Win Tickets ($90): Sleater-Kinney Little Rope Tour @ Crystal Ballroom | Indie Rock
We are giving away a pair of tickets to Sleater-Kinney Little Rope Tour @ Crystal Ballroom on April 5. To win, comment below on this post why you’d like to attend. Winner will be drawn and emailed March 11.
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From our sponsors:
Sleater-Kinney Little Rope Tour
April 5, 2024
6:30PM Doors, 8PM Show | All Ages
$39.50-$49.50 ADV, $45-$55 Doors
More info: crystalballroompdx.com
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St, Portland, OR 97209
Sleater-Kinney has announced their eleventh studio album, Little Rope, which will be released January 19, 2024 via Loma Vista Recordings with a hauntingly intimate music video for lead single “Hell”, directed by Ashley Connor and starring Miranda July. Recorded at Flora Recording and Playback in Portland, Oregon with Grammy-winning producer John Congleton,
Little Rope is a powerfully honest and soul-baring album by one of modern rock’s most vital bands.
Little Rope is one of the finest, most delicately layered records in Sleater-Kinney’s nearly 30-year career. To call the album flawless feels like an insult to its intent – it careens headfirst into flaw and brokenness – a meditation on what living in a world of perpetual crisis has done to us, and what we do to the world in return. On the surface, the album’s 10 songs veer from spare to anthemic, catchy to deliberately hard-turning. But beneath that are perhaps the most complex and subtle arrangements of any Sleater-Kinney record, and a lyrical and emotional compass pointed firmly in the direction of something both liberating and terrifying: the sense that the only way to gain control is to let it go.
In the autumn of 2022, Carrie Brownstein received a call from Corin Tucker, who herself had just received a call from the American embassy in Italy. Years earlier, Brownstein listed Tucker as her emergency contact on a passport form, and while she had since changed her phone number, Tucker had not. The embassy staff were desperately trying to reach Brownstein. When they finally did, they told her what happened: While vacationing in Italy, Brownstein’s mother and stepfather had been in a car accident. Both were killed.
Although some of the album had already been written, aspects of each song-a guitar solo, the singing style, the sonic approach-were pulled into a changed emotional landscape. As Brownstein and Tucker moved through the early aftermath of the tragedy, elements of what was to become the emotional backbone of Little Rope began to form – how we navigate grief, who we navigate it with, and the ways it transforms us. The result is a collision of certainty and uncertainty evident from the first few spare seconds of the record’s opening track and first single, “Hell.” Over an agoraphobic expanse of tone and a trickle of chords, Little Rope’s emotional thesis statement begins to take form:
Hell don’t have no worries Hell don’t have no past
Hell is just a signpost when you take a certain path
It’s a restrained, controlled prologue, but control is fleeting. A few seconds later, well, all hell breaks loose.
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Would be a dream come true! ✨
Would love to see them!
They’re live show is life changingly amazing
I would love to see this band.
Teenage me with a riot grrl ‘zine could not dream of more
Theres is no greater bull than the one that effs up the china shop. Gimme some tickets 🐥
I’m no rock and roll fun.
Going to be a great show!!!!
Dream concert 😊
i have never seen sleater kinney live and have always wanted to!
Would be thrilled to see these ladies rock out! Such an iconic Portland band.
I want tickets to this so badly! I love Sleater Kinney!!!
Love Sleater-Kinney and would love to see them live!!
This would be so AMAZING
I love them
Haven’t seen them since 2005; they never put on a bad show.
It’s my birthday! Pick me pretty please with edible glitter on top!
what a treat!
would be an honor to see these guys!
Seeing them live would be aaaaammmaaaazzzing!
Would love to score tix!!!
They put on a great show! Would love to attend!
I remember hearing them for the first time, it was otherworldly! The woods has a special place in my heart 🖤
This has got to be a Hellish Great show!!!! Even if it took tragedy for these to curate this masterpiece, we are applauding CB for sharing it with the world …. I’d love to attend.
