sun01nov5:00 pmsun8:00 pmZAUNTEEGod Remembers Tour5:00 pm - 8:00 pm Mercury Lounge, 17 E Houston Street

sun01nov6:00 pmsun10:00 pmPaleduskWhat Is Paledusk Tour6:00 pm - 10:00 pm (le) poisson rouge, 158 Bleecker Street

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(Sunday) 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm

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Paledusk is a Japanese experimental metalcore band from Fukuoka, Japan, formed in 2014. The band currently comprises vocalist Kaito "KT" Nagai, guitarists Daisuke Ehara and Tsubasa "Two" Ishibashi (formerly under the moniker '283'), and drummer BOB. On 3 September 2020, Paledusk announced they had signed to Australian independent label, Greyscale Records, and released a new music video for the title track of their April EP, "Happy Talk". On 11 April 2023, Paledusk announced they had signed to SharpTone Records for North American & European distribution, released single "I’m ready to die for my friends," featuring hip-hop artist VIGORMAN. From 5 June to 7 July, they played throughout Europe, headlining shows in Poland, Italy and the UK, as well as supporting bands including Code Orange, The Amity Affliction, Attila, Born of Osiris, and Bury Tomorrow. They also made appearances at several European festivals, including Belgium's Graspop, Germany's Full Force, Spain's Resurrection Fest[5], and the UK's 2000trees. On 04 October, they announced the addition of BOB as the band's new drummer, along with the release of their new single 'Rumble', featuring Masato, vocalist of fellow Japanese rock band Coldrain. On 05 October, they began their support of Polaris on their 'Fatalism' tour of North America, alongside bands Currents and Varials.

sun01nov7:00 pmsun10:00 pmYanaThe Feelings Are Forever Tour7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey Street

mon02nov6:00 pmmon9:00 pmWilli CarlisleThe Universal Bubba Tour6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Baby's All Right, 146 Broadway

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(Monday) 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

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Baby's All Right

146 Broadway

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For folk singer Willi Carlisle, singing is healing. And by singing together, he believes we can begin to reckon with the inevitability of human suffering and grow in love. On his latest album, Critterland, Carlisle invites audiences to join him: “If we allow ourselves to sing together, there's a release of sadness, maybe even a communal one. And so for me personally, singing, like the literal act of thinking through suffering, is really freeing,” he says. Rooted in the eclectic and collective world of his live shows, Carlisle’s third album, Critterland takes up where his sophomore album, Peculiar, Missouri left off, transforming Peculiar’s big tent into a Critterland menagerie and letting loose the weirdos he gathered together. The album is a wild romp through the backwaters of his mind and America, lingering in the odd corners of human nature to visit obscure oddballs, dark secrets, and complicated truths about the beauty and pain of life and love. Produced by the GRAMMY Award-nominated Darrell Scott and to be released Jan. 26, 2024 by Signature Sounds, Critterland considers where we come from and where we are going. On the album, he takes on human suffering through stories about forbidden love, loss, generational trauma, addiction, and suicide, believing that by processing the traits and trauma we inherit, he can reach a deeper understanding of what it means to succeed and to exist. “In many ways, the suffering that has gotten us here is going to control us. Our superstition and our prejudice is going to control us,” Carlisle says. “But in another way, we're physiologically set up to be instantaneously expressive of all of those feelings. And what comes out in moments of collectivity, is not just singing, but what I'd hope is a national reckoning with these various different kinds of suffering.” Throughout Critterland runs Carlisle’s unease with the tension between love and the reality of an often painful world. He’s adamant that everyone should find and feel love, including queer love, love with no reproductive purpose, and love of ourselves; “I think at the heart of the record is the conflict between those two things, between doomed love and the possibility that that love creates,” he says. But for Carlisle, finding the possibilities that love creates is often tinged with profound sadness, and he describes Critterland as “more of a Sunday morning crier than a Saturday night banger.” On “The Arrangements,” he speaks as a son ruminating on the traits he’s inherited from an imperfect father as he prepares for the man’s funeral; in “Dry County Dust,” he revels in the simple trappings of country life he loves intimately, like home-made jam and backyard chickens, all while considering the shackles of expectation; in “The Great Depression,” a dust bowl ballad heavy with implications for our current era, Carlisle leans on the term’s double meaning; with “I Want No Children,” he unapologetically requests that his family name die with him; and in the album’s final track, “The Money Grows on Trees,” he crafts an outlaw tale into a seven-minute indictment of capitalism and greed. Carlisle wants not only to process pain, but to seek meaning in it. In the middle of the album, in “Two Headed Lamb,” Carlisle riffs on a poem by Laura Gilpin, in which the doomed lamb [4] lives for a short, bittersweet moment in a world that reflects its abundance: “and I know scattered o’er the cursed world / there are frightening bones to find/ bones of people born too soon, lambs too strange to survive,” Carlisle sings, “and as he walked out that mornin’, the old man didn’t look to see /out of season sweet persimmons in the old-growth tree.” By adding a farmer who’s failed to grasp the beauty of the moment, Carlisle raises the story’s stakes to meditate on who and what the world allows to thrive and how we perceive what falls outside of our expectations. For Carlisle, the album’s also an opportunity to strike a tricky balance. Acutely aware that his song “Cheap Cocaine,” resulted in some of his early success, he’s careful now how he talks about drugs. Older and wiser, he wants to consider addiction and its destruction without completely eschewing drug use. “I want to be able to write about drugs in a way that isn't glorifying, but has a social purpose. And I don't feel like we're doing that with Americana music much,” he says. Treading lightly along that line, Carlisle penned the album’s penultimate track, “When the Pills Wear Off,” with Billy Keane. Thriving on a haunting, sweet refrain that braids illicit queer love and drug addiction into one story, Carlisle searches for the nuance in his character’s pain and shame: “I lost friends to heroin, plenty more to lovin’ them / Strung out on the highway like we couldn’t read the signs / Now that I am older and burn a little colder / I know how to read between the lines.” In between the lines Carlisle finds life’s lessons, insisting that complication is important and cautioning listeners not to take his exploration and quest for understanding as a recommendation: “I don't want to hit rock bottom. I'm not advocating to not have children. I'm not advocating to be a drug addict,” he says. “I'm saying that you got to shine a light on the worst impulses to see where they go to, so that you're not afraid of them, and so that you can guide yourself into more love with greater certainty.” And as always, living in a world whose politics seek to divide and control, Carlisle comes back to one essential question: “How do we save love from hate?” Sing along and find out.

mon02nov8:00 pmmon11:00 pmYanaThe Feelings Are Forever Tour8:00 pm - 11:00 pm Music Hall of Williamsburg, 66 North 6th Street

tue03nov7:00 pmtue10:00 pmThe WrecksFinally Outside Tour7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Webster Hall, 125 E 11th Street

tue03nov7:00 pmtue10:00 pmIssadora Ava7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Baby's All Right, 146 Broadway

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(Tuesday) 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

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Baby's All Right

146 Broadway

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Issadora Ava started writing music in her bedroom at thirteen. As a self-taught songwriter and producer, she grew her roots deeper in music once she realized it’s okay to write songs about girls. Before starting her music career, Issadora was first discovered at the age of six to be a performer in the acting industry. After that, she began homeschooling due to international tours, TV shows, commercials, and Broadway productions. Such exposure to the entertainment industry helped Issadora venture out into the music industry. In the past two years, Issadora has released two EPs and music videos for the songs “She’s Just A Friend” and “NYE,” both of which she edited, directed, and starred. These music videos have demonstrated her confidence not only in her music but on both sides of the camera. Following the release of her EP, Grammy-recognized songwriter and producer Cliff Goldmacher stated in an interview, “A maturity and confidence in production marks Issadora’s EP, songwriting and performance that would make it a stand out at any level of the industry, let alone for students at the beginning of their musical journey. I’m very impressed.” Her creativity in intertwining her cinematography and music reflects her passion for all art forms. Issadora wants to be known as an artist who helps her listeners relate through her vulnerability, shows them that it is okay to write songs about girls, and inspires all those to stay true to themselves.

tue03nov8:00 pmtue11:00 pmPALACE8:00 pm - 11:00 pm Franklin Music Hall, 421 N. 7th Street

tue03nov8:00 pmtue11:59 pmHovvdyBig World Tour8:00 pm - 11:59 pm The First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chesnut Street

tue03nov8:00 pmtue11:59 pmBeauty School DropoutThe Circus Tour8:00 pm - 11:59 pm Sony Hall, 235 W 46th Street

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(Tuesday) 8:00 pm - 11:59 pm

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Sony Hall

235 W 46th Street

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Beauty School Dropout is a Los Angeles rock band redefining what a modern rock band can look and feel like. Built independently and proven on the road, Colie Hutzler, Beepus, Bardo and Colton Flurry combine live-wire guitars, electronic production, massive hooks and a sharp cultural edge with a chaotic, swaggering live show. “We wanted to make rock music feel fun again,” the band says. “When’s the last time you walked into a party and a band was playing? We want to change that.” Since emerging in 2021, Beauty School Dropout has generated more than 116 million catalog streams, 510,000 monthly Spotify listeners, and 9.1 million YouTube views, earning support from BBC Radio 1, Billboard, MTV, NME and Kerrang!, while receiving co-signs and collaborations from artists including Mark Hoppus, Pete Wentz, Royal & the Serpent, Jason Aalon Butler and JXDN. Their catalog includes We Made Plans and God Laughed, READY TO EAT, and their debut full-length album WHERE DID ALL THE BUTTERFLIES GO?, produced by Neal Avron. On stage, Beauty School Dropout has become one of modern rock’s most explosive young live acts. Touring alongside blink-182, MGK, Matchbox Twenty, Stand Atlantic, Maggie Lindemann, Turnstile and JXDN, the band has built a reputation for performances that blur the line between chaos and control while consistently converting digital momentum into real-world demand. Their growing headline business has packed rooms across the country and established BSD as one of the genre’s fastest-rising live bands. In 2026, Beauty School Dropout enters its biggest chapter yet. Following a major amphitheater tour supporting MGK, appearances at Vans Warped Tour, the launch of the band’s own BSD Circus event in Los Angeles, Ceremony Festival in Nashville, and a 30-date U.S. headline tour, the band continues to build a rapidly expanding global audience.

wed04nov7:00 pmwed10:00 pmBanda AL97:00 pm - 10:00 pm Kung Fu Necktie, 1248 N Front Street

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(Wednesday) 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

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Kung Fu Necktie

1248 N Front Street

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Brazilian rock ’n’ roll band BANDA AL9 are bringing their high-energy sound to the United States this November, arriving on the heels of a breakout year that has seen the group reach an internaConal audience and earn the support of one of rock ’n’ roll’s most influenCal champions, LiEle Steven Van Zandt.Their latest album,Hey! Hey! We’re Banda AL9, was released in July 2026 through LiEleSteven’s Wicked Cool Records, marking a major new chapter for the band. The albumbrings together newly remixed versions of some of AL9’s most popular songs alongsidenew material, including “She Can Do It All,” wriEen by Kurt Baker and WyaEFunderburk, and “Indigo Skye,” a song wriEen especially for the band by LiEle Steven.The relaConship with LiEle Steven and Wicked Cool Records has helped introduce BANDA AL9 to a much wider audience, connecCng the young Brazilian group with listeners throughout the United States and around the world through the label and LiEleSteven’s Underground Garage. Their music has also caught the aEenCon of another legendary rock ’n’ roll tastemaker: Elton John, who featured the band’s version of The Rubinoos’ “I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend” on his radio show.But BANDA AL9’s story began long before their arrival on Wicked Cool Records. Formed in Brazil, the band built their following from the ground up, developing a catalog of original songs and a reputaCon as an exciCng live act while steadily expanding their audience beyond their home country. Their combinaCon of youthful energy, memorable songs and an unmistakable enthusiasm for rock ’n’ roll ulCmately caught the aEenConof an internaConal network of arCsts, producers and music industry veterans. Now, with Hey! Hey! We’re Banda AL9 serving as their internaConal calling card, the band is ready for their biggest American adventure yet.In November 2026, BANDA AL9 will return to the United States for a run of performances and appearances, bringing the songs fromHey! Hey! We’re Banda AL9directly to American audiences. The tour represents another major step forward for a Brazilian band whose story has quickly grown from local beginnings to releases on an internaConally recognized label, airplay and support from legendary arCsts, and an expanding fanbase thousands of miles from home.With LiEle Steven and Wicked Cool Records in their corner, a new album out in the world, and their sights firmly set on what comes next, BANDA AL9 are ready to make some noise in America.

