Heins​San Francisco, meet PS I Love You. They're new here, and they're psyched to meet you. The Kingston, Ontario duo of Paul Saulnier and Benjamin Nelson are a few dates into their first U.S. tour, weathering the ups and downs of the road and bringing their clamorous caterwaul to the ador ... More >>

Sketchfest stokes the musician-comedian love affair

Vanessa Heins​San Francisco, meet PS I Love You. They're new here, and they're psyched to meet you. The Kingston, Ontario duo of Paul Saulnier and Benjamin Nelson are a few dates into their first U.S. tour, weathering the ups and downs of the road and bringing their clamorous caterwaul to the ador ... More >>

Into the Woods

How the riot grrrls of Sleater-Kinney punk'd Keith Moon and Jimi Hendrix

Sleater-Kinney

One Beat (Kill Rock Stars)

Spreading the Word

The Gossip's bluesy clatter moves from small-town whisper to big-time scream

Sleater-Kinney

All Hands on the Bad One
(Kill Rock Stars)

Words + Guitar (+ Beats + Skronk)

What mattered and what splattered in pop, 1997

Love Sick

Sleater-Kinney's Call the Doctor painfully dissects physical and emotional boundaries

Night+Day

Sleater-Kinney's Call the Doctor painfully dissects physical and emotional boundaries