By the end (I’m hoping not for good, but for now, anyway) of Sleater-Kinney Corin Tucker’s voice was a finely honed weapon, full of deep, slow, sexy soul and capable of an earsplitting wail, a bonechilling snarl, a rock’n’roll howl that didn’t so much as defy gender as rip the guts straight out of it. cover with Peter? Restarting the Presses. We both fronted original riot grrrl bands— Heavens to Betsy and Bratmobile, respectively—in which we drew attention and … That was a really fun treat for me. It’s the story of looking at things from a different perspective, maybe from someone who’s grown up here as a young person and is just coming into her own, and is telling off the status quo and the people in charge. Oh, not at all. All rights reserved. Corin Tucker's voice was always impressive, but here it blows alway anything Zeppelin could ever hope to achieve. According to Corin Tucker, the dressing room at the El Rey in Los Angeles has seen better days. Janet Weiss hammers harder, Carrie Brownstein smothers with perfect harmonies while digging deeper on the E string, and Corin grabs your aorta … Groundhog Day 2. Everything else is just getting there.”. For anyone who wants to do music throughout their whole life, the party is the show. It’s not taking itself too seriously. And that’s OK. It’s super-fun, and it’s a really quality product that does sound unique. (Linda Pitmon of Zuzu’s Petals and The Baseball Project is taking over the drum chair for the band’s upcoming live dates. The time you’re onstage — that’s what you live for. Baker. Track listing. ), Their debut album Invitation, out now in various formats via Kill Rock Stars, marries the Filthy Friends’ collective ’80s sensibilities with all their postmodern tendencies to create an album that’s very much of the moment. I joke that I’m getting country as I get older, that I spend less time listening to punk rock (and actually turned down free passes to Bad Religion last night ‘cause I had tickets for Corin, but the phone call from my friend with the offer made me laugh: “Sarah Jaffe, you’re a punker…”). revolution, Meet the Xenobots: Living, biological machines that could revolutionize robotics. Is vinyl the best way to listen to Invitation? Are your kids getting into vinyl at all? Having everything spelled out completely changed the tone of the film. 3 5. Leigh replied on Sun, 10/31/2010 - 7:33am. Vocalists and guitarists Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein did not follow a set of blueprints when crafting the songs; rather, they simply worked … The Corin Tucker Band. album. I probably heard 'Rock Lobster' first at a party or dance. You can take the girl out of Sleater-Kinney, but you can't take the Sleater-Kinney out of the woman. My music now isn’t all about changing the world. Then we would do the Rock Lobster - get down on the floor and do the whole dance. It was like, “Oh my God!” I still have it. I just started listening to S-K this spring but totally agree with your assessment of The Woods and wish I had known about and been inspired by them when I was in my teens and early 20s. By R.C. She started her career playing in influential early 90s band Heavens to Betsy, has released solo music as The Corin Tucker Band and collaborates with REM’s Peter Buck in Filthy Friends. I think Faded Afternoon was one like that. I see six live dates on the Filthy Friends tour schedule total so far. The new record began with the same surprise turn that started Corin Tucker's career back in 1991, ended Sleater-Kinney's 11-year year run in 2006 and inspired the punk-feminist rocker to redefine herself as a stay-at-home mom. It’s a different generation. Thanks for making new music and gracing us with your beautiful energy! so much passion and power in her voice. I was also wondering whether people would cry out for S-K songs but everyone was just blissed out to hear her do her thing. (both laugh) It definitely sounds the best, in my opinion. Outgoing Message 11. As a guitar player with your own signature sound, how do you and a guitar icon like Peter Buck work out who plays what on any given song? Sometimes people really connect with a certain song, and you’re like, “Oh! Editors’ Notes As the member of Sleater-Kinney with the voice that takes the tops off of trees, Corin Tucker could stutter on a note for three minutes and make it music. I hope so! H3Africa is trying to fix it, This spherical, BB-8 style robot is built to explore lava caves on the moon, Power plants on other planets: How we’ll generate electricity on Mars, An interview with Zach King, the internet’s favorite illusionist, 5 things you didn’t know your Google Assistant smart speaker could do, Language supermodel: How GPT-3 is quietly ushering in the A.I. And for anyone who’s been doing it as long as I have and we in the Filthy Friends have, you have to be serious about it. Sometimes with my daughter, it will be like (in a sing-song