Rock Hall Live: Spoon & The Beths with Squirrel Flower

Rock Hall Live returns this summer with must-see performances. Join us on Saturday, June 27th, as Spoon & The Beths with Squirrel Flower take the stage for an unforgettable night of live music at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Stay tuned for the full Rock Hall Live line-up announcement.

Spoon, Austin’s esteemed rock ambassadors, and New Zealand quartet The Beths are teaming up for a co-headline tour this summer. Spoon’s most recent album, Lucifer on the Sofa, garnered the band a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Album, while the Beth’s 2025 release, Straight Line Was a Lie, was a mainstay on year-end ‘Best Of’ lists, including Rolling Stone, Consequence of Sound, Slate, and many more. Geographically divided, rock & roll united, don’t miss this first-ever opportunity to see Spoon and The Beths share the stage!

SPOON
Spoon, Austin’s most esteemed rock ambassadors, have released ten albums to date, including a string of five straight top 10 records: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (2007), Transference (2010), They Want My Soul (2014), Hot Thoughts (2017), and Lucifer on the Sofa (2022). Lucifer on the Sofa earned the band its first-ever GRAMMY nomination (Best Rock Album) and was praised by Rolling Stone as “The best thing they’ve ever done.”

Hailed by TIME as “one of the greatest American rock bands”, Spoon topped Metacritic’s chart as the single most critically acclaimed band of the aughts. In 2019, Spoon released Everything Hits At Once: The Best of Spoon, which was praised by NPR as a “convincing argument for Spoon being one of their era’s most distinctive and excellent rock bands.” That same year, Fender released the Britt Daniel Signature Telecaster Thinline as part of their artist signature electric guitar series, highlighting the enduring influence of Daniel’s precision punk style that has helped fuel Spoon to become what the Guardian calls ‘one of the finest bands of their generation.’

THE BETHS
“One of the greatest indie-rock bands of their time.” – Rolling Stone
New Zealand indie rock heroes The Beths’ latest album, Straight Line Was A Lie, is a catchy, instant classic. Written in Los Angeles and self-recorded in the band’s hometown of Auckland, Straight Line Was A Lie (their first release for ANTI-) follows 2022’s critically celebrated LP Expert in A Dying Field. Lead singer and songwriter Liz Stokes delves deeper into her psyche to address everything from roundabout progress to physical and mental health challenges, and fraught family dynamics. Inspired by The Go-Go’s, Olivia Rodrigo, filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, and Stephen King’s On Writing, amongst others, Stokes’ songwriting has achieved startling new depths of insight and vulnerability. Fans will agree that Straight Line Was A Lie is the most sharply observant, truthful, and poetic Beths project to date.

SQUIRREL FLOWER
Squirrel Flower is the ever-changing project of Ella Williams (Chicago-based by way of Iowa and Boston). It is music for lost sailors and earth witches.

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