{"id":804024,"date":"2020-02-10T12:43:31","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T19:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=950366"},"modified":"2020-02-10T12:43:31","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T19:43:31","slug":"girl-talk-announces-first-north-american-tour-in-eight-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/girl-talk-announces-first-north-american-tour-in-eight-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl Talk Announces First North American Tour in Eight Years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pittsburgh musician and DJ Gregg Gillis, a.k.a. Girl Talk<\/a>, has announced his first North American tour in eight years.<\/p>\n

The mashup artist will kick off the route on April 29th in Cleveland, Ohio, and will play nearly 20 shows throughout the U.S. and Canada before wrapping June 7th with a set at New York\u2019s Governors Ball festival.<\/p>\n

Gillis hasn\u2019t performed on tour in the U.S. since concluding the run for his 2010 album, All Day<\/em>. He rose to fame through his creative use of samples and dance-ready mashups on his first two albums, 2006\u2019s Night Ripper<\/em> and 2008\u2019s Feed the Animals<\/em>. He has been featured in the documentaries Good Copy Bad Copy<\/em> and RiP!: A Remix Manifesto<\/em>, where he discussed the copyright laws surrounding his use of other artists\u2019 music.<\/p>\n

In recent years, Gillis has collaborated with hip-hop artists as a producer, including with Wiz Khalifa<\/a>, T-Pain<\/a>, Tory Lanez, Freeway, Young Nudy, Bas, Cozz, Erick the Architect (of Flatbush Zombies), Smoke DZA and Don Q.<\/p>\n

Girl Talk 2020 North American Tour Dates<\/strong><\/p>\n

April 29 \u2013 Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues
May 1 \u2013 Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE
May 2 \u2013 Toronto, ON @ Phoenix Concert Theatre
May 3 \u2013 Chicago, IL @ Metro
May 5 \u2013 Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
May 7 \u2013 Kansas City, MO @ The Truman
May 8 \u2013 Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
May 9 \u2013 Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot
May 11 \u2013 Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom
May 12 \u2013 Seattle, WA @ The Showbox
May 13 \u2013 Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom
May 15 \u2013 Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex
May 16 \u2013 San Diego, CA @ House of Blues
May 18 \u2013 Austin, TX @ Emo\u2019s Austin
May 19 \u2013 Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater
May 21 \u2013 Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel
May 22 \u2013 Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
May 23 \u2013 Boston, MA @ Royale
June 7 \u2013 New York, NY @ Governors Ball<\/p>\n

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Pittsburgh musician and DJ Gregg Gillis, a.k.a. Girl Talk, has announced his first North American tour in eight years. The mashup artist will kick off the route on April 29th in Cleveland, Ohio, and will play nearly 20 shows throughout the U.S. and Canada before wrapping June 7th with a set at New York\u2019s Governors […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-804024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-23 04:03:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}