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Chemistry cannot be manufactured or forced, so WILD FLAG was not a sure thing, it was a "maybe," a "possibility." But after a handful of practice sessions, spread out over a period of months, I think we all realized that we could be greater than the sum of our parts, not four disparate puzzle pieces
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A Facebook page was soon put up with very little information about the band. No songs were posted and the biography was short and strange: "What is the sound of an avalanche taking out a dolphin? What do get when you cross a hamburger with a hot dog? The answer is: WILD FLAG."
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Wild Flag announced on their Facebook page on January 20, 2011 that a 7" record would be pressed and available for purchase exclusively at their shows for the month of March, and then for sale to the general public on
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By 2014, the band was no longer active. In an interview, Brownstein stated, "We had a fun run… but all the logistics started seeming not quite worth it."
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Brownstein and Timony previously collaborated in the late 1990s, when they were still in Sleater-Kinney and Helium respectively. Their side project band
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blog, of which she was a contributor, in September 2010. She said that she had called together her friends a year ago and tried to form a band:
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from 1992 to 1997. Afterwards, she played with Brownstein in the short-lived band the Spells, which released one EP on
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down to the state of California throughout November 2010. They were also slated to appear at the
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were announced for the month of March, including two dates in New York City where they open for
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The first Wild Flag single, "Future Crimes" backed with "Glass Tambourine", was released on
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in 1999, and also released various solo albums before contributing her skills to Wild Flag.
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and Sleater-Kinney throughout the late nineties and early 2000s, afterwards contributing to
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The members of Wild Flag have extensive musical histories prior to forming this band.
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festival that they co-curate in December 2011 in Minehead, England.
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trying to make sense of the other, but a cohesive and dynamic whole.
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Mission of Burma / Wild Flag – "What They Tell Me" / "Boom" (2012)
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from 1996 to 2008 before becoming the keyboardist for Wild Flag.
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in the early nineties, then went on to do the same for the band
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A second single, "Romance" was premiered June 18, 2011.
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