wed04nov7:00 pmwed11:00 pmSleeping With Sirens7:00 pm - 11:00 pm Starland Ballroom, 570 Jernee Mill Road

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(Wednesday) 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm

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Starland Ballroom

570 Jernee Mill Road

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Falling on the more melodic side of the post-hardcore world, Sleeping with Sirens create a whirlwind of emotion with their yearning and aggressive blend of metal and emo influences. The band hit their stride in 2010 with the release of With Ears to See and Eyes to Hear, which included the hit single "If I'm James Dean, You're Audrey Hepburn." Subsequent efforts Feel (2013) and Madness (2015) saw them reach the upper echelons of the Billboard charts. The group continued to refine their sound on 2019's How It Feels to Be Lost and 2022's Complete Collapse, pairing melody and might with the distinctive vocal acrobatics of singer Kellin Quinn. An Ending in Itself completed the trilogy in 2026 with themes around rebuilding. Formed in 2009, Sleeping with Sirens -- featuring vocalist Kellin Quinn, guitarists Jack Fowler and Jesse Lawson, bassist Justin Hills, and drummer Gabe Barham -- quickly caught the attention of metalcore label Rise Records, which signed them and released their debut record, With Ears to See and Eyes to Hear, in 2010. The album launched the band onto the Billboard Heatseekers chart, debuting at number seven and selling over 25,000 copies. Their sophomore effort, Let's Cheers to This, arrived in May of the following year. At the beginning of 2013, the bandmembers announced they had entered the studio to record their third album, and Feel was released just six months later. The record debuted at number three on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart. Madness, the band's fourth studio long-player and first outing for Epitaph Records, arrived in early 2015. Live and Unplugged followed the next year, an acoustic set that also included covers of Sublime's "Santeria" and Goo Goo Dolls' "Iris." Sleeping with Sirens' fifth set, Gossip, arrived in 2017 on Warner Bros. Produced by David Bendeth, the album featured a stark, pop-friendly shift heard on tracks such as the lead single "Legends." Over the next two years, the band played major tours of North America and Europe in support of the album, and in early 2019 announced a new record deal with Sumerian Records. The group's first effort for the label, How It Feels to Be Lost, arrived later that year. Their sixth album, How It Feels marked a return to their heavier post-hardcore sound and featured the singles "Leave It All Behind" and "Break Me Down," as well as a collaboration with Benji Madden. Upon release, the set debuted within the Top 100 on the Billboard 200. 2022 saw the release of the raucous and raw Complete Collapse, which included the Spencer Chamberlain-assisted single "Crosses." A deluxe edition of the LP appeared the following year, featuring acoustic renderings of album tracks alongside the previously unreleased song "Don’t Let the Party Die." The five-song EP Sleeping with Sirens on Audiotree Live arrived in 2024. In 2025, Kellin Quinn delivered his solo debut under the moniker Haunted Mouths, releasing the album A Collection of Greetings. Sleeping with Sirens kicked off a new album cycle the following year with the Will Yip-produced single "An Ending in Itself," marking the band's return to Rise Records. Featuring additional guitarist Tony Pizzuti (the Word Alive), the album An Ending in Itself followed on the label in June of 2026, with the band referring to it as the final piece of a trilogy with How It Feels to Be Lost and Complete Collapse. - Biography by Gregory Heaney

wed04nov7:30 pmwed11:00 pmBeauty School DropoutThe Circus Tour7:30 pm - 11:00 pm Asbury Lanes, 209 4th Avenue

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(Wednesday) 7:30 pm - 11:00 pm

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Asbury Lanes

209 4th Avenue

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Beauty School Dropout is a Los Angeles rock band redefining what a modern rock band can look and feel like. Built independently and proven on the road, Colie Hutzler, Beepus, Bardo and Colton Flurry combine live-wire guitars, electronic production, massive hooks and a sharp cultural edge with a chaotic, swaggering live show. “We wanted to make rock music feel fun again,” the band says. “When’s the last time you walked into a party and a band was playing? We want to change that.” Since emerging in 2021, Beauty School Dropout has generated more than 116 million catalog streams, 510,000 monthly Spotify listeners, and 9.1 million YouTube views, earning support from BBC Radio 1, Billboard, MTV, NME and Kerrang!, while receiving co-signs and collaborations from artists including Mark Hoppus, Pete Wentz, Royal & the Serpent, Jason Aalon Butler and JXDN. Their catalog includes We Made Plans and God Laughed, READY TO EAT, and their debut full-length album WHERE DID ALL THE BUTTERFLIES GO?, produced by Neal Avron. On stage, Beauty School Dropout has become one of modern rock’s most explosive young live acts. Touring alongside blink-182, MGK, Matchbox Twenty, Stand Atlantic, Maggie Lindemann, Turnstile and JXDN, the band has built a reputation for performances that blur the line between chaos and control while consistently converting digital momentum into real-world demand. Their growing headline business has packed rooms across the country and established BSD as one of the genre’s fastest-rising live bands. In 2026, Beauty School Dropout enters its biggest chapter yet. Following a major amphitheater tour supporting MGK, appearances at Vans Warped Tour, the launch of the band’s own BSD Circus event in Los Angeles, Ceremony Festival in Nashville, and a 30-date U.S. headline tour, the band continues to build a rapidly expanding global audience.

wed04nov7:30 pmwed11:00 pmJeff Tweedy7:30 pm - 11:00 pm Music Hall of Williamsburg, 66 North 6th Street

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(Wednesday) 7:30 pm - 11:00 pm

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Music Hall of Williamsburg

66 North 6th Street

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Few artists in the Americana and indie rock communities have a higher profile or a more eclectic body of work than singer, songwriter, bandleader, and producer Jeff Tweedy. As bassist with the iconic band Uncle Tupelo, Tweedy helped kickstart the fusion of punk, alternative, country, and folk sounds known as alt-country that would help spawn the rise of Americana. Their furious early recordings (especially their 1990 debut album No Depression) earned them a passionate cult following and later albums saw them embracing a more dynamic and nuanced sound. The abrupt breakup of Uncle Tupelo led to Tweedy forming Wilco in 1994, and while their debut, 1995's A.M., was firmly in the tradition of his previous band, their next effort, 1996's Being There, was a daring, eclectic, and accomplished effort that gave them a new standing as one of America's most-respected indie rock bands, a reputation they solidified with 2002's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Wilco went on to a long and successful career, but the creatively restless Tweedy has worked with a variety of other projects, including Loose Fur (a collaboration with Jim O'Rourke), Golden Smog (which featured him alongside members of Soul Asylum, the Jayhawks, and Big Star), the Minus Five, and Tweedy (a band featuring his son Spencer), as well as working in the studio with Billy Bragg and Mavis Staples. He belatedly started his career as a solo artist with 2016's Together at Last, featuring solo acoustic interpretations of songs from his back catalog, and recorded several fine albums of intimate, personal songs: 2018's Warm, its 2019 companion Warmer, 2020's introspective Love Is the King, and 2025's grand-scale triple LP Twilight Override. Jeff Tweedy was born in Belleville, Illinois on August 25, 1967. The youngest of four children, he absorbed the musical influences of his brothers' and sisters' record collections, and when he was six years old, he asked his mother for a guitar. Tweedy was soon given an acoustic guitar, but he had a hard time playing it, and set it aside until he was 12, when he committed himself to learning the instrument while recovering from a bicycle accident. When he was 14, Tweedy met Jay Farrar, a fellow student at Belleville Township High School West. In the early '80s, Farrar formed a rockabilly band called the Plebes with his brothers Dade and Wade, and Tweedy was invited to join the group. Jeff and Jay were eager to push the band in a punk rock direction, which led to Dade leaving the group and the remaining members changing the name to the Primitives. The Primitives embraced a sound that blended punk with '60s garage rock, but after several lineup changes that reduced the group to a trio of Farrar on guitar, Tweedy on bass, and Mike Heidorn on drums, they decided to shift their emphasis from covers to original material and changed their name to Uncle Tupelo. As Farrar and Tweedy became more interested in vintage country and folk music, the sounds informed their new songs, and Uncle Tupelo formulated an explosive sound that was fast, wiry, and impassioned as they took twangy melodic structures, stripped them down, and played them at 90 mph. In 1989, the band cut a demo tape that led to the CMJ New Music Report naming Uncle Tupelo the best unsigned band of the year, and they soon struck a deal with the independent Rockville Records label. 1990's No Depression and 1991's Still Feel Gone earned enthusiastic reviews, and through extensive touring Uncle Tupelo developed a passionate fan following, while 1992's primarily acoustic March 16-20, 1992 (produced by Peter Buck) found them unplugging and digging deeper into their roots influences. The group landed a deal with Sire Records for their fourth album, 1993's Anodyne, and the lineup expanded, with Tweedy switching from bass to guitar, Ken Coomer replacing Heidorn on drums, and bassist John Stirratt and fiddler and mandolin player Max Johnson helping to fill out their sound. Anodyne quickly became Uncle Tupelo's most commercially successful release to date, but tensions between Tweedy and Farrar that had been growing during the recording of the album came to a head during the subsequent concert tour, and in January 1994, Farrar quit the band. A final tour only worsened the rift, and Uncle Tupelo played their last show on May 1, 1994. Immediately after the Uncle Tupelo breakup, Jeff Tweedy and the other members of UT's final lineup (except, of course, for Farrar) began working up material, and they adopted the name Wilco. (It was reported that Farrar asked Tweedy not to use the name Uncle Tupelo, and Tweedy responded with "wilco," military radio slang for "Will Comply.") By the end of June 1994, Wilco had gone into the studio to record their first album; the band hadn't landed a lead guitarist yet, so Brian Henneman of the Bottle Rockets was brought in to play on the sessions for 1995's A.M. After the album was released by Reprise Records, Jay Bennett became Wilco's guitarist, and he soon began handling keyboards as well. During a layoff from touring with Wilco, Tweedy was invited to record with Golden Smog, a side project that also included Dan Murphy from Soul Asylum, Gary Louris and Marc Perlman from the Jayhawks, Kraig Johnson from Run Westy Run, and Noah Levy from the Honeydogs. To get around the members' various recording commitments, they each used a "Smog Name," using their middle name as their first name and the street they grew up on as their last name; Tweedy became Scot Summit for Golden Smog's 1995 album Down by the Old Mainstream. Between Wilco's extensive touring, Bennett's increased input into the group, and his experience with Golden Smog, Tweedy's musical ambitions grew, and Wilco's second album, 1996's expansive double-set Being There, was a critical success that moved in bold new directions and demonstrated to listeners that Wilco were hardly just another alt-country act. In 1998, Tweedy appeared on the second Golden Smog album, Weird Tales, with the participants using their real names this time, and Jody Stephens of Big Star joining in on drums. His next major project found Wilco teaming up with U.K. punk-folk songwriter Billy Bragg to write and record new music for previously unpublished Woody Guthrie lyrics. With Wilco and Bragg receiving co-star billing, the album, Mermaid Avenue, also appeared in 1998, and more material from the same sessions was released in 2000 as Mermaid Avenue, Vol. 2. 1999 saw the release of Wilco's third LP, Summerteeth, which essentially abandoned their country influences in favor of cool but artful indie pop. While the album's sometimes bleak lyrics challenged fans, it was a hit with critics, and found the partnership of Tweedy and Bennett more productive than ever. That would change during the making of Wilco's next album; drummer Ken Coomer was dismissed from the group shortly before sessions began (with Glenn Kotche taking his place), Max Johnson was gone after Summerteeth left him with little to do in the band, and Tweedy and Bennett were soon at a creative impasse that led to Bennett's firing during the mixing process. Jim O'Rourke, who had performed live with Tweedy, was brought in to make sense of the material and perform the album's final mix. Once Wilco turned in the completed album, Reprise Records, in the midst of a corporate shake-up, declared it too uncommercial and severed ties with the group. The music press picked up on the story, and after Wilco began streaming the unreleased album on their website, the band and the LP became a cause celebre. Reprise gave Wilco the rights to the album, and they signed a new deal with Nonesuch Records (ironically also a branch of the Warner Bros. music empire). When it finally appeared in stores in 2002, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was a critical success and became Wilco's best-selling album, vindicating the group and confirming their status as cutting-edge artists. In 2002, Tweedy also scored the independent film Chelsea Walls. In 2003, Tweedy teamed with Jim O'Rourke and Glenn Kotche to form an experimental side project, Loose Fur, with their self-titled first album appearing that year; a second set from the trio, Born Again in the USA, followed in 2006. 2003 also saw the release of the Minus 5's Down with Wilco, a long-gestating collaboration between Scott McCaughey and Tweedy and his bandmates. In 2004, Tweedy made a guest appearance on another Minus 5 album, At the Organ, as well as helping out on the sessions for Arabella, the first full album from Laurie & John (which featured Wilco bassist John Stirratt and his sister Laurie). In June 2004, Wilco brought out their follow-up to Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, A Ghost Is Born, but the album was recorded while Tweedy was struggling with severe migraines, panic attacks, and an addiction to painkillers; the release of the album was postponed and touring was put on hold as Tweedy sought treatment. However, by the end of the year, a healthier Tweedy was back in action, and A Ghost Is Born won Grammy awards for Best Alternative Album and Best Recording Package. Wilco's lineup now featured guitarist Nels Cline and multi-instrumentalist Pat Sansone, and their dynamic live interplay was documented on 2005's Kicking Television: Live in Chicago. A third Golden Smog album, Another Fine Day, dropped in 2006, with Tweedy appearing on six of the 15 songs. Also in 2006, Tweedy made a discreet solo debut with Sunken Treasure: Live in the Pacific Northwest, a DVD which documented several performances from a solo acoustic tour that found him performing career-spanning sets. The following year, Wilco released the album Sky Blue Sky, which was recorded at the Loft, the band's rehearsal space and recording studio in Chicago. Later that year, Tweedy was one of a number of noted artists who contributed interpretations of Bob Dylan's songs for the soundtrack to Todd Haynes' film I'm Not There. In June 2009, Wilco released Wilco (The Album), which would prove to be their last LP for Nonesuch; when the band next brought out an album, 2011's The Whole Love, it would be their first release on their own label, dBpm Records, distributed by Anti-/Epitaph. In between those releases, Tweedy produced an album for gospel/R&B legend Mavis Staples, 2010's You Are Not Alone, with Tweedy also writing two songs for the set as well as arranging two traditional numbers. He recorded a cover of Slim Dunlap's "Ballad of the Opening Band" for the 2013 collection Songs for Slim: Rockin' Here Tonight: A Benefit Compilation for Slim Dun…, a fundraising project to help with the medical expenses of the former Replacements guitarist after he suffered a severe stroke. Tweedy returned to the producer's chair for Mavis Staples' 2013 set One True Vine, and in 2014, as two Wilco box sets (Alpha Mike Foxtrot: Rare Tracks 1994-2014 and The Complete Studio Albums) and a career-spanning anthology (What's Your 20? Essential Tracks 1994-2014) made their way into the marketplace, Tweedy unveiled another side project, a collaboration with his son Spencer Tweedy simply called Tweedy. Sukierae, their debut album, was written and recorded while Susan Miller Tweedy (Jeff's wife and Spencer's mother) was in treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The album appeared as Jeff was putting a greater emphasis on production, as he guided studio projects by Low (The Invisible Way), White Denim (Corsicana Lemonade), Richard Thompson (Still), Kacy & Clayton (The Siren's Song), and Joan Shelley (Joan Shelley), as well as working again with Mavis Staples (If All I Was Was Black) and coordinating a posthumous release by her father and Staple Singers founder Roebuck "Pops" Staples (Don't Lose This). In July 2015, Wilco surprised fans with the album Star Wars, which debuted online without any advance notice; another album that was largely recorded at the same time, Schmilco, followed in September 2016. 2017's Together at Last was a solo Jeff Tweedy effort that found him revisiting 11 Wilco and Loose Fur songs in stripped-down acoustic arrangements. A different sort of solo effort was delivered in 2018: Warm was Tweedy's first solo album of fresh original material, with Jeff playing most of the instruments himself. The release was timed to coincide with the publication of Tweedy's memoirs, Let's Go (So We Can Get Back). Recorded during the same period as its predecessor, the full-length Warmer arrived in 2019. Tweedy was in quarantine (as was most of the music industry) during much of 2020; with Wilco off the road and little else to do, he became the star of a web series alongside his wife and sons, The Tweedy Show, and wrote a batch of songs. 2020's Love Is the King was recorded by Jeff at the Loft, with the accompaniment of his sons Spencer and Sammy. The following year, Tweedy offered an expanded edition of the LP, Love Is the King/Live Is the King, which combined the original LP with live recordings of its 11 songs, with a cover of Neil Young's "The Old Country Waltz" tagged at the end. 2020 also saw the publication of Tweedy's second book, How To Write One Song. In 2021, Tweedy appeared on Norah Jones' seasonal EP Winter Jones, a companion piece to her Christmas album I Dream of Christmas. Tweedy co-wrote the song "Wintertime," and co-produced the track. He produced the 2022 allbum Alpenglow for Trampled by Turtles, and guested on the song "I Hate Hate" on Ian Hunter's 2023 album Defiance Pt 1. Legendary country and roots music songwriter Rodney Crowell stopped by the Loft for recording sessions, with Tweedy serving as producer, and The Chicago Sessions was issued in 2023. (It was a busy year for Tweedy, with Wilco also releasing and touring behind their album Cousin and Tweedy also publishing a third book, World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music.) Tweedy was one of nearly a hundred artists who contributed to 2024's Transa, a compilation organized by the Red Hot Organization to celebrate and support transpeople; he collaborated with claire rousay on a cover of the Fugs' "How Sweet I Roamed." September 2025 brought Tweedy's most ambitious solo effort to date, Twilight Override, a thirty-song, three-LP epic with Tweedy accompanied by his sons Spencer and Sammy, Sima Cunningham and Macie Stewart from the band Finom, Liam Kazar of Kids These Days, and James Elkington of Brokeback and Eleventh Dream Day. Tweedy descibed the album as a statememt against a time of growing political and social conflict in America, saying "Creativity eats darkness." Tweedy and the band followed the release with a a tour of North America, Europe, and the United Kingdom. - Biography by Mark Deming

wed04nov7:30 pmwed11:00 pmDawn Richard7:30 pm - 11:00 pm (le) poisson rouge, 158 Bleecker Street

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Traversing contemporary R&B, left-field pop, EDM, and spare, luminous ballads that defy categorization, Dawn Richard is among the most progressive and dynamic forces in contemporary music. The singer, songwriter, and producer has evolved from membership in Danity Kane and Diddy-Dirty Money to release conceptual statements covering all of that ground and more, all the while connecting the past to the future by honoring her Louisiana Creole and Haitian heritage with visionary instinct. Richard hit the Top Ten of Billboard's R&B/hip-hop chart with Goldenheart (2013), her first widely distributed solo album, and then scored a pair of Top Five dance/electronic hits with Blackheart (2015) and Redemption (2017). After New Breed (2019) and Second Line (2021), the latter of which introduced King Creole, her half-human/half-android alter ego, she teamed with multi-instrumentalist Spencer Zahn for the avant-garde albums Pigments (2022) and Quiet in a World Full of Noise (2024). The liberational Creole Culture (2026) picked up the thread from Second Line. In addition to her work in the studio and on-stage, Richard is an actress and animator. Dawn Angeliqué Richard was born and raised in New Orleans. Part of a creative family, she's the daughter of Chocolate Milk's Frank Richard and spent much of her upbringing in her mother's dance school. Before she achieved mainstream visibility, she recorded as Dawn Angeliqué, debuting in 2005 with Been a While, an independently issued set of contemporary R&B made while she was attending the University of New Orleans and working as an NBA cheerleader. Around the same time, Richard made her first appearance on Making the Band 3. The third edition of the reality series produced Danity Kane, a group who released two Billboard 200-topping albums, Danity Kane and Welcome to the Dollhouse, and split in 2009. Along with fellow vocalist Kalenna Harper, Richard then became part of Diddy-Dirty Money, a short-lived group that released the album Last Train to Paris and the mixtape Love Love vs. Hate Love before ending in 2012. Richard resumed a solo career that has developed throughout multiple splits and reunions of Danity Kane. Amid mixtapes and EPs, as well as a third full-length with Danity Kane, she released a trilogy of solo albums from 2013 through 2016, beginning with Goldenheart, which dented the Billboard 200 and entered the R&B/hip-hop chart at number ten. Part two of her "heart" trilogy, Blackheart, took her sound further out two years later and almost topped the Dance/Electronic chart. Redemption completed the trilogy in 2016 and became her second Top Five Dance/Electronic entry. After she contributed words and vocals to a song on multi-instrumentalist/composer Spencer Zahn's People of the Dawn LP in 2018, Richard started a new solo chapter in 2019 with New Breed, a set tightly connected to her hometown and her father. She continued in 2021 with her first release for Merge Records, Second Line, on which she introduced her King Creole alter ego while incorporating segments of discussions with her mother. The next year, she teamed again with Zahn for Pigments, a meditative full-length suite blurring the distinctions between neo-classical, atmospheric jazz, and ambient electronic music with strings, woodwinds, and sampled elements. An EP entitled The Architect, released in 2023, took a sharp left turn with a bold trio of avant-pop confections highlighted by the brash "Bubblegum." Richard then reconnected with Zahn for Quiet in a World Full of Noise, issued in September 2024. The songs began with Zahn on piano, and some became more layered with strings and brass players, as well as the Budapest Film Orchestra. Spencer worked through grief related to her father's illness, as well as the tragic death of a cousin, with the intent to provide solace for the listener. She shifted gears again in 2026 with Creole Culture, a predominantly dancefloor-aimed gumbo on which she involved fellow Big Easy natives Big Freedia, Tarriona "Tank" Ball, and Jelly Joseph, as well as Durand Bernarr. - Biography by Andy Kellman

wed04nov8:00 pmwed9:30 pmMýa8:00 pm - 9:30 pm Blue Note, 131 W 3rd Street

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Mýa: definition of the multi-hyphenate entertainer. Since releasing her eponymous debut album Mýa in 1998 at the age of 18, Mya has become a staple in the pop cultural zeitgeist across genres, platforms, and mediums, around the world. Grammy Award winning singer, songwriter and producer Mya is globally recognized and celebrated as a musician and true artist. As a Screen Actors Guild award winning actress, Mya has made herself an indelible talent across film, television, Broadway, and gaming. Mya Marie Harrison’s resume is a reflection of the unique and authentic artistry that has maintained a career spanning 25 diverse, exciting and empowering years as the portrait of a true artist and business woman. Mya’s alluring talent echoes around the globe and across decades as a beloved singer, actress, dancer, choreographer, model, philanthropist, activist, and entrepreneur. In 2023, Mya marks her 25th anniversary in the entertainment industry. Mya’s musical journey began in 1998 with the release of her self-titled debut album, which went double platinum and produced hit singles such as “It’s All About Me,” with Sisqo, “Movin On,” and “My First Night With You.” Notable collaborations also catapulted Mya as a cross-genre staple with features on the iconic “Ghetto Supastar” with Pras & ODB, “Girls Dem Suga” with Beenie Man and “Take Me There,” with Blackstreet. Her second album, Fear of Flying, released in 2000, also went double platinum and featured the popular hits “Case of the Ex,” “Free,” and “Best of Me.” In addition to her music career, Mya has made notable acting appearances on screen and stage, including the Oscar winning film “Chicago,” Wes Craven’s “Cursed,” various Miramax films “Dirty Dancing II: Havana Nights” and “Shall We dance” and most recently, 2023’s “House Party.” Mya has also appeared on television shows such as NCIS, VH1’s “Girl’s Cruise,” Lifetime TV’s Christmas film “My Favorite Christmas Melody”, UMC’s “5th Ward,” Tubi’s “Lazarus,” The Documentary “They’re Trying to Kill Us,” EA’s “James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing,” ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars” Nickelodeon’s “Yo Gabba Gabba!” and more. In 2022, Mya made a surprise appearance with Christina Aguilera for a “Lady Marmalade” reunion at LA PRIDE with Kim Petras, Paris Hilton and the Broadway cast of Moulin Rouge!, which garnered international press coverage and a record breaking resurgence in sales, streams and catalog marketing. Mya has maintained commercial and critical success by staying connected with her global fan base using emerging technologies and touring the globe with recent highlights including Live Nation’s “Femme it Forward” Tour and International LGBTQ+ Pride Festivals. Mya’s philanthropic endeavors include serving as a spokesperson for various organizations, including being the first US Ambassador for World Animal Protection, The Humane Society, North Shore Animal League, PETA, NOH8 Campaign, Susan G. Komen’s Stop Breast Cancer for Life, GLAAD, Save The Music, Rock the Vote, NAACP, (RED), MusiCares and her very own, Mya Arts & Tech Foundation, founded in 2005. She has also been involved in various brand partnerships with companies such as Coca-Cola, Pantene, Escada, Motorola, Microsoft, Dell, Apple Music, Verizon, Macy’s, Cover Girl, Chevrolet, TikTok, IMG, Heatherette, Kohl’s, EA, Meta, BMF, and more. Mya has secured high profile sync and licensing placements with major media outlets such as NBCUniversal, Bravo, Ford, Lifetime, HBO, CBS, ABC, Paramount/Viacom, Fox, and others. Mya is also an active voice in the Vegan community, and advocate for clean, compassionate eating, living and wellness. As Mya prepares to release her next studio projects, she continues to tour globally and captivate audiences with her live performances. Her impact on the entertainment and music industry is undeniable, and she shows no signs of slowing down. On February 14, 2023, Mya celebrated 25 years in the music industry as a Grammy Award-winning artist, respected singer, songwriter, producer, musician, dancer, choreographer, actress, activist, and philanthropist. With all her noted accomplishments, Mya is, in her own words, “just getting started with the best yet to come.” Photo credit belongs to Walik Goshorn.

wed04nov8:00 pmwed11:00 pmJackie Evans8:00 pm - 11:00 pm MilkBoy, 1100 Chestnut Street

wed04nov8:00 pmwed11:00 pmHovvdyBig World Tour8:00 pm - 11:00 pm Webster Hall, 125 E 11th Street

wed04nov9:00 pmwed11:00 pmKeenan TreVon9:00 pm - 11:00 pm Mercury Lounge, 17 E Houston Street

wed04nov10:30 pmwed11:59 pmMýa10:30 pm - 11:59 pm Blue Note, 131 W 3rd Street

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Mýa: definition of the multi-hyphenate entertainer. Since releasing her eponymous debut album Mýa in 1998 at the age of 18, Mya has become a staple in the pop cultural zeitgeist across genres, platforms, and mediums, around the world. Grammy Award winning singer, songwriter and producer Mya is globally recognized and celebrated as a musician and true artist. As a Screen Actors Guild award winning actress, Mya has made herself an indelible talent across film, television, Broadway, and gaming. Mya Marie Harrison’s resume is a reflection of the unique and authentic artistry that has maintained a career spanning 25 diverse, exciting and empowering years as the portrait of a true artist and business woman. Mya’s alluring talent echoes around the globe and across decades as a beloved singer, actress, dancer, choreographer, model, philanthropist, activist, and entrepreneur. In 2023, Mya marks her 25th anniversary in the entertainment industry. Mya’s musical journey began in 1998 with the release of her self-titled debut album, which went double platinum and produced hit singles such as “It’s All About Me,” with Sisqo, “Movin On,” and “My First Night With You.” Notable collaborations also catapulted Mya as a cross-genre staple with features on the iconic “Ghetto Supastar” with Pras & ODB, “Girls Dem Suga” with Beenie Man and “Take Me There,” with Blackstreet. Her second album, Fear of Flying, released in 2000, also went double platinum and featured the popular hits “Case of the Ex,” “Free,” and “Best of Me.” In addition to her music career, Mya has made notable acting appearances on screen and stage, including the Oscar winning film “Chicago,” Wes Craven’s “Cursed,” various Miramax films “Dirty Dancing II: Havana Nights” and “Shall We dance” and most recently, 2023’s “House Party.” Mya has also appeared on television shows such as NCIS, VH1’s “Girl’s Cruise,” Lifetime TV’s Christmas film “My Favorite Christmas Melody”, UMC’s “5th Ward,” Tubi’s “Lazarus,” The Documentary “They’re Trying to Kill Us,” EA’s “James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing,” ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars” Nickelodeon’s “Yo Gabba Gabba!” and more. In 2022, Mya made a surprise appearance with Christina Aguilera for a “Lady Marmalade” reunion at LA PRIDE with Kim Petras, Paris Hilton and the Broadway cast of Moulin Rouge!, which garnered international press coverage and a record breaking resurgence in sales, streams and catalog marketing. Mya has maintained commercial and critical success by staying connected with her global fan base using emerging technologies and touring the globe with recent highlights including Live Nation’s “Femme it Forward” Tour and International LGBTQ+ Pride Festivals. Mya’s philanthropic endeavors include serving as a spokesperson for various organizations, including being the first US Ambassador for World Animal Protection, The Humane Society, North Shore Animal League, PETA, NOH8 Campaign, Susan G. Komen’s Stop Breast Cancer for Life, GLAAD, Save The Music, Rock the Vote, NAACP, (RED), MusiCares and her very own, Mya Arts & Tech Foundation, founded in 2005. She has also been involved in various brand partnerships with companies such as Coca-Cola, Pantene, Escada, Motorola, Microsoft, Dell, Apple Music, Verizon, Macy’s, Cover Girl, Chevrolet, TikTok, IMG, Heatherette, Kohl’s, EA, Meta, BMF, and more. Mya has secured high profile sync and licensing placements with major media outlets such as NBCUniversal, Bravo, Ford, Lifetime, HBO, CBS, ABC, Paramount/Viacom, Fox, and others. Mya is also an active voice in the Vegan community, and advocate for clean, compassionate eating, living and wellness. As Mya prepares to release her next studio projects, she continues to tour globally and captivate audiences with her live performances. Her impact on the entertainment and music industry is undeniable, and she shows no signs of slowing down. On February 14, 2023, Mya celebrated 25 years in the music industry as a Grammy Award-winning artist, respected singer, songwriter, producer, musician, dancer, choreographer, actress, activist, and philanthropist. With all her noted accomplishments, Mya is, in her own words, “just getting started with the best yet to come.” Photo credit belongs to Walik Goshorn.

thu05nov7:00 pmthu10:00 pmAkeem AliThe Texture Tour7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Irving Plaza, 17 Irving Place

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Boasting, philosophizing, and motivating over productions that range from boom bap to trap and from funk to bossa nova, Akeem Ali is an uncommonly versatile singer and rapper from Jackson, Mississippi. Although he broke through in 2020 with "Keemy Casanova," a viral track that introduced his '70s-styled pimping alter ego of the same name, he's no mere novelty act, as demonstrated by D.E.A.D. (Do Em All Dirty) (2021), The Texture Tape (2025), and Hold Please (2026), studio projects boasting appearances from the likes of T.I., Big K.R.I.T., and Big Boi, among other Southern legends who have inspired him. Akeem Thomas started writing rhymes in his early teens. Upon graduation from high school, he joined the military and went to barber school, but by that point, rapping had become more than just a creative outlet for him. Opting to pursue music as more than a hobby, Akeem moved in 2016 from his native Jackson, Mississippi, to Atlanta. Several months after his relocation, he was deployed to Afghanistan, returned in 2018, and juggled barber and landscaping work before he chose to do music full-time. With his stage name inspired by Muhammad Ali, Akeem made his independent full-length commercial debut in 2019 with Rollin'. The following year, Akeem introduced Keemy Casanova, an alter ego enabling him to indulge in his affinity for slick, '70s-inspired pimp talk. The single "Keemy Casanova" went viral on social media, greatly raising the rapper's profile and leading to a deal with Winners United, the label founded by professional basketball star Lou Williams. Mack in the Day Starring Keemy Casanova, an EP featuring the breakthrough track along with additional singles like "Shugga" and "The Mack," arrived on Winners United in May 2021. Instead of completely investing in his new persona, Akeem resumed more down-to-earth business only six months later with D.E.A.D. (Do Em All Dirty), a comparatively serious full-length studded with appearances from T.I. and Big K.R.I.T. Before the end of 2021, Akeem co-headlined "50 Lem Hunnits" for the soundtrack of Insecure's fifth season. Amid a steady supply of singles and featured appearances throughout the next several years, Akeem also teamed respectively with BFlat and Red Lotus for the EPs Roses Are Red But I'm Color Blind and Fight the Funk. In 2025, he issued The Texture Tape and The Texture Tape 2, and assisted influences Sleepy Brown and Big Boi on "High Rise [Remix]." Hold Please, another EP, followed in 2026. - Biography by Andy Kellman

thu05nov7:00 pmthu10:00 pmEARTH TO EMILY7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Zone One at Elsewhere, 599 Johnson Avenue

thu05nov7:00 pmthu10:30 pmDeerhoof7:00 pm - 10:30 pm Elsewhere Space, 599 Johnson Avenue

