Posted by Liz and John Attaway, 5/27/25
ANNOUNCES 2025 WORLD HEADLINE TOUR
IF YOU ASKED FOR A PICTURE OUT MAY 2, 2025 VIA PARTISAN RECORDS
“‘T&A’ is a home run of an opening statement, and the sound of Blondshell becoming an indie star.” – Billboard
“vulnerable, often funny, always honest record delivered in melodic, pop-leaning indie rock.” – PAPER
“‘T&A’ feels like an elevated version of the Blondshell we know.” – Paste
“‘T&A’ is a dose of typical Blondshell self-destruction mixed with alluring guitars and humor to lighten the mood.” – Stereogum
”Indie rock darling” – The Needle Drop
“a crunchy alt-rock number with big drums and bigger guitars and biggest vocals from Teitelbaum.” – FLOOD on “T&A”
Blondshell (Sabrina Teitelbaum) today announces If You Asked For A Tour, her upcoming 2025 headline tour in support of her forthcoming sophomore album, If You Asked For A Picture. Kicking off on May 28th in San Diego, Blondshell will play 19 shows in North America making stops in Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, New York City, Washington, DC and more before embarking on UK/EU dates in September. Blondshell will receive support from Jahnah Camille, Meg Elsier and Daffo across each leg of the U.S leg. General on sale will take place on Friday, January 17th at 10am local times, all dates are below and for more ticketing and on-sale information, please visit https://www.blondshellmusic.com/tour.
Last week, Blondshell announced the May 2, 2025 release of her highly anticipated sophomore album, If You Asked For A Picture, via Partisan Records. Returning to the studio with producer Yves Rothman, the project brims with an urgency, ambition, and devastating potency hinted at on Blondshell’s 2023 self-titled debut, the specificity, self-examination, and nonchalant humor of which turned her into one of the most lauded new artists in recent memory.
Alongside the album announcement, Blondshell also shared the crushingly catchy accidental love story “T&A” with a music video directed by Hannah Bon.
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If You Asked For A Picture’s title borrows its title from a 1986 poem by the cherished American writer Mary Oliver, titled “Dogfish.” In it, Oliver grapples with the idea of telling one’s own story: how much to share, how much to keep for oneself — all questions Teitelbaum asked herself while writing the forthcoming LP. “There’s a part of the poem that says: ‘I don’t need to tell you everything I’ve been through. It’s just another story of somebody trying to survive,’” Teitelbaum says. “Something I love about songs is that you’re showing a snapshot of a person or a relationship, and showing a glimpse into a story can be just as important as trying to capture the entire thing. Sometimes it’s even truer to the entire picture than if you tried to write everything down.”
If You Asked For A Picture is alive with a more vital nuance both sonically and thematically, gesturing towards a deeper autobiographical story that taps into something painfully universal without being too overt. Teitelbaum explains, “The first record feels really black-and-white to me. This record has more questions.”
In the studio, Teitelbaum found herself confident and at home like never before, trusting her instincts as she developed an almost telekinetic shorthand with producer Yves Rothman. The result is a record of astounding sonic range – including sky-scraping ballads and colossal hooks that soar over waves of distortion, mixing layered textures and harmonic flourishes, or making unexpected hairpin turns between them. Primary among her production touchstones were unexpected curveballs like Queens of the Stone Age’s Rated R and Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Californication. Teitelbaum reveled in appropriating those hyper-masculine aesthetics for her uncompromising examinations of young womanhood, playing with performances of gender in rock. “It’s empowering for me to use sonic references that feel reserved for men,” she explains.
Blondshell’s self-titled 2023 debut unleashed a swiss-army-knife writing style that gets under your skin: songs that are as visceral and anthemic as pop music with all the specificity, self-examination, and nonchalant humor of the best indie rock — songs you want to let crash over you, even as their strength is too concrete to be washed away. The release garnered her critical acclaim and a devoted fan base, She has since toured relentlessly, playing 150+ shows including major festivals and a tour with Liz Phair, on top of her own sold-out headline dates. In Summer 2024, she made appearances at high profile festivals including Governors Ball, Glastonbury, and Lollapalooza. Rolling Stone remarked that her “shows reliably give a sense of catharsis to attendees, and to Teitelbaum herself.”
In support of the album she performed on The Tonight Show and CBS Saturday and the album garnered countless year-end accolades and landed on Obama’s Best Songs of 2023 list. In 2024, Blondshell released the standalone single “Docket” featuring Bully, which landed on NPR, Rolling Stone, and Esquire’s top songs of the year, and she was featured on A24’s Everyone’s Getting Involved: A Tribute To Talking Heads Stop Making Sense, covering the band’s “Thank You For Sending Me An Angel”.
In the time since Blondshell, the image of Teitelbaum’s life has changed considerably. As the accolades accrued she spent more time on the road than at home. This rootlessness naturally impacted Teitelbaum’s relationships with others and with herself. “When you travel a lot, you see different possibilities for who you can be,” Teitelbaum says. “So there were a lot more questions coming up. What do I want my life to look like? Maybe it’s just the nature of being two years older, but I’m more comfortable with nuance now, and I’m more comfortable with gray areas.” There’s an open-endedness to where If You Asked For A Picture lands: it’s a no-skips, triumphant sophomore record that captures the unresolved process of figuring out who you are, too wise to suggest that it has a definitive answer.
U.S TOUR DATES
5/28/25 – San Diego, CA @ Belly Up^
5/30/25 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda^
5/31/25 – San Francisco, CA @ Fillmore^
6/2/25 – Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom^
6/3/25 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox^
6/6/25 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Soundwell^
6/8/25 – Denver, CO @ Bluebird^
6/11/25 – Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line*
6/13/25 – Chicago IL, @ Metro*
6/14/25 – Columbus, OH @ Skully’s*
6/16/25 – Toronto, ON @ Axis*
6/17/25 – Montreal, QC @ Theatre Fairmount*
6/19/25 – Boston, MA @ Sinclair%
6/20/25 – New York, NY @ Webster Hall%
6/21/25 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer%
6/24/25 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club%
6/26/25 – Asheville, NC @ Orange Peel%
6/27/25 – Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West%
6/28/25 – Nashville, TN @ Basement East%
^ support from Jahnah Camille
* support from Meg Elsier
% support from Daffo
EU/UK TOUR DATES
7/10/25 – Madrid, ES @ MadCool Festival
7/12/25 – Trancin, SK @ Pohoda Festival
9/2/25 – Dublin, IE @ Whelans
9/4/25 – Manchester, UK @ New Century
9/6/25 – Glasgow, SC @ Oran Mor
9/7/25 – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club
9/8/25 – Bristol, UK @ SWX
9/10/25 – Brighton, UK @ Chalk
9/12/25 – London, UK @ Electric Brixton
9/14/25 – Lille, FR @ L’Aéronef
9/15/25 – Paris, FR @ Le Trabendo
9/17/25 – Brussels, BE @ Botanique
9/18/25 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso Tolhuistuin
9/20/25 – Hamburg, DE @ Reeperbahn Festival
9/21/25 – Copenhagen, DK @ VEGA
9/23/25 – Berlin, DE @ Hole44
9/25/25 – Cologne, DE @ Helios37
If You Asked For A Picture tracklisting
- Thumbtack
- T&A
- Arms
- What’s Fair
- Two Times
- Event Of A Fire
- 23’s A Baby
- Change
- Toy
- He Wants Me
- Man
- Model Rockets
