Sad13, otherwise known as Sadie Dupuis, is ditching the boys from Speedy Ortiz and taking off on her first solo tour this fall in support of her debut album Slugger, which is scheduled to be released November 11. The domestic tour kicks off in New York on October 28th, and ends in the musicians home state of Massachusetts on December 14th.

Sad13 Fall 2016 Tour Dates:
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10/27 Ithaca, NY – The Haunt
10/28 Brooklyn, NY – Alphaville
10/29 Philadelphia, PA – PhilaMOCA
11/05 Allston, MA – Brighton Music Hall (Hassle Fest 8)
11/12 Pittsburgh, PA – TBD
11/13 Toronto, ON – Smiling Buddha
11/14 Columbus, OH – Double Happiness
11/16 Northampton, MA – 13 Queen
11/17 Hamden, CT – The Space
11/18 Washington, DC – Songbyrd
11/19 Jersey City, NJ – Monty Hall
11/21 Cleveland, OH – Malhall’s
11/22 Detroit, MI – El Club
11/23 Chicago, IL – Beat Kitchen
11/25 Omaha, NE – Milk Run
11/26 Denver, CO – Larimer Lounge
11/27 Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Court
11/28 Boise, ID – Neurolux
11/29 Seattle, WA – Vera Project
11/30 Portland, OR – Bunk Bar
12/02 San Francisco, CA – Hemlock Tavern
12/03 Los Angeles, CA – The Bootleg
12/06 Dallas, TX – Double Wide
12/07 Austin, TX – Mohawk
12/09 Atlanta, GA – Drunken Unicorn
12/10 Durham, NC – Pinkhook
12/11 Richmond, VA – Strange Matter
12/13 Brooklyn, NY – Baby’s All Right
12/14 Boston, MA – Middle East

Sad13 released a new song and video for the track titled “<2″ from her forthcoming album, which features the ferociously feminine Sadie Dupuis in an intentionally ironic and unattractive make-up tutorial, with a very blatant message that contradicts the contemporary standards of beauty. She lays rest to the idea that looks and brains are not things that can naturally co-exist within the same individual, especially if that individual happens to be a woman. In a press release Dupuis said this about the video:

“<2” is about choosing to be glossy AND caustic. It’s about knowing you’re smart, knowing you’re doused in glitter, and refusing to see these two bits of self-knowledge as conflicting. My high school rival was a bigoted Eagle Scout, furiously confounded at the reality that a girly teen (me!) was his academic superior. Ten years later, as an adult human who lurks around the “feminine” quadrant of the gender map, I STILL come up against ignoramuses who conflate feminized personal style with anti-intellectualism.

Being “in the less than two” is about finding balance between two selves, exterior and interior. It’s about allowing those selves to coexist in alliance but not in interdependence—and about loving yourself in a world that doesn’t want you to. What’s less than two? A singular person, who is by definition their own number one. Life is booby-trapped with boring nepotists who mistakenly equate professional competence with utterly rigid reproductions of masculinity. If you don’t/won’t/can’t fit that role, self-obsession becomes a radically necessary preservation tool.

The “<2” video is an homage to YouTube and Instagram MUAs, via a series of makeup tutorials that become increasingly surreal. Undergoing several dissimilar cosmetic transformations fit with the song’s theme of self-determinism, while also celebrating aesthetic mutability. Plus, we wanted to make me look like a reptilian and glue a bagel to my head. Some of these looks adhere to conventionally feminine beauty norms, some embrace masculinity, more often than not they treat the face as a gender-neutral canvas, letting cosmetics be Art-for-art’s-sake.”

Check out the new song and video below: