Sleater-Kinney share new song, detail St. Vincent-produced LP; fall tour tix on sale

June 14, 2019

Sleater-Kinney already revealed that they’d have a new St. Vincent-produced album called The Center Won’t Hold out this year and then they released the first single, “Hurry On Home.” Now, they shared second single “The Future Is Here” and revealed more album details. Compared to the danceable lead single, “The Future Is Here” is more of a slow-burner, and it’s another very promising taste of this LP. Listen below.

The album will be out August 16 via Mom + Pop (pre-order) and you can check out the tracklist below. That’s the official album artwork above.

Carrie Brownstein, Janet Weiss, and Corin Tucker, further discussed the new album in a press release:

Brownstein explains, “We’re always mixing the personal and the political but on this record, despite obviously thinking so much about politics, we were really thinking about the person — ourselves or versions of ourselves or iterations of depression or loneliness — in the middle of the chaos.” Weiss adds, “I think for Carrie and Corin it was liberating to explore a different sound palette. Annie (St. Vincent) has a lot of experience building her own music with keyboards and synthesizers so she could be our guide to help us make sense of this new landscape and still sound like us.” Tucker says, “The Center Won’t Hold drops you into the world of catastrophe that touches on the election. And almost like a mission statement, at the end of that song, it’s like the band is finding its way out of that space by becoming a rock band.”

As mentioned, the band is also going on a fall tour, including NYC shows on October 30 at Kings Theatre and Halloween at Hammerstein at Manhattan Center. They’ve expanded that tour since we last posted, adding second shows in Chicago, Oakland, Portland, and Seattle, and tickets for the NYC shows — and the rest of the dates — go on sale today (6/14) at 10 AM local time. All dates are listed below.

Tracklist
The Center Won’t Hold
Hurry On Home
Reach Out
Can I Go On
A Restless Life
Ruins
LOVE
Bad Dance
The Future is Here
The Dog/The Body
Broken

Sleater-Kinney – 2019 Tour Dates
OCT 9 WED – Fox Theater – Spokane, WA, United States
OCT 11 FRI – Knitting Factory Boise – Boise, ID, United States
OCT 12 SAT – The Depot – Salt Lake City, UT, United States
OCT 13 SUN – Ogden Theatre – Denver, CO, United States
OCT 15 TUE – Palace Theatre – Minneapolis, MN, United States
OCT 16 WED – The Riverside Theater – Milwaukee, WI, United States
OCT 18 FRI – Riviera Theatre – Chicago, IL, United States
OCT 19 SAT – Riviera Theatre – Chicago, IL, United States
OCT 20 SUN – Old Forester’s Paristown Hall – Louisville, KY, United States
OCT 21 MON – Ryman Auditorium – Nashville, TN, United States
OCT 23 WED – Tabernacle – Atlanta, GA, United States
OCT 25 FRI – The Anthem – Washington, DC, United States
OCT 26 SAT – Stage AE – Pittsburgh, PA, United States
OCT 27 SUN – The Fillmore – Philadelphia, PA, United States
OCT 29 TUE – House of Blues – Boston, MA, United States
OCT 30 WED – Kings Theatre – Brooklyn, NY, United States
OCT 31 THU – Hammerstein Ballroom – New York, NY, United States
NOV 1 FRI – Newport Music Hall – Columbus, OH, United States
NOV 3 SUN – Rebel Complex – Toronto, Canada
NOV 4 MON – Majestic Theatre – Detroit, MI, United States
NOV 5 TUE – The Pageant – St. Louis, MO, United States
NOV 7 THU – House of Blues – Houston, TX, United States
NOV 8 FRI – House of Blues – Dallas, TX, United States
NOV 9 SAT – ACL Live at The Moody Theater – Austin, TX, United States
NOV 11 MON – The Van Buren – Phoenix, AZ, United States
NOV 12 TUE – The Observatory North Park – San Diego, CA, United States
NOV 13 WED – The Observatory OC – Santa Ana, CA, United States
NOV 14 THU – Hollywood Palladium – Los Angeles, CA, United States
NOV 16 SAT – Fox Theater – Oakland, CA, United States
NOV 17 SUN – Fox Theater – Oakland, CA, United States
NOV 19 TUE – Crystal Ballroom – Portland, OR, United States
NOV 20 WED – Crystal Ballroom – Portland, OR, United States
NOV 21 THU – Commodore Ballroom – Vancouver, WA, United States
NOV 23 SAT – Paramount Theatre – Seattle, WA, United States
NOV 24 SUN – Paramount Theatre – Seattle, WA, United States