In about three weeks, Sabrina Teitelbaum will hit the road opening for Porridge Radio as part of her first proper tour as Blondshell, capping an artistic journey that began by absorbing her parents’ favorite music as a New York City teenager, discarding it in favor of grunge, new wave, and Britpop and eventually summoning the courage to start performing at local open-mic nights, including one above the M&M’s World store in Times Square. “I had terrible stage fright as a kid. My dad’s idea was for me to play for his friends when they’d come over, but that didn’t help,” Teitelbaum tells SPIN. “So I just Googled ‘open-mic nights.’ I was underage, so my sister would go with me. I’d be trying out stage names — Sabrina Teitelbaum isn’t a great stage name [Laughs]. It just doesn’t flow, you k...
Nine Inch Nails is back on tour later this week, and they have finally announced their opening acts for the upcoming U.S. tour. Boy Harsher, Yves Tumor, and 100 Gecs have been added to the list of musicians supporting NIN on this tour. Boy Harsher and 100 Gecs will offer support on the first leg of the show, with Yves Tumor taking over for September dates. Ministry and Nitzer Ebbwill will join the band for a special show in Cleveland, where NIN was formed back in 1988. According to a release, this stellar lineup of newer sensations and fellow industrial music pioneers was personally curated by Trent Reznor himself. Tickets for upcoming show dates are available here. The upcoming tour follows a 4-year break from touring, which has consisted of plenty of projects for the band. Since they wer...
Dynamic, genre-bending musician Yves Tumor revealed a striking video for “Secrecy Is Incredibly Important To The Both of Them,” from his 2021 EP The Asymptotical World. The video, directed by frequent visual collaborator and art director Jordan Hemingway, furthers Tumor’s artistic vision of pushing genre boundaries with vibrant songs with visuals to match. The video utilizes striking, vibrant movements and costumes to show an inner journey. Tumor is portrayed as the protagonist of the video, but this convention is also challenged–indicating an inner contradiction or turmoil. [embedded content][embedded content] Later this month the experimental superstar will take the stage in an epic 60 stop international tour, spanning across North American, the U.K. and Europe. Doss, October and The Eye...