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09/14 Cactus Club Milwaukee, WI
Read More09/15 Hideout Block Party Chicago, IL 09/18 Johnny Brenda’s Philadelphia, PA 09/19 Strange Matter Richmond, VA 09/21 The EARL Atlanta, GA 09/22 The Bottletree Birmingham, AL 09/23 DeLuna Fest Pensacola, FL 09/25 Local 506 Chapel Hill, NC 09/26 Black Cat Washington, DC 09/27 Mercury Lounge New York, NY 09/28 TT the Bear’s Cambridge, MA 09/29 The Bell House Brooklyn, NY 10/02 Brillobox Pittsburgh, PA 10/03 Wexner Center Columbus, OH 10/04 Firebird St. Louis, MO 10/05 Record Bar Kansas City, MO 10/06 Hi Dive Denver, CO 10/07 Urban Lounge Salt Lake City, UT 10/09 The Echo Los Angeles, CA 10/10 Café du Nord San Francisco, CA 10/12 Crocodile Café Seattle, WA 10/13 Bunk Bar Portland, OR The new album, Kill My Blues, will be out on September 18th on Kill Rock Stars. Pitchfork has a stream of it for those who need to listen now.
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The Corin Tucker Band kicked off their "Kill My Blues" tour last night in Minneapolis at the 7th Street Entry. If you were lucky enough to have seen the show last night, I can guarantee that this was the most intimate show you'll ever see for Corin Tucker (I'm talking from experience of seeing Sleater-Kinney a few times.)
Support band was Prissy Clerks. You might remember that they were previously called Total Babe. When their guitarist quit to concentrate on the more successful Howler, Total Babe re-emerged as Prissy Clerks with excellent guitarist Howard from Red Pens. I know, I know, it's totally an incestuous local soap opera thing that no one outside of Minnesota would care. Anyway, I didn't really know a lot of their songs, but I really liked the one that they said was their newest song.
As for Corin Tucker Band, even though this was their first night to support their latest album, Kill My Blues, you can tell that the band were pros. They were dying to play the new songs, and sure enough, as you can see from the set list, the majority of the set were from Kill My Blues. The remainder of the set was from their previous album, 1,000 Years, including "Half A World Away," "Handed Love," "Riley," and the set rocking closer, "Doubt." Of the new songs played live I really liked "Kill My Blues" and "Neskowin."
Encore was interesting. Two cover songs: Blondie's "Atomic" (this song was made more rock and emphasized on the guitars) and Gnomes of Zürich. I didn't know the latter song, but I think the reason for the Zürich cover is that this was an old 90s Minneapolis band, and it was just Corin Tucker Band paying tribute to the city*.
The Corin Tucker Band is currently on tour to promote Kill My Blues. The record comes out September 18th on Kill Rock Stars.
* Most bands usually cover Prince or The Replacements.
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Prissy Clerks
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As for Corin Tucker Band, even though this was their first night to support their latest album, Kill My Blues, you can tell that the band were pros. They were dying to play the new songs, and sure enough, as you can see from the set list, the majority of the set were from Kill My Blues. The remainder of the set was from their previous album, 1,000 Years, including "Half A World Away," "Handed Love," "Riley," and the set rocking closer, "Doubt." Of the new songs played live I really liked "Kill My Blues" and "Neskowin."
Encore was interesting. Two cover songs: Blondie's "Atomic" (this song was made more rock and emphasized on the guitars) and Gnomes of Zürich. I didn't know the latter song, but I think the reason for the Zürich cover is that this was an old 90s Minneapolis band, and it was just Corin Tucker Band paying tribute to the city*.
The Corin Tucker Band is currently on tour to promote Kill My Blues. The record comes out September 18th on Kill Rock Stars.
* Most bands usually cover Prince or The Replacements.
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Corin Tucker Band at 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis (09/13/12) |
I would be interested in hearing what covers they do for their SF show. There must be ton of good bands in the area they can cover.
Posted by: W♥M | 09/15/2012 at 09:22 AM
Corin Tucker has a ferociously melodic howl, I'm looking forward to seeing her. Do you like her new album?
I wouldn't mind hearing a Replacements cover.
Posted by: Robin of SF | 09/14/2012 at 02:56 PM