Lambchop

After a run of memorable shows, including appearances at London's Barbican and Primavera Sound, Lambchop return to the road for a new series of intimate performances. Kurt will once again be joined by Minneapolis-based musician and producer Andrew Broder. During the past years, they've developed a live approach that feels loose, curious, and alive at the same time - songs can stretch, shift, and quietly transform from night to night. The shows will take place in intimate venues across the U.S., offering a rare chance to experience Lambchop up close. Kurt's unmistakable voice and songwriting remain at the centre, with Andrew's inventive textures expanding the music into new territory. Lambchop has never sounded quite like this before. In this stripped-back setting, they open the songs up and follow wherever they lead, letting space, electronics, and improvisation reshape familiar and also new material in unexpected ways. This run of performances marks a new chapter in motion, subtle, exploratory, and unfolding in real time on stage. For longtime listeners and curious newcomers alike, this tour finds Lambchop still searching, still evolving, and still surprising. Lambchop's seventeenth album Punching the Clown, finds Kurt Wagner returning to first principles. Sparked by a late-night radio encounter with an unidentified gospel recording, Wagner fell deep into the world of "lined out singing” - a centuries-old Scots-Appalachian call-and-response tradition in which a lone clerk leads a choir through hymns, word by unadorned word. That spirit of raw, communal voice shapes every moment of Punching the Clown: Wagner spent years studying great songwriters and relearning his craft from the ground up, whittling dozens of songs down to twelve. Recorded in three days at April Base with guitarist Andrew Broder, Justin Vernon on banjo, and a six-part choir assembled by Blake Morgan - and engineered by Lambchop veteran Mark Nevers - the album is graceful, wry, and quietly devastating. https://www.lambchop.net/ Alex Sauser-Monnig, also known as Daughter of Swords, is an American musician. Sauser-Monnig has released two albums as Daughter of Swords: Dawnbreaker (2019) and Alex (2025). They are also a member of Mountain Man and The A's. https://www.daughterofswordsmusic.com/