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Le Tigre Roar Back for First Tour in 18 Years

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Le Tigre will return to the road for their first tour in 18 years.

The electro-punk trio will play a lone show in Philadelphia on May 27 before heading over to Europe and the U.K. The North American leg of the tour will officially begin July 1 with a set at the Mosswood Meltdown Festival (hosted by filmmaker John Waters) in Oakland, California. Le Tigre will criss-cross North America the rest of the month, wrapping up July 28 at Brooklyn Steel in Brooklyn.

Tickets for all new shows will go on sale this Friday, Jan. 27, at 12 p.m. ET. Full info is available on Le Tigre’s website .

Support for the tour includes Shamir, 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.

For the next 17 years, the members of Le Tigre largely focused on other projects, only reuniting in 2016 for a song, “I’m With Her,” in support of Hillary Clinton’s presidential run. In August 2022, they finally reunited on stage at the This Ain’t No Picnic festival . 

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Le Tigre Reunite & Announce First UK and European Tour in 18 Years

Announce first tour in 18 Years Extensive US and European dates incl. 3 UK shows and appearances at Primavera Sound (Barcelona, Madrid & Porto) Tickets On Sale: Friday, January 27

LE TIGRE (Kathleen Hanna, JD Samson, and Johanna Fateman)  will bring their joyous, experimental post-riot grrrl antics and conceptual multimedia performance to stages across the globe this summer for the  first time in 18 years , reuniting at a time when we need them the most. The beloved trio will kick off their European leg at Primavera Sound Barcelona before a UK run of headline shows, further dates at Primavera’s Madrid and Porto festivals and headline dates in other key cities across Europe.  Tickets go on sale Friday, January 27th – see  letigre.world  for details.

Le Tigre Tour Dates: May 27: Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer  June 1: Barcelona, Spain @ Primavera Sound Barcelona 2023 June 3: London, UK @ Troxy June 5: Manchester, UK @ Albert Hall June 6: Glasgow, Scotland @ Barrowland Ballroom June 8:  Madrid, Spain @ Primavera Sound Madrid 2023 June 9: Porto, Portugal @ Nos Primavera Sound Porto 2023 June 11: Paris, France @ Le Trianon  June 14: Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Paradiso June 16: Berlin, Germany @ Huxleys Neue Welt  June 17: Hamburg, Germany @ Markthalle July 1: Oakland, CA @ Mosswood Meltdown Festival  July 3: Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom  July 6: Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre July 7: Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater  July 9: Los Angeles, CA @ The Greek Theatre July 15: Chicago, IL @ The Salt Shed July 17: Cleveland, OH @ Agora Theatre July 18: Millvale, PA @ Mr. Smalls Theatre July 19: Baltimore, MD @ Baltimore Soundstage July 21: Toronto, ON @ History July 22: Montreal, QC @ L’Olympia July 24: Boston, MA @ Royale July 28: Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel 

Forming in New York City in 1999—when Rudy Giuliani was mayor and regressive hipster irony ruled— 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  “Hot Topic” —a shout-out to queer and feminist artistic inspirations (from David Wojnarowicz and Lorraine O’Grady to Catherine Opie and Vaginal Davis)—was a departure for Kathleen; she was best known as the singer of Bikini Kill, whose fans found feminist catharsis in her scorching vocals.  “ Deceptacon ,”  the lead track of Le Tigre’s debut, was perhaps an aesthetic bridge between that seductive register of rage and her new band’s dancefloor ambitions. It was later conceived of as music “for the party after the protest.” 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’s final show—until their reunion performance for the This Ain’t No Picnic festival at the Rose Bowl in August 2022—was 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. 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  32 Sounds , directed by Sam Green. Johanna is an author and art critic who writes regularly for the “Goings on About Town” section of the  New Yorker  and for  4Columns ; she is a contributing editor of  Artforum .

