{"id":39172,"date":"2023-04-07T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=39172"},"modified":"2023-04-07T15:19:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T19:19:50","slug":"le-tigre-announces-north-american-tour-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=39172","title":{"rendered":"Le Tigre announces North American tour support"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Le Tigre (Kathleen Hanna, JD Samson, and Johanna Fateman)\u00a0will kick off their\u00a0first tour in 18 years\u00a0next month, bringing their joyous, experimental post-riot grrrl antics and conceptual multimedia performance to stages across the globe. The band has announced a formidable lineup of support acts:\u00a0Shamir, Morgan and the Organ Donors, Claud, Big Joanie, MAN ON MAN, Chicks on Speed, Pom Pom Squad, Dream Wife, Problem Patterns, Who is She?, Erin Markey, cumgirl8, Morgan Bassichis. The beloved trio will kick off their North American leg at the John Waters-hosted\u00a0Mosswood Meltdown Festival\u00a0followed by appearances in Seattle, Los Angeles, Portland, NYC, Chicago, Boston and more.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/charmschoolmedia.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=7729f4c86d7f743ae4dbabf1d&amp;id=c1d2408134&amp;e=c7d74adf69\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Fans can purchase tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dim.mcusercontent.com\/cs\/7729f4c86d7f743ae4dbabf1d\/images\/20082c06-c327-36fb-8ff8-ae89dad8fd9c.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"Le Tigre tour poster\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Tour dates<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>5\/27: Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer\u00a0<strong>w\/ Shamir (SOLD OUT)<\/strong><br>6\/1: Barcelona, Spain @ Primavera Sound Barcelona 2023<br>6\/3: London, UK @ Troxy<strong>\u00a0w\/ Dream Wife<\/strong><br>6\/5: Manchester, UK @ Albert Hall\u00a0<strong>w\/ Problem Patterns<\/strong><br>6\/6: Glasgow, Scotland @ Barrowland Ballroom\u00a0<strong>w\/ Problem Patterns<\/strong><br>6\/8: Madrid, Spain @ Primavera Sound Madrid 2023<br>6\/9: Porto, Portugal @ Nos Primavera Sound Porto 2023<br>6\/11: Paris, France @ Le Trianon\u00a0<strong>w\/ Big Joanie (SOLD OUT)<\/strong><br>6\/14: Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Paradiso\u00a0<strong>w\/ Chicks on Speed<\/strong><br>6\/16: Berlin, Germany @ Huxleys Neue Welt\u00a0<strong>w\/ Chicks on Speed<\/strong><br>6\/17: Hamburg, Germany @ Markthalle\u00a0<strong>w\/ Chicks on Speed<\/strong><br>7\/1: Oakland, CA @ Mosswood Meltdown Festival<br>7\/3: Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom\u00a0<strong>w\/ Who is She? (SOLD OUT)<\/strong><br>7\/4: Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom<strong>\u00a0w\/ Who is She?<\/strong><br>7\/6: Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre\u00a0<strong>w\/ Who is She?<\/strong><br>7\/7: Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater\u00a0<strong>w\/ Morgan and the Organ Donors (SOLD OUT)<\/strong><br>7\/9: Los Angeles, CA @ The Greek Theatre\u00a0<strong>w\/ Claud<\/strong><br>7\/15: Chicago, IL @ The Salt Shed\u00a0<strong>w\/ MAN ON MAN (SOLD OUT)<\/strong><br>7\/17: Cleveland, OH @ Agora Theatre\u00a0<strong>w\/ MAN ON MAN<\/strong><br>7\/18: Millvale, PA @ Mr. Smalls Theatre\u00a0<strong>w\/ MAN ON MAN (SOLD OUT)<\/strong><br>7\/19: Baltimore, MD @ Baltimore Soundstage\u00a0<strong>w\/ Erin Markey (SOLD OUT)<\/strong><br>7\/21: Toronto, ON @ History<strong>\u00a0w\/ cumgirl8<\/strong><br>7\/22: Montreal, QC @ L\u2019Olympia\u00a0<strong>w\/ cumgirl8<\/strong><br>7\/24: Boston, MA @ Royale<strong>\u00a0w\/ cumgirl8 (SOLD OUT)<\/strong><br>7\/25: Boston, MA @ Royale\u00a0<strong>w\/ Pom Pom Squad<\/strong><br>7\/27: Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel\u00a0<strong>w\/ Morgan Bassichis (SOLD OUT)<\/strong><br>7\/28: Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel<strong>\u00a0w\/ Shamir (SOLD OUT)<\/strong><br>7\/29: Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel<strong>\u00a0(SOLD OUT)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More about Le Tigre? <\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Forming in New York City in 1999\u2014when Rudy Giuliani was mayor and regressive hipster irony ruled\u2014 the band abandoned traditional punk instrumentation, pairing drum-machine beats and looped 8-bit samples with the simplest, serrated guitar riffs and call-and-response vocals. Though rage had its place in Le Tigre, the band, with celebratory songs such as \u201cHot Topic\u201d\u2014a shout-out to queer and feminist artistic inspirations (from David Wojnarowicz and Lorraine O\u2019Grady to Catherine Opie and Vaginal Davis)\u2014was a departure for Kathleen; she was best known as the singer of Bikini Kill, whose fans found feminist catharsis in her scorching vocals. <em>Deceptacon<\/em>, the lead track of Le Tigre\u2019s debut, was perhaps an aesthetic bridge between that seductive register of rage and her new band\u2019s dancefloor ambitions. It was later conceived of as music \u201c<em>for the party after the protest.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The members of Le Tigre shared a vision for multimedia performance, touring with a slide projector in their early days with video later becoming a key component of their live show which fans can still look forward to on the upcoming tour. The band\u2019s final show\u2014until their reunion performance for the This Ain\u2019t No Picnic festival at the Rose Bowl in August 2022\u2014was on September 24, 2005, at the Operation Ceasefire concert at Washington Monument in Washington DC, where they joined a coalition of artists calling for an end to the U.S. war in Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently, Kathleen has been touring with Bikini Kill, running Tees 4 Togo (which sells artist-designed T-shirts to fund the non-profit organization Peace Sisters), and writing a book. JD has a full-time teaching position (as Assistant Arts Professor and Area Head of Performance at The Clive Davis Institute at NYU\/Tisch), performs with CRICKETS, and tours with the original live score for the film<em>&nbsp;32 Sounds<\/em>, directed by Sam Green. Johanna is an author and art critic who writes regularly for the \u201cGoings on About Town\u201d section of the<em>&nbsp;New Yorker<\/em>&nbsp;and for&nbsp;<em>4Columns<\/em>; she is a contributing editor of&nbsp;<em>Artforum<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Le Tigre (Kathleen Hanna, JD Samson, and Johanna Fateman)\u00a0will kick off their\u00a0first tour in 18 years\u00a0next month, bringing their joyous, experimental post-riot grrrl antics and <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=39172\" title=\"Le Tigre announces North American tour support\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,23,25,28,1907],"tags":[702,849,8387,1245],"class_list":["post-39172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guitar-rock","category-indie","category-live","category-music","category-news","tag-le-tigre","tag-north-american-tour","tag-support","tag-tour-dates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/05F3746C-44B6-4555-8E33-C5E6B2B0BF46.jpeg?fit=704%2C888","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-abO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21458,"url":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=21458","url_meta":{"origin":39172,"position":0},"title":"Weaves premiere &#8216;One More&#8217; video","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"May 3, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Weaves have released the video for their track One More, which was shot by guitarist Morgan Waters as the band were embarking on their recent US tour with Sunflower Bean. 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