Not your standard
promotional vehicle. Watch out for those arrows, kids.

 

By Blurt Staff

 

As we noted awhile back, the debut self-titled album from Wild
Flag – the 4-piece Portland,
OR- and Washington, DC-based rock
group including Carrie Brownstein, Mary Timony, Rebecca Cole and Janet Weiss –
is due September 13 on Merge Records. Featuring members of Sleater-Kinney,
Quasi, Helium, the Minders and Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks to name just a
few, Wild Flag premiered with a tour of small west coast rock clubs in the fall
of 2010 and has been performing to hefty acclaim since. (Blurt caught the band in
Austin at SXSW and
also in D.C. this spring and can testify to the band’s musical prowess.)

 

The latest round of tour dates is listed below. Meanwhile,
you can take a look at the forthcoming album’s new video trailer. It was
directed by Andrew Ellmaker and Lara Gallagher and is pretty whacked out, to
say the least.

 

 

Wild Flag – Album Trailer from Merge Records on Vimeo.

 

 

August 12       Williamsburg
Waterfront        Brooklyn, NY*

October 3        Varsity Theatre           Minneapolis,
MN

October 4        Waiting Room             Omaha, NE

October 5        Record Bar      Kansas City,
MO

October 7        High Dive       Champaign,
IL

October 9        Empty Bottle Chicago,
IL

October 10      Grog Shop       Cleveland, OH

October 11      Lee’s Palace     Toronto, ON

October 14      Paradise           Boston,
MA

October 15      Bell
House      Brooklyn, NY

October 16      Maxwell’s        Hoboken, NJ

October 18      Bowery Ballroom        New
York, NY

October 19      Union Transfer            Philadelphia,
PA

October 20      Black Cat        Washington,
DC

October 21      Cat’s Cradle    Carrboro, NC

October 22      40 Watt           Athens,
GA

October 24      Bottletree        Birmingham,
AL

October 26      One Eyed Jacks          New
Orleans, LA

October 29      Emo’s Austin, TX

October 31      Rhythm Room            Tempe,
AZ

November 1    Casbah            San
Diego, CA

November 2    Troubadour     Los
Angeles, CA

November 3    Troubadour     Los
Angeles, CA

November 4    Great American
Music Hall    San Francisco,
CA

November 5    Great
American Music
Hall    San Francisco, CA

November 7    Humboldt
State          Arcata, CA

November 9    Doug
Fir          Portland, OR

November 10 Doug
Fir          Portland, OR

November 11 Neumo’s          Seattle,
WA 

November 12 Biltmore
Cabaret         Vancouver, BC

 

* with Sonic
Youth and Kurt Vile & the Violators