Sat. March 31 

Wisely, former Boston-based singer-guitarist Mary Timony (ex-Helim) and the three other gals in  Wild Flag (singer-guitarist Carrie Brownstein, Sleater-Kinney, "Portlandia"), drummer Janet Weiss (Sleater-Kinney) and keyboardist Rebecca Cole (Minders), are eschewing the "indy supergroup" tag early adopters have hung around their necks. There were people doing this before the band had an album - maybe before they'd heard a note - just based on pedigree. And, while the pedigree's damn good, let's just say these women click. Cole told Portlandlife: "I think 'super group' must mean something different now than I thought it did. That’s just how I’ve come to think about it. To me, 'super group' means the Highwaymen – icons like Johnny Cash. To me, that’s a 'super group.' I think now it means if you were in another band and you start a new band with some other people who were in a band."
   Opines my peer Greg Kot, in the Chicao Tribune, on their debut disc: "That sense of teetering on the ledge of chaos, of mayhem fighting melody for control, makes “Wild Flag” a debut for the ages." Nicely put. There's frenzy and heaviness, a certain jagged quality that recalls some of the best '80s post punk groups. Ragged glory, a glorious racket. If you want to think about female comparisons, consider Au Paris and Raincoats. If you want to consider the gals previous bands, you might put 'em together in a spin cycle and not be shocked this comes out. It's not way out in left field, just left of center, psychedelic and sometimes sprawling, sometimes terse and biting.
   Wild Flag, which plays the Paradise Saturday March 31 (a triumphant return from last fall) came together in 2009 to do the socre for Lynn Hershman Lesson's doc "!Women Art Revolution," and decided to keep it going.
    Sings Wild Flag in "Glass Tambourine," "Listen to the music, to the music/Before it passes you by/If you don't lose it, you're gonna use it/The black lullabye."
   
Tickets: $20. With the Hospitality and the Labor Pool. Starts at 9.

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