Sleigh Bells look again on their roots with gnarly new single ‘Wanna Begin A Band?’ and announce 2025 tour
Sleigh Bells have shared their nostalgic new single ‘Wanna Begin A Band?’ and have shared particulars of a US tour.
The eccentric monitor encompasses a flurry of noise, sharp guitars and lyrics equivalent to: “Twenty years again in imaginative and prescient kicks / Proper round like ninety-six / All I ever cared to dream / Do you wanna begin a band with me?,” reflecting on Sleigh Bells’ early days as a duo.
Based on a press release shared by the band, singer Alexis Krauss stated: “In 2008 whereas consuming at a restaurant in Brooklyn with my mother, our server, Derek, wasted little or no time asking me, primarily, ‘Wanna Begin A Band?’. Exhausting to consider that nearly 17 years later we’re nonetheless hyped and obsessively making data collectively.”
She continued: “Derek began messing with the riff for this music round 2014 — it wanted plenty of work however a spark was there. We had a band by then however didn’t know the way lengthy it will final. For us, this music is a reminder of how we began however it’s additionally the primary a part of a brand new story we wish to inform — extra on that very quickly!”
Together with ‘Wanna Begin A Band?’, Sleigh Bells have additionally shared the main points of their upcoming US tour. The string of dates will begin on Might 7 with a gig on the Crescent Ballroom in Phoenix, Arizona. From there, the duo will make their manner throughout the US with stops in cities equivalent to San Fransisco, Seattle, Denver, Dallas, Austin, Tampa, Orlando, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Boston, New York, Chicago and extra. The tour will wrap up on June 15 on the Majestic Theatre in Madison, Wisconsin.
Normal ticket gross sales will begin on Friday (January 31) at 10am native time. Try a full listing of tour dates under and go to here to buy tickets.
Sleigh Bells’ 2025 US tour dates are:
MAY
7 – Phoenix, AZ, Crescent Ballroom
9 – Santa Ana, CA, The Observatory – Constellation Room
10 – Solana Seaside, CA, Stomach Up
13 – San Francisco, CA, August Corridor – Music Corridor
16 – Portland, OR, Hawthorne Theatre
17 – Vancouver, BC, Hollywood Theatre
19 – Seattle, WA, Neptune Theatre
21 – Denver, CO, Summit
23 – Houston, TX, White Oak Music Corridor – Downstairs
24 – Dallas, TX, Granada Theater
25 – Austin, TX, Mohawk
28 – Tampa, FL, The RITZ Ybor
29 – Orlando, FL, Plaza Reside
30 – Fort Lauderdale, FL, Tradition Room
JUNE
1 – Atlanta, GA, Terminal West
2 – Asheville, NC, The Orange Peel
3 – Philadelphia, PA, Union Switch
5 – Washington, DC, 9:30 Membership
6 – Boston, MA, Paradise Rock Membership
7 – New York, NY, Webster Corridor
10 – Toronto, ON, Axis Membership Theatre
11 – Detroit, MI, El Membership
12 – Chicago, IL, The Metro
14 – Minneapolis, MN, High-quality Line
15 – Madison, WI, Majestic Theatre
The duo’s final full-length launch was 2021’s ‘Texis‘. In a four-star evaluation of the LP, NME shared: “Maybe – the digital aspect of Sleigh Bells has undoubtedly matured well past the all-consuming fuzzbombs of their earliest data, taking up the gloss and polish of top-end laptops the place as soon as their songs gave the impression of they’d been dragged screaming and buzzing from a circuit board at Chernobyl. However age has not withered their assault; their authentic dynamic is again with a vengeance.”