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Le Tigre to tour the UK and Europe for the first time in 18 years this summer

Kathleen Hanna's electronic post-punk band line up headline shows around their Primavera Sound festival appearances

Le Tigre, the electronic post-punk band founded by Bikini Kill vocalist Kathleen Hanna , have announced their first dates in the UK and Europe for 18 years.

The trio reunited last year to play their first show in 11 years at last August's This Ain’t No Picnic festival in Los Angeles. 

Having been booked to play Spain's Primavera Sound festival in June, the group - Hanna, Johanna Fateman, and JD Samson - have now added a clutch of club dates around their festival plans.

Le Tigre will play: Jun 01: Barcelona, Primavera Sound, SPA Jun 03: London Troxy, UK Jun 05: Manchester, Albert Hall, UK Jun 06: Glasgow, Barrowland Ballroom, UK Jun 08: Madrid, Primavera Sound, SPA Jun 09: Porto, NOS Primavera Sound, POR Jun 11: Paris Le Trianon, FRA  Jun 14: Amsterdam Paradiso, HOL Jun 16: Berlin Huxleys Neue Welt, GER  Jun 17: Hamburg Markthalle, GER

Tickets for the shows will go on sale on the Le Tigre website on Friday, January 27.

Speaking about the band's reunion to Spin last year, Fateman said, "We went in really different directions after we stopped playing shows in 2005. JD has become a professor. I’m an art critic. Kathleen has done various nonprofit work, and then she did the Julie Ruin and then Bikini Kill reunited. We had more than a decade to just be individuals again, and then come back together, bringing more to the project. "In some ways, it feels like no time has passed at all. We’re reconnecting as friends and bandmates and finding that dynamic again, and we’re also letting the lyrics and our original ideas resonate with the present." 

Hanna's other band, Bikini Kill, are set to tour Australia and New Zealand for the first time in 25 years in March, ahead of an extensive US tour in April.

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The Kathleen Hanna-led band will play shows in North America and Europe

The recently-reunited Le Tigre are hitting the road in 2023. The dance-punk band composed of Kathleen Hanna, JD Samson, and Johanna Fateman have today announced their first run of tour dates in 18 years.

Le Tigre will kick things off in Philadelphia on May 27th before trekking across Europe in June, including appearances at  Primavera Sound in both Portugal and Spain. Upon their return to North America, they’ll kick off the West Coast leg in Oakland on July 3rd, hitting cities including Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto, and Boston before the big finale at Brooklyn Steel on July 28th.

Tickets for Le Tigre’s 2023 tour go on sale this Friday, January 27th at 12:00 p.m. ET via Ticketmaster .

Le Tigre officially reunited last August at Pasadena’s inaugural This Ain’t No Picnic Festival. Before you catch them on tour, read why we think their 1999 self-titled is one of the 10 riot grrrl albums every music fan should own .

Le Tigre 2023 Tour Dates: 05/27 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer 06/01 – Barcelona, ES @ Primavera Sound Barcelona 06/03 – London, UK @ Troxy 06/05 – Manchester, UK @ Albert Hall 06/06 – Glasgow, UK @ Barrowland Ballroom 06/08 – Madrid, ES @ Primavera Sound Madrid 06/09 – Porto, PT @ Nos Primavera Sound Porto 06/11 – Paris, FR @ Le Trianon 06/14 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso 06/16 – Berlin, DE @ Huxleys Neue Welt 06/17 – Hamburg, DE @ Markthalle 07/01 – Oakland, CA @ Mosswood Meltdown Festival 07/03 – Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom 07/06 – Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre 07/07 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater 07/09 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Greek Theatre 07/15 – Chicago, IL @ The Salt Shed 07/17 – Cleveland, OH @ Agora Theatre 07/18 – Millvale, PA @ Mr. Smalls Theatre 07/19 – Baltimore, MD @ Baltimore Soundstage 07/21 – Toronto, ON @ History 07/22 – Montreal, QC @ L’Olympia 07/24 – Boston, MA @ Royale 07/28 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel

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Le Tigre announce huge support acts for first UK and European tour in 18 years

The band will also be playing at Primavera Sound

Le Tigre have announced a variety of support acts for their first UK and European tour in 18 years.

