Wild Flag

Wild Flag
Wild Flag performing in November 2011
Background information
Origin	Portland, Oregon and Washington, D.C., United States
Genres	Indie rock, post-punk
Years active	2010–2014
Labels	Merge Wichita
Associated acts	Helium, The Minders, Croissant Cocktail, Feeble Knees, Quasi, Dogz, Sleater-Kinney, @@@, The Consortium, Asia, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, The Spells
Website	Wild Flag on Myspace
Members	Carrie Brownstein Mary Timony Janet Weiss Rebecca Cole

Wild Flag was an American four-piece indie rock/post-punk supergroup based in Portland, Oregon and Washington, D.C.. The group consisted of Carrie Brownstein (vocals, guitar), Mary Timony (vocals, guitar), Rebecca Cole (keyboards, backing vocals) and Janet Weiss (drums, backing vocals), who are ex-members of the groups Sleater-Kinney, Helium and The Minders.

The members of Wild Flag have extensive musical histories prior to forming their current band. Carrie Brownstein played in Excuse 17 from 1993 to 1995 and then more famously played in Sleater-Kinney from 1994 until 2006 when the band went on hiatus. Janet Weiss had drummed simultaneously for both Quasi and Sleater-Kinney throughout the late nineties and early 2000s, afterwards contributing to Bright Eyes, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks and Conor Oberst albums. Mary Timony played guitar and shared vocals in in the early nineties, then went on to do the same for the band Helium from 1992 to 1997. Afterwards, she played with Brownstein in the short-lived band The Spells, which released one EP on K Records in 1999, and also released various solo albums before contributing her skills to Wild Flag. Rebecca Cole played drums in The Minders from 1996 to 2008 before becoming the keyboardist for Wild Flag.