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Legendary Riot Grrrl Band Bikini Kill Reunite, Announce Tour

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The "Rebel Girl" band will play all-ages shows in Los Angeles in New York City and a 16+ show in Brooklyn, N.Y. in the spring
Jennifer Velez
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Jan 15, 2019 - 12:24 pm

Bikini Kill, the legendary politically outspoken feminist '90s punk band that launched the Riot Grrrl movement, have reunited and announced a tour.

The "Rebel Girl" band, who inspired women to express themselves via music and DIY culture, will play all-ages shows in Los Angeles and New York City, as well as a 16+ show in Brooklyn, N.Y. that will begin in the spring.

"Bikini Kill are thrilled to announce they will be regrouping to play shows in NY and LA this spring," the band said on their website. "They will perform with their iconic line-up of Kathleen Hanna on vocals, Tobi Vail on drums, and Kathi Wilcox on bass -- along with guitarist Erica Dawn Lyle."

The group formed in 1990 and were based in Olympia, Wash. and Washington, D.C. Before their break-up in 1997, they recorded and released a demo, two EPs, two LPs and three singles. They toured the U.S., Japan, Europe and Australia.  

Frontwoman Hanna went on to form band Le Tigre and a solo career as Julie Ruin. The Punk Singer documentary is based on her activism and musical career and shows the singer's life and battle with Lyme disease.

Tickets for all three shows will go on sale on Friday, Jan. 18. Both NYC shows will be on sale at 9 A.M. PT / 12 P.M. ET, while the L.A. show will go on sale at 10 A.M. PT / 1 P.M. ET. For more info, visit the band's website.

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Bikini Kill in 2019

Bikini Kill in 2019

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Bikini Kill Announce Dates For 2020 World Tour, Including Olympia Benefit Show

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On March 13, 2020, the legendary Riot Grrrl founders/'90s punk group will return to where it all began—Olympia, Wash., for a special show benefiting local homeless shelter Interfaith Works
Ana Monroy Yglesias
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Nov 6, 2019 - 4:13 pm

Today, the iconic '90s punk group Bikini Kill announced a 14-date 2020 world tour, kicking off where the band was founded, in Olympia, Wash. on March 13. This first show, at Capitol Theater, is a special one, as it will benefit local female- and LGBTQ- focused homeless shelter, Interfaith Works.

The 2020 tour will also bring the iconic Riot Grrrls to U.S. cities, including Seattle, Portland, Ore, Philadelphia and Boston during the months March and May. Internationally, they'll touch down in Victoria, B.C., Montreal and Oslo. The Norway date, which will take place at Øya Festival on Aug. 12, is currently slated to be the final show of the jaunt.

The 2020 tour follows Bikini Kill's reunion at the beginning of the year, which led to four sold-out shows total in New York and Los Angeles from punk queens Kathleen Hanna, Tobi Vail, Kathi Wilcox and Erica Dawn Lyle. They also played their first-ever festival headline set, at 15th anniversary Riot Fest in Chicago in September.

The "Rebel Girl" group also recently reissued two of their classic albums on vinyl and CD, Pussy Whipped and Reject All American, from 1993 and 1996, respectively. Both have been out of print for seven years, and proceeds the release of their entire musical catalog on streaming services (Apple Music, TIDAL and Spotify) last fall.

Tickets for their 2020 tour go on sale this Fri., Nov. 8 at 9 a.m. PT/12 p.m. ET, with a fan presale beginning 24 hours earlier. A presale code will be sent out via the Bikini Kill newsletter, which you can sign up for on their homepage.

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Meet Me In Bilbao: The Strokes Announce "Global Comeback" Tour In 2019

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The band will headline the Bilbao festival, which will also feature Thom Yorke, Rosalía, Vince Staples and the Voidz, Julian Casablancas' side project
Jennifer Velez
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Dec 17, 2018 - 2:29 pm

New York City band The Strokes, who were at the forefront of the garage-rock revival in the early 2000s and have become noted veterans in the alt-rock genre, have announced their "global comeback" that will begin with a set at the Bilbao BBK Live Festival in 2019, their first performance together since 2017.