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One of the most acclaimed acts of the early 21st century, Deerhoof mix vibrant melodies, noise, and an experimental spirit into utterly distinctive music. Their approach was so singular that they could explore any style or influence -- from classic rock to classical music -- and make it sound purely Deerhoof. Throughout their long and prolific career, they rarely repeated themselves. On 1997's The Man, The King, The Girl, their music was noisy and full of improvisation; on 1999's Holdy Paws, it was controlled and direct. Deerhoof continued to reveal different sides of their music, whether it was the ambitious sprawl of 2005's The Runners Four or 2007's compact Friend Opportunity, which touched on post-punk, jazz, and psych-rock. They further broadened their horizons with elements of Tropicalia and synth pop into 2011's Deerhoof vs. Evil and riffed on surf, disco, and punk on 2014's La Isla Bonita. However, Deerhoof's creativity wasn't limited to their music. They released a song as sheet music in 2008, inspired a children's ballet with their 2004 album Milk Man, and performed at the Large Hadron Collider. In the 2020s, Deerhoof's long-standing dedication to social justice came to the fore, and with 2020's searching Future Teenage Cave Artists and 2025's confrontational yet optimistic Noble and Godlike in Ruin, they continued to inspire and surprise listeners in their own inimitable way. Deerhoof began in 1994 as an improvisational project for guitarist Rob Fisk, with drummer/keyboardist Greg Saunier joining him a week later. After performing at that year's Yoyo A Go Go festival, the duo signed to Kill Rock Stars, which issued the 7" "Return of the Woods M'Lady" in March 1995. Early releases such as this and For Those of Us on Foot had a harsher, no wave-inspired sound than Deerhoof's later efforts, though they also hinted at the playfulness that would soon surface in their music. In mid-1995, Fisk and Saunier were joined by vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Satomi Matsuzaki, who became a member of Deerhoof soon after moving to San Francisco from Japan and had never been in a band before. Matsuzaki appeared on1996's self-titled double 7" on Menlo Park, but other members passed through Deerhoof during this time, including Chris Cooper of Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase. Arriving in October 1997, Deerhoof's debut album The Man, The King, The Girl, found the band making their own kind of pop songs, which incorporated toy instruments and highlighted Matsuzaki's clear yet unpredictable vocal melodies. The "Come See the Duck" 7" arrived on Banano a year later. Fisk left Deerhoof after 1999's Holdy Paws, an experiment that found the band stripping away much of the improvisation and noise from their music. Late that year, former Gorge Trio guitarist John Dieterich became the band's new guitarist. The live album Koalamagic appeared on the Australian label Dual Plover in 2000. During this time, Saunier and Matsuzaki completed sessions recorded before Fisk departed that became Halfbird, which Menlo Park issued in July 2001. That year the group also released the "My Pal Foot Foot" 7", a cover of the legendary Shaggs song that also appeared on the Better Than the Beatles tribute. The first album to include Dieterich, June 2002's kaleidoscopic Reveille, became Deerhoof's critical breakthrough, winning them acclaim for its wide-ranging sounds and engaging melodies. By the time of Reveille's release, guitarist Chris Cohen had joined the band. He made his recorded debut with the following year's Apple O', which unlike Reveille, came together quickly, with most of the album recorded in a single nine-hour session with engineer Jay Pellicci. Like its predecessor, Apple O' earned significant praise, and the members of Deerhoof quit their day jobs to focus on the band and touring. Also in 2003, the band appeared on Azadi! A Benefit Compilation for the Revolutionary Association of the Wo…, while Saunier collaborated with Hella's Zach Hill and Joanna Newsom as Nervous Cop, who issued their self-titled debut album in November. Deerhoof returned in March 2004 with Milk Man, a concept album inspired by the illustrations of Ken Kagami as well as Broadway, Igor Stravinsky, and prog rock. That April, the band played the All Tomorrow's Parties festival curated by Sonic Youth and Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks. On the following year's mini-album Green Cosmos -- the first Deerhoof release sung in Japanese -- the band underscored its classical and electronic influences. To make their seventh album, Deerhoof spent months working in an Oakland, California rehearsal space. The results were October's ambitious The Runners Four, another conceptual effort that found the band trading vocal and instrumental duties over its sprawling length. The following year was another busy one for the band: not only did they tour with the Flaming Lips, the Fiery Furnaces, and Mary Timony, among others, they also featured on Danielson's album Ships and performed an original score to Harry Smith's acclaimed animated film Heaven and Earth Magic at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Following this performance, Cohen amicably parted ways with the band, and Deerhoof posted an EP of free music on their website in his honor. Continuing on as a trio, Saunier, Matsuzaki, and Dieterich began work on their next album, toured extensively, and collaborated with composer Ed Shearmur on the music for Dedication, a film directed by Justin Theroux. Later that year, a children's ballet based on Milk Man was performed in North Haven, Maine. January 2007 saw the release of Friend Opportunity, a polished, concise yet eclectic set of songs. Following a world tour that saw the band play New York's Highline Festival at David Bowie's invitation, Deerhoof added guitarist Ed Rodriguez (also of Gorge Trio, XBXRX, and the Flying Luttenbachers) to the fold in early 2008. That year, the band released sheet music for "Fresh Born," a song off their upcoming album, so that fans could record and share their own versions of it. Arriving in October 2008, Offend Maggie echoed the expansive style of The Runners Four while returning to the dual guitar attack of the band's earlier albums. Deerhoof's live performances from this time found them performing with luminaries ranging from Wadada Leo Smith to LiLiPUT's Marlene Marder. The following year, the band appeared in Adam Pendleton's film BAND as the Rolling Stones and contributed the song "I Did Crimes for You" to its soundtrack. Along with performing Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures with their friends Xiu Xiu in Australia and Brooklyn, Deerhoof spent much of 2010 working on their next album. Months ahead of the album's release, the band leaked songs to different media outlets, creating a virtual musical scavenger hunt that culminated with the arrival of their tenth studio album. Their first full-length for Polyvinyl, January 2011's Deerhoof vs. Evil incorporated synth pop, Tropicalia, the Beach Boys, and more into its chameleonic sound. Deerhoof complemented the album with a series of 7"s that featured Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, David Bazan, and Busdriver performing their own lyrics to various Deerhoof vs. Evil tracks. The year's other projects included a track for Polyvinyl's benefit compilation Japan 3.11.11, which provided aid to the country in the wake of its devastating earthquake and tsunami, and the collaboration Congotronics vs. Rockers, a touring group that also counted Juana Molina, Konono No. 1, and Kasai Allstars among its lineup. By the time Deerhoof were ready to record their 11th album, the bandmembers lived in four different cities. Collaborating via email, they made September 2012's Breakup Song, which took an empowering and positive approach toward songs about falling out of love. The following month saw the release of "Sexy, but Sparkly," a track they recorded for the documentary series Masters from Their Day with Chris Shaw; it was the first time in their history that they worked with an outside producer. In March 2013, Chicago's 22-piece contemporary classical music group Ensemble Dal Niente premiered their piece "Deerhoof Chamber Variations," which interpreted songs from throughout the band's body of work, at New York's Ecstatic Music Festival. For 2014's La Isla Bonita, Deerhoof's members convened at Rodriguez's house and recorded songs inspired by the Ramones and Madonna in just a week. The following year, they became the first band to perform an improvised set at CERN's Large Hadron Collider and appeared on 50 Bands & a Cat for Indiana Equality, a compilation to benefit Indiana's LGBTQ community released by Joyful Noise. Also in 2015, Deerhoof released the live album Fever 121614, which captured a Tokyo date on the La Isla Bonita tour. Early in 2016, the band teamed up with composer Marcos Balter and Ensemble Dal Niente for Balter/Saunier, a collaboration that featured a medley of Deerhoof songs arranged for the ensemble. That June, Deerhoof released The Magic, an uninhibited set of songs featuring three unused tracks written and recorded for the HBO series Vinyl. As Joyful Noise's Artist in Residence for 2017, Deerhoof issued a number of limited-edition releases and the politically informed Mountain Moves. Arriving in September 2017, the album was a call to resistance that featured collaborations with artists including Laetitia Sadier, Wye Oak's Jenn Wasner, and Juana Molina, and covers of songs by the Staple Singers and Bob Marley. To commemorate their 25th anniversary in 2019, Deerhoof released remastered reissues of The Man, The King, The Girl, Holdy Paws, and Halfbird. Deerhoof returned with new music in May 2020 with Future Teenage Cave Artists, a darker -- but still hopeful -- meditation on the era's political crises that featured some of Deerhoof's most overtly challenging music in some time. That September, they released Love-Lore, a 35-minute medley of 43 songs including pieces by Ornette Coleman, Ennio Morricone, Eddy Grant, and B-52s that they first performed at the 2019 Time:Spans Festival. Deerhoof borrowed some of that album's eclecticism -- as well as the spontaneous feel of their concerts -- for October 2021's Actually, You Can, which folded Baroque, Tejano, and Japanese festival music influences into its cheerfully subversive songs. That November, the band played its first live show in two years in Rodriguez's basement, broadcasting the show as a live stream and releasing it as the live album Devil Kids in December. In mid-2022, Deerhoof started work on their 19th album, working with producer Mike Bridavsky at Winnipeg, Manitoba's No Fun Club studio. Largely eschewing tinkering and processing for a quick creative process and live takes, March 2023's brisk, optimistic Miracle-Level was the band's first album sung entirely in Japanese and the first to be created entirely in a professional studio. Deerhoof then issued The Free Triple Live Album, a document of a February 2024 Berlin show the band played with their old friend Fisk as the opening act. That year, Saunier released the solo album We Sang, Therefore We Were. Early 2025's single "Sparrow Sparrow" benefitted the Trevor Project and previewed Deerhoof's 20th studio album, April's Noble and Godlike in Ruin. Featuring a cameo by Saul Williams, the album incorporated symphonic and free jazz influences into its commentary about the immigrant experience in the United States. - Biography by Heather Phares

thu05nov8:00 pmthu11:00 pmFruit Bats8:00 pm - 11:00 pm Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden Street

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The midwest, particularly the part of the midwest Eric D. Johnson hails from, is a largely flat expanse. Zipping through it on the highway, you’ll see cities and towns rise up in the distance, but blink and you’ll miss other man-made rejoinders to horizontal living dotting the landscape, hill after hill, built from the refuse of the past: landfills. Some of these hills make for great sledding spots, parks, and trails. Others turn organic waste into compost. The Landfill, Fruit Bats’ June 12, 2026 album from Merge Records, is something else entirely: a mountain dominating the landscape of Johnson’s heart. This being a Fruit Bats record, one scales that mountain to take in the view, to see the future spread out as wide and endless as the midwestern plains. “But the mountain that gives us this vantage point,” Johnson says, “is made out of the trash that we’ve created, the collective weight of the past and where it’s taken us.” When he details that view on title track and lead single “The Landfill” — “a holy vision / of what could be / and couldn’t be / and could have been” — it’s thrilling to hear him sent soaring by a full complement of instruments. But what’s truly stunning is how, in his recontouring from could to couldn’t to could have been, he has lost none of the vulnerability that was brought to the foreground of his songwriting by 2025’s solo outing, Baby Man. Over the course of his now 25-year career under the moniker, most of Eric D. Johnson’s output as Fruit Bats has been the product of patience and fine-tuning. His songs, to borrow a phrase, are slow growers, given life on albums that encompass long stretches of time and memory. Baby Man changed that — he disallowed himself from referring to material he’d been working on before laying the album down, utilizing the morning pages technique of stream-of-consciousness, observational songwriting which flowed directly into his afternoon recording sessions. It was both a breathtaking document of Johnson’s skill as a singer-songwriter and an unvarnished account of the two weeks in which he recorded the album. Baby Man’s closeness to Johnson’s heart and the close attention to his voice and instrument its minimalist-maximalist ethos required uncorked something in him as he wrote towards a new full band effort. “That session was over,” he explains, “but there was way more to explore. I liked the immediacy of it, and I wanted to see how that would translate into a full-band Fruit Bats record.” Within weeks, he was back in a studio, this time with his band — David Dawda (bass), Josh Mease (guitars, synth), Frank LoCrasto (piano, synth), and Kosta Galanopoulos (drums) — with whom Johnson has spent over a decade building Fruit Bats into one of the most in-demand live acts in indie rock. Listening to The Landfill, it’s not hard to understand why: simply put, this band smokes. Producing the initial recording sessions in Washington’s Bear Creek Studios, Johnson set out to capture “the sound of this band I constantly marvel at, the feeling of being in a room with musicians you love and trust enough to let them cook.” They laid most of it down on the floor — no click tracks, no comped vocals, and minimal overdubs, with frequent collaborator Thom Monahan returning to provide additional production and The Landfill’s final mix. “It’s how we do things with my other band, Bonny Light Horseman, and I was curious to see how it would work with Fruit Bats,” Johnson notes. “It’s both a very personal record, and my most collaborative to date.” It’s also the most live a Fruit Bats record has been since 2009’s The Ruminant Band, and in paring back the number of tracks that typically layer a full-band song, the psychedelic, technicolor dreaminess of their sound is more vivid than ever. Time and space melt into the sublime as the band gels around Johnson’s hazy croon on “That Goddamn Sun,” stretching out to accommodate him as he trips from California to North Carolina. In striking a balance between ecstatic romance and melancholia, “Think Aboutcha” occupies the blissful-but-doomed intersection of the E Street Band and Paul McCartney, playful but playing for stakes that are larger than life, while “Perhaps We’re a Storm” charges headlong into the unknown. All of these songs — most of the songs on The Landfill, in fact — mark themselves immediately as some of the best in Eric D. Johnson’s ever-expanding songbook, seekers and anthems alike. It’s the most daunting peak he’s scaled yet, musically or lyrically: a swashbuckling set of full-band jammers couldn’t be more honest and open-hearted about his hopes and anxieties, his dreams and failures, what’s passed and what will come to pass, were it just him, his guitar, and the listener.

thu05nov8:00 pmthu11:00 pmYanaThe Feelings Are Forever Tour8:00 pm - 11:00 pm MilkBoy, 1100 Chestnut Street

fri06nov6:00 pmfri9:00 pmLate Night ThoughtsDays Like This Tour6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Mercury Lounge, 17 E Houston Street

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(Friday) 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

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Mercury Lounge

17 E Houston Street

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Late Night Thoughts is the North East based, folk-pop duo of Michael Harlow and Brian Rauch. Both Michael and Brian began their musical journeys at a young age. Brian has been singing since before he can remember, echoing tunes from John Mayer to Elton John. Michael's musical journey began with the drums and later expanded to piano, guitar, ukulele, melodica, bass, banjo, and last but not least, didgeridoo. The pair met while attending Brandeis University and began to write and perform across Massachusetts. They forged a friendship through a shared love for songwriting as they realized their keen ability to find optimism amidst personal growth. Their first EP, 'Moonlit Memories', was released in 2018 and helped them burst onto the scene behind their singles 'Shit Happens' and 'What Love Truly Means' as they grew their audience by performing locally and at universities up and down the East Coast. Before graduating they released their second EP, 'Worth It', as a culmination of their bittersweet goodbye to college, collectively amassing over five million streams on various platforms. Garnering praise from multiple outlets such as Popternative, NYS Music, and Aesthetic Magazine, their early releases have given the duo a dedicated fanbase across the country. The duo relocated to Brooklyn, NY where they have performed at venues including Mercury Lounge, The Bowery Electric, The Knitting Factory, Rockwood Music Hall, The Delancey, Heaven Can Wait, SOB's, DROM, and The Bitter End while expanding their live sound to add a full backing band.

fri06nov7:00 pmfri10:00 pmMichelle BranchEverywhere And Back Again Tour7:00 pm - 10:00 pm The Stone Pony, 913 Ocean Ave N

