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Oct 03, 2023

Sleater-Kinney have announced a new album, Little Rope, and shared its first single, “Hell,” via a music video starring Miranda July. They have also announced some new tour dates. More

St. Vincent Shares Video for New Song “The Nowhere Inn” From Upcoming Film of the Same Name

The Nowhere Inn Soundtrack Due Out September 19 via Loma Vista

Sep 14, 2021

St. Vincent (aka Annie Clark) has shared a video for her new song “The Nowhere Inn,” which will be featured in the upcoming mockumentary feature film of the same name. The Nowhere Inn stars Clark alongside Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney, and will be out on September 17 (this Friday) in theatres and on demand via IFC Films. The soundtrack will be released two days later via Loma Vista. More

Watch the New Trailer for the St. Vincent and Carrie Brownstein Movie “The Nowhere Inn”

Annie Clark and Brownstein Play Themselves in Theaters and On Demand via IFC Films on September 17

Aug 12, 2021

A new trailer for The Nowhere Inn has been shared. Part mocumentary, part concert film, it stars St. Vincent (aka Annie Clark) and Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney as versions of themselves, as Brownstein attempts to make a St. Vincent tour documentary until things go off the rails. More

May 11, 2021

Sleater-Kinney have announced a new album, Path of Wellness, and shared a video for a new song from it, “Worry With You.” Path of Wellness is the first album to be self-produced by the band and the first to be recorded since drummer Janet Weiss left the band in 2019. More

Dec 04, 2019

The lineup for the 2020 Sundance Film Festival was announced today and among them is The Nowhere Inn, in which St. Vincent (aka Annie Clark) and Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney play versions of themselves. More

Coldplay Share New Song and Performed on “SNL” (Plus Fred Armisen/Carrie Brownstein Video)

Listen to “Everyday Life” and Watch Them Perform it and “Orphans” on Saturday Night Live

Nov 04, 2019

Coldplay are releasing a new album, Everyday Life, on November 22 via Parlophone/Atlantic. On Friday and this weekend there was a flurry of Coldplay activity: they shared an amusing fake press conference with Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein playing all the journalists, shared the album’s title track “Everyday Life,” and also performed it and “Orphans” on Saturday Night Live. More

Sep 11, 2017

It was previously announced that Larry David was bringing back Curb Your Enthusiasm for a ninth season on HBO, on October 1 at 10 PM. The first teaser trailer simply featured David dressed in ancient Greek attire on a revolving platform. More

May 18, 2017

Deadline reports that singer/actress/comedian Carrie Brownstein (Sleater-Kinney, Portlandia) is set to make her feature film directorial debut with a film entitled Fairy Godmother, for MGM. Brownstein has already directed episodes of Portlandia, Casual, and Idiotsitter, as well as the short film for KENZO, The Realest Real. More

100 Artists Sign Guitar for Planned Parenthood - Michael Stipe, Florence Welch, Feist, and More

Plus Fred Armisen, Carrie Brownstein, Mac DeMarco, Lady Gaga, Arctic Monkey's Alex Turner, Jim James, Matt Berninger, Perfume Genius, and Others

Apr 17, 2017

Over 100 artists have signed an acoustic guitar for Planned Parenthood and for $10 you can buy a drawing ticket to enter to win the guitar. More

Jan 20, 2017

Battle Hymns is a new protest compilation released today timed to President-Elect Donald Trump’s inauguration. Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss of Quasi put it together. More

Sep 13, 2016

Former Sonic Youth icon Kim Gordon has shared a brand new solo song entitled “Murdered Out.” Justin Raisen (Charli XCX, Sky Ferreira) produced the song, which features Stella Mozgawa of Warpaint on drums. Listen below. Gordon shared a statement about the song, which is also below. More

Watch Highlights of “SNL” Finale: Courtney Barnett, Fred Armisen, and The Lonely Island

Plus Carrie Brownstein, Paul Simon, and That Dead Poets Society Sketch

May 23, 2016

Saturday night saw the season finale to Saturday Night Live. Former cast member Fred Armisen was the guest host and Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist Courtney Barnett was the musical guest. Below are some highlights of the episode. More

Jul 14, 2015

Rookie Mag’s “Ask a Grown Woman” series takes life questions from their teen girl readers and gets advice from adult women. More

Watch: Carrie Brownstein Interviews Kim Gordon

Discuss Gordon's New Memoir "Girl in a Band"

Mar 13, 2015

Currently promoting the release of her brand new memoir Girl in a Band, Kim Gordon recently took part San Francisco’s Jewish Community Center’s Arts & Ideas lecture series, sitting down for a hour-long conversation with Sleater-Kinney‘s Carrie Brownstein. More

Under the Radar’s New Issue Features Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein of Portlandia on the Cover

Also Features Interviews with Charli XCX, Dum Dum Girls, Elbow, EMA, Sharon Jones, Liars, Metronomy, The New Pornographers, Panda Bear, Real Estate, Norman Reedus of The Walking Dead vs. J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr., St. Vincent, Warpaint, and more

Feb 21, 2014

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of the February/March 2014 issue, which is on newsstands now and will be out until late April/early May. It features Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein of Portlandia on the cover as well as interviews with Charli XCX, Dum Dum Girls, Elbow, EMA, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Liars, Metronomy, The New Pornographers, Panda Bear, Real Estate, Norman Reedus of The Walking Dead vs. J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr., St. Vincent, Warpaint, Wild Beasts, and much more. More

May 20, 2013

This past weekend the season finale of Saturday Night Live saw the departure of Fred Armisen and Bill Hader, two of the show’s most entertaining, veteran performerers. More

May 17, 2013

Last night American Express premiered a brand new ad featuring former Sleater-Kinney member and Wild Flag guitarist Carrie Brownstein. More

Jan 23, 2013

IFC’s hilarious hipster-driven sketch comedy, Portlandia, starring Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, has featured plenty of indie music stars over its first two seasons, (The Decemberists, Isaac Brock, St. Vincent, Joanna Newsom, just to name a few) and that tradition continues with the show’s third season. This week’s episode features Dinosaur Jr.‘s J Mascis and members of Dirty Projectors in a battle of the gentle bands. More

Apr 02, 2012

Carrie Brownstein, frontwoman of Wild Flag and star of the sketch show Portlandia, recently subjected herself to a round of radio and podcast interviews where she got to answer a variety of questions. More

Feb 16, 2011

Colin Meloy (The Decemberists), James Mercer (The Shins/Broken Bells), and Corin Tucker (Sleater-Kinney/Corin Tucker) stopped by the not-quite so real world of Portlandia—a sketch show written by Saturday Night Live’sFred Armisen and Sleater-Kinney/Wild Flag’s Carrie Brownstein. More



Interviews

May 02, 2014

Portland is the place where young people go to retire—that’s arguably the most widely quoted line from season one of Portlandia. But if that’s true, Carrie Brownstein and Stephen Malkmus must be the old-soul exceptions, as both relocated there when they were in their prime early retirement years and have continued working at more or less the same prolific pace. More

May 01, 2014

Carrie Brownstein is in my girlfriend’s textbook. She was in a band called Sleater-Kinney?” That’s the title of a post on the Portlandia fan forum on popular news and entertainment aggregate Reddit, submitted by a fan who was shocked to discover that Brownstein is also a musician of no small significance. More