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The Kathleen Hanna -fronted band will be supported in London by Dream Wife , Glasgow and Manchester by Problem Patterns, Paris by Big Joanie and Chicks On Speed in Amsterdam, Berlin and Hamburg. Interspersed in those dates are shows at all three dates of Primavera Sound in Barcelona, Madrid and Porto.

Following their European dates, they will be playing a run of US shows with support from Who Is She?, Morgan And The Organ Donors, Claud, Man On Man, Erin Markey, cumgirl8, Pom Pom Squad, Shamir, Morgan Bassichis and HYD.

You can see the full list of UK and European Le Tigre shows below and buy your tickets here .

JUNE 2023 1 – Barcelona, Primavera Sound 3 – London, Troxy 5 – Manchester, Albert Hall 6 – Glasgow, Barrowland Ballroom 8 –  Madrid, Primavera Sound 9 – Porto, NOS Primavera Sound 11 – Paris, Le Trianon  14 – Amsterdam, Paradiso 16 – Berlin, Huxleys Neue Welt  17 – Hamburg, Markthalle

The dance punk group, also featuring Johanna Fateman and JD Samson,  reunited for the first time in 11 years  last summer at the This Ain’t No Picnic festival in Los Angeles.

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Le Tigre started their first gig since 2011 with 1999’s ‘The The Empty’. The 16-song set saw the group also perform ‘Hot Topic’, ‘Phanta’, ‘TKO’ and ‘Deceptacon’.

According to Samson, Le Tigre were asked to reunite for the 2020 edition of This Ain’t No Picnic, before it was cancelled due to  COVID . Speaking to  Spin , Samson said: “We felt that it was really important for us to reunite prior to the 2020 election. We felt the relevance of our music would really stir up something important within our community. And obviously that was cancelled because of COVID. We just continued to want to present the material again.”

“We went in really different directions after we stopped playing shows in 2005. JD has become a professor. I’m an art critic. Kathleen has done various nonprofit work, and then she did the Julie Ruin and then  Bikini Kill  reunited,” Fateman added. “We had more than a decade to just be individuals again, and then come back together, bringing more to the project.”

They will be joined at Primavera Sound 2023  by a huge line-up including headliners  Depeche Mode ,  Blur ,  Kendrick Lamar  and  Rosalía  alongside the likes of  Halsey ,  FKA twigs ,  Skrillex ,  St. Vincent ,  The Moldy Peaches  and  Calvin Harris .

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Le Tigre Announce First Tour in Nearly 20 Years

Le Tigre have announced their first North American tour dates since 2005. The shows take place in the spring and summer. Check out the full list of dates below.

Le Tigre last album was 2004’s This Island . They released the pro–Hillary Clinton single “ I’m With Her ” in 2016. Last year, they performed at This Ain’t No Picnic and confidentially settled a lawsuit from a songwriter who claimed their hit “Deceptacon” infringed upon his copyright.

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05-27 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer 06-01 Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Sound Barcelona 06-03 London, England - Troxy 06-05 Manchester, England - Albert Hall 06-06 Glasgow, Scotland - Barrowland Ballroom 06-08 Madrid, Spain - Primavera Sound Madrid 06-09 Porto, Portugal - Nos Primavera Sound Porto 06-11 Paris, France - Le Trianon 06-14 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso 06-16 Berlin, Germany - Huxleys Neue Welt 06-17 Hamburg, Germany - Markthalle 07-01 Oakland, CA - Mosswood Meltdown Festival 07-03 Vancouver, British Columbia - Commodore Ballroom 07-06 Seattle, WA - Paramount Theatre 07-07 Portland, OR - Roseland Theater 07-09 Los Angeles, CA - The Greek Theatre 07-15 Chicago, IL - The Salt Shed 07-17 Cleveland, OH - Agora Theatre 07-18 Millvale, PA - Mr. Smalls Theatre 07-19 Baltimore, MD - Baltimore Soundstage 07-21 Toronto, Ontario - History 07-22 Montreal, Québec - L’Olympia 07-24 Boston, MA - Royale 07-28 New York, NY - Brooklyn Steel

