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Samia has unveiled her upcoming sophomore album, Honey, which will arrive on January 27th, 2023. She previewed the set with its first single, “Kill Her Freak Out,” and a new string of headlining tour dates in 2023.

Honey contains 11 tracks recorded in a North Carolina studio owned by Sylan Esso and was produced mainly by Caleb Wright, who worked on Samia’s 2020 debut album, The Baby. It also features additional production by Rostam and contributions from Christian Lee Hutson, Briston Maroney, Jake Luppen of Hippo Campus, and Raffaella.

“This record is about learning to see the love around you,” Samia shared in a statement. 

“I was trying to imagine looking back at the end of life and what I’d have to say about it right now. This is a little bit of it. Telling stories, making amends, trying to show people I love them.”

“I wrote ‘Kill Her Freak Out’ at my loneliest and most delusional,” she explained. “I’d been quieting my true feelings for fear that someone would leave. The chorus is a reaction to constantly downplaying the emotions that felt wrong; it was cathartic to say the opposite of what I’d been saying for so long to this person I was trying to impress.” Thankfully, she added, “I didn’t want to kill anyone, obviously, I just wanted to yell.”

Before the new album arrives, Samia is set to support Wallows for back-to-back Los Angeles shows in September, followed by a lengthy European tour opening for Maggie Rogers that runs through the end of 2022. She’ll resume live performances in 2023 for a North American headlining tour in that kicks off in February. 

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Samia Tour Dates

Show date and time: February 6, 2023 – March 11, 2023

Show location: Orange Peel, Asheville, NC – Brooklyn Bowl, Nashville, TN

Angel Olsen has announced a new run of 2023 tour dates that starts in January.

Olsen’s 2023 tour specifically hits cities she has not yet played in support of her latest album, including New Orleans, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, and more. The trek begins January 20th in Atlanta and wraps up February 11th in Durham, North Carolina, with Erin Rae providing support on all dates.

Before playing her US shows, Olsen will be on her European tour that begins in Lisbon, with Tomberlin.

Earlier this year, Olsen joined Sharon Van Etten and Julien Baker for “The Wild Hearts Tour;”. In July, she performed “Big Time” on Kimmel, and in August she performed “All the Good Times” on Fallon. More recently, she teamed up with Sturgill Simpson for a new version of “Big Time.”

Earlier this year Olsen appeared on Kyle Meredith With…, where she spoke about the time-traveling dreams that influenced her latest studio album, Big Time, as well as the Twin Peaks-meets-Twilight Zone companion short film that also tells the story of her parents’ passing and her own coming out. She also shared a bit about her recording process.

“Because the songs are minimal, I got to sing and worry about my voice a little bit more. The way things sound on tape and the way my voice is the focal point is really different. I enunciated differently, and got into holding the words out. In a lot of Americana and country music, people hold out the words and lean into it. I enjoyed singing in a different way. I wanted to do something that was really simple and minimal instrumentally, and I think that made me sing out more, or sing more delicately around certain words.”

Find all the info on Olsen’s upcoming shows here.

Angel Olsen 2022-2023 Tour Dates

Show date and time: January 20, 2023 – February 11, 2023

Show location: The Eastern, Atlanta, GA – Carolina Theatre, Durham, NC

Pentatonix are going on “A Christmas Spectacular Tour,” the quintet’s 2022 production that will also serve as the debut for their latest album, Holidays Around the World. The album will be released on October 28th, only weeks before the 22-date arena trek kicks off.

Founding member Scott Hoying commented on the tour saying, 

“The holidays have taken on a new meaning for all of us over the past couple of years. We cherish this time of year more than ever. However, we wanted to spread this message as far as possible. That’s why we decided to bridge the gap between cultures and genres in a way we never have before.”

