Sleater-Kinney have shared the details of Little Rope, their upcoming album out January 19th via Loma Vista. They’re celebrating the news with its lead single “Hell,” out now, along with an extensive run of 2024 tour dates.
The follow-up to 2021’s Path of Wellness is billed as “one of the finest, most delicately layered records” in Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein’s prolific discography. But in its complex, ambitious instrumentation is an unimaginable tragedy: Last fall, Brownstein received a call from Italian embassy staff with the news that both her mother and stepfather had been killed in a car accident during a vacation.
Some of Little Rope had been written at that point, but as Brownstein and Tucker brought the material to the studio, all the music they put to tape became imbued with grief. With each vocal harmony and guitar riff, the album navigates loss — not just its initial pang, but how it transforms us and our subsequent relationships forever.
All those heightened emotions are felt in “Hell,” which builds from a simple arrangement into an explosion of noisy guitar and Tucker’s unmistakable pointed yowls: “Hell don’t have no worries/ Hell don’t have no past/ Hell is just a signpost when you take a certain path.” It arrives with an accompanying music video starring Miranda July, who makes the tune all the more moving.
After appearances at Pitchfork Festival London and Corona Capital in Mexico City this November, Sleater-Kinney’s North American tour dates begin on February 28th in San Diego, hitting major cities across the continent before wrapping up with a Portland, Oregon hometown show on April 5th.
Pre-sale for all 2024 dates will be available on Wednesday, October 4th (use code LITTLEROPE), ahead of a public on sale on Friday, October 6th at 10:00 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster. Once tickets are on sale, you can also find them at StubHub, where your order is 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program.
Stream “Hell” below, and then keep scrolling to see the details for Little Rope and all Sleater-Kinney’s upcoming tour dates.
Last October, to celebrate their 1997 album Dig Me Out, Sleater-Kinney helmed a track-for-track covers album called Dig Me In: A Dig Me Out Covers Album. Revisit our ranking of all 10 of the band’s studio albums.
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Little Rope Tracklist:
01. Hell
02. Needlessly Wild
03. Say It Like You Mean It
04. Hunt You Down
05. Small Finds
06. Don’t Feel Right
07. Six Mistakes
08. Crusader
09. Dress Yourself
10. Untidy Creature
Sleater-Kinney 2023-2024 Tour Dates:
11/10 – London, UK @ Pitchfork London Roundhouse
11/19 – Mexico City, MX @ Corona Capital
02/28 – San Diego, CA @ The Observatory North Park
02/29 – Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl
03/01 – Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theatre
03/02 – Albuquerque, NM @ El Rey Theater
03/04 – Tulsa, OK @ Cain’s Ballroom
03/05 – Dallas, TX @ Studio at the Factory
03/06 – Austin, TX @ ACL Live at the Moody Theater
03/08 – New Orleans, LA @ Joy Theater
03/09 – Atlanta, GA @ The Eastern
03/11 – Norfolk, VA @ The NorVa
03/12 – Washington, DC @ The Anthem
03/13 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel
03/14 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel
03/16 – New York, NY @ Racket
03/17 – Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
03/18 – Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre of Living Arts
03/20 – Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall
03/21 – Chicago, IL @ Riviera Theatre
03/22 – Madison, WI @ The Sylvee
03/23 – St. Paul, MN @ Palace Theatre
03/25 – Kansas City, MO @ The Truman
03/26 – Denver, CO @ Mission Ballroom
03/28 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern
03/29 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Belasco
03/30 – San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield
03/31 – San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield
04/02 – Seattle, WA @ The Showbox
04/03 – Seattle, WA @ The Showbox
04/04 – Vancouver, BC @ The Vogue
04/05 – Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom
