Janet Weiss, former drummer of Sleater-Kinney, is releasing new materials by her band Quasi.

Teaming up remotely with bandmate Sam Coomes, Weiss introduced the launch of the ‘Quarantine Demos’ on twitter yesterday (April 6).

Rotten Wrock https://t.co/SLbjZPf88s
QUARANTINE DEMOS – a Coronavirus lockdown video series in which Sam and I “doc” new Quasi songs from our respective basements. We will get by this loopy mess collectively! #theequasi

— Janet Weiss (@jazzzhand) April 6, 2020

She described it as a “Coronavirus lockdown video series in which Sam and I “doc” new Quasi songs from our respective basements. We will get by this loopy mess collectively!”

You possibly can take a hearken to the primary in the series, the lo-fi, off-kilter ‘RottenWrock’ beneath.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8dtWhT8ojc

Weiss was a founding member of Quasi in 1993, who have been a rebanded model of an earlier group referred to as Motorgoat. They final launched an album in the shape of 2013’s ‘Mole Metropolis’.

She is greatest often known as the drummer of legendary riot grrrl trio Sleater-Kinney, whom she joined in 1996.

Final July, nevertheless, Weiss left the group after 24 years again in July, only one month earlier than the group launched their newest album ‘The Middle Received’t Maintain’. Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker later unveiled Angie Boylan as Weiss’ alternative.

“The principles modified throughout the band, and [Brownstein and Tucker] instructed me the foundations modified,” Weiss defined a couple of months later. “I stated, ‘Am I simply the drummer now?’ They stated sure. And I stated, ‘Are you able to inform me if I’m nonetheless a artistic equal in the band?’ And so they stated no. So, I left.”

In August 2019, Weiss was concerned in a severe automobile accident, which left her with a damaged left collarbone and fractures to each her legs.

Because of the accident, Weiss was pressured to cancel a joint tour with Quasi and her different band, Slang.