Bitch & Skip the Needle

In celebration of Women’s History Month, queer icon Bitch is co-headlining a West Coast tour with the Bay Area’s Skip The Needle. Bitch is coming fresh from an off-Broadway run of her one-woman show Bitchcraft, based on songs from her recent album of the same name. Skip the Needle will be debuting their newest EP Wake Up Wake Up Wake Up. Come out for a night of politically defiant, righteously rocking, and radically joyous feminist music!

Bitch first achieved notoriety as one half of the queer folk duo Bitch and Animal. The band toured with Ani DiFranco, and released two albums on DiFranco’s label Righteous Babe Records. In the mid 2000s, Bitch went solo, and shared stages with the Indigo Girls, acted in John Cameron Mitchell’s film Shortbus, co-wrote a song with Margaret Cho, and produced two albums of her elder and folk hero Ferron. 

Bitchcraft was born in a move from New York City, where Bitch had lived for 15 years, to a log cabin in the woods. She had all the time in the world to make art, and it was there, in the cabin, that Bitch began to write some of the songs that would appear on Bitchcraft.

“It gave me space to think about the biggest version of myself that I could be.” 

Bitchcraft, Bitch’s 9th studio album, was met with rave reviews, Yahoo Entertainment called Bitch “a feminist force that the world needs now more than ever.” 

Amy Ray of Indigo Girls called the album a “masterpiece.” The songs are a departure from anything she’s ever written before. 

Bitch makes her music with violins and synthesizers, calling the violin — which she learned as a young child — her first love. Her songs are spectral, heartbreaking, political, and beautiful. Come for an evening of electric violin-forward “witchy poet pop,” storytelling, and humor. Bitch is known for her bold and colorful live shows and this one will not disappoint. 

Skip The Needle is an Oakland-based queer female quartet made up of Bay Area superstars; Vicki Randle, Shelley Doty, Kofy Brown, and Katie Cash. The band calls their fashion punk, funk, and soul influenced rock “black dyke rock.” As the name implies, they are musically diverse and bring a biting, socially conscious message, delivered with radical joy. 

Formed in 2014, Skip The Needle has released two full-length albums. Octavia Of Earth, Volume 2 (inspired by black feminist icon Octavia E. Butler), was released on Soulectric and digitally released by Side Hustle Records in July, 2024. They are honored to have received the Local Sirens Residency from WAM, writing five new songs for the project; slated to be released in the spring of 2025.