{"id":46799,"date":"2026-08-15T14:50:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T09:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=46799"},"modified":"2026-08-15T14:50:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T09:50:27","slug":"phoebe-bridgers-leads-fans-around-roller-skating-rink-at-lost-weekend-listening-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=46799","title":{"rendered":"Phoebe Bridgers leads fans around roller-skating rink at \u2018Lost Weekend&#8217; listening party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/phoebe-bridgers\">Phoebe Bridgers<\/a> led fans around a roller-skating rink at a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/album\/phoebe-bridgers-lost-weekend-review-3962027\">\u2018Lost Weekend\u2019<\/a> listening party.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-content-read-more\">\n<li><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/album\/phoebe-bridgers-lost-weekend-review-3962027\">Phoebe Bridgers \u2013 \u2018Lost Weekend\u2019 review: indie\u2019s poet laureate returns with a staggering, strange and stirring opus<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The singer-songwriter\u2019s third studio album arrived on Friday (August 14), and before then, she spent time with fans at a listening party held at the Moonlight Rollerway in Glendale on Tuesday night (August 11), in what was a triumphant outing not just for her latest release, but also her skating skills.<\/p>\n<p>As one fan wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/phoebebridgers\/comments\/1vlvh1u\/lost_weekend_listening_parties_discussion_thread\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reddit<\/a> after the event: \u201cShe was skating right with everyone, and if you could match her speed then you could say hello, but she is FAST so it may have been a bit difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her speed seemed slightly incongruous to the sound of the 16-track offering, which <em>NME<\/em> described as \u2018candid [and] gut-punching\u201d, and Bridgers herself did acknowledge there was a \u201cweird\u201d juxtaposition there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve had this idea forever\u201d she said to the crowd of about 200 sitting on the rink\u2019s floor for a Q&amp;A, per <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/music\/news\/phoebe-bridgers-rollerskating-release-party-qa-lost-weekend-1236834356\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Variety<\/em><\/a>. \u201cI always thought it would be cool to do like a Grouper Moonlight night. You always kind of skate to ABBA or something. I thought it would be interesting to listen to sad and slow songs and skate.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">PHOEBE SKATING AT THE LA ROLLER RINK EVENT \ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\udefc <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IfE7pRIll9\">pic.twitter.com\/IfE7pRIll9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 phoebe daily (@sourcebridgers) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sourcebridgers\/status\/2088128427463254383?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 14, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Phoebe Bridgers stuns in rollerblades during a Q&amp;A <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jplmwqUoN0\">pic.twitter.com\/jplmwqUoN0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 phoebe daily (@sourcebridgers) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sourcebridgers\/status\/2088129344891711834?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 14, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Bridgers has done no interviews in the lead-up to the record\u2019s release, but shed some light on its creation while briefly chatting to fans. \u201cThere\u2019s a movie called <em>Lost Weekend<\/em> that\u2019s about alcoholics\u2019 kind of fugue state,\u201d she said when one asked what range of media had inspired it. \u201cThat probably goes well, unfortunately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another asked why she chose to do the intimate pop-up tour, to which she replied: \u201cI just wanted everything with this album to feel like it\u2019s happening in real life. Like, I didn\u2019t live through a time where I didn\u2019t find out about something on the internet. Even cool pop-up shows and stuff, it was all kind of phone-based.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I just liked the idea of plastering a small town [with posters]. It was so fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the Q&amp;A, Bridgers shared a rough cut of a video, \u2018I Can\u2019t Wait\u2019, which was nearly done, but would later have drone footage from the skating event added to it.<\/p>\n<p>As for other events in the pipeline for Bridgers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/phoebe-bridgers-announces-intimate-phone-free-uk-album-launch-gigs-3962122\">she recently announced some intimate phone-free shows in the UK <\/a>to mark the release of the new album. After those shows next week, she\u2019ll then head out on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/phoebe-bridgers-announces-2026-uk-europe-north-america-arena-tour-no-phones-3949338\">\u00a0\u2018The Lost Tour\u2019<\/a>, kicking off in North America next month before heading to the UK and Europe in November and December.<\/p>\n<p>The UK and Ireland dates include shows at Dublin\u2019s 3Arena, Manchester\u2019s Co-op Live and London\u2019s The O2.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ticketmaster-uk.tm7559.net\/c\/2862475\/431519\/7559?sharedid=NME&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketmaster.co.uk%2Fphoebe-bridgers-tickets%2Fartist%2F2133305\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Find any remaining tickets here<\/a>\u00a0(UK and Ireland) and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ticketmaster.evyy.net\/c\/2862475\/264167\/4272?sharedid=NME&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketmaster.com%2Fphoebe-bridgers-tickets%2Fartist%2F2133305\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>\u00a0(North America).<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/album\/phoebe-bridgers-lost-weekend-review-3962027\"><em>NME\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0five-star review of \u2018Lost Weekend\u2019<\/a>, Erica Campbell described the record as \u201cthe opposite of emotional evasion: more a reckoning with herself and the romantic and familial love and loss that have shaped her story and storytelling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a feat that could only be achieved by a songwriter and musician self-assured in their penmanship and musicality, someone who may have started the journey of writing her third album feeling lost, but by the end wasn\u2019t unmoored at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('consent', 'revoke');\n  fbq('init', '370979561341328');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phoebe Bridgers led fans around a roller-skating rink at a recent \u2018Lost Weekend\u2019 listening party. 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