voice), “Oh, we’re not listening to the radio today!” Or she’ll pick up The New York Times, but some things aren’t even printable in there. Do not be alarmed, Genetic research has a whiteness bias. That’s front and center in my life. Previously, Sleater-Kinney had a clean two-guitars-and-drums sound. B-side “What If I Was Right” is about hypnotic as a rock song can get, with Carrie Brownstein’s fluttering guitar carrying the music’s weight beneath Corin Tucker’s doubtful voice. I have to say Live in Paris [recorded in 2016, released in 2017] felt like a celebration of a pretty impressive legacy. Another thing I love about performing — every show is different and every audience is different, and you have no idea how they’re going to react to the material you have. We’re more inclined to pick and choose a weekend here and a weekend there. Thank you so much for this sensitive, nuanced portrait. songs. I wasn’t afraid of each song being different from the other — and it was really fun to do it that way, actually. bassist] Mike Mills singing it — and I got to sing Mike Mills’ part [i.e., “Fire!”]. "It's Always Summer" and "Miles Away" are some of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard, and if you're looking for vintage Corin, check out the cover she did of "It's Obvious" by Au Pairs. It was un-beautiful, risky, wavering on the high notes in a way that was almost painful. Good call there. I absolutely love this album, and think anyone who has criticized Corin Tucker Band is missing the point. Corin Tucker: I think I just really wanted each song to have a unique voice. By the way, one of my favorite lines of the year is from Ain’t Much of a King: “Ain’t much of a king if he can’t keep you around.” I immediately visualized Anthony Scaramucci [the short-lived White House communications director also known as “The Mooch”] the first time I heard you sing that one (Tucker laughs). In 2010, Call the Doctor was ranked number 49 in the list of the 100 greatest albums of the nineties by the editors of Rolling Stone. Oh, absolutely. The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly. Do you feel the meaning of some of the album’s lyrics change day to day, given the socio-political rollercoaster ride we seem to be living through right now? That’s a good point. After those other bands decided to call it a day, Sleater-Kinney became the pair’s primary artistic outlet, making Call the Doctor their first “real” album. There are so many times that, as a woman in the music industry, you're asked questions no male musician would ever be asked. Are you more comfortable now doing it like 10 days on/10 days off instead of, say, six months straight of touring? You’ve sure got the right terrain for it out there. i loved 'Heaven to Betsy' also. Oh yeah! ! on guitar, Scott McCaughey of The Young Fresh Fellows and The Minus 5 on bass, Kurt Bloch of Fastbacks on guitar, and Bill Rieflin of KMFDM on drums. The album appeared at number three in The Village Voice ' s Pazz & Jop critics' poll for 1996. They weirdly do. And yeah, you’d buy some records that weren’t great and you’d eventually weed them out, but sometimes you got something that was just so cool and unique. As somebody who has a pretty deep catalog, can you pinpoint a song that has to be in every show you do? Yeah. I love the X-Ray Spex [the cult-fave ’70s British punk band fronted by the late Poly Styrene]. That VOICE. Joey 10. As Corin Tucker’s voice wailed, slightly fuzzy, from that cheap little speaker, the inside of my own throat buzzed in recognition. Is there one song that benefited the most from that kind of post-op editing, something that needed an extra little TLC? One of the recurring talking points in write-ups about the band from this time was, naturally, Tucker’s inimitable voice. I remember being really worried after the election and feeling like that song wasn’t going to make sense, but once we started playing it, I went, “Oh, this is a fight song.” We’re still fighting, and we’re still arguing about all these issues that are no less important to anyone. Well, I highly recommend it! She is giving us back the angel of her voice; she allows us to hear more of it than we ever did in Sleater-Kinney. Two recent podcast episodes have highlighted women musicians (including Dolly Parton!) on 10/27/10. I agree - The Woods was indeed their best. “The most reliable discomforter in the Sleater-Kinney arsenal is, of course, Tucker’s tearing, ferocious voice, and all three know it,” wrote Terri Sutton in that Village Voice … What album or single did you pick up on a whim that turned out to be a winner? that record kicks @$$. You throw things out there and go through different things in different songs. As it stands, she brings together a band who play it just as gritty as Sleater-Kinney but that feature her voice in much more vulnerable situations. Everything is digital or on the phone or on YouTube, which is a totally different world — and that’s fine. I like to have a little role in the stuff that comes up like that, but we don’t really have any desire to cover any R.E.M. I needed that. We all have super-planned schedules — especially with me, having two kids. It's obvious. Have you ever discussed doing an R.E.M. Her new songs are designed, created, wrapped lovingly around that voice to let it do what it does best, and while there’s no rocker wail in most of them there’s a kind of raw beauty that hits me in a different place than Sleater-Kinney did. I think you get that sense when you’re listening to the music. ‘That’s like a Television song? But that song was more of a general thought in my mind how the country was really changing geographically, politically, and culturally, and how upsetting that seems to be to certain people. But I like that, because it keeps you on your toes, and it challenges you. “We tried to do that, whether consciously or subconsciously,” Tucker admitted to Digital Trends. By the end (I’m hoping not for good, but for now, anyway) of Sleater-Kinney Corin Tucker’s voice was a finely honed weapon, full of deep, slow, sexy soul and capable of an earsplitting wail, a bonechilling snarl, a rock’n’roll howl that … It’s such wild, crazy times that we live in. By Nan108. There’s a regular black vinyl edition, and then the limited edition is this clear, greenish vinyl, which is awesome-looking. Corin Tucker Band Kill My Blues, released 18 September 2012 1. Corin Tucker. Even with Sleater-Kinney, and even if I wasn’t a mom of two, I don’t think I could handle doing more than three weeks at a time. Straightforward, to the point. In operatic terms, her voice can be described as Spinto Soprano or perhaps more appropriately, Dramatic Soprano, given her startling attack and highly pronounced vibrato. The guitarist/vocalist with riot-grrrl greats Sleater-Kinney (and a “huge” R.E.M. Corin Tucker. This album is raw, noisy, full of distortions. With a song like The Arrival, Peter had this riff, which he showed me went like this (sings riff). Once we started playing Ain’t Much of a King, I went, “Oh, this is a fight song.”, Each song is different, so it depends on what the vibe of the song is. I wanted to try a bunch of different things, so on a song like Makers, I went for a vocal approach that really took the song in a certain sonic direction. Yeah, we’re spoiled with how beautiful it is out here. So I went. It was meant to be, like you said, a celebration of what we accomplished. The song above, “Miles Away,” gives me chills on the lousy recording in that YouTube video—imagine what it did live. Tiptoe With an old friend from Bust-mag interning days, and we had dinner and a half-price bottle of wine and posh Rice Krispy Treats (no, really) before the show and rolled in at the end of the second opener’s set (sorry). I saw them in San Francisco and they were fantastic. Instead, the calls were “That was beautiful,” and maybe even an “I love you.” And I agreed with all of them—thank you, that was beautiful, I do love you (in the way you love people you knows nothing about, really, except that their art has touched you and helped make you who you are). [The One I Love was R.E.M.s first Top 10 single, from 1987’s Document.]. For my friend and I, Corin’s new record comes along at a point in our lives when we need music that talks to us as grown women, with the damage and hurt and recovery and rebirths that we’ve seen in our lives so far and will keep seeing, world without end. The myth of the endless rock star party doesn’t happen on the road that much anymore. Is Sleater-Kinney officially on the shelf, or do you feel you can come back to it whenever you feel like doing it, even with all the projects the three of you have going at any given time? I really love that song, but it definitely benefited from a little editing. I love being able to get special-edition vinyl and put it on my turntable. Upgrade your lifestyleDigital Trends helps readers keep tabs on the fast-paced world of tech with all the latest news, fun product reviews, insightful editorials, and one-of-a-kind sneak peeks.Digital Trends may earn a commission when you buy through links on our site. And that’s what I like about doing a record like Invitation — having those ideas, and then whittling them down and editing them on the fly, which Peter is great at doing, and totally comfortable doing. Blood, Bones, and Sand 12. As both Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein were playing in other bands at the time, Sleater-Kinney’s eponymous debut album was more of a side project than a full-on artistic commitment. (chuckles heartily) I am such a big fan as well, and sometimes I’d think, “Oh, this song has an alt-country vibe.” I grew up listening to Michael Stipe’s vocals and they influenced me, although I’m a really different singer than he is. 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