The Never Going Back Tour
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In celebration of Women’s History Month, queer Icons Bitch have announced a tour with Bay Area “black dyke rock” legends Skip The Needle called “The Never Going Back Tour”
Bitch just came off her off-Broadway run of “Bitchcraft,” based on songs from her recent Kill Rock Stars album of the same name.
Oakland-based queer female quartet Skip the Needle (Vicki Randle, Shelley Doty, Kofy Brown and Katie Cash) will be performing tracks off their forthcoming EP Wake Up Wake Up Wake Up, released on Soulectric Records - a division of Little Village.
If you recall, Bitch and Katie Cash previously toured together in May 2022.
Tour Dates
Sweetness
by Girlpuppy
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Atlanta’s girlpuppy (aka Becca Harvey) announced the forthcoming album Sweetness, set for release on March 28, 2025 via Captured Tracks.
Talking about the lead single, “I Just Do!,” Harvey said, “I wrote this song after spending 6 days in Los Angeles with a guy I had an all consuming crush on. It’s just about that feeling of knowing you’re wasting your time by developing feelings for someone who is completely emotionally unavailable, but you do it anyway because it feels good. I wrote this entire song and then recorded a voice note of me singing it acapella in my bathtub (where I get lots of inspiration for songs). I brought it to Alex [Farrar] and he built the instruments around the melody I wrote and it turned out so much fun. This is definitely gonna be my favorite song to play on tour.”
Speaking of tour, expect to hear that song on the upcoming tour dates:
Deep Cuts
by Red Fang
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Although some people might Portland’s Red Fang got their names from a bloody vampire, taking a looking at the prehistoric dog skull of their album, I would think they stole their name from Jack London’s White Fang book (the companion piece to The Call of the Wild).
For Red Fang’s 20th Anniversary celebration, they’re releasing Deep Cuts, a 26-song collection of b-sides, covers, and previously unreleased tracks. The record will come out March 14, 2025.
Bassist Aaron Beam adds, “Perhaps unremarkable to anyone else, it's f**king amazing to me that we have made it TWENTY YEARS! Before we started jamming in John Sherman's basement, I'd already been in 40 (maybe more!) bands, none of which lasted more than a year or two. Yet somehow in 2005, for the first time since probably 1987 I found myself without any band to play in. It turned out this was also true of John, David, and Bryan! So it was only natural that we'd start playing together.
“All we ever wanted to do was make music that we knew our friends would be stoked to hear at a basement party. Our first show was in David's basement, and no matter how big the stages were that we ended up playing, we always tried to bring as much of that basement party feeling as we could.
In that regard, this double album feels very much at home. It's got a sampling of the weird variety of covers that reflect the different sh** that inspire us. The computer drum-laden home demo for ‘Wires’ gives a little peek into the process that we pretty rarely but sometimes used for writing (more often than not, all the writing happened in the jam space). There's of course a generous helping of rare B-sides and bonus tracks that might be hard to find even in today's digital world. And there's even a smattering of pretty atypical GarageBand demos that are some of my favorite things to listen to on this record. They could probably never make a regular Red Fang release, but really let you see what is going on in our heads when we're not banging them!
Please enjoy this record that we are happy to have made for you.”
Can’t wait to hear their cover lover version of “Ice Ice Baby”.
Paranoid
by Pup
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Toronto punk heroes PUP (Stefan Babcock, Nestor Chumak, Zack Mykula, and Steve Sladkowski) is currently on tour. The band recently released “Paranoid”, their first new song in two years.
Babcock says of the new single: “My favourite part of this song is the breakdown 1:45 in. It's the heaviest moment in the song, Zack and Steve are going so hard, I'm yelling about all this sad stuff that's going on with me, and Nestor is just playing the melody from ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’ on the bass. It cracks me up every time I hear it. So f**king funny. It's a very PUP moment.”
Tour dates:
* support from Illuminati Hotties
& support from Goo
James McMurtry at Fine Line
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Singer/songwriter James McMurtry announced that his upcoming album is called The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy. The album is slated for an April 2025 release on New West Records and will be co-produced by the legendary producer, Don Dixon, along with McMurtry. Expect to hear some Black Dog songs on his upcoming appearance at the Fine Line, in Minneapolis, on April 15. BettySoo to open.
McMurtry’s previous album also had a dog-theme, it’s called The Horses and the Hounds.
Tour dates:
At War With the Dogcatchers
by The Taxpayers
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Genre-bending punk band The Taxpayers recently released their new single, “At War With The Dogcatchers.” Check out the cartoon-ish video now.
