Die Spitz Release Explosive New “American Porn” Video and Announce U.S. Tour Dates Including August 1st Lollapalooza Appearance
Photo Credit: Kyra Granson
Fresh off a run of explosive performances at Coachella and recent honors as a Spotify Artists to Watch 2026 pick and inclusion in Zane Lowe’s 26 for ’26, Austin, TX four-piece Die Spitz unveil the official video for “American Porn,” a standout track from their acclaimed debut album Something to Consume, available now via Third Man Records.
In a recent Future of Music feature, “It’s a very angry song,” says vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Eleanor Livingston. “I want the people who come to our shows just because we’re pretty women—or because they want to sexualize or objectify us—to listen to that song and decide if they’re still a fan.”
Across Something to Consume, Die Spitz channel their shared passion, friendship, identity, and creative drive into songs that confront the tension and decay surrounding modern life. “There’s a political side to it, but addiction and love can also be all-consuming,” Livingston explains. With members frequently trading instruments, rotating songwriting responsibilities, and sharing vocal duties, the band creates tightly wound, high-impact songs delivered in concussive bursts of energy—carving out a world of their own where listeners are invited to stand on the edge with them.
Die Spitz is Ava Schrobilgen, Chloe De St. Aubin, Eleanor Livingston, and Kate Halter.
Video:
Something To Consume Track Listing
1. Pop Punk Anthem (Sorry for the Delay)
2. Voir Dire
3. Throw Yourself to the Sword
4. American Porn
5. Sound to No One
6. Go Get Dressed
7. Red40
8. RIDING WITH MY GIRLS
9. Punishers
10. Down on It
11. a strange moon/selenophilia
Biography:
When the Venn diagram of passion, friendship, identity, and artistry collide, it can feel as if fighting words are spitting from your veins. And as postmodern society crumbles, Die Spitz giddily bounce between a dozen different ways to push back. If the world of rock music were an ice cream shop, the Austin quartet have sampled each flavor, flipped the freezer over, and started dancing with the employees they helped unionize.
On their debut album, Something to Consume (due Sept 12 via Third Man Records), Ava Schrobilgen, Chloe De St. Aubin, Eleanor Livingston, and Kate Halter fight against the inescapable consumption that surrounds life. “There’s a political side to it, but addiction and love can also be all-consuming,” Livingston says. And as the foursome trade offinstruments, swapping songwriting and vocal duties, and generating powerful songwriting in concussive bursts, Die Spitz have created their own little pocket of the world where we can all stand on the edge together.
That unity comes in part from the deep bonds between the 22-year-olds. All four are Austin natives, with Schrobilgen and Livingston having met in preschool, befriending Halter in middle school, and immediately bringing De St. Aubin into their inner circle when they formed the band in 2022. The group was initially just looking to find reasons to hang out more often, and decided to start a band after a late-night viewing of the Mötley Crüe movie The Dirt. Though they’ve only been playing together a few years (not to mention Halter only learning to play bass to start the band), Something to Consume shows a maturity and technical prowess always wielded in service of their profound friendship.
The group settled on the name Die Spitz over a “brown bag of Fireball”, opting for the feminine German definite article in place of the English. “It reminds me of the Grim Reaper spitting,” Livingston jokes. At their first live shows, they paired originals with covers from some of their inspirations: Black Sabbath, Pixies, Mudhoney, PJ Harvey, and Nirvana.
The beguiling “Pop Punk Anthem” somehow encapsulates elements throughout that large musical swath, building from roiling verses to a growled chorus. “It may sound like a love song at first, but when the beat kicks in it’s the obsession that takes over,” Schrobilgen says. “The words ‘you’re a part of me’ sound loving but it can be an insane emotion and privilege over someone else’s life.”
As if their closeness as a band weren’t enough, the members of Die Spitz have also intermittently been roommates and still live near each other. “We call it sitcom life,” Livingston laughs. That said, the Die Spitz TV show would have a significantly different soundtrack to your usual sitcom fare. The Austinites express their ideas through a blend of classic punk, hardcore, metal, alt rock and more.
The group have become known for their riotous live shows, where dueling cartwheels, Halter playing bass mid-crowdsurf, Schrobilgen unleashing a growling bark, and Livingston posing with the microphone on top of the venue’s bar or climbing into the rafters could happen at any moment. Pairing their mind-melting gigs with even more impressive songs has led to stints opening for (and rivaling the energy of) bands like OFF!, Amyl and the Sniffers, Viagra Boys, and Sleater-Kinney.
That shapeshifting strength comes into full view on the explosive “Throw Yourself to the Sword”, a song that raises a righteous fist of empowerment over thrash guitar. “Throw yourself/ To the sword,” the start-stop chorus begins, before taking a more modern turn. “What’s it like knowing/ None of you bitches can compete?” Livingston sees the song as an important reminder to let go of insecurities and embrace the power you have over yourself—something that unifies the Die Spitz catalog. “Be the bad bitch you are amongst the mundane and use your voice as a young person,” she says. “Don’t let these old fools tell you you can’t do anything.”
Whether on the punk chug of “RIDING WITH MY GIRLS” or the syrupy grunge of “Go Get Dressed”, Something to Consume moves with rapturous conviction thanks in part to the deft production hand of Studio 4’s Will Yip. Though only recently in their 20s, Die Spitz’s impressive musicianship ties them clearly to a long lineage of frustrated people hoping to inspire change. “Some people aren’t interested in being political activists via music, but it weighs on me heavily and I feel misaligned with my calling if I don’t,” De St. Aubin says. “The four of us are free spirits with multiple interests, and there’s no limit or power dynamic that can derail us.”
The thrumming “Voir Dire” embodies that expressive strength, an acoustic-driven jam that airs frustrations with American globalism. “Unless we’re part of the few in power, we’ll someday be victimized and regret that we didn’t act now,” De St. Aubin adds. “America brings war on marginalized people in our own country and other lands, and being complacent will not be comfortable forever.” Elsewhere, the grimy and pained “Punishers” explores the frustration and ache of a relationship that just won’t work despite best intentions—two people punishing each other instead of just letting go.
But even when they’re tackling these sort of impactful themes, Die Spitz infuse the proceedings with a golden warmth. These aren’t songs of vicious mockery, but charged rallying calls—which in turn ties back to the band’s origin story. “It was a joke that went too far,” Halter smirks. “We never thought it was going to be a real thing.”
Across 11 tracks, Something to Consume contains multitudes and yet feels of a singular piece, an expansive and expressive set unified in its camaraderie and freedom. “We depend on our freedom—freedom to do what we want, present the ideas we want, make the music we want,” Livingston says. “Whether it’s based in metal or something soft, no matter which of us wrote the song, we all contribute and work together. As a person, I don’t have a strong ego or voice, but within this band each one of us is capable of so much more.”
Tour Dates:
Apr 22 – Seattle, WA – Neptune Theatre – SOLD OUT
May 15 – Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Block Party
Jul 17-19 – St. Paul, MN – Minnesota Yacht Club
Aug 1 – Chicago, IL – Lollapalooza
Aug 2 – St. Charles, IA – Hinterland Music Festival
Aug 5 – Los Angeles, CA – The Fonda
Aug 7 – San Francisco, CA – Outside Lands
Aug 9 – Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom
Aug 11 – Boise, ID – Shrine Ballroom
Aug 12 – Salt Lake City, UT – Soundwell
Aug 15 – Englewood, CO – Gothic Theatre
Aug 14-16 – Buena Vista, CO – King Gizzard’s Festival Field of Vision
Sep 5-6 – Seattle, WA – Bumbershoot Arts and Music Festival
Sep 20 – Asbury Park, NJ – Sea.Hear.Now Festival
Nov 5 – Madison, WI – Majestic Theatre – SOLD OUT
Nov 9 – Toronto, ON – Danforth Music Hall
Nov 10 – Buffalo, NY – Town Ballroom
Nov 12 – Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club – SOLD OUT
Nov 13 – Brooklyn, NY – Warsaw – SOLD OUT
Nov 14 – Brooklyn, NY – Warsaw – SOLD OUT
Nov 16 – Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
Nov 17 – Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
Nov 19 – Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle – SOLD OUT
Nov 20 – Asheville, NC – Orange Peel
Nov 21 – Nashville, TN – Brooklyn Bowl
Feb 19 – New York, NY – Brooklyn Steel
Check out more news stories here!
Links:
Official: https://www.diespitz.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/diespitz/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/diespitz/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@diespitz
