Debbie Harry and Chris Stein’s 13-minute interview on Studio 360 with WNYC’s Kurt Andersen is now available for streaming from the WNYC website’s “Blondie on Pollinator” page.

The interview discusses Blondie’s commitment to helping preserve pollinators through their #BeeConnected campaign, reveals that Debbie keeps honeybees, and features a music playlist containing songs chosen by Blondie that helped inspire the new album.

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Blondie is currently on tour in the U.S. with Garbage, and the new album Pollinator is out now and available in the Blondie Store.  Additional Blondie merchandise, including apparel, books, and signed memorabilia is available through our ArtistArena  page.

Blondie kicked off their 26-date “Rage and Rapture” U.S. tour with Garbage last night in Saratoga, California. Lead singers Debbie Harry and Shirley Manson recently joined up with Entertainment Weekly to give a very fun, interesting, and unconventional mutual interview and right now is the time to see both of these groundbreaking rockers who defy all labels live on tour together for the first time.

[Photo credit: Frazer Harrison]

Shirley Manson shares a long history of mutual admiration and respect with Debbie Harry. During Debbie’s 1990 solo tour of the UK, Shirley was part of the band Goodbye Mr. Mackenzie, which provided support throughout the tour, and after a successful and distinguished, ongoing career with Garbage, she gave the speech inducting Blondie into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006.

Prior to the Entertainment Weekly interview, Debbie and Shirley were featured in a photo shoot for InStyle in 2004, performed together in 2004 for the Lifetime TV program WomenRock!, and previously shared a band manager and contributed to press releases to promote Blondie including the announcement of their forthcoming induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in November, 2005.  Both Blondie and Garbage have submitted theme songs for James Bond movies; Garbage’s track “The World Is Not Enough” was used in the eponymous 1999 film.

Garbage has an autobiographical coffee table book out now (inspired by a lyric from their song “Push It”), entitled This Is The Noise That Keeps Me Awake.  Blondie’s co-founder and guitarist Chris Stein also has a signed coffee table book featuring his famous photography and commentary: Negative: Me, Blondie, and the Advent of Punk (afterword by artist Shepard Fairey, who designed the Pollinator artwork), is available now through the Blondie webstore and to preview through the publisher Rizzoli International.  A selection of Chris Stein’s iconic photographs are also available for sale as limited edition custom prints through his official photography website. Chris’s photography is also featured in the 2018 Blondie calendar.

Exene Cervenka and John Doe (of X), and Deap Vally will be supporting the tour, with one special appearance in Los Angeles with Sky Ferreira (all on sale now).

Additional information and previously unreleased photos will be published in the print edition of Entertainment Weekly on Friday, July 7, 2017.

The Blondie episode of World Cafe will be re-broadcast on Friday, July 21, 2017.

World Cafe can be heard on over 200 stations nationwide. Tune into your local affiliate station at the scheduled World Cafe broadcast time, and check your local listings. To listen live online, check out the WXPN Philadelphia stream at 2pm ET at XPN.org by choosing WXPN  from the ‘Listen Live’ drop-down at the top of the page.

Blondie’s segment will be archived for on-demand streaming at WorldCafe.NPR.org at approximately 5pm ET on July 21, 2017.

People of the UK!
We are very happy to announce a run of shows for you during November 2017:

Sat 11 Manchester O2 Apollo 
Mon 13 Birmingham Barclaycard Arena
Tue 14 Glasgow SSE Hydro
Thu 16 London O2 Academy Brixton

London and Manchester tickets go on PRESALE this Wednesday (July 5) with the others following on Friday (July 7), all at 9am local time.
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Be a part of the solution! Blondie will donate all net proceeds from the sale of these SAVE THE BEES t-shirts. Get your shirt now and help make a difference.

Find out more at blondie.net/beeconnected.

Episode 15 of the Life In The Stocks podcast with Blondie’s own CLEM BURKE.

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Clem Burke is featured in an article for Stomp and Stammer, where he discusses the Split Squad, Supergroups, Ramones, David Bowie, and the band that made him famous.

His short tour of the US with the Split Squad continues until June 10, and then Blondie will be doing a few shows in Europe followed by a tour of the US.

Blondie’s April 28th Berlin Live show at SchwuZ will be broadcast on July 7th, 11:18pm on Arte TV Germany / 11:58pm Arte TV France.

Blondie’s episode of World Café will be broadcast on Tuesday, May 30, 2017!

World Cafe can be heard on over 200 stations nationwide. You can tune into your local affiliate station at the scheduled World Cafe broadcast time, so check local listings. To listen live online, you can hear the WXPN Philadelphia stream at 2pm ET at XPN.org by choosing WXPN from the ‘Listen Live’ drop-down at the top of the page.

Blondie’s segment will be archived for on-demand streaming at WorldCafe.NPR.org at approximately 5pm ET on the day of broadcast. DIRECT LINK

Clem Burke will be doing a short tour in the southern U.S., drumming for the Split Squad between June 2 and June 10.  For more information or to book tickets, visit the Split Squad Upcoming Events page.  Ticket prices range from $8.00 to $15.00.

June 2 – Three Links Deep Ellum, Dallas TX (the Split Squad and Dressy Bessy)

June 3 – 3Ten ACL Live, Austin TX (the Split Squad and Dressy Bessy)

June 4 – VFW Post 880, Galveston TX (The Split Squad and Dressy Bessy with India Tigers)

June 5 – Walter’s Downtown, Houston TX (the Split Squad and Dressy Bessy)

June 6 – Sam’s Burger Joint, San Antonio, TX (the Split Squad and Dressy Bessy)

June 8 – The Earl, Atlanta GA (the Split Squad and Dressy Bessy)

June 9 – 40 Watt Club, Athens GA (the Split Squad and Dressy Bessy)

June 10 – The Syndicate Lounge, Birmingham AL (the Split Squad and Dressy Bessy with Burning Peppermints)