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Feb 11, 2025 By Mark Redfern Photography by Chase Middleton

New York-via-Chicago-based rock trio Horsegirl are releasing a new album, Phonetics On and On, this Friday via Matador. Now they have shared its fourth single, “Frontrunner,” and announced some summer U.S. tour dates. The band self-directed the video, shooting it in their hometown of Chicago. Watch it below, followed by the tour dates, which are in August.

Horsegirl previously shared the album’s first single, “2468,” via a music video. “2468” was one of our Songs of the Week. Then shared its second single, “Julie,” and announced some new EU and UK tour dates. While we weren’t doing Songs of the Week posts in mid-December, when “Julie” was released, we included it as a bonus cut in our first Songs of the Week of 2025. But the album’s third single, “Switch Over,” was an official Songs of the Week entry.

Phonetics On and On is the band’s sophomore album and the follow-up to 2022’s Versions of Modern Performance. Horsegirl is Penelope Lowenstein (guitar, vocals), Nora Cheng (guitar, vocals), and Gigi Reece (drums). In the fall of 2022 the band relocated to NYC for Lowenstein and Reece to attend NYU. In January 2024 the trio returned to Chicago to record the album at The Loft, with Welsh singer/songwriter Cate Le Bon producing.

Read our review of Versions of Modern Performance here.

Horsegirl Tour Dates:

Sat. Feb. 22 - Chicago, IL @ Metro (Record Release Show) ^ &
Fri. Mar. 21 - Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church %
Sat. Mar. 22 - Washington, DC @ Black Cat %
Sun. Mar. 23 - Raleigh, NC @ Kings %
Mon. Mar. 24 - Richmond, VA @ The Warehouse %
Wed. Mar. 26 - Hamden, CT @ Space Ballroom %
Thu. Mar. 27 - Somerville, MA @ Arts at The Armory %
Fri. Mar. 28 - Woodstock, NY @ Bearsville Theater %
Sat. Mar. 29 - Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw % &
Sat. June 7 - Barcelona, ES @ Primavera Sound
Tue. June 10 - Hamburg, DE @ Molotow Club
Wed. June 11 - Berlin, DE @ Badehaus Szimpla
Sat. June 14 - Porto, PT @ Primavera Sound Porto
Mon. June 16 - Cologne, DE @ Bumann & Sohn
Tue. June 17 - Antwerp, BE @ Trix
Wed. June 18 - Paris, FR @ Petit Bain
Fri. June 20 - London, UK @ Scala
Sat. June 21 - Manchester, UK @ Band on the Wall
Sun. June 22 - Glasgow, UK @ Mono
Tue. June 24 - Dublin, IE @ The Workman’s Club
Thu. June 26 - Bristol, UK @ Thekla
Mon. Aug 4 - Madison, WI @ High Noon Saloon #
Tue. Aug. 5 - Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St Entry #
Wed. Aug. 6 - Lawrence, KS @ The Bottleneck $ #
Fri. Aug. 8 - Dallas, TX @ Sons of Hermann Hall #
Sat. Aug. 9 - Austin, TX @ Parish #
Mon. Aug. 11 - Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar #
Tue. Aug. 12 - Santa Ana, CA @ Constellation Room #
Thu. Aug. 14 - Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom #
Sat. Aug. 16 - San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall #
Tue. Aug. 19 - Portland, OR @ Aladdin Theater #
Wed. Aug. 20 - Seattle, WA @ Neumos #
Thu. Aug. 21 - Vancouver, BC @ The Pearl #
Sat. Aug. 23 - Boise, ID @ Shrine Basement #
Sun. Aug. 24 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court #
Tue. Aug. 26 - Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater #

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& w/ Answering Machines
% w/ Free Range
# w/ godcaster
$ co-headline with Sweeping Promises

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