{"id":2447524,"date":"2019-08-14T07:13:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T13:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=871450"},"modified":"2019-08-14T07:13:10","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T13:13:10","slug":"janet-weiss-cancels-quasi-tour-due-to-injuries-from-scary-car-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/janet-weiss-cancels-quasi-tour-due-to-injuries-from-scary-car-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Janet Weiss Cancels Quasi Tour Due to Injuries From \u2018Scary\u2019 Car Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/GettyImages-474518704.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Former Sleater-Kinney drummer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/janet-weiss-drum-goddess-sleater-kinney-855098\/\">Janet Weiss<\/a> announced Tuesday night that she has canceled her upcoming West Coast tour with her bands Quasi and Slang following a car accident last weekend. The incident left her with a broken leg and collar bone, and she\u2019ll be in recovery for the next 12 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs thoroughly bummed as I am about canceling the shows, I\u2019m also incredibly thankful the accident wasn\u2019t worse and so happy to be alive!\u201d she wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jazzzhand\/status\/1161496725170872321\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">in her Twitter announcement<\/a>. \u201cI am lucky my injuries will heal and I\u2019ll be back at it in a couple months.\u201d She also thanked her nurses and surgeon, as well as her Slang bandmate Drew Grow (who was in the accident with her and suffered a fractured rib) and her sister Julie for flying up to Portland to help take care of her.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"2.1408450704225\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"und\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bRgHulyArq\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/bRgHulyArq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/janet-weiss\/\" id=\"auto-tag_janet-weiss\" data-tag=\"janet-weiss\">Janet Weiss<\/a> (@jazzzhand) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jazzzhand\/status\/1161496725170872321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">August 14, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Weiss announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/sleater-kinney-drummer-janet-weiss-leaves-band-853944\/\">her departure<\/a> from the band <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/sleater-kinney\/\">Sleater-Kinney<\/a> earlier this year. Sleater-Kinney is currently promoting their forthcoming album&nbsp;<em>The Center Won\u2019t Hold<\/em>, which Weiss contributed to and which is out this Friday. Weiss\u2019s Quasi\/Slant tour was announced shortly afterwards, with several dates overlapping with Sleater-Kinney\u2019s tour. Weiss also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/jim-james-janet-weiss-rainbow-connection-kermit-864523\/\">performed<\/a> at the Newport Folk Festival last month, with Jim James and Kermit the Frog.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/janet-weiss-cancels-tour-car-accident-871450\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Sleater-Kinney drummer Janet Weiss announced Tuesday night that she has canceled her upcoming West Coast tour with her bands Quasi and Slang following a car accident last weekend. The incident left her with a broken leg and collar bone, and she\u2019ll be in recovery for the next 12 weeks. \u201cAs thoroughly bummed as I [&hellip;]<\/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-2447524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 06:07:14","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&#039;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\/2447524","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=2447524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}