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Le Tigre Announced Their First International Tour In Nearly Two Decades Beginning In The Spring

Last year, indie rock icons Le Tigre shocked fans with their first group performance in over a decade at the This Ain’t No Picnic festival. While singer Kathleen Hanna has lent her vocals to Marvel’s show WandaVision , fans of the band are still craving more. Now, the Le Tigre is obliging their supporters with an international tour kicking off this spring.

For the first time in nearly two decades, all members (Kathleen Hanna, Johanna Fateman, and JD Samson) will embark on a 24-city tour. The tour will feature stops at music festivals Primavera Sound Barcelona, Primavera Sound Madrid, Nos Primavera Sound Porto, and Mosswood Meltdown Festival, as well as solo shows in several major cities.

The tour will begin in Philadelphia on Memorial Day weekend and end in Brooklyn in late July. View the full tour schedule below.

Tell your mom and her friends! We're going on tour! (photo by Leeta Harding 2004) pic.twitter.com/U7xx8MVcbF — Le Tigre (@letigreworld) January 24, 2023

05/27 — Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer 06/01 — Barcelona, Spain @ Primavera Sound Barcelona 2023 06/03 — London, UK @ Troxy 06/05 — Manchester, UK @ Albert Hall 06/06 — Glasgow, Scotland @ Barrowland Ballroom 06/08 — Madrid, Spain @ Primavera Sound Madrid 2023 06/09 — Porto, Portugal @ Nos Primavera Sound Porto 2023 06/11 — Paris, France @ Le Trianon 06/14 — Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Paradiso 06/16 — Berlin, Germany @ Huxleys Neue Welt 06/17 — Hamburg, Germany @ Markthalle 07/01 — Oakland, CA @ Mosswood Meltdown Festival 07/03 — Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom 07/06 — Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre 07/07 — Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater 07/09 — Los Angeles, CA @ The Greek Theatre 07/15 — Chicago, IL @ The Salt Shed 07/17 — Cleveland, OH @ Agora Theatre 07/18 — Millvale, PA @ Mr. Smalls Theatre 07/19 — Baltimore, MD @ Baltimore Soundstage 07/21 — Toronto, ON @ History 07/22 — Montreal, QC @ L’Olympia 07/24 — Boston, MA @ Royale 07/28 — Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel

Tickets go on sale Friday, January 27th. To grab your tickets for one of the tour stops listed above, click here .

Le Tigre Announce Huge Support Acts For First UK Tour In 18 Years

Le Tigre have announced huge support acts for their first tour in eighteen years. The band will be embarking on a twenty-eight date tour in May, with three dates in the United Kingdom. The tour was first announced in January (below) with twenty-four dates, but four more were added after many sold out.

In the UK, the band will be supported by a variety of great acts.

In London on the 3rd of June, they will be joined by Dream Wife, an indie/punk/pop-rock three-piece from Brighton. The trio posted on their official Instagram their excitement. Along with their kind words in the post below, they captioned it saying that they are “ So excited & honoured ” and posted a photo of them, saying the “ pic is us in Bella’s uni bedroom probably listening to Le Tigre around the time we started Dream Wife .” They cite Le Tigre, and more specifically, lead singer Kathleen Hanna, as a clear influence.

For both the Manchester and the Glasgow show, the band will be joined by Problem Patterns.

Problem Patterns are a DIY feminist queer-punk band, hailing from Belfast, Northern Ireland. They posted on Instagram, as seen below, saying “ This is not a drill. We’re opening for the legendary  @letigreworld  this June at BOTH their Manchester and Glasgow dates! Words can’t express our excitement and gratitude. We all already bought tickets and it’s a dream come true that we get to play on these shows instead. Tickets are on sale now! These are our biggest shows to date and it would mean the world to see some familiar faces! ”

Kathleen Hanna herself once said that she loves the band Problem Patterns “ because they make weird music for right now that sounds like no one else and I am addicted .”

