{"id":973608,"date":"2019-11-20T07:12:48","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T14:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=915033"},"modified":"2019-11-20T07:12:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T14:12:48","slug":"janet-weiss-opens-up-about-sleater-kinney-exit-the-rules-changed-within-the-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/janet-weiss-opens-up-about-sleater-kinney-exit-the-rules-changed-within-the-band\/","title":{"rendered":"Janet Weiss Opens Up About Sleater-Kinney Exit: \u2018The Rules Changed Within the Band\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Janet Weiss<\/a> opened up about her exit<\/a> from Sleater-Kinney<\/a> and her difficult decision to leave the band for the first time in a new interview.<\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking to the Trap Set With Joe Wong<\/em> podcast<\/a>, the drummer revealed that her diminished role within the punk trio while working on their latest album The Center Won\u2019t Hold<\/em><\/a> led to her departure.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe rules changed within the band, and they told me the rules changed,\u201d Weiss said of her former band mates Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker. \u201cI said, \u2018Am I just the drummer now?\u2019 They said yes. And I said, \u2018Can you tell me if I am still a creative equal in the band?\u2019 And they said no. So, I left.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Weiss said that, prior to her exit, the Sleater-Kinney members entered into counseling \u2014 like in 1998, the drummer noted \u2014 in an effort to work through their problems as a band. Ultimately, Weiss decided the shift in her role signaled it was \u201ctime for me to move on,\u201d as Weiss tweeted in July 2019 after announcing her split from the group<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI thought about it a lot. I mean, I will never play with two people like that again. They are totally unique, incredible, intuitive players. It\u2019s a lot to walk away from. It\u2019s my sisters, my family. But I couldn\u2019t be in that band and have it not be equal, especially with what it represents to me. It represents equality\u2026 How can we be fighting for equality and not have it in our band; it just became a disconnect,\u201d Weiss told Wong\u2019s drummer podcast.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cI don\u2019t think [Brownstein and Tucker] saw it like that. They\u2019re not evil people, I just think the two of them are so connected and they really agree on almost everything, they just thought, \u2018We\u2019re gonna take this band somewhere and we want to be in charge of that, the two of us.\u2019 I think I was a threat to where they wanted the band to go, and who I am, and that felt bad to me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Weiss also expressed reluctance to perform songs from The Center Won\u2019t Hold<\/em> \u2014 an album that lacked the drummer\u2019s usual contributions \u2014 on a tour in support of the St. Vincent-produced LP; following Weiss\u2019 exit, Angie Boylan has stepped in as Sleater-Kinney\u2019s drummer on tour.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe new record was made sort of without me and it would have been challenging to get up there on stage and deliver those songs like they were mine, when they weren\u2019t mine at all. It just got real lonely for me,\u201d Weiss said. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAs band mates and partners and people I\u2019ve had a relationship with all this time, I wanted to be not a threat and not someone to hold at arm\u2019s length, but someone to embrace and to go together where we wanted to go. But they had very specific ideas of what they wanted, and I just didn\u2019t fit anymore. We couldn\u2019t get on the same page. It was really hard, it was not something I took lightly at all\u2026 But I love them and they seem happy; they\u2019re doing the thing the way they want to do it. It doesn\u2019t have to be the three of us; it could be this pure thing with the two of them,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Janet Weiss opened up about her exit from Sleater-Kinney and her difficult decision to leave the band for the first time in a new interview. Speaking to the Trap Set With Joe Wong podcast, the drummer revealed that her diminished role within the punk trio while working on their latest album The Center Won\u2019t Hold […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 20:25:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}