Watch Katy Kirby's NPR Tiny Desk Concert

WATCH KATY KIRBY’S TINY DESK CONCERT

‘BLUE RASPBERRY’ OUT NOW

JOINING CRAIG FINN ON TOUR THIS NOVEMBER

Photo Credit: Joshua Bryant

Katy Kirby is featured on NPR’s Tiny Desk today, performing five tracks from her critically acclaimed albums ‘Blue Raspberry’ and ‘Cool Dry Place’. Featuring her touring band Logan Chung (guitar, keys), Margaux Bouchegnies (electric bass), Lane Rodges (piano) and Austin Arnold (drums), watch the performance – featuring an audience of Girls Rock! DC camp attendees – below.

Watch Katy Kirby’s NPR Tiny Desk: https://www.npr.org/2024/08/17/g-s1-17007/katy-kirby-tiny-desk-concert

Last month Kirby released the deluxe edition of ‘Blue Raspberry’ – featuring two additional tracks, “Headlights” and “Naperville” – which harness her tongue-in-cheek turns of phrase, wall-of-sound-level distortion and contemplations on queer desire; listen to it HERE. ‘Blue Raspberry’ received praise from Pitchfork, Stereogum, Paste, NPR, No Depression, Uproxx, FLOOD and more, with the Associated Press explaining that “she savors bits and pieces of the relationship in which she realized her queerness … lyrics are carefully crafted to highlight the little things her partner does in her appearance to impress, something that women recognize in other women.”

After extensive headline touring in North America, Europe and the UK, Kirby will perform intimate solo sets this November opening for Craig Finn of The Hold Steady; all upcoming dates are listed below.

TOUR DATES
11/6 – Northampton, MA @ Iron Horse Music Hall #
11/7 – Arundel, ME @ Vinegar Hill Barn #
11/8 – Fairfield, CT @ Stage One #
11/10 – Philadelphia, PA @ World Cafe Live #
11/12 – Ann Arbor, MI @ The Ark #
11/14 – Chicago, IL @ Schubas Tavern #
11/15 – Madison, WI @ The Bur Oak #
11/16 – Minneapolis, MN @ Fitzgerald #
11/18 – St. Louis, MO @ Off Broadway #
11/19 – Louisville, KY @ The Whirling Tiger #
11/20 – Cincinnati, OH @ The Woodward Theater #
11/22 – Washington DC @ Miracle Theatre #
# – solo with Craig Finn
ACCLAIM FOR ‘BLUE RASPBERRY’

“Inventive and exhilarating… Kirby’s best writing shows off her talent for contracting abstract ideas into the kinds of pithy lines that inspire furious underlining.” – Pitchfork
“Kirby’s rich arrangements add pop-soul drama to songs about mind games of love and friendship… an interior world of delicious emotional chaos.” – MOJO

“Katy Kirby’s sophomore project is a smart, sexy thinkpiece on queer romance in a world on fire.” – Paste

“‘Cool Dry Place’ gave us an artist to watch; ‘Blue Raspberry’ presents an artist to admire.” – Consequence

“She has a Dorothy Parker sting to her lyrics.” – Ann Powers, NPR Music

“Part of what sets Kirby apart is the language she uses; the way words slip off her tongue in syllables almost too big for the songs that contain them. As a narrator, Kirby is clever and knows it.” – Stereogum, Album of the Week

“To spend the time with ‘Blue Raspberry’ is to be totally broken apart by it, but like Kirby, eventually pieced back together, ready to jump in again.” – No Depression

“She savors bits and pieces of the relationship in which she realized her queerness … lyrics are carefully crafted to highlight the little things her partner does in her appearance to impress, something that women recognize in other women.” – Associated Press

“Kirby’s lyricism across the album is witty and eagle-eyed, yet sweet and sometimes breathtakingly intimate.” – Uproxx

“These are songs flush with the pittering excitement of new romance that catalog Kirby’s first queer relationships, imagined or real.” – FLOOD