Other acts supporting them across the rest of their tour include Shamir, Morgan and the Organ Donors, Claud, Big Joanie, MAN ON MAN, Chicks on Speed, Pom Pom Squad, Who is She?, Erin Markey, cumgirl8, Morgan Bassichis & HYD.

Following the break up of riot girl-band Bikini Kill in 1998, lead singer Kathleen Hanna formed Le Tigre with Johanna Fateman and Sadie Benning. Benning shortly left in 2000 and was replaced by JD Samson. Their website says they “ formed as an obstinately hopeful, even joyous, post-riot grrrl project in New York City in 1999—when Rudy Giuliani was mayor and regressive hipster irony (à la VICE Magazine) ruled. ”

They first signed to Mr. Lady Records, an independent San Francisco lesbian-feminist record label. The band have released three albums in their 25-year run; self-titled album Le Tigre in 1999, Feminist Sweepstakes in 2000, and This Island in 2004. The band last played at This Aint No Picnic festival last year, after having a 17-year long break from live shows.

Tickets for the shows can be found on the bands offical website  here .

UK tour dates:

03/06/2023 – Troxy – London

05/06 – Albert Hall – Manchester

06/06 – Barrowland Ballroom – Glasgow

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Kathleen Hanna, JD Samson, and Johanna Fateman have announced they will be embarking on their first tour as Le Tigre in 18 years. The trio will kick off their European leg on June 1 at Barcelona’s Primavera Sound before heading to North America the following month, bringing the tour to a close at Brooklyn Steel on July 28. Tickets will go on sale this Friday, January 27 at 12:00 pm ET. Find the list of dates below.

Last year, Le Tigre played their first show in over a decade as part of the inaugural This Ain’t No Picnic festival at Pasadena’s Rose Bowl.

Le Tigre 2023 Tour Dates:

May 27 – Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer Jun 1 – Barcelona, ES – Primavera Sound Barcelona Jun 3 – London, UK – Troxy Jun 5 – Manchester, UK – Albert Hall Jun 6 – Glasgow, UK – Barrowland Ballroom Jun 8 – Madrid, ES – Primavera Sound Madrid Jun 9 – Porto, PT – Nos Primavera Sound Porto Jun 11 – Paris, FR – Le Trianon Jun 14 – Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso Jun 16 – Berlin, DE – Huxleys Neue Welt Jun 17 – Hamburg, DE  – Markthalle Jul 1 – Oakland, CA – Mosswood Meltdown Festival Jul 3 – Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom Jul 6 – Seattle, WA – Paramount Theatre Jul 7 – Portland, OR – Roseland Theater Jul 9 – Los Angeles, CA – The Greek Theatre Jul 15 – Chicago, IL – The Salt Shed Jul 17 – Cleveland, OH – Agora Theatre Jul 18 – Millvale, PA – Mr. Smalls Theatre Jul 19 – Baltimore, MD – Baltimore Soundstage Jul 21 – Toronto, ON – History Jul 22 – Montreal, QC – L’Olympia Jul 24 – Boston, MA  R-oyale Jul 28 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel

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Kathleen Hannah’s electro post-punk project Le Tigre hasn't released a record since 2004 but that matters little to people who are her to see them at a sold-out London’s Troxy.

A diverse audience – young, queer, punk, older, female and gently male too – bridge this gap, and people are as happy to see the band again as if it was the first time.

Hannah – OG Riot Grrrl and Bikini Kill leader – is reunited with Johanna Fateman, and JD Samson, and she isn't hiding the thrill: "I’m fucking nervous, this is the third gig of the tour," she comments as the show kicks off. Hannah has carved out a candid space to talk about her emotions, feminism, gender, and politics in music. Once the nerves subside, the show unfolds in a familiar, intimate, still exciting and progressive atmosphere – it's a testament to safe space in music, and a fun party to be.

