Blondshell at Fine Line, Minneapolis (June 11, 2025)
Blondshell Setlist
setlist from setlist.fm
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Tour Dates
- 6/13/25 – Metro – Chicago, IL *
- 6/14/25 – Skully’s Music Diner – Columbus, OH *
- 6/16/25 – Phoenix Concert Theater – Toronto, ON *
- 6/17/25 – Theatre Fairmount – Montreal, QC *
- 6/19/25 – Royale – Boston, MA %
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6/20/25 – Brooklyn Steel – New York, NY %
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6/21/25 – Union Transfer – Philadelphia, PA %
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6/24/25 – 9:30 Club – Washington, DC %
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6/26/25 – Orange Peel – Asheville, NC %
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6/27/25 – Variety Playhouse – Atlanta, GA %
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6/28/25 – Basement East – Nashville, TN %/
# support from Draag
^ support from Jahnah Camille
* support from Meg Elsier
% support from Daffo
Waiting in line at will call, a guy with a grey beard asked if I had an extra ticket. Not uncommon for most sold-out shows. What was uncommon is he told me he already invested $25.00 into the show.
“So you did buy a ticket,” I asked.
“Parking,” He replied.
The guy did not follow Vu’s golden rule of never paying for parking, and now he was on the outside of what was definitely going to be a great show.
meg elsier opened up the evening. It was her first show opening for Blondshell and first time in the Twin Cities. From Massachusetts, she was excited to be on stage, and her infectious spirit carried a bubbly delivery over the grunge sound.
elsier was clearly having fun as she said her next song was “sportscar” even though she drove a Subaru Forester. The song had a favorable reaction, but elsier said the song didn’t make the cut on her 2024 debut album spittake. “Maybe the deluxe reissue,” she joked.
elsier is currently living in Nashville and sang an ode to her new town “Eastside”, which was more a lament of a life on the wrong side of the tracks. Then she finished her quick set with “Ifshitfuq”, a song of confused emotions colliding into a moment, a song which landed on Spotify’s indie editors Best Songs of 2023.
As the stage was being set for Blondshell the graybeard that I saw in the lobby without a ticket was now in front of me dancing to the Talking Heads “Girlfriend Is Better.” What was more surprising was he didn’t fit the demographic of a performer who has so far made a living skewering the opposite sex.
We have become fans of Blondshell, aka Sabrina Teitelbaum, since we caught her Twin Cities debut at Seventh Street Entry July, 2023. Since then, we have seen the opening for Liz Phair at the Palace Theatre Nov, 2023, and opening for Glass Animals at Azura Amphitheater Aug, 2024. In fact, she did over 150 shows in support of her self-titled debut album and is now back on the road with her sophomore album If You Asked for a Picture, a title lifted from a line from Mary Oliver’s poem “Dogfish”.
Blondshell received universal praise from critics and fans alike for her witty and scathing observations. And based on the first song “23’s a Baby” from her new album it appears that her views have not shifted but have grown sharper and keenly observational. As she commented in a Rolling Stone interview about her latest project:
“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…. It’s empowering for me to use sonic references that feel reserved for men.”
A personal favorite was “Arms” in which the person in the song is trying, but spent and aware of the contradiction. Then a song about “T&A” and how it might not be enough. Just based on her video that juxtaposes male models with rescue animals, it lets you know which one Blondshell thinks are the real dogs.
There is a structure to Blondshell’s hit songs: a laid-back delivery followed by lush vocals over a shoegazing sound. But last night she said she is looking to broaden her musical horizons. She even gave the crowd a peak with a new song “Berlin TV Tower” which had her sitting and singing with an acoustic guitar.
Eventually, Blondshell would finish the evening with her hit song “Salad”. But before the first few lines about imagining poisoning her toxic boyfriend, she gave the crowd her opinion on the current political climate and how it was affecting her hometown in L.A.
Personally, I’d like to hear future songs from her on the topic.
