Big news for fans of comedy, rock music and women with a story to tell: Carrie Brownstein of Wild Flag, Sleater-Kinney and recent pop-culture phenomenon “Portlandia” will be publishing a memoir with Riverhead Books. Publicity director Jynne Martin tells us that it will be “a memoir of her life in music, from ardent fan to pioneering female guitarist to comedic performer and luminary of the independent rock world.”
No title or release date has been announced, but we’ll be sure to share more details when we have them. I saw Brownstein live in Nashville during a stop on the live Portlandia tour (see blurry iPhone photo for proof). The audience was pretty wrapped up in the performance, to the extent of storming the stage when one audience member was invited up during a performance of “Dancing in the Dark.”
While you wait for the memoir, check out this fascinating profile of Brownstein and Armistead in the New Yorker. Or watch one of my favorite “Portlandia” clips below.