Sleigh Bells have shared their nostalgic new single ‘Wanna Start A Band?’ and have shared details of a US tour.
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The eccentric track features a flurry of noise, sharp guitars and lyrics such as: “Twenty years back in vision kicks / Right around like ninety-six / All I ever cared to dream / Do you wanna start a band with me?,” reflecting on Sleigh Bells’ early days as a duo.
According to a statement shared by the band, singer Alexis Krauss said: “In 2008 while eating at a restaurant in Brooklyn with my mom, our server, Derek, wasted very little time asking me, essentially, ‘Wanna Start A Band?’. Hard to believe that almost 17 years later we are still hyped and obsessively making records together.”
She continued: “Derek started messing with the riff for this song around 2014 — it needed a lot of work but a spark was there. We had a band by then but didn’t know how long it would last. For us, this song is a reminder of how we started but it’s also the first part of a new story we want to tell — more on that very soon!”
Along with ‘Wanna Start A Band?’, Sleigh Bells have also shared the details of their upcoming US tour. The string of dates will commence on May 7 with a gig at the Crescent Ballroom in Phoenix, Arizona. From there, the duo will make their way across the US with stops in cities such as San Fransisco, Seattle, Denver, Dallas, Austin, Tampa, Orlando, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Boston, New York, Chicago and more. The tour will wrap up on June 15 at the Majestic Theatre in Madison, Wisconsin.
General ticket sales will commence on Friday (January 31) at 10am local time. Check out a full list of tour dates below and visit here to purchase tickets.
Sleigh Bells’ 2025 US tour dates are:
MAY
7 – Phoenix, AZ, Crescent Ballroom
9 – Santa Ana, CA, The Observatory – Constellation Room
10 – Solana Beach, CA, Belly Up
13 – San Francisco, CA, August Hall – Music Hall
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 Hall – Downstairs
24 – Dallas, TX, Granada Theater
25 – Austin, TX, Mohawk
28 – Tampa, FL, The RITZ Ybor
29 – Orlando, FL, Plaza Live
30 – Fort Lauderdale, FL, Culture Room
JUNE
1 – Atlanta, GA, Terminal West
2 – Asheville, NC, The Orange Peel
3 – Philadelphia, PA, Union Transfer
5 – Washington, DC, 9:30 Club
6 – Boston, MA, Paradise Rock Club
7 – New York, NY, Webster Hall
10 – Toronto, ON, Axis Club Theatre
11 – Detroit, MI, El Club
12 – Chicago, IL, The Metro
14 – Minneapolis, MN, Fine Line
15 – Madison, WI, Majestic Theatre
The duo’s last full-length release was 2021’s ‘Texis‘. In a four-star review of the LP, NME shared: “Perhaps – the electronic side of Sleigh Bells has undoubtedly matured way past the all-consuming fuzzbombs of their earliest records, taking on the gloss and polish of top-end laptops where once their songs sounded like they’d been dragged screaming and buzzing from a circuit board at Chernobyl. But age has not withered their attack; their original dynamic is back with a vengeance.”
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