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Elle King Tour 2019 Heading To San Diego

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SAN DIEGO, CA – Elle King has added more tour dates to her 2019 “Shake the Spirit Tour,” and San Diego made the cut. The singer, whose popular songs include “Ex’s & Oh’s,” “America’s Sweetheart,” and “Shame,” announced on social media Monday that her tour would hit about 30 more cities between April 11 and May 30.

She’ll kick things off in Tallahassee, Florida and end in Santa Barbara. The tour will also hit such cities as Cleveland, Cincinnati, Knoxville, Houston, Austin, Dallas, Louisville, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Omaha, Kansas City, Salt Lake City, Boise and Seattle.

King will roll into San Diego at the House Of Blues on May 29. Singer Barns Courtney will join her on the tour. Click here to find tickets to the show and enter the promo code “PatchTickets10” to get 10 percent off seating.

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For those who aren’t familiar with King, Rolling Stone called her a “little bit country, a little bit rock n’ roll,” and ultimately “punk as f---.” Her second album, “Shake the Spirit,” was dubbed “first-rate” and a “rowdy, good-time party record” by Variety.

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The album deals with King’s life since her Grammy-nominated mega-hit “Ex’s and Oh’s” took off in 2016. She secretly eloped that year with a man she’d only met weeks earlier. The two split the following year and King has had to battle depression, substance abuse and even post-traumatic stress disorder in that time.

While most of the album is light-hearted — she even jokes about a sex act in the song “It Girl” — her songs reflect those experiences.

It’s “infused with divorce, self-doubt, medicinal drinking, PTSD and, well, more divorce,” Variety said. And there are some “grungy bangers” in there.

King told The Associated Press in October that every song on the latest album was “like another layer away” from the sadness and darkness.

“I just remember crying and singing like, ‘Girl, you gotta get through this, you gotta get through this. Use your pain,’” she said.

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