{"id":2446438,"date":"2019-07-17T10:23:22","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T16:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=860070"},"modified":"2019-07-17T10:23:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T16:23:22","slug":"hear-sleater-kinneys-dark-experimental-new-song-the-center-wont-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/hear-sleater-kinneys-dark-experimental-new-song-the-center-wont-hold\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Sleater-Kinney\u2019s Dark, Experimental New Song \u2018The Center Won\u2019t Hold\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sleater-Kinney<\/a> get experimental on their new single, the title-track from their forthcoming ninth studio album, The Center Won\u2019t Hold<\/em>. The song marks the band\u2019s first release since longtime drummer Janet Weiss<\/a> announced her departure<\/a> from the line-up. (Weiss performed on the LP, out August 16th.)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Center Won\u2019t Hold,\u201d like the record itself, is produced by St. Vincent<\/a>, who helps guide the band down a dark, post-modern path. For its first two-thirds, the song plods through banging pots and pans, electric guitar fuzz and Carrie Brownstein\u2019s jagged vocals. Soon after Weiss\u2019 echoing drums enter the mix, the song explodes into full-on noise-rock, with Corin Tucker\u2019s wail transforming the titular phrase into a battle cry.<\/p>\n

In a statement about the song, Tucker wrote, \u201c\u2018The Center Won\u2019t Hold\u2019 drops you into the world of catastrophe that touches on the election. And almost like a mission statement, at the end of that song, it\u2019s like the band is finding its way out of that space by becoming a rock band.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Center Won\u2019t Hold<\/em> also features the previously issued \u201cHurry On Home,\u201d<\/a> which they played on The Tonight Show<\/em><\/a>, and \u201cThe Future Is Here.\u201d<\/a> They will promote the album on a fall North American tour<\/a> that launches October 9th in Spokane, Washington.<\/p>\n

In a public statement about her decision to leave Sleater-Kinney, Weiss wrote that the band is \u201cheading in a new direction\u201d and that \u201cit is time for [her] to move on.\u201d In response to a fan question, Brownstein commented on Weiss\u2019 exit via Instagram<\/a>. \u201cWhat am I supposed to say? She left. We asked her to stay. We tried. It\u2019s hard and sad,\u201d she wrote. \u201cShe\u2019s left us with a job to do, a job we also expected and wanted her to be a part of. Her playing on this record is amazing and she\u2019s raved about this album to us and to Annie. But we have to keep looking to the future. Things change, even when those changes are hard and unexpected.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sleater-Kinney get experimental on their new single, the title-track from their forthcoming ninth studio album, The Center Won\u2019t Hold. The song marks the band\u2019s first release since longtime drummer Janet Weiss announced her departure from the line-up. (Weiss performed on the LP, out August 16th.) \u201cThe Center Won\u2019t Hold,\u201d like the record itself, is produced by […]<\/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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2446438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 17:00:12","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":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}