{"id":1011029,"date":"2026-08-19T15:58:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T15:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1011029\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T15:58:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T15:58:20","slug":"heavens-to-betsy-unvault-lost-demo-tapes-for-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1011029\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavens to Betsy Unvault Lost Demo Tapes for New Album"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heavens to Betsy<\/a>, the punk band of Sleater-Kinney<\/a>\u2019s Corin Tucker<\/a> and Tracy Sawyer, have announced their first release since their split in 1994. After announcing a reunion tour<\/a> back in June, the duo has unveiled Baby\u2019s Gone, an archival album that Kill Rock Stars<\/a> will release on October 16. Listen to \u201cAin\u2019t Never Goin\u2019 Back,\u201d one of eight demos that comprise half of the new release, below. The 1993 and 1994 EPs These Monsters Are Real and Direction are bundled into the 16-track LP, too.<\/p>\n

Tucker and Sawyer recorded the demo in February 1992, assisted by Bratmobile\u2019s Molly Neuman, who provides new liner notes. Sawyer says in a press release, \u201cI wasn\u2019t sure if I would ever revisit heavens to betsy, and then when we started talking more about it, and feeling how relevant the subjects are today, almost even more so than they were back then\u2026 it just seemed like just the perfect opportunity to be doing this.\u201d Among those subjects, a press release notes, are rape culture, intersectional politics, body shaming, and celebrations of female friendships, queerness, and community. \u201cJust to know each other again as adults and as mothers, it\u2019s really cool,\u201d Sawyer continues. \u201cOnce we started playing again, it was like muscle memory.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of the duo\u2019s relationship with Neuman, Tucker adds, \u201cMolly\u2019s such a leader, and she\u2019s [\u2026] such an intellectual. She grasped right away that it was important for young women to have these tools to express themselves.\u2026 She was so confident and so unafraid to just be like, \u2018Yeah, why don\u2019t I just record that for you? I\u2019ll just check out the Tascam from the AV library at Evergreen and do it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Check out the new LP art and the tracklist below, and revisit Pitchfork\u2019s overview of the \u201990s scenes in and around Olympia, The 50 Best Indie Rock Albums of the Pacific Northwest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Baby\u2019s Gone:
01 Good Food
02 Factory
03 Seek and Hide
04 Stay Dead
05 My Red Shelf
06 Ain\u2019t Never Goin\u2019 Back
07 Baby\u2019s Gone
08 My Secret
09 Me & Her
10 Monsters
11 Playground
12 Firefly
13 Direction
14 Get Out of My Head
15 The Ones
16 Driving Song<\/p>\n

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