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(Friday) 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

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The Stone Pony

913 Ocean Ave N

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Michelle Branch shot to the top of the charts in 2001 with "Everywhere" and "All You Wanted," bright, melodic pop songs that nevertheless seemed sturdy, even rootsy, when compared to the teen pop dominating the charts and culture in the Y2K era. Branch leaned into those singer/songwriter roots, shoring up her classic rock connections by singing on Santana's "The Game of Love" -- a 2002 smash which won her a Grammy for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals -- and then forming the country duo the Wreckers with fellow singer/songwriter Jessica Harp in 2005. After such a strong start to her career, Branch spent the better part of a decade embroiled in record label troubles, finally re-emerging in on Verve in 2017 with Hopeless Romantic. Branch's creative revival continued on her 2022 album The Trouble with Fever. Raised in Arizona, Branch sang throughout her childhood but didn't pick up the guitar until her 14th birthday, when she received the instrument as a gift. Within a week, she'd written her first song. Branch's parents eventually decided to home school their daughter, allowing her more time to focus on a budding musical career and play shows in the Sedona area. Following the release of her first independent album, 1998's Broken Bracelet, Branch began attracting attention from major labels. She signed with Maverick Records and began co-writing with John Shanks, a former member of Melissa Etheridge's band who had since moved into production. Together, the two wrote "Everywhere," which became Branch's first hit single in 2001. Released that summer, her debut album quickly produced two more hits, including the Top Ten single "All You Wanted." While working on a second album, Branch found time to collaborate with Santana on "The Game of Love," which became the lead single for Santana's 2002 album Shaman. "The Game of Love" peaked at number five and eventually won a Grammy Award, while "Are You Happy Now?" -- the first song from Branch's sophomore album, Hotel Paper -- maintained her presence on the charts in early 2003. Like The Spirit Room, Hotel Paper went platinum and spawned two Top 40 singles. While touring in support of the album, Branch became engaged to her bass player, Teddy Landau, and the two married in May 2004. One year later, she launched a country side project with her backup singer, Jessica Harp. Initially calling themselves the Cass County Homewreckers, the two eventually trimmed down their name to the Wreckers and released an album, Stand Still, Look Pretty, in 2006. The album went gold, due in large part to the lead single "Leave the Pieces," which topped the country charts. The Wreckers went their separate ways in 2007, with both musicians returning to their own careers. Branch spent several years writing songs and making guest appearances on other albums (including Chris Isaak's Mr. Lucky) before issuing a short EP, Everything Comes and Goes, in 2010. Over the next three years, she worked on an album called West Coast Time, but it never materialized. Branch left Maverick/Reprise in 2015, signing with Verve that year. With the assistance of producers Gus Seyffert (Beck) and Patrick Carney (best known as the drummer of the Black Keys), she worked on her first album for Verve throughout 2016, releasing Hopeless Romantic in March 2017. Branch and Carney married in 2019; the couple had a son in 2018 and a daughter in 2022. The pair continued their creative collaboration on The Trouble with Fever, an album released on Nonesuch in 2022. - Biography by Andrew Leahey

fri06nov7:00 pmfri10:00 pmThe WrecksFinally Outside Tour7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Theatre of Living Arts, 334 South Street

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(Friday) 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

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Theatre of Living Arts

334 South Street

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Los Angeles' the Wrecks make exuberant, melodic, emo- and punk-influenced indie rock. The group found early success with their 2016 breakout single, "Favorite Liar," and after a pair of EPs, they signed to the Big Noise label for their 2020 full-length Infinitely Ordinary. A follow-up album, 2022's Sonder, found additional success in Australia, and the band continued issuing singles over the next few years, leading up to the release of their EP INSIDE: in 2025. Hailing from Thousand Oaks, California, singer/guitarist Nick Anderson, guitarist Nick Schmidt, guitarist Westen Weiss, bassist Aaron Kelley, and drummer Billy Nally had barely formed the Wrecks when they chanced on the opportunity for a few covert days in a local studio. In just three hectic days, they recorded their 2016 debut EP, We Are the Wrecks, which featured the catchy single "Favorite Liar." The song picked up steam online and helped the Wrecks land some key gigs opening for Paramore and the Struts along with festival slots at Lollapalooza and BottleRock. Following their second EP, 2018's Panic Vertigo, the group signed a deal with Big Noise, which issued their debut album, Infinitely Ordinary, in May 2020. Working quickly, the band returned just six months later with the Static EP. The Wrecks' 2021 output consisted of a cover of Hall & Oates' "Rich Girl" and their own single, "I Want My Life Back Now." 2022 was another high-profile year for the band with the release of their second album, Sonder, in June. The record was a success, particularly in Australia, where it charted, and they offered a deluxe version later in the year featuring the single "Things You Make Me Do." Aside from "Day Job," a 2023 collaboration with Jayden Seeley, the Wrecks remained relatively quiet over the next two years as they prepared their next project. They eventually returned with INSIDE:, a six-song EP released in April 2025. - Biography by Matt Collar

fri06nov7:30 pmfri11:00 pmOrange Dog Club7:30 pm - 11:00 pm Kung Fu Necktie, 1248 N Front Street

fri06nov8:00 pmfri10:00 pmQuinn Sullivan8:00 pm - 10:00 pm Debonair Music Hall, 1409 Queen Anne Road

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(Friday) 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

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Debonair Music Hall

1409 Queen Anne Road

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Twenty six year old Quinn Sullivan is an acclaimed singer, songwriter, and guitarist who rose to prominence in the early 2000’s and continues to amaze audiences worldwide. Born and raised in New Bedford Massachusetts, Quinn grew up in a musical household listening to classic rock, jazz and blues. Quinn credits his early obsession with The Beatles as the impetus for him to pursue music as a career. He received his first guitar at the tender age of three and quickly demonstrated exceptional talent. He gained national attention with appearances on afternoon and late night television shows (Tonight Show, Ellen, Jimmy Kimmell, and Conan O Brian). In 2007, Quinn met music legend Buddy Guy , who invited him onstage and would later invite him to tour and record with him throughout the next decade. Over the years, Quinn has evolved from a remarkable young talent into a mature, emotive artist known for blending blues, rock, and classic influences. His discography includes multiple albums, with his fifth release, "Salvation," recognized as his most personal work, exploring themes of loss, love, and resilience. He has been praised not only for his exceptional guitar skills but also for his songwriting, drawing inspiration from both his musical roots and his own life experiences. Quinn’s personal journey profoundly influences his music and stage performance. His music reflects years of growth, resilience, and emotional depth shaped by life experiences including personal loss and soulful introspection. His recent albums explore themes of love, hardship, and redemption, which translate into performances full of honest emotion and at the same time full of raw energy and enthusiasm, making every concert not just a show but a personal and transformative experience.

fri06nov8:00 pmfri11:00 pmAkeem AliThe Texture Tour8:00 pm - 11:00 pm The Foundry, 9 E Allen Street

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(Friday) 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm

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The Foundry

9 E Allen Street

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Boasting, philosophizing, and motivating over productions that range from boom bap to trap and from funk to bossa nova, Akeem Ali is an uncommonly versatile singer and rapper from Jackson, Mississippi. Although he broke through in 2020 with "Keemy Casanova," a viral track that introduced his '70s-styled pimping alter ego of the same name, he's no mere novelty act, as demonstrated by D.E.A.D. (Do Em All Dirty) (2021), The Texture Tape (2025), and Hold Please (2026), studio projects boasting appearances from the likes of T.I., Big K.R.I.T., and Big Boi, among other Southern legends who have inspired him. Akeem Thomas started writing rhymes in his early teens. Upon graduation from high school, he joined the military and went to barber school, but by that point, rapping had become more than just a creative outlet for him. Opting to pursue music as more than a hobby, Akeem moved in 2016 from his native Jackson, Mississippi, to Atlanta. Several months after his relocation, he was deployed to Afghanistan, returned in 2018, and juggled barber and landscaping work before he chose to do music full-time. With his stage name inspired by Muhammad Ali, Akeem made his independent full-length commercial debut in 2019 with Rollin'. The following year, Akeem introduced Keemy Casanova, an alter ego enabling him to indulge in his affinity for slick, '70s-inspired pimp talk. The single "Keemy Casanova" went viral on social media, greatly raising the rapper's profile and leading to a deal with Winners United, the label founded by professional basketball star Lou Williams. Mack in the Day Starring Keemy Casanova, an EP featuring the breakthrough track along with additional singles like "Shugga" and "The Mack," arrived on Winners United in May 2021. Instead of completely investing in his new persona, Akeem resumed more down-to-earth business only six months later with D.E.A.D. (Do Em All Dirty), a comparatively serious full-length studded with appearances from T.I. and Big K.R.I.T. Before the end of 2021, Akeem co-headlined "50 Lem Hunnits" for the soundtrack of Insecure's fifth season. Amid a steady supply of singles and featured appearances throughout the next several years, Akeem also teamed respectively with BFlat and Red Lotus for the EPs Roses Are Red But I'm Color Blind and Fight the Funk. In 2025, he issued The Texture Tape and The Texture Tape 2, and assisted influences Sleepy Brown and Big Boi on "High Rise [Remix]." Hold Please, another EP, followed in 2026. - Biography by Andy Kellman

fri06nov8:00 pmfri11:59 pmThis is Lorelei8:00 pm - 11:59 pm Webster Hall, 125 E 11th Street

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(Friday) 8:00 pm - 11:59 pm

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Webster Hall

125 E 11th Street

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The solo project of Water from Your Eyes' Nate Amos, This Is Lorelei showcases his gift for writing heartfelt yet slightly skewed songs. At first, This Is Lorelei focused on eclectic, spontaneous experiments, but as Amos' dozens of releases spanned electronic pop, bedroom folk, industrial music, and lo-fi indie rock, his knack for wryly catchy tunes surfaced. The more considered songcraft on works like 2019's Move Around EP led to 2024's Box for Buddy, Box for Star, This Is Lorelei's first release on a proper label. The album's endearing indie rock, electro-pop, and Americana quickly won critical acclaim and tributes in the form of covers by MJ Lenderman and Waxahatchee (these covers and others appeared on 2025 and 2026 deluxe editions of the album). With the re-recorded versions of older material on 2025's Holo Boy, Amos bolstered his reputation as one of indie's most promising and distinctive voices, while 2026's second album The Singer in My Band solidified it. Amos grew up in a family of musicians: His father and sister perform as the bluegrass duo Bob & Sarah Amos. The Amos family lived in Virginia for most of Nate's childhood, then moved to rural Vermont before he started high school. Throughout these years, he wrote and recorded songs and played in a number of bands. When he moved to Chicago in the early 2010s, Amos became part of the city's underground music scene and began recording as This Is Lorelei, taking the moniker from a planet mentioned on Star Trek: The Animated Series. He recorded several of the project's first releases, including 2014's mixtape This Is Lorelei, in Vermont while visiting his family. In 2015, he met Rachel Brown, with whom he formed the experimental noise-pop duo Water from Your Eyes a year later. While that project got off the ground, Amos recorded as This Is Lorelei at a prolific clip, issuing I You I I You You in 2015 as well as Self-Ish and Did You Dream It or Did You See it in a Photograph in 2016. Late that year, This Is This Is Lorelei (2012–2016) gathered over 30 songs from his early mixtapes and EPs. In the late 2010s, This Is Lorelei's music gradually became more song-oriented on mixtapes and EPs including 2017's From Static Comes Motion and 2019's Move Around EP, which Amos recorded while he was obsessed with the concise catchiness of blink-182's "All the Small Things." This approach informed 2020's Shakes and Stays and Pop 40 Town, 2021's Money Right Now and Jimmy Buffett Tape, and 2022's Falls Like Water Falls, among other releases. Around this time, Amos' profile rose thanks to praise for Water from Your Eyes' 2021 album Structure and Cry Mfer, the 2022 debut album from My Idea, his project with Palberta's Lily Konigsberg. At the end of a Water from Your Eyes tour, Amos visited Stonehenge and had an epiphany: he would write This Is Lorelei's next batch of songs without getting high. Rather than immediately releasing his music online once it was recorded, he penned dozens of songs and carefully chose the ten that appeared on This Is Lorelei's official debut album, Box for Buddy, Box for Star. Arriving on Double Double Whammy in June 2024, the album tightened Amos' sprawling mix of folk, electronic music, indie rock, and country just enough to spotlight his increasingly memorable songwriting. Box for Buddy, Box for Star was hailed as one of 2024's best albums, and over the course of 2025, other indie musicians burnished its reputation by reinterpreting its songs. MJ Lenderman transformed "Dancing in the Club" into a twang-filled ballad, while Waxahatchee's Katie Crutchfield and Geese's Cameron Winter reinterpreted "Where's Your Love Now." Lenderman, Snail Mail, and Bob & Sarah Amos recorded versions of the album's songs that appeared on an April 2025 deluxe edition. Late that year, Amos released Holo Boy, a set of re-recorded songs from This Is Lorelei's releases from 2014 to 2021. In April 2026, a super-deluxe edition of Box for Buddy, Box for Star appeared, featuring more covers by artists including Hayley Williams, Jeff Tweedy, and Tim Heidecker. That September, Amos returned with This Is Lorelei's second album, The Singer in My Band. Largely written while on the road and once again featuring Bob & Sarah Amos, it emphasized the country and bluegrass underpinnings of his music as well as the tragicomedic characters in his songs. - Biography by Heather Phares

fri06nov(nov 6)8:30 pmsat07(nov 7)1:00 amSadBois8:30 pm - 1:00 am (7) House Of Independents, 572 Cookman Avenue