Each song is coupled with a confessional interlude; Hannah opens up about her struggles with PTSD and the value of getting help at age 54; why if *NSYNC have choreographs and costumes Le Tigre couldn’t have it too; and, about people who didn’t treat her well and took her out of her path in the past: “Maybe I let them, but it’s also their responsibility to not be assholes in the first place.” Lyrics are colourfully projected behind the band throughout the whole gig, and while it lends a karaoke quality to the night, it also makes it impossible to miss the relevance and strength of Hannah's songs. Le Tigre's themes are as piercing now as they were nearly two decades ago. They play "Hot Topic", and sing ‘Sleater-Kinney’ in the pantheon of names being honoured – and everyone applauds: it’s a subtle and sweet moment.

Inevitably, the whole night is a build up to "Deceptacon". It remains the best song the band ever wrote and arguably also one of the most powerful feminist statements in music. The on-screen lyrics make no difference at that point: anthemic; the song is the apotheosis of everything that has been sung before. Even time hasn't managed to de-politicize Hannah’s rhymes.

The song ends with her jumping up and down, while skipping rope, while we wave goodbye, hoping and singing 'see you later.'

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LE TIGRE (Kathleen Hanna, JD Samson, and Johanna Fateman) formed as an obstinately hopeful, even joyous, post-riot grrrl project in New York City in 1999—when Rudy Giuliani was mayor and regressive hipster irony (à la VICE Magazine) ruled. Abandoning traditional punk instrumentation, the band paired drum-machine beats and looped 8-bit samples with the simplest, serrated guitar riffs and call-and-response vocals to write the songs on their first, self-titled album. Released late that year, they conceived of it as music “for the party after the protest.”

Though rage had its place in Le Tigre, the band, with celebratory songs such as “Hot Topic”—a shout-out to queer and feminist artistic inspirations (from David Wojnarowicz and Lorraine O’Grady to Catherine Opie and Vaginal Davis)—was a departure for Kathleen; she was best known as the singer of Bikini Kill, whose fans found feminist catharsis in her scorching vocals. “Deceptacon,” the lead track of Le Tigre’s debut, was perhaps an aesthetic bridge between that seductive register of rage and her new band’s dancefloor ambitions. As the critic Sasha Geffen wrote, reflecting in 2019 on the endurance of the song as an underground club classic and radical rallying cry, “Le Tigre’s strategy of layering fierce punk vocals over electronic whimsy crystallized into what came to be known as electroclash, a brief but bright-burning aughts microgenre that cleared open space for groundbreaking artists like Alice Glass and Grimes.”

The members of Le Tigre, with their backgrounds in visual art and writing, shared a vision for multimedia performance, touring with a slide projector in their early days. Video soon became a key component of their live show (it still is), and they found themselves in a loose network of like-minded artist-musicians—such as Tracy + the Plastics, Peaches, and Chicks on Speed—who paired conceptually-driven performances with a DIY electronic sound.

Le Tigre’s follow-up EP From the Desk of Mr. Lady, released in January of 2001, was maybe more raggedly experimental. It included the stuttering collage “They Want Us to Make a Symphony out of the Sound of Women Swallowing Their Own Tongues” and “Bang! Bang!”—a response to recent racist police killings in New York—whose earnest urgency balanced the more sardonic commentary of other tracks. The deadpan “Get Off the Internet!” and its companion treatise on online discourse “Yr Critique” describe the moment’s activist malaise, while “Mediocrity Rules,” takes aim at a male archetype in the band’s indie orbit. (With its “Yabba dabba dabba dude” outro, the song found its way into a Fruity Pebbles commercial, to the band’s perverse glee.) In a shift, Johanna’s voice stepped to the front on the last three songs mentioned, and in the coming years, her rhythmic delivery and lyrics were featured even more.

