Carrie Brownstein

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Carrie Rachel Brownstein (born September 27, 1974) is an American musician, model, writer, actress, director and comedian. He first became famous as a member of the band Excuse 17 before forming the punk-indie Sleater-Kinney trio. During a long hiatus from Sleater-Kinney, he formed the Wild Flag group. During this period, Brownstein wrote and appeared in a series of comedy sketches with Fred Armisen which later developed into an Emmy-award winning satirical comedy series and Peabody Award Portlandia . Sleater-Kinney has since reunited, and by 2015, Brownstein is touring with the band as well as supporting his new memoir.

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Brownstein was born in Seattle, Washington, and grew up in Redmond, Washington. Her mother is a housewife and a teacher, and her father is a corporate lawyer. They divorced when Carrie was 14 years old, and she was raised by her father. Brownstein has a younger sister. His family is Jewish.

He attended Lake Washington High School before moving to the Overlake School for his final year.

Brownstein started playing guitar at the age of 15 and received lessons from Jeremy Enigk. He then said: "He lives in the neighborhood next to me, so I will just walk my guitar to his house.He shows some open chords and I just picked them up from there.I've gone through many phases as kids with my interest that my parents lowered their feet with guitars, so [the instrument] ended up being the first [thing] that I had to save my own money - and maybe that's the reason I was actually stuck with it. "

After high school, Brownstein attended Western Washington University before moving to Evergreen State College. In 1997, Brownstein graduated from Evergreen with an emphasis on sociolinguistics, and lived in Olympia, Washington for three years before moving to Portland, Oregon.

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Music career

Reason 17

While attending The Evergreen State College, Brownstein met with fellow disciples Corin Tucker, Kathleen Hanna, Tobi Vail, and Becca Albee. With Albee and CJ Phillips, he formed the band Excuse 17, one of the pioneering movements of the grrrl riots in the Olympian music scene that played an important role in the feminism of the third wave. Excuse 17 often toured with band Tucker, Heavens to Betsy. Both bands contributed to the Free to Fight compilation. With Tucker, he formed the Sleater-Kinney band as a side project and then released a split single Free to Fight with Cypher in the Snow.

Sleater-Kinney

After both, Excuse 17, and Heavens to Betsy split up, Sleater-Kinney became the main focus of Brownstein and Tucker. They recorded their first self-titled album in early 1994 during a trip to Australia, where the couple celebrated Tucker's graduation from Evergreen (Brownstein still has three years of college left). It was released the following spring. They recorded and toured with different drummers, until Janet Weiss joined the band in 1996. After their eponymous debut, they released six more studio albums before unlimited hiatus in 2006. In a 2012 interview with DIY magazine i>, Brownstein says that Sleater-Kinney is still planning (ed) to play in the future. On October 20, 2014, Brownstein announced on Twitter that Sleater-Kinney will release a new album, No Cities to Love , on January 20, 2015, and will tour in early 2015. At the same time the announcement was made, they released the video for the first single from the album. Single, "Bury Our Friends", is also available as a free MP3 download.

Critics Greil Marcus and Robert Christgau regarded the band as one of the most important rock groups of the early 2000s; Tom Breihan calls them the biggest rock band in the last two decades in 2015.

Other jobs

Brownstein and former Helium guitarist Mary Timony, recording as The Spells, released The Age of Backwards E.P. in 1999.

In the summer of 2009, Brownstein and Weiss worked together in a song (produced by Tucker Martine) for the documentary soundtrack ! Women Art Revolution by Lynn Hershman Leeson.

In September 2010, Brownstein revealed his latest project was the Wild Flag band, with Janet Weiss, Mary Timony, and Rebecca Cole, former The Minders; according to Brownstein, about a year earlier "I started to need music again, so I called my friends and we joined as a band Chemistry can not be produced or forced, so Wild Flag is not a sure thing, it is 'maybe, a' 'But after a few practice sessions, spreading over the past few months, I think we all realize that we can outweigh the sum of our parts. "They released their self-titled album in September 2011.

In 2011, they toured for the second time, and played at CMJ Music Marathon.

Accolades

In 2006, Brownstein was the only woman to have a place on the readers list of "25 Most Bright Guitarists of All Time".

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Writing career

Brownstein began his career as a writer before Sleater-Kinney broke up. He interviewed Eddie Vedder, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Karen O, and Cheryl Hines for The Believer magazine. Brownstein also wrote several reviews of music-related video games for Slate .

From November 2007 to May 2010, Brownstein wrote a blog for NPR Music called "Monitor Mix"; he returned for the last blog post in October, thanking his blog readers and declaring the blog "officially deduced [ed]."

In March 2009, Brownstein was contracted to write a book to "describe the dynamics that changed dramatically between music fans and players, from iPod births and deaths from record stores to the rise of the 'you star' culture of American Idol. and later rock mystery dilution "; The book, entitled Sound where you are , will be published by Ecco/HarperCollins.

The Brownstein Memoir, Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl, was released on October 27, 2015. The book is published by Riverhead Books, the Penguin Books USA division.

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Acting career

Brownstein has acted (what he calls "hobbyist") in the short movie Fan Mail , experimental features Groups and Miranda July Stronger Every Day Brownstein and Fred Armisen publish some comedy drama videos as part of a comedy duo called "ThunderAnt". She also starred opposite James Mercer of The Shins in the 2010 independent film Some Days Are Better Than Others . The film has a world premiere at SXSW on March 13, 2010.

After their ThunderAnt video, Brownstein and Armisen developed Portlandia , a sketch comedy scene recorded on location in Portland, for Independent Movie Channels. Two stars in the series and writes for her with Allison Silverman from The Colbert Report and Jonathan Krisel, a writer for Saturday Night Live . The show, which features the appearance of several characters from ThunderAnt, aired in January 2011. The series has received positive feedback, and has been updated until the seventh season.

In September 2014, Brownstein plays the role of Syd in the original series of Amazon Studios Transparent .

In 2015, Brownstein portrays Genevieve Cantrell in the movie Todd Haynes Carol , based on Patricia Highsmith's novel The Price of Salt . However, most of the scene is cut because of the length of the film. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 17, 2015. It began a limited release on November 20, 2015.

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Personal life

Brownstein was defeated as bisexual for his family and the world by Spin when he was 21 years old. This article discusses the fact that he has been dating Corin Tucker's bandmate at the beginning of Sleater-Kinney (the song "One More Hour" tells of their separation). After the article came out, he said: "I have not seen the article, and I got a phone call My dad called me and said, 'The Spin the article is out Um, do you want to let me know what's going on? 'The ground is pulled out from under me... my dad does not know that Corin and I ever date, or even I go out with girls. "

In 2006, The New York Times described Brownstein as "gay openly". In a November 2010 interview for Willamette Week , she put down questions about her sexual identity, stating that she actually identifies as bisexual. He said, "This is strange, because no one really ever asks me.Anyone always thinks, like, you are this or that.It's like, 'OK, I'm bisexual, just ask.'"

Since working together in ThunderAnt, Brownstein and Fred Armisen have developed what Brownstein calls "one of the most intimate, functional, romantic, but nonsexual relationships [they once had]." According to Armisen, their relationship is "all the things I've ever wanted, you know, aside from the physical things, but the intimacy I have with her like no other."