The song is about dogcatchers, and based on a real event that happened to the band. One of their friends died and the city would put their dog in the pound. Often, the dogcatchers would put the dog down, unless someone rescued the animal within 24 hours. Fortunately, the family was able to bring the dog home and care for her until a longer term solution could be found…. And that’s pretty much how the band ended up adopting the dog.
“At War With The Dogcatchers” is taken from the band’s album Circle Breaker, available March 21 on Ernest Jenning Record Co.
The Taxpayers have announced a series of midwest shows in support of Circle Breaker this spring in Minneapolis, Chicago, and Detroit, along with summer shows on the east and west coast.
The Taxpayers Tour Dates:
DOGGOD by L.A. Witch
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American garage-rock trio L.A. Witch (Ellie English, Irita Pai, Sade Sanchez) announced their new album DOGGOD, available on April 4, 2025, via Suicide Squeeze Records.
Regarding the title track, “DOGGOD”, Sade Sanchez explains, “I feel like I’m some sort of servant or slave to love. There’s a willingness to die for love in the process of serving it or suffering for it or in search of it… just in the way a loyal, devoted servant dog would.”
LA Witch at First Avenue (25 May 2016)
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Tracklisting:
2. Kiss Me Deep
3. 777
4. I Hunt You Pray
5. Eyes Of Love
6. The Lines
7. Lost At The Sea
8. DOGGOD
9. SOS
Crying The Neck
by Patrick Wolf
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Patrick Wolf announced his new album Crying The Neck, set for April 25, 2025, via APPORT/Virgin Music. Pre-order is available now.
Wolf will be heading out on a UK/EU tour in support of the new album, starting May 8th, 2025, in Manchester.
UK & EU Tour:
MUTT
by Leon Thomas
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GRAMMY Award-winning artist Leon Thomas has released his highly anticipated new album, MUTT, available now via EZMNY Records/Motown Records. The album features collaborations with Ty Dolla $ign, Freddie Gibbs, Wale, and more.
Talking about the theme and inspiration of the album, Leon shares, “‘MUTT’ was an album I made after a long-term relationship. I was both advancing in my personal career and learning about myself in solitude. During my journey of being newly single, I began to document through my music examples of our need for control within the modern dating climate. In my previous relationship, I was gifted a dog, and after studying his behavior, I discovered similarities. He’s currently untrained and surviving on his natural instincts, while I, as his owner, am constantly in a position to demand obedience. ‘MUTT’ is a metaphor for our need and desire as human beings to exert some control over our partners. I explored themes from jazz, rock & roll, hip-hop, and R&B, giving myself no parameters for personal expression. This project delves into every part of me: the balance between control and chaos.”
Please Forgive Me, David Gray
by Annie-Dog
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Irish musician Annie-Dog recently shared a new single “Please Forgive Me, David Gray” out now. The song is taken from the EP 15, set for release on Feb 27, 2025, on Dance to the Radio.
Regarding David Gray, Annie-Dog said, “Like every Irish person my age, I was brought up on David Gray’s White Ladder album. My parents rinsed it constantly, and Please Forgive Me was always a favourite. I made ‘Please Forgive Me, David Gray’ on GarageBand, and, really, I just made it for me. I didn’t put too much thought into it. And I definitely didn’t think I’d ever share it. I suppose I wanted to insert myself into the song, because I love it. I wanted to be a part of the song’s world. I hadn’t ever properly covered a song before making “Please Forgive Me, David Gray”, and I haven’t since. It’s not usually my bag. I like writing my own songs. It’s what drives me creatively. But remaking somebody else’s tune turned out to be a lot of fun. I‘ve been playing ‘Please Forgive Me, David Gray’ at my live shows as of late, and I’ve been asked so many times to put it online. So here it is. Annie-Dog meets David Gray.”
Annie-Dog will be playing at this year’s SXSW.
She Runs Hot
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Country roots-rock band Ghost Hounds recently released a new song called “She Runs Hot”, available to download now. The new song is described as “dangerous, reckless and fun”.
If you’ve never heard of the band, they are a country rock band with blues influence, featuring singer Savnt (the singer who debut on NBC’s The Voice). He’s backed by guitarists Tyler Chiarelli and Thomas Tull, fiddler Kristin Weber, bassist Bennett Miller, drummer Sydney Driver, and keyboardist Joe Munroe. Since 2019, the band released four albums, with their latest First Last Time in 2023 via Gibson Records. That record spawn the hit song “Last Train to Nowhere”, where it racked up millions of views through TikTok and Instgram.
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