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Wild Flag is the bicoastal project of Portland, Oregon indie rock luminaries
Carrie Brownstein,
Janet Weiss, and Rebecca Cole, and Washington, D.C.’s
Mary Timony.
Brownstein and
Weiss are best known as two-thirds of
Sleater-Kinney, Cole as the drummer for the
Minders, and
Timony for
Helium and her solo work, but these women have played together in different combinations over the years.
Brownstein and
Timony released an EP in 2000 as the Spells;
Weiss and Cole play together in the Shadow Mortons, and
Sleater-Kinney toured with both
the Minders and
Helium. Cole,
Weiss,
Timony, and
Brownstein began playing together as what would become
Wild Flag in May 2010, but didn’t announce they were a band until that September. The group rounded out the year with songwriting, recording, and a tour of the Pacific Northwest and West Coast. By April 2011,
Wild Flag joined with engineer Chris Woodhouse to record their self-titled debut album, and its release followed on Merge Records that September. The bandmembers' busy schedules and distance from each other ultimately led
Wild Flag to disband in 2013. ~ Heather Phares