BITCH AND SKIP THE NEEDLE: THE NEVER GOING BACK TOUR

In celebration of Women’s History Month, queer icon Bitch (Bitch and Animal, Shortbus, recently on tour with Indigo Girls) is co-headlining a west coast tour with the Bay Area “black dyke rock” legends Skip The Needle. Bitch will be fresh off an off-Broadway run of her one-woman show “Bitchcraft,” based on songs from her recent K*ll Rock Stars album of the same name. Skip the Needle will be debuting their newest EP “Wake Up Wake Up Wake Up,” released on Soulectric Records - a division of Little Village. Come out for a night of politically defiant, righteously rocking and radically joyous feminist music.

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Bitch is a longstanding queer music icon who Yahoo Entertainment called “a feminist force that the world needs now more than ever” when she released “Bitchcraft,” her 9th studio album, on the legendary label K*ll Rock Stars in 2022. Come for an evening of electric violin-forward “poet pop,” storytelling and humor. Bitch is known for her bold and colorful live shows and this one will not disappoint.  

“Bitchcraft is a masterpiece,” said Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls. Both Indigo Girls and Ani Difranco took Bitch on tour as their opener. 

Bitch first achieved notoriety as one half of the queer folk duo Bitch and Animal. The band toured with Ani DiFranco, and released two albums on her label Righteous Babe Records. In the mid 2000s, Bitch went solo, and shared stages with the Indigo Girls, acted in John Cameron Mitchell’s film “Shortbus,” co-wrote a song with Margaret Cho, and  produced two albums of her elder and folk hero Ferron.  

Recently, Bitch played a role in  the new Audible podcast of Alison Bechdel’s “Dykes To Watch Out For.” The series was directed by Leigh Silverman, and Bitch co-wrote a song for it with Faith Soloway. She has been developing a one woman show, which had a run in Provincetown this Summer. 

Skip The Needle is an Oakland-based queer female quartet made up of Bay Area superstars; Vicki Randle, Shelley Doty, Kofy Brown and Katie Cash who fashion punk, funk and soul influenced rock they like to call black dyke rock. As the name Implies, they are musically diverse and bring a biting, socially conscious message, delivered with radical joy. Formed in 2014, Skip The Needle has released two full-length albums and their latest EP - Octavia Of Earth, Volume 2, inspired by black feminist icon Octavia E. Butler, released on Soulectric - A division of Little Village Foundation and digitally released by Side Hustle Records in July of 2024. They are honored to have received the Local Sirens Residency from WAM, writing 5 new songs for the project; slated to be released in spring of 2025.

Saturday, March 8th at 8:00pm

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