JD emerged as a force on the full-length Feminist Sweepstakes (which came out the next October) with her heartthrob persona stealing the spotlight in the campy/sultry “Well Well Well.” She sings co-lead, in unison with Johanna, on “F.Y.R.,” a sarcastic and despairing litany of political disappointments in the Bush II era. And—in a way that resonated profoundly with Le Tigre’s audiences—the particulars of her personal experience are brought to the fore on the album. Memories of a queer childhood echo in the quiet bridge of “Keep on Living,” and in “On Guard,” a song about street harassment, Kathleen’s livid indictment of the “forever beauty pageant I’m always in” is complemented by JD’s shouting refrain of the bad-faith question perennially thrown at her: Are you a girl or a boy?

For Le Tigre’s 2004 This Island, their first (and only) major-label release, samplers and sequencers were swapped for Pro Tools, and the lo-res, minimalist punk, electronic aesthetics of earlier recordings were incorporated into a bigger sound. But, despite the differences from their previous work, the album continues to develop the band’s major themes: protest (“New Kicks”), political disgust (“Seconds”), underdog vindication (“My Art”), queer culture (“Viz”), friendship (“This Island”), and feminist exhilaration (“On the Verge” and “After Dark”). For Le Tigre, the album represented the culmination of their overarching experiment in some ways. It was a difficult, but natural place to stop. Their last year or so together is chronicled—through verité and performance footage—in the 2010 documentary Who Took the Bomp? Le Tigre on Tour, directed by Kerthy Fix.

The band’s final show—until their reunion performance for the This Ain’t No Picnic festival at the Rose Bowl in August, seventeen years later—was 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. 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 32 Sounds, directed by Sam Green. Johanna is an author and art critic who writes regularly for the “Goings on About Town” section of the New Yorker and for 4Columns; she is a contributing editor of Artforum.

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A highlight of the year was seeing  Le Tigre  at Brooklyn Steel in their first tour in 18 years. Their first record came out when I was in high school, so I was fully ready to indulge in my teen-girl feelings (which, when it comes to matters of Le Tigre, are remarkably similar to my adult-woman feelings). At first I wasn’t going to buy  any merch , but after seeing a few people in the audience rocking the tank, I knew I needed to get it. I loved it the most because it’s such a cheeky take on the viral Prada and Loewe tank tops that have been all the rage lately—another way to bridge my teen-girl with my adult self.

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Vice june 21, 2023.

And take a band like  Le Tigre – Kathleen Hanna’s brilliant 90s riot grrl band whose MO was always to “write political pop songs and be the dance party after the protest”. They feel just as, if not more, vital today as they did back then (their debut album in 1999 featured the line “Oh, fuck Giuliani! He’s such a fucking jerk!” – how’s that for prescient?).

“We were originally asked to headline a festival that would take place just months before the 2020 election,” JD Samson of the band tells me. “We hadn’t toured since the Bush era, and it felt especially timely for us to rekindle our anti-right wing chants for our fans and anyone else that wanted to join in.”

“Unfortunately, COVID shifted our timeline and the event ended up taking place in 2022. In the process of working on the show, we reconnected with the work and realised how relevant the music was – and how much fun we had working together – and have felt connected to those intentions since.” Their recent show at the Troxy in London was a joyful celebration – a reminder they’d reached whole new audiences while they were away and that the need for fun, defiant protest feels just as, if not more, pressing than it did when they formed the band.

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“The trio tore through classics like “Deceptacon” and “TKO” as though no time had passed, with Kathleen Hanna, JD Samson, and Johanna Fateman each dressed in vibrantly colorful outfits that gleamed under the light show. Hanna and Samson split banter duty, with Hanna giving especially impassioned speeches deriding oppression and urging the audience to take action against it wherever they can.”

Le Tigre review – fun meets fury in an unmissable feminist pop reunion

The guardian june 12, 2023.

On the face of it, rage and joy are not an easy aesthetic fit. Rage is engaged, rope-veined; joy is free and light – frivolous, even. And yet the collected works of musical activist Kathleen Hanna – across three bands: 1990s punk outfit Bikini Kill, her electronic bedroom pop project the Julie Ruin, and Le Tigre , a multimedia collaboration alongside Johanna Fateman (mostly guitar) and JD Samson (mostly synths) – dance along the tightrope between fury and fun.

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Metro june 5, 2023.

“The band are full of energy that doesn’t let up, whether playing and dancing to electro bops or guitar-heavy rock offerings. Hanna gives her trademark shrill screech throughout – a subversive, self-consciously feminine expression of punk”

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“With Bikini Kill, Kathleen Hanna had led a band that challenged and changed the gender dynamics of punk rock. Then came Le Tigre. Hanna says that their MO was to “write political pop songs and be the dance party after the protest.” And their debut in 1999 delivered: it’s a record that’s clever and political but not too clever and political to get in the way of having fun: these are shouty, exhilarating songs, charged with a DIY spirit using drum machines, samplers, turntables and also a sense of discovery, celebration and solidarity. “Deceptacon” remains an indie dance-floor filler and “My My Metrocard” has the lines ““Oh, fuck Giuliani! He’s such a fucking jerk!”. What’s not to love?”

Kathleen Hanna’s Feminist Party Band Le Tigre reunite: ‘It’s depressing our lyrics are still relevant 20 years later’

The guardian april 14, 2023.

Most bands wring their hands over whether to reunite or not, but for Le Tigre it was easy. The impetus was a festival in Pasadena, Los Angeles, in 2022. “It was three miles from my house,” says frontwoman  Kathleen Hanna , laughing. “I was like: ‘I want to do this because I can cruise down the hill and go to the festival and all my friends can come.’” Then they concluded that the rehearsals for the festival – done over video call, and in LA and New York where bandmates Johanna Fateman and JD Samson live – shouldn’t be wasted. They announced a full tour, their first since 2005, which hits the UK in June.

Le Tigre Announce First North American Tour In 18 Years

Stereogum january 24, 2023.

“Last year, Le Tigre  performed together for the first time in over a decade at the This Ain’t No Picnic festival in Los Angeles. Today, the dance-punk trio — which is made up of Kathleen Hanna, JD Samson, and Johanna Fateman — has announced their first full-scale tour in 18 years, which will kick off in May and continue on through the summer. It includes stops at multiple Primavera-associated events and at Mosswood Meltdown Festival, which is hosted by John Waters.”

Le Tigre Announce First Tour in Nearly 20 Years

Pitchfork january 24, 2023.

“ Le Tigre have announced their first North American tour dates since 2005. The shows take place in the spring and summer. Check out the full list of dates below.”

Le Tigre Roar Back for First Tour in 18 Years

Rolling stone january 24, 2023.

“Electro-punk outfit will kick off a global trek in May”

Mosswood Meltdown 2023: Le Tigre, Gravy Train!!!!, The Rondelles, more

Brooklyn vegan december 12, 2022.

“The Mosswood Meltdown returns to Oakland’s Mosswood Park on July 1 & 2 . They’ve announced the initial lineup, which is headlined by  Le Tigre , and making it even more electroclash are their old friends  Gravy Train!!!  (featuring Seth “Hunx” Bogart) who are reuniting for their only 2022/2023 show. The initial lineup also includes rare performances by  Tina & The Total Babes, The Rondelles , and  Quintron & Miss Pussycat , with more to be announced soon”

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Grammy.com october 24, 2022.

While songs like “Fake French” and “Well Well Well” glide between rap and post-punk influences, Hanna’s lyrics on “FYR.” feel ever more prescient in a post- Roe v. Wade America. In one of the cheekier references to the film Psycho, Hannah sings: “One step forward, five steps back/ One cool record in the year of rock-rap/ Yeah we got all the power/ getting stabbed in the shower/ And we got equal rights on ladies’ night”

Kathleen Hanna on the return of Le Tigre, ‘gross’ fans who won’t mask up and the summer of Beyoncé

The new york times august 15, 2022.

Never one known for her eagerness to submit to interviews, Kathleen Hanna was happy, she admitted on a recent afternoon, to be talking to anybody at all.

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