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BLONDSHELL
IL NUOVO SINGOLO
"TWO TIMES"
DISPONIBILE ORA

IL NUOVO ALBUM
IF YOU ASKED FOR A PICTURE
IN USCITA IL 2 MAGGIO VIA PARTISAN RECORDS
DISTRIBUZIONE VIRGIN MUSIC GROUP

Blondshell (Sabrina Teitelbaum) presenta il nuovo singolo “Two Times”, una ballata guidata da chitarra acustica e pianoforte che mostra un momento particolarmente introspettivo, tenero ed essenziale dell’artista. Il brano è un’inversione di rotta rispetto all’epico “T&A” che ha accompagnato l’annuncio del nuovo secondo album, If You Asked For A Picture, prevista per il 2 maggio su Partisan Records. Tornando in studio con il produttore Yves Rothman, il progetto è caratterizzato da un'urgenza, un'ambizione e una potenza devastante che erano già state accennate nel debutto omonimo del 2023. L'album, grazie alla sua specificità, autoanalisi e umorismo disinvolto, ha trasformato Blondshell in una delle artiste emergenti più acclamate degli ultimi anni.

"Teitelbaum offers candid dispatches from the darker, often unsung corners of a young woman’s experiences” - New York Times
“She’s not just evoking another era, she’s reinventing it” - Rolling Stone
"Only one album in, and Sabrina Teitelbaum is already proving herself to be one of the most interesting up-and-coming songwriters of the 2020s." - Consequence
"Her heavy guitars hit just the right notes of nostalgia, while her confessional, biting lyrics keep it firmly in the now." - Nylon
"Blondshell is a triumphant debut from the next indie superstar" - Paste
"Blondshell pulled off the rock debut of 2023… the most impressive debut of 2023 to date" - LA Times

On the new single, Blondshell shares “I feel like I’m always seeing movies and shows where conflict is the only way love is expressed. It’s a lot of stories where someone has to work really hard to get somebody else to love them, and that’s what seems to make the relationship valuable. This song was basically like, what if it’s just solid? What if it’s just good and the relationship’s healthy? Does that mean it is less valuable? I think that’s a painful question because it’s essentially asking how capable you are of being in a decent relationship. But it’s also a love song in that way.”

Blondshell also recently announced If You Asked For A Tour, her upcoming 2025 headline tour in support of her forthcoming sophomore album, If You Asked For A Picture. The tour begins with a run through North America in May and June, which has seen multiple venue upgrades due to demand, and where her headline show at New York’s Brooklyn Steel is sold out. She then brings the tour to the UK and Europe in September, adding a second London headline show at Electric Brixton, and upgrading venues in Dublin and Glasgow. Blondshell will receive support from Westside Cowboy and Frances Of Delirium on the UK/EU leg. All dates are below and for more information, please visit.

Pre-order If You Asked For A Picture HERE

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

If You Asked For A Picture 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 humour 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 fanbase and 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.

LISTEN/WATCH PREVIOUS SINGLES ‘T&A’ & ‘WHAT’S FAIR’

U.S TOUR DATES
5/28/25 – Belly Up Tavern – San Diego, CA ^
5/30/25 – The Fonda Theatre – Los Angeles, CA ^
5/31/25 – August Hall – San Francisco, CA ^
6/2/25 – Wonder Ballroom – Portland, OR ^
6/3/25 – The Showbox – Seattle, WA ^
6/6/25 – Soundwell – Salt Lake City, UT ^
6/8/25 – Gothic Theatre – Denver, CO (Venue Upgrade) ^
6/11/25 – Fine Line – Minneapolis, MN *
6/13/25 – Metro – Chicago, IL *
6/14/25 – Skully's Music Diner – Columbus, OH *
6/16/25 – Phoenix Concert Theater – Toronto, ON * (Venue Upgrade)
6/17/25 – Theatre Fairmount – Montreal, QC *
6/19/25 – Royale – Boston, MA % (Venue Upgrade)
6/20/25 – Brooklyn Steel – New York, NY % (Venue Upgrade) SOLD OUT
6/21/25 – Union Transfer – Philadelphia, PA %
6/24/25 – 9:30 Club – Washington, DC %
6/26/25 – Orange Peel – Asheville, NC %
6/27/25 – Variety Playhouse – Atlanta, GA %
6/28/25 – Basement East – Nashville, TN %
^ 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
7/13/25 - Vienna, AT @ Wiener Stadthalle &
9/2/25 - Dublin, IE @ Button Factory + (Venue Upgrade)
9/4/25 - Manchester, UK @ New Century +
9/6/25 - Glasgow, UK @ QMU + (Venue Upgrade)
9/7/25 - Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club +
9/8/25 - Bristol, UK @ SWX +
9/10/25 - Brighton, UK @ Chalk +
9/11/25 - London, UK @ Electric Brixton + (2nd Night Added)
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 #
& with Queens of the Stone Age
+ support from Westside Cowboy
# support from Francis of Delirium

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