The former Sonic Youth musician is releasing her third solo album in March
By Max Pilley 31st January 2026
Kim Gordon. CREDIT: Moni Haworth
Kim Gordon has announced details of a headline UK and European tour to take place in April – see the dates below.
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The former Sonic Youth bassist and vocalist announced earlier this month that her third solo album ‘Play Me’ will be released on March 13 via Matador Records, and you can visit here to pre-order it.
AdvertisementNow, she has shared details of an eight-date trek around Europe for the following month, which will kick off on April 11 at the Rewire Festival in The Hague. The dates will include a huge show at London’s O2 Shepherds Bush Empire on April 14, before the dates finally wrap up in Warsaw on April 21.
Tickets for all dates of the tour are on sale now and you can find yours here.
Kim Gordon will play:
APRIL 11 – Rewire Festival, The Hague, Netherlands 12 – Variations Festival, Nantes, France 14 – O2 Shepherds Bush Empire, London, UK 15 – Ancient Belgique, Brussels, Belgium 17 – Le Trianon, Paris, France 19 – Huxley’s Neue Welt, Berlin, Germany 20 – A2, Wroclaw, Poland 21 – Progesja, Warsaw, Poland
Gordon has also shared the lead single from ‘Play Me’, in the form of ‘Not Today’, which you can check out above.
RecommendedAccording to a press release, the new album is both “distilled and immediate”, and sees the artist expanding her musical horizons to include more-melodic beats, alongside the motorik drive of krautrock.
“We wanted the songs to be short,” Gordon said, discussing the collaboration with producer Justin Raisen (Charli XCX, Sky Ferreira, Yves Tumor). “We wanted to do it really fast. It’s more focused, and maybe more confident. I always kind of work off of rhythms, and I knew I wanted it to be even more beat-oriented than the last one. Justin really gets my voice and my lyrics and he understands how I work—that came forth even more on this record.”
‘Play Me’ follows on from Gordon’s 2019 debut solo album ‘No Home Record’, as well as from her more daring 2024 sophomore album, ‘The Collective’.
AdvertisementIn a four-star review of Gordon’s ‘The Collective’, NME wrote: “Here the 70-year-old balances her less than commercial sensibilities with crunchily on-trend production and relatable lyrics about rotten capitalism and fragile masculinity – if these sound like themes she explored during Sonic Youth’s ‘90s heyday, it only goes to show how little has changed.”