“A Christmas Spectacular Tour” begins in Oakland on November 17th. The group spends the first few days in Utah and Colorado before going south to Fort Worth, Texas, Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Lincoln, Nebraska. They cover the Midwest from Sioux Falls, South Dakota to Green Bay, Wisconsin, then open in December in Illinois, Kentucky, and Indiana.

They’ll play Memphis on December 10th, Nashville on December 11th, and two shows in Florida between Jacksonville and Hollywood. After hitting up the East Coast via North Carolina and Virginia, Pentatonix stops in Hershey, Pennsylvania on December 20th and wraps up on December 22nd at Connecticut’s Mohegan Sun Arena.

The acapella quintet will be joined on their “Christmas Spectacular Tour” by sibling trio and winners of The Voice Season 21, Girl Named Tom. 

You can check out all of the available Pentatonix ticketing info here.

Pentatonix 2022 “A Christmas Spectacular Tour” 

Show date and time: November 17, 2022 – December 22, 2022

Show location: Oakland Arena, Oakland, CA  – Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville, CT

Bikini Kill have announced a run of rescheduled North American tour dates for Spring 2023.

The tour, which begins on March 30 in Nashville, makes up for performances that were canceled in June and July because one of the band members tested positive for COVID.

It will include stops in Atlanta, Boston, Montreal, Toronto, Philadelphia, and more before wrapping in Knoxville, Tennessee on April 23rd. 

The tour will feature the iconic line-up Kathleen Hanna (vocals), Kathi Wilcox (bass guitar), and Tobi Vail (drums) playing alongside guitarist Sara Landeau. 

Bikini Kill initially reunited in 2019 for a series of concerts in the US and UK. A more extensive outing was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the group returned to the road earlier this year.

Prior to Spring 2023, Bikini Kill have a couple of remaining dates in the Pacific Northwest. 

Early in 2020, in an interview with Pitchfork, Hanna stated that the band had no plans at the time to create new music.

“We don’t have plans to. I wouldn’t know how to write in that way anymore. Could I see doing some cover songs? Sure. Could I see that leading somewhere? Sure. I don’t know. I just saw an [old] interview with me the other day that was like, “It’ll be a cold day in hell before I ever play with Bikini Kill again.” Watch me eat those words. I’m just saying, nothing’s off the table. I might say right now that I cannot see Bikini Kill writing new material, but who the fuck knows?”

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Bikini Kill 2022/2023 North American Tour Dates

Show date and time: September 13, 2022 – April 23, 2023

Show location: Spanish Ballroom, Tacoma, WA – The Mill & Mine, Knoxville, TN

Machine Head have announced a Fall 2022 US tour in support of their recently released new album, ØF KINGDØM AND CRØWN.

The outing kicks off November 3rd in Fresno, California and runs through December 23rd in Sacramento, California.

Machine Head frontman Robb Flynn had this to say in a press statement:

“Were fucking STOKED to get out and demolish venues in some of our favorite small towns in America. We have had an awesome and productive pandemic break writing our new album ØF KINGDØM AND CRØWN, but now it’s time for Machine Head to go melt some faces!! The reaction to our ‘Electric Happy Hour (Live)’ shows in Scotland so far are nothing short of incredible, so for this first leg of this U.S. run we will continue and will see us performing solo for 2 ½ to 3 hours a night. We LOVED performing our online shows which we dubbed Electric Happy Hour for you Head Cases over the pandemic, the loose, beer-drenched and unscripted setlist, the deep-cuts, the random cover songs, it gave us the freedom to do whatever the fuck we wanted for as long as we wanted every night was liberating. It’s not what everyone else is doing, and frankly, there are not a lot of bands who could even pull it off, but Machine Head CAN pull it off, and we are excited as fuck to do it again. We are carving our own path here, playing by our own rules, and as an artist, it’s the best feeling in the world, so come down and rage!!”

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Machine Head’s 2022 US Tour Dates

Show date and time: November 3, 2022 – December 23, 2022

Show location: Fulton 55, Fresno, CA – Ace Of Spades, Sacramento, CA