Providence, RI-based artist Asher White was recently announced as part of the lineup for the Ekko Astral and Gender Liberation Movement co-curated Liberation Weekend taking place in Washington D.C. next month, and as the opening act for Deerhoof on three shows on their upcoming tour.

Today brings the news that she's signed with Indianapolis-based Joyful Noise Recordings, and now the prolific and unpredictable 25-year-old is adding to her already sprawling discography with a brand new single, "Kratom Headache Girls Night", inspired by her regular visits to the Bushwick bar Misfit with friends.

Says White of the track:

"This is a relatively straightforward song about Hanging with the Homies, which I find to be a classic and timeless premise for many good songs. i’ve found, however, that recently there’s a dark cloud of end times that hangs out with us, of course, and there’s a new psychic puzzle of trying to have fun despite this. this song toys a little with the membrane between losing-yourself-in-rapturous-experience-of-friend-love and panic-about-the-immediate-future-on-an-urgent-material-level; sometimes a feeling of doom can even facilitate a moment of heightened presentness. so there’s some real Perks of Being a Wallflower-style images that result from me discovering I have the group of friends and lovers I’d wanted my entire childhood."

Watch the self-made visualizer below, along with White's recent cover of Demi Lovato's "La La Land".

Ahead of the Liberation Weekend and the Deerhoof shows in June, White will be opening various shows for Godcaster, Lookers, and Black Country, New Road. Full list of dates below:

04/22 New York, NY @ Night Club 101 *
05/02 New York, NY @ Union Pool **
05/09 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom ***
05/27 Providence, RI @ Lost Bag
05/31 Washington, DC @ Liberation Weekend
06/25 Boston, MA @ Crystal Ballroom
06/26 Hamden, CT @ Space Ballroom ****
06/27 Amherst, MA @ The Drake ****

* with Godcaster
** with Lookers
*** with Black Country, New Road
**** with Deerhoof

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