Wild Flag strut their guitar-hero poses and play an enthusiastic brand of rock that sounds more Sleater Kinney-esque live than it does on record. Despite her presence, they’re not just Carrie Brownstein’s band, and it falls to co-vocalist Mary Timony to delivery the first truly funny line of the day, when she explains how glad they are “to be here in this Whitesnake wind-tunnel video.”
The band play energetic rock with real weight and fuzz, and with none of punk’s fear of guitar solos. Well-worked harmonies and solid tunes, such as the punk-pop ‘Romance,’ stop things becoming overly heavy, and overall they represent a beacon of energy in the sea of earnestness that risks flooding the smaller stages.
I followed this from a Facebook link that said “Wild Flag wasn’t awesome at Sasquatch”, which is confusing enough but, besides that, I’m pretty sure that Carrie Brownstein is the one who made the Whitesnake comment.