{"id":7961,"date":"2012-11-11T14:49:40","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T21:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=7961"},"modified":"2012-11-11T18:55:26","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T01:55:26","slug":"corin-tucker-band-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/11\/corin-tucker-band-2\/","title":{"rendered":"CORIN TUCKER BAND"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Seth Lorinczi, Sara Lund, Corin Tucker, Mike Clark<\/p><\/div>\n

CORIN TUCKER BAND<\/h1>\n

The indie rocker chooses musical democracy for her new album \u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

After writing all the songs\u00a0on her 2010 solo debut, 1,000 Years<\/em>, Corin Tucker took a more collaborative approach on her latest. Kill My Blues<\/em> was very much a team effort, as Tucker and her backing musicians jammed out the tunes in their rehearsal space. \u201cWe needed to open more doors for the band to evolve,\u201d Tucker says. \u201cThat meant writing all the songs together and not having it be\u00a0just my solo project.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tucker, 39, spent a dozen years writing with her bandmates in the punk trio Sleater-Kinney before the group broke up in 2006, and three years before that doing the same thing in the riot-grrrl band Heavens to Betsy\u2014so working collectively is second nature. \u201cIt just makes sense,\u201d says the Oregon native. \u201cThe whole idea of the indie-rock band is collaborative and democratic. That\u2019s the musical community we all came out of.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the group effort, Kill My Blues <\/em>is still defined by Tucker\u2019s voice and her perspective. Backed by volatile riffs and hooky melodies, she sounds more assured than on her previous release. \u201cMaking a record after Sleater-Kinney was hard,\u201d she says. \u201cIt was a real emotional challenge.\u201d Having locked in a sense of confidence, Tucker drew inspiration from recent social and political developments with the women\u2019s movement, and from stories from her own life and those around her. \u201cI see this record as a statement of who I am today,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s got elements of the way I have written over the years, but I feel like it\u2019s drawing on the strengths I have today as a writer and the experiences I\u2019ve\u00a0had as a grownup.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of those experiences is motherhood. Tucker and filmmaker husband Lance Bangs have two children, and like any working parent, she\u2019s searching for balance between job and family. \u201cThat perspective comes through on certain songs,\u201d she explains. \u201c\u2018Constance\u2019 is definitely a song about being a parent and watching your children grow up and move on. The whole record is really about moving on, and how good that is, and how hard that is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not all the tunes are autobiographical. Tucker\u2019s coy about which ones are about her, but whatever their origin the singer and guitarist strives to make them her own. \u201cThere are a lot of people\u2019s stories on this record, but I put them into my own point of view because I think that makes them more gripping,\u201d she says. \u201cA good writer is a sponge, and a good writer is an observer who picks up not only the storyline of what is happening around you, but the \u00a0emotional weight of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Eric R. Danton<\/p>\n

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CORIN TUCKER BAND The indie rocker chooses musical democracy for her new album \u00a0 After writing all the songs\u00a0on her 2010 solo debut, 1,000 Years, Corin Tucker took a more collaborative approach on her latest. Kill My Blues was very much a team effort, as Tucker and her backing musicians jammed out the tunes in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[1209,1212,1208,5325,5326,5329,5328,5077,5327,1211],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7961"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7965,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7961\/revisions\/7965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}