I would love to see some of my favorite bad-ass ladies rock the Crystal!
Would love to see them!
I can’t ever drive past the I-5 exit in Lacey WA without screaming out Sleater-Kinney! I would love to scream that once without being in my car.
Yes, please. 🍒
I would love to see them live! 🎸 🎤
They rock hard and so do I. We must rock together!
Yes please, thank you!
They are icons of the PNW, I would love the chance to see them live!!
The last time I saw Sleeter Kinney was at the crystal in 2005. I would be so delighted to see them again.
One of my all time favorite bands. Would be so dang rad to see them!
Would LOVE to win these tickets and take my best friend! 🤟
I need to win this, life has been insane and I need something to make me happy!
Oh, wow! Seeing this show live in Portland would certainly be a treat!
Yes, please. A thousand times over.
Hell is just a signpost when you take a certain path—and I would so love this show to be on my path! 😆
trying my luck twice!!!! please PDX pipeline treat me right!!!!
Oh yes! Im loving the new song Hell 🔥so good. Will be a great show.
Of course I’ll go, thank you so much!
So fun!
Oh please!
“When I went to school…. In Olympia!!!” Oh wait- wrong band 😅
How, after being a big fan for years, I recently turned my young daughter on to Sleater Kinney. Would love a chance to take her to see these new heroes of hers.
Would love to win! 🤞🏼
I would LOVE this!
This sounds like such an emotional album, it would be an honor to be in the room with them for this performance.
Count me in!! Thanks!!!
Yes please, new album is amazing! 💓
need to see them at the best portland venue for our heroes!
cannot wait for the new album
We have not seen them live and would be such a fun evening!
would love to see them live
Please & Thank you!
Seeing them play in Portland would be a dream.🖤
So excited for this show – plus just saw that Palehound is opening 🤩
Never had the pleasure of seeing SK live… PDX is definitely the place to do it!!!
Would love to see them live at the Crystal Ballroom! Such a memorial venue for them to play!
Super rad, missed them at Edgefield and would love this opportunity!
This would be great!
This would be amazing!
Would be so cool to see them live!
I drove to Spokane to see them for my first post-Covid concert after they started playing again. I’d love to see them again.
Would be so great!
My boyfriend is obsessed with Sleater-Kinney. I’d love to suprise him with tickets!
Best in Portland
Would love to go!
Oh yes …. I haven’t seen them since I was a wee one in the 90s-really fan gurrrrled out to their shit back then & even more now!! I am ready for this one!!!!
Yes please!
Corin Tucker is the best!
I would love to see them again! Saw them back in 2003 when tix were like $10. I saw Carrie Brownstein in the lobby of The Crystal Ballroom at that show and she totally signed my stub. It was so tight! She is sooo cool.
This is gonna be a rad show
I would love to go to this show!! I saw Sleater-Kinney over 20 years ago at the Crystal when I was in high school so would be rad to see them there again!
love them! I have never been to their show. Would be honored to go.
What could be more Portland than seeing these ladies?
Would love to go!
I have never seen them live before. Now would be nice.
I grew up playing music and was heavily influenced by Sleater Kinney, would be a lifelong dream come true to finally see them live 🙂
this would be a dream!
I would love to go to this!
🤞🏻🤘🏻🤞🏻
Would love to go.
I would love to take my daughter to this show!
I have never seen Sleater Kinney, even though I’ve lived here and gone to see shows since the warly ’90s. I know this would be an incredible experience seeing them here in Portland!
Pick me! Or someone else. But me would be cool, for me 😎
My wife loves them! It’d be great to have for a date night.
Sleater-Kinney is my favorite provocative, all-
female bands of all times. Would love to hear
songs from their new album, “Little Rope” at one of my favorite venues, The Crystal Ballroom. With their talent and status, hopefully, they’ll continue to be the articulate and incendiary voices the world needs!!
I’ve always wanted to see Sleater-Kinney live. I’d take my cousin and introduce her to life in the PNW music scene.