{"id":219768,"date":"2026-03-25T13:38:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T13:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/219768\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T13:38:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T13:38:06","slug":"austin-texas-punk-band-on-wild-shows-foo-fighters-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/219768\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin, Texas Punk Band on Wild Shows, Foo Fighters Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWhen the e-mail came in from their management last year telling them they were opening for the Foo Fighters<\/a>, Die Spitz<\/a> drummer Chloe de St. Aubin started screaming. She was seated next to her bandmate,\u00a0 guitarist Eleanor Livingston, trying to focus on homework for their online college courses, but the punk<\/a> quartet they\u2019d formed in high school just a few years earlier was occupying both their minds. Their absurdly high-energy live show and debut LP, Something To Consume, had won them a cult following, and they were both quite ready to take the next step.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe were spiraling,\u201d says de St. Aubin. \u201cI was like, \u2018We\u2019re not doing anything. What are we going to do?\u2019 And then I checked my phone.\u201d They had secured that gig opening for the Foos at the 61,000-seat Anfield Stadium in Liverpool on June 27, 2026. It will be their biggest show ever, by quite an order of magnitude. \u201cWe eventually just started laughing,\u201d says de St. Aubin. \u201cAnd then we both forgot about what we were studying.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe road to this moment of triumph \u2014 one of many they\u2019ll have this year, since they\u2019re also playing Coachella, Outside Lands, and Lollapalooza \u2014 began back in 2022, when Livingston, bassist Kate Halter, and guitarist Ava Schrobilgen were all attending the same high school in Austin, Texas<\/a>. \u201cWe were super into rock bands, we smoked a bunch of weed, and liked to party,\u201d says Livingston. \u201cSo we were like, \u2018We should start a band.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the original telling of this story, the epiphany came after watching the M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce biopic The Dirt<\/a> on Netflix. But they\u2019ve erased this from their official bio. \u201cRedacted,\u201d says Livingston, shuddering at the thought of being associated with a group she now sees as hopelessly sleazy and misogynistic. \u201cWe were 18 and, not gonna lie, on that wavelength of, \u2018We\u2019ll get a bunch of girls and drink a bunch of beer!’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThey rounded out their lineup by recruiting St. Aubin from a nearby high school and writing songs that were the antihesis of \u201cGirls, Girls, Girls,\u201d even if they took a lot of woodshedding to get right. \u201cWe would practice in my parents\u2019 garage,\u201d says Livingston. \u201cAnd we were so bad. Oh my God, we were so bad. And it was awesome. We just kept playing because it was super fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tThey started booking gigs around Austin and developed a ritual where they\u2019d swap instruments every few songs and take Iggy Pop-like stage dives into the audience. They recorded their debut EP, Revenge of Evangeline, in a single day in 2022, and the next year they found themselves opening for the Aussie punk crew Amyl and the Sniffers on a nationwide tour. \u201cI think we aged ourselves seven years on that tour,\u201d says Livingston. \u201cI don\u2019t know how we survived. We were doing 17-hour drives, unloading everything, selling our merch, playing the show, and still getting drunk all throughout that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSome nights all four of them crammed into one hotel room, and other nights they\u2019d simply drive until they couldn\u2019t make it any further, and then pull off into a rest stop. \u201cWe\u2019d feel like we were going to die, because that\u2019s where a lot of murders happen,\u201d says Livingston. \u201cBut it was also the best time of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tA big advantage of living in Austin was its easy access to South by Southwest. They got signed to Jack White\u2019s Third Man Records in 2025 after playing a showcase gig at the yearly festival. \u201cI had the flu and was so ill,\u201d Livingston recalls. I wasn\u2019t even singing for half the set. I was like, \u2018Did I just die?\u2019 And they were like, \u2018Y\u2019all were awesome!’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThird Man teamed them with producer Will Yip, who helped them \u201ctrim the fat\u201d off songs like \u201cPop Punk Anthem (Sorry for the Delay),\u201d \u201cGo Get Dressed,\u201d and \u201cAmerican Porn.\u201d The latter is a direct shot at sexist record industry insiders, and some older dudes who come to their shows just to leer at them. Some, they say, have even taken photos of their feet and posted them online. \u201cIt\u2019s a very angry song,\u201d says Livingston. \u201cAnd I want the people that come to our shows just because we\u2019re pretty women or they want to sexualize or objectify us to listen to that song and tell us if they\u2019re still a fan.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tThankfully, the creepy foot-fetish guys are fewer in numbers these days. \u201cIt\u2019s now a bunch of girls and gays and people that we want to appeal to,\u201d says Livingston. \u201cThey\u2019re saying, \u2018I like hard music, but there\u2019s not a lot of it made by women or people who are queer.\u2019 I want to continue making our shows a safe space for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe four members of the band now tour with a road manager and a technician, and a merch manager is about to join the troupe as well. Better bookings means they can often afford two hotel rooms. \u201cWe\u2019re moving up,\u201d says de St. Aubin. \u201cWe might even get our own beds.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tUntil recently, many of them made ends meet with retail or service industry jobs between tours, and they took online courses while barreling down the highway in the van. De St. Aubin is continuing to study psychology and business, and Livingston is majoring in business and minoring in biology, but they left their day jobs to focus as much energy as possible on Die Spitz.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think I got fired,\u201d says de St. Aubin. \u201cThey were like, \u2018You\u2019re never here. We can\u2019t keep putting you on a schedule.\u2019 I was like, \u2018That\u2019s fair.’\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe Foo Fighters gig weighs on their minds (\u201cI don\u2019t know if people will show up early enough for us. I\u2019m a little worried it might be scattered,\u201d de St. Aubin says), but they don\u2019t even care they\u2019re listed on the very last line of the Coachella poster in tiny font. They\u2019re still going to be there, playing the same day as Justin Bieber, facing an audience of thousands.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe beauty of playing for so many people is an energy that not many people experience,\u201d says Livingston, \u201cespecially when they know your lyrics and whatnot. It\u2019s like you climbed to the top of a mountain. It\u2019s freakin\u2019 better than sex. It\u2019s a crazy feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When the e-mail came in from their management last year telling them they were opening for the Foo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,44370,85711,80647,80648,8385,27],"class_list":["post-219768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-die-spitz","tag-future-25","tag-future-of-music","tag-future-of-music-2026","tag-punk","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}