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6 (Friday) 8:30 pm - 7 (Saturday) 1:00 am

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House Of Independents

572 Cookman Avenue

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SadBois, an EDM band/DJs from Long Island, demonstrates an unparalleled ability to merge electronic and rock elements into a cohesive and nostalgic sound. From official remixes for industry heavy-weights such as ILLENIUM, Two Friends, and Taylor Acorn to collaborations with acts such as 408, MashBit, and Olivver the Kid, SadBois deliver an energetic, guitar driven sound alongside unparalleled songwriting. Their most recent project, the “In Bloom” EP, released with Future Generation, was supported by Spotify’s Rocktronic playlist and Apple Music’s “New in Rock”. “In Bloom” embodies SadBois connection to this rising rocktronic niche, featuring a myriad of vocals from figureheads including Olivver The Kid, UNDY, Sam Varga, and Natalia Taylar. Their electronic meets pop rock sound, alongside their highly received mashups and edits, have seen a surge in excitement around their live performances, notching support performances for acts such as ILLENIUM, Said The Sky, Blanke, Trivecta, and Madeon - most recently bringing them to Minneapolis alongside Jason Ross and FrostTop. SadBois look to continue their unending hot streak into 2025 with a number of upcoming original releases, collaborations, and debut performances across the US as they lead the charge as one of the most exciting names in the rocktronic community.

sat07nov7:00 pmsat10:00 pmBabehoven7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Baby's All Right, 146 Broadway

sat07nov7:00 pmsat10:30 pmAmi Taf Ra + Kamasi Washington7:00 pm - 10:30 pm Elsewhere Space, 599 Johnson Avenue

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(Saturday) 7:00 pm - 10:30 pm

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Elsewhere Space

599 Johnson Avenue

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Over the course of her career, Ami Taf Ra has graced stages worldwide, captivating audiences in Denmark, Turkey, Morocco, Belgium, Israel, Lebanon, and Jordan. She has performed at esteemed festivals like the South East Jazz Festival and the Haarlem Jazz Festival in the Netherlands, as well as with the Dutch Royal Metropole Orchestra at the Royal Concert Hall (Concertgebouw) and the Dutch Blazers Ensemble. Ami has toured extensively with Kamasi Washington, performing together at notable venues and festivals across the United States including City Winery in Boston, the Hollywood Bowl Jazz Festival, and the Just Jazz Concert Series at Mr Musichead Gallery in Los Angeles. She has also performed with a diverse array of musicians, including trombonist Ryan Porter, saxophonist Rickey Washington, percussionist Kahlil Cummings, bassist Ben Williams, drummer Jonathan Pinson, and pianist Jamael Dean. When Kamasi Washington released his Tour De Force LP, The Epic, in 2015, it instantly set him on a path as our generation’s torchbearer for progressive, improvisational music that would open the door for young audiences to experience music unlike anything they had heard before. The 172-minute odyssey featuring his 10-piece band, the next step, was littered with elements of hip-hop, classical and r&b music, all major influences on the young saxophonist and bandleader, who exceeds any notions of what “jazz” music is. Released to critical acclaim, the epic won numerous “best of” awards, including the inaugural American Music Prize and the Gilles Peterson Worldwide Album of the Year. Washington followed that work with collaborations with other influential artists such as Kendrick Lamar, John Legend, Run The Jewels, Ibeyi and the creation of “harmony of difference,” a standalone multimedia installation during the prestigious 2017 biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. His mass appeal continues to grow drawing vibrant, multi-ethnic and multi-generational crowds with tour stops at the world’s most prominent festivals such as Coachella, Glastonbury, Fuji Rock, Bonnaroo and Primavera. Next up for washington is his highly anticipated sophmore album, due for release in the summer of 2018.

sat07nov7:00 pmsat11:59 pmBumpin UgliesOrange Crush Tour7:00 pm - 11:59 pm The Stone Pony, 913 Ocean Ave N

sat07nov8:00 pmsat9:30 pmKenyon Dixon8:00 pm - 9:30 pm Blue Note, 131 W 3rd Street

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(Saturday) 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm

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Blue Note

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Kenyon Dixon is a multi-GRAMMY-nominated singer, songwriter, and torchbearer for modern R&B–proving the genre is not just alive, but thriving. With smooth, soul-stirring vocals and a pen rooted in truth, love and timeless storytelling, the Los Angeles native has quietly become one of the most respected voices in contemporary music. Dixon's career began behind the scenes, working with legends like Tank, Tyrese, and Faith Evans, and lending his voice to major artists including Nick Jonas, Jill Scott, and Kirk Franklin. But it's his solo catalog that's solidified his place in R&B. From Expectations to Closer to The R&B You Love, he's delivered a steady run of critically acclaimed top 5 iTunes charting albums that both honor the genre's roots and reimagine its future. His 2023 and 2024 GRAMMY nominations for "Lucky" and "Can I Have This Groove" (both from The R&B You Love: Soul of the '70s) marked a defining moment in his solo career. That same year, he completed his second headlining tour in support of the album, with most dates selling out nationwide. Most recently, Dixon released Come As You Are–a collaborative R&B, soul, and jazz fusion album with super-producer Terrace Martin, best known for his work on Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly and good kid, m.A.A.d city. The project is already earning widespread acclaim for its bold fusion of genres, spiritual depth, and cultural authenticity, and earned two GRAMMY nominations in 2026. Now entering a new chapter, Dixon releases his latest single, "Talk You Through It," available now–a smooth, emotional record that continues his signature approach to storytelling through intimacy, vulnerability, and R&B, setting the tone for his forthcoming album. Beyond his own records, Dixon's creative footprint spans across the industry. He co-wrote 10 songs on Justin Timberlak's latest album Everything I Thought It Was, arranged and vocally produced the "ICU" Remix for Coco Jones, and co-wrote "Keep Going Up." He also served as music director for Revolt TV's The Link Up II and continues to be a go-to collaborator for artists across genres. Dixon's music has also made its way to the screen, featured in hit shows and films like The Chi, Bel-Air, and Tyler Perry's Divorce in the Black. In 2025, he earned an NAACP Image Award nomination for Best Collaboration for his duet "Whatcha Done Now" with R&B powerhouse Leela James–adding another milestone to an already stellar run. With a sound tha fuses nostalgia and innovation, Kenyon Dixon isn't just delivering R&B you love–he's defining what its future sounds like.

sat07nov10:30 pmsat11:59 pmKenyon Dixon10:30 pm - 11:59 pm Blue Note, 131 W 3rd Street

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(Saturday) 10:30 pm - 11:59 pm

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Kenyon Dixon is a multi-GRAMMY-nominated singer, songwriter, and torchbearer for modern R&B–proving the genre is not just alive, but thriving. With smooth, soul-stirring vocals and a pen rooted in truth, love and timeless storytelling, the Los Angeles native has quietly become one of the most respected voices in contemporary music. Dixon's career began behind the scenes, working with legends like Tank, Tyrese, and Faith Evans, and lending his voice to major artists including Nick Jonas, Jill Scott, and Kirk Franklin. But it's his solo catalog that's solidified his place in R&B. From Expectations to Closer to The R&B You Love, he's delivered a steady run of critically acclaimed top 5 iTunes charting albums that both honor the genre's roots and reimagine its future. His 2023 and 2024 GRAMMY nominations for "Lucky" and "Can I Have This Groove" (both from The R&B You Love: Soul of the '70s) marked a defining moment in his solo career. That same year, he completed his second headlining tour in support of the album, with most dates selling out nationwide. Most recently, Dixon released Come As You Are–a collaborative R&B, soul, and jazz fusion album with super-producer Terrace Martin, best known for his work on Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly and good kid, m.A.A.d city. The project is already earning widespread acclaim for its bold fusion of genres, spiritual depth, and cultural authenticity, and earned two GRAMMY nominations in 2026. Now entering a new chapter, Dixon releases his latest single, "Talk You Through It," available now–a smooth, emotional record that continues his signature approach to storytelling through intimacy, vulnerability, and R&B, setting the tone for his forthcoming album. Beyond his own records, Dixon's creative footprint spans across the industry. He co-wrote 10 songs on Justin Timberlak's latest album Everything I Thought It Was, arranged and vocally produced the "ICU" Remix for Coco Jones, and co-wrote "Keep Going Up." He also served as music director for Revolt TV's The Link Up II and continues to be a go-to collaborator for artists across genres. Dixon's music has also made its way to the screen, featured in hit shows and films like The Chi, Bel-Air, and Tyler Perry's Divorce in the Black. In 2025, he earned an NAACP Image Award nomination for Best Collaboration for his duet "Whatcha Done Now" with R&B powerhouse Leela James–adding another milestone to an already stellar run. With a sound tha fuses nostalgia and innovation, Kenyon Dixon isn't just delivering R&B you love–he's defining what its future sounds like.

sun08nov5:00 pmsun8:00 pmThe Paradox5:00 pm - 8:00 pm Mercury Lounge, 17 E Houston Street

sun08nov8:00 pmsun9:30 pmKenyon Dixon8:00 pm - 9:30 pm Blue Note, 131 W 3rd Street

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(Sunday) 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm

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Blue Note

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Kenyon Dixon is a multi-GRAMMY-nominated singer, songwriter, and torchbearer for modern R&B–proving the genre is not just alive, but thriving. With smooth, soul-stirring vocals and a pen rooted in truth, love and timeless storytelling, the Los Angeles native has quietly become one of the most respected voices in contemporary music. Dixon's career began behind the scenes, working with legends like Tank, Tyrese, and Faith Evans, and lending his voice to major artists including Nick Jonas, Jill Scott, and Kirk Franklin. But it's his solo catalog that's solidified his place in R&B. From Expectations to Closer to The R&B You Love, he's delivered a steady run of critically acclaimed top 5 iTunes charting albums that both honor the genre's roots and reimagine its future. His 2023 and 2024 GRAMMY nominations for "Lucky" and "Can I Have This Groove" (both from The R&B You Love: Soul of the '70s) marked a defining moment in his solo career. That same year, he completed his second headlining tour in support of the album, with most dates selling out nationwide. Most recently, Dixon released Come As You Are–a collaborative R&B, soul, and jazz fusion album with super-producer Terrace Martin, best known for his work on Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly and good kid, m.A.A.d city. The project is already earning widespread acclaim for its bold fusion of genres, spiritual depth, and cultural authenticity, and earned two GRAMMY nominations in 2026. Now entering a new chapter, Dixon releases his latest single, "Talk You Through It," available now–a smooth, emotional record that continues his signature approach to storytelling through intimacy, vulnerability, and R&B, setting the tone for his forthcoming album. Beyond his own records, Dixon's creative footprint spans across the industry. He co-wrote 10 songs on Justin Timberlak's latest album Everything I Thought It Was, arranged and vocally produced the "ICU" Remix for Coco Jones, and co-wrote "Keep Going Up." He also served as music director for Revolt TV's The Link Up II and continues to be a go-to collaborator for artists across genres. Dixon's music has also made its way to the screen, featured in hit shows and films like The Chi, Bel-Air, and Tyler Perry's Divorce in the Black. In 2025, he earned an NAACP Image Award nomination for Best Collaboration for his duet "Whatcha Done Now" with R&B powerhouse Leela James–adding another milestone to an already stellar run. With a sound tha fuses nostalgia and innovation, Kenyon Dixon isn't just delivering R&B you love–he's defining what its future sounds like.

