Corin Tucker: Last News

Sleater-Kinney have announced details of a UK and European tour to take place this summer, in support of their new album ‘Little Rope’ – see all the details below.The band will play a total of 15 dates throughout August, kicking off in Gothenburg, Sweden on the 11th, and culminating in four British shows. These include London’s All Points East Festival on the 25th, Glasgow’s Barrowlands on the 27th, Leeds’ Brudenell on the 28th and End of the Road Festival.Tickets for non-festival shows will be available via a pre-sale from tomorrow (February 14), and fans can sign up for the band’s newsletter here to get the code.

On the verge of releasing their 11th Sleater-Kinney LP, Little Rope, Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker have shared the record’s third single and closing track, “Untidy Creature.” The new song follows October’s “Hell” and November’s “Say It Like You Mean It.” The full project is due out January 19 via Loma Vista. “Untidy Creature” is the type of raw power ballad fans have come to expect from Brownstein and Tucker, an anthem for messy love at the end of the world.

Sleater-Kinney‘s Carrie Brownstein has opened up about how losing her mother influenced their new album ‘Little Rope’.The US rock duo – comprising Brownstein and Corin Tucker – shared details of their 11th album and a tour in support of it back in October, announced alongside lead single ‘Hell’.The track was released against the backdrop of a family tragedy, after Brownstein’s mother and stepfather were been killed in a car crash while on holiday in Italy last year.According to press notes, while the album was already in progress, some musical aspects of songs were approached with the artist’s fresh grief at the fore.Brownstein has now opened up about the personal impact of the sudden loss. “I don’t think there was ever a question that we would stop recording, she told The Guardian.

I Don’t Belong Here, which will focus on the rise of alternative rock in the 1990s.The series, announced yesterday (May 2), will be made by the production company Anonymous Content, although it’s unclear which network it will appear on. It marks Bangs’ return to television after several years, having worked on episodes of Portlandia and The Meltdown With Jonah And Kumail in the mid-2010s.The series’ title is taken from the chorus of Radiohead‘s 1993 hit ‘Creep’, which has gone on to be regarded as one of the most notable alt-rock songs of the decade.