SPILL MAGAZINE ILLUSTRATION: TAMI HART

SPILL’S ARTIST ILLUSTRATION BY SCOTT SHIELDS:
TAMI HART

Don Giovanni Records has announced Tami Hart – the new album from queer punk legend Tami Hart, her first in since 2002 produced by Ted Leo – will be released on Friday November 13, 2026.

Nearly 25 years after first emerging as a teenage songwriter with a voice The New York Times praised for its “preternatural wisdom” and the “fervor of the loudest punk rock,” Tami Hart today announces Tami Hart, her first solo album in more than two decades, out November 13 via Don Giovanni Records, and shares its first single, “All I Do Is Sit Here.”

Produced by Ted Leo, Tami Hart marks Hart’s return to solo recording and is shaped not by marriage, parenthood, divorce, remarriage, addiction and sobriety, and the complicated experience of growing older after being introduced to the world as a teenage artist.

“All I Do Is Sit Here,” available today, was written during one of the darkest periods of Hart’s life. Hart wrote the song after being hit by a van while riding her bike and breaking her leg.

“It is literally about sitting in a corner for days on end and drinking alone, counting the days by etching them on a wall and watching everything and everyone pass you by,” Hart says. “I wrote this song when I was healing from a broken leg I had gotten in a bike wreck, but I wasn’t healing. I was descending further into alcoholism and depression.”

Hart was 19 when her debut album, No Light in August, attracted national attention. Released by influential queer label Mr. Lady Records after Kaia Wilson of Team Dresch and The Butchies offered Hart her first record deal, the album introduced a songwriter whose vulnerability and volume existed comfortably alongside one another.

Hart went on to tour with Sleater-Kinney and Indigo Girls, release her second solo album What Passed Between Us, and play in bands including Making Friendz and MEN. Kathleen Hanna later remembered Hart in her memoir Rebel Girl, describing her guitar playing as reminiscent of some of Nirvana’s biggest hits transformed into something folkier, carried by Hart’s “big, twangy, vulnerable voice.”

Recorded over six intense days in Asbury Park, New Jersey, Tami Hart was produced by Ted Leo and features Larz Brogan of Palehound on drums and Adrienne Lloyd on bass. Marissa Paternoster of Screaming Females contributes lead guitar to “Palisades,” while Leo contributes guitar and vocals across several tracks. “Song You Sing the Loudest” was co-written with Neil Gust of Heatmiser.

The album moves through class, queerness, family, addiction, sobriety, ambition and belonging with Hart’s humor and bruised melodic instincts intact. On “You Won’t Forget,” she confronts her father’s illness and the emotional terrain of her childhood. “Water Under the Bridge” looks back at a pivotal therapy appointment when Hart was 24 and first confronted with the possibility that she needed to get sober. “Why Aren’t You Cool?” turns friendship, resentment and disappointment into something funny and cutting.

Tami Hart arrives November 13 via Don Giovanni Records.

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