The band will headline the fest in Bilbao, Spain, which will also feature GRAMMY winners Thom Yorke and Weezer, as well as Latin GRAMMY winner Rosalía, rapper Vince Staples, and the Voidz, frontman Julian Casablancas' side project. While no other tour dates have been announced, a press release confirmed by a band representative said that the festival will "kick off their global comeback," according to Consequence Of Sound.

The comeback comes as great news to fans, as the Strokes haven't released any new material since their 2016 EP, Future Present Past. Members have been busy working on side projects. Casablancas has been touring with the Voidz, who released their latest album, Virtue, in 2018.

Albert Hammond Jr., one of the guitarists in the band, released a solo album, Francis Trouble, earlier this year and teamed up with Fender to release a Signature Series Stratocaster. Nick Valensi, responsible for the other riffs behand the band, was on tour this year with his other band CRX.

Bassist Nikolai Fraiture's band Summer Moon will tour with The Killers in the beginning of 2019. Drummer Fabrizio Moretti has done artwork outside of working with Little Joy and other side projects.

Interestingly enough, the "Meet Me In The Bathroom" band, whose releases have received mixed reviews by critics—other than their highly anticipated and highly acclaimed 2001 debut Is This It?—has chosen their first show to be Spain, where Casablanca's father is from. While a reunion has been announced, the band continues to have their fans guessing on the release of new material.

In 2016, after the release of Future Present Past, Valensi confirmed in an interview with DIY Magazine that the band was working on new music: "We are slowly but surely working on an album," he confirmed, adding: "I don't know when it's going to be released, we're kind of just in writing sessions. We're writing…"

Before the DIY interview, Valensi told NME that they might just pull off a Beyoncé-style drop: "If I start saying a lot now, people get too excited…Then there's all this hype you've got to compete with, and that's not fun. If anything, I'd rather just pull a Beyoncé at some point next year and just drop s**t."

For now fans in the U.S. can consider making the trek to Spain to see The Strokes' performance. More info here.

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Mitski Adds North American Tour Dates With Jay Som

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The indie singer/songwriter will play additional North American cities as early as March
Jennifer Velez
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Dec 10, 2018 - 4:09 pm

Singer/songwriter Mitski has added more dates to her current North American Be The Cowboy tour, and she's bringing indie-pop singer Jay Som with her. 

Mitski announced on Twitter that she will be touring cities she was not able to tour during her initial run. Cities added include Pittsburgh, Pa., Indianapolis, Ind., Iowa City, Iowa, and Richmond, Va. For a full list of cities added, see above.

"In spring 2019 the Be The Cowboy tour continues in U.S cities we didn't get to play the first time around! Thanks for waiting :')" Mitski tweeted.

She announced her last 2018 tour date on Instagram and included words of gratitude for fans. "We are so wildly lucky to get to experience something as divine as playing music everynight [sic], and its thanks you. Thank you dearly," she wrote.

The North American leg of the tour will pause for now and continue Mar. 29 in Pittsburgh, Pa. Mitski will be in Australia and New Zealand before she heads back to the States.

Som, who released Nothing's Changed EP with Justus Proffit, will join Mitski for most of her 2019 North American tour dates. Som will continue to tour with Profitt until Dec. 12.

For more information on tour dates, go here.

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Jenny Lewis To Return After Four Years With New Album & Tour in 2019

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The last time Lewis dropped an album was in 2014 with 'The Voyager.' Safe to say, a lot of people have been waiting for this one
Jennifer Velez
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Dec 3, 2018 - 4:24 pm

It's been over four long years since indie rock songstress Jenny Lewis dropped a solo album, but fans need not be sad any longer.

Lewis announced she'll release a new album March 2019 titled On The Line that will feature several collaborations including Ringo Starr, Beck and Ryan Adams. Both Beck and Adams were were also producers on her last album, The Voyager.

"There were several phases of The Voyager, and it ultimately led me to two artists who ended up producing some of the songs on the record, Ryan Adams and Beck, and they really helped me through the process," said Lewis in an interview with the Recording Academy in 2014. "I think I arrived at a place in my career where I needed some guidance and assistance, and I needed someone to keep the forward motion going with the music."

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Fans can also get excited about her upcoming national tour that will kick off the same month her album is released and will include stops in Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, and Portland, Oregon. For more information on her tour go here.

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