sun08nov8:00 pmsun11:00 pmNew ConstellationsIt Comes In Waves Tour8:00 pm - 11:00 pm Brooklyn Bowl - Philadelphia, 1009 Canal Street

sun08nov10:30 pmsun11:59 pmKenyon Dixon10:30 pm - 11:59 pm Blue Note, 131 W 3rd Street

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131 W 3rd Street

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Kenyon Dixon is a multi-GRAMMY-nominated singer, songwriter, and torchbearer for modern R&B–proving the genre is not just alive, but thriving. With smooth, soul-stirring vocals and a pen rooted in truth, love and timeless storytelling, the Los Angeles native has quietly become one of the most respected voices in contemporary music. Dixon's career began behind the scenes, working with legends like Tank, Tyrese, and Faith Evans, and lending his voice to major artists including Nick Jonas, Jill Scott, and Kirk Franklin. But it's his solo catalog that's solidified his place in R&B. From Expectations to Closer to The R&B You Love, he's delivered a steady run of critically acclaimed top 5 iTunes charting albums that both honor the genre's roots and reimagine its future. His 2023 and 2024 GRAMMY nominations for "Lucky" and "Can I Have This Groove" (both from The R&B You Love: Soul of the '70s) marked a defining moment in his solo career. That same year, he completed his second headlining tour in support of the album, with most dates selling out nationwide. Most recently, Dixon released Come As You Are–a collaborative R&B, soul, and jazz fusion album with super-producer Terrace Martin, best known for his work on Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly and good kid, m.A.A.d city. The project is already earning widespread acclaim for its bold fusion of genres, spiritual depth, and cultural authenticity, and earned two GRAMMY nominations in 2026. Now entering a new chapter, Dixon releases his latest single, "Talk You Through It," available now–a smooth, emotional record that continues his signature approach to storytelling through intimacy, vulnerability, and R&B, setting the tone for his forthcoming album. Beyond his own records, Dixon's creative footprint spans across the industry. He co-wrote 10 songs on Justin Timberlak's latest album Everything I Thought It Was, arranged and vocally produced the "ICU" Remix for Coco Jones, and co-wrote "Keep Going Up." He also served as music director for Revolt TV's The Link Up II and continues to be a go-to collaborator for artists across genres. Dixon's music has also made its way to the screen, featured in hit shows and films like The Chi, Bel-Air, and Tyler Perry's Divorce in the Black. In 2025, he earned an NAACP Image Award nomination for Best Collaboration for his duet "Whatcha Done Now" with R&B powerhouse Leela James–adding another milestone to an already stellar run. With a sound tha fuses nostalgia and innovation, Kenyon Dixon isn't just delivering R&B you love–he's defining what its future sounds like.

mon09nov6:00 pmmon9:00 pmThe Paradox6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Mercury Lounge, 17 E Houston Street

mon09nov6:30 pmmon9:00 pmDenise JuliaLove Again Tour6:30 pm - 9:00 pm Baby's All Right, 146 Broadway

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146 Broadway

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While Julia Denise Lee refers to Denise Julia as a persona, her honeyed contemporary R&B ballads resonate with her audience on an intimate level. The New York-based Filipina artist made her commercial debut in 2020 and has released a handful of EPs, namely Sweet Nothings (Chapter 1) (2023) and Sweet Nothings (Chapter 2) (2024), followed by Love Again (2026), her first project distributed by Empire. Born and raised in Manila, Julia was in her early teens when she started writing songs and teaching herself how to produce tracks with a digital audio workstation. At the age of 18, she was inspired to further pursue music when she appeared in the video for Juan Caoile and Kyleswish's "Marikit." Within a couple months of the video's June 2020 release, Julia made her commercial debut, partnering with Filipino singer Steve Hansen for the romantic duet "High On Me." The singer steadily offered one atmospheric slow jam after another during the next couple years, with the P-Lo collaboration "B.A.D." both previewing and highlighting Sweet Nothings (Chapter 1), her 2023 debut EP for Sony Music Philippines. Sweet Nothings (Chapter 2) landed the following year with the singles "Don't Matter" and "Twin Flames" featuring respective assists from DENȲ and Thủy. Near the end of 2025, Julia relocated to New York, and with a distribution deal through Empire, she issued her third EP, Love Again, in 2026. - Biography by Andy Kellman

mon09nov7:00 pmmon10:00 pmNew ConstellationsIt Comes In Waves Tour7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey Street

tue10nov6:30 pmtue9:00 pmJorjiana6:30 pm - 9:00 pm Baby's All Right, 146 Broadway Event Organized By: Move Forward Music

tue10nov6:30 pmtue9:00 pmBedouineNeon Summer Skin Tour6:30 pm - 9:00 pm (le) poisson rouge, 158 Bleecker Street

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Bedouine is the stage name of Syrian-born, Los Angeles-based songwriter Azniv Korkejian, who draws on '60s and '70s folk and country influences for her glimmering yet intense songs. Korkejian began crafting her retro-fitted indie folk as Bedouine in the mid-2010s, releasing her eponymous debut album in 2017. Her sound changed subtly on subsequent releases, such as the revisited demos and completion of long-unfinished ideas on 2021's Waysides, and her nostalgia-steeped fourth album, 2026's Neon Summer Skin. Bird Songs of a Killjoy Korkejian was born in Aleppo, Syria and spent her childhood in Saudi Arabia before relocating to the U.S. in early childhood, living in various places throughout her early years before arriving in Los Angeles as an adult. She studied sound design and eventually landed work editing music and dialogue for film, crossing paths with active players in both the movie and music industries as she developed her sound. She found herself making various connections with a growing community of supportive peers and began working with producer Gus Seyffert -- almost by accident when Korkejian stopped by his studio to ask advice about a piece of gear, moving casually from talking shop to recording a demo of one of her songs in the span of an afternoon. Bedouine's self-titled debut album was released in the summer of 2017 on the Spacebomb label; its ten tracks were the best selection of about 30 songs she worked on over a three-year period. Widely hailed by critics, the album put Korkejian on the map and she set about working on a follow-up release. A late-2018 two-song single saw her covering Elton John and Linda Perhacs in her typically hushed, introspective style. Bedouine re-emerged in June 2019 with her Billboard-charting sophomore album, Bird Songs of a Killjoy. Early 2021 saw the arrival of the singles "The Wave," "It Wasn't Me," and "The Solitude" ahead of the release of her third long-player, Waysides, which appeared later that October. Waysides was created through the process of Korkejian returning to some of her earliest song ideas and demos rather than writing brand-new material. The next Bedouine album would arrive five years later with 2026's Neon Summer Skin, a more pop-forward rendering of the artist's usually folky sound that was informed by memories and nostalgia. Production on some of the album's tracks was handled in part by Jonathan Rado. - Biography by Fred Thomas

tue10nov8:00 pmtue9:30 pmVic Mensa8:00 pm - 9:30 pm Blue Note, 131 W 3rd Street

tue10nov8:00 pmtue11:59 pmThe Blasting Company8:00 pm - 11:59 pm Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden Street

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It’s not very well-worn, but the Nashville street band to composer pipeline has certainly been a distinctive, if tempered, fairy-tale arc for Joshua Kaufman and Justin Rubenstein, the brothers at the helm of The Blasting Company. For years, curiosity and circumstance guided them through the streets of the US and Europe as they accumulated a blend of American folk and Eastern European influences, grand orchestral tendencies, and inescapably modern sensibilities, eventually landing them in Los Angeles, where they found a home for most of it in the world of film and television. Their first and perhaps most notable venture into scoring was for the critically-acclaimed animated miniseries, Over the Garden Wall, which has become a seasonal staple for a growing fanbase worldwide whenever fall - or its equatorial approximate - is in the air. Other composing ventures include music written for Burlesque, the New York Times/ Serial podcast The Kids of Rutherford County, Adult Swim’s The Elephant, and a threealbum soundtrack for table top role playing campaign, The Crooked Moon. Their recent releases feature collaborations with Tom Kenny (Spongebob Squarepants), Haley Reinhart (Post-Modern Jukebox), Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Concords), and one of their all-time musical heroes, arranger and composer Van Dyke Parks. The Blasting Company's journey has been one dedicated to their artistic community and their craft. This, and the eagerness with which they explore music’s expansive storytelling potential has made them sought-after collaborators anywhere music can be of use, from Emmy-winning animation to Peabody Award-caliber investigative journalism. Wherever they’re found and wherever they’ll end up, their music continues to introduce new generations to a panoply of musical tradition.

tue10nov10:30 pmtue11:59 pmVic Mensa10:30 pm - 11:59 pm Blue Note, 131 W 3rd Street

wed11nov6:00 pmwed9:00 pmThe Paradox6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Warehouse On Watts (WOW), 923 N Watts Street

wed11nov7:00 pmwed10:00 pmJoy OladokunThe Heavy Things Tour7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Warsaw, 261 Driggs Avenue

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(Wednesday) 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

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Fusing the deep emotions and confessional nature of classic singer/songwriters with music that encompasses contemporary folk, R&B, and pop, Joy Oladokun is a fiercely independent musician who has built an international audience. While she had been playing guitar since childhood, it wasn't until 2015 that she quit her job and took a shot at realizing her dream of making music full-time. She released a solo acoustic EP, Cathedrals, that year and followed it up with 2016's Carry, a full-band effort that included the single "Shelter," which introduced her to a wider online audience. Oladokun earned more acclaim with the companion albums in defense of my own happiness (the beginnings) (2020) and her major-label debut, in defense of my own happiness (2021). Collaborations with guests like Noah Kahan and Manchester Orchestra marked 2023's Proof of Life, while 2024's Observations from a Crowded Room underscored Oladokun's gift for candid introspection. Raised in a small rural community in Arizona, Oladokun began playing guitar when she was ten years old. Inspired by artists like Tracy Chapman, Lauryn Hill, Bob Marley, and singer/songwriters of the '70s, she started writing songs but initially had no intention of pursuing music as a career, preferring to perform for family and friends, sometimes writing them new tunes as gifts. After completing college, she got a job and was planning to settle into her new position when a friend asked her what she would be doing if money were not a consideration. Oladokun replied by writing songs and traveling, and her friend urged her to follow her muse before it was too late. Oladokun relocated to Los Angeles and initially landed gigs as a backing vocalist while she honed her craft and played occasional solo shows. In April 2015, she released a solo acoustic EP, Cathedrals, and later that year launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise the money to record a full-length album. She was able to raise more than her $30,000 budget, and Carry, featuring backing from a full band, was released in April 2016. Full of personal, emotionally powerful songs, the record helped Oladokun expand her audience, and she followed it up with touring in the United States and the United Kingdom. She continued to record and release new material in a series of singles, with "Memphis" appearing in October 2016, "No Turning Back" in April 2017, and "Sober" in June 2018. Another single, "Sunday," arrived in June 2019, and appeared on her acclaimed 2020 full-length effort in defense of my own happiness (the beginnings). After signing with Verve Forecast and Republic Records, Oladokun made her similarly titled major-label debut with 2021's in defense of my own happiness. The album featured her previously released singles "Breathe Again" and "Sunday," along with several collaborations including "Wish You the Best" with Jensen McRae, "Heaven from Here" with Penny & Sparrow, and "Bigger Man" with Maren Morris. Oladokun kicked off 2022 with the stirring single "Keeping the Light On," which heralded her fourth album, 2023's Proof of Life. Written with the intent of representing everyday life, the record featured an impressive array of guest artists including Manchester Orchestra, Noah Kahan, and Chris Stapleton. It cracked the top 20 of Billboard's Heatseekers Chart and reached number 25 on the U.K. Americana Albums chart. By Summer 2024, she had returned with the Jon Foreman collaboration "In Bloom," as well as "I Wished on the Moon," the latter of which as part of the soundtrack to the Apple TV+ drama The New Look. That October, she delivered her fifth studio-album, Observations from a Crowded Room. Heralded by the single "Questions, Chaos & Faith," Oladokun produced the album on her own and struck a deeply personal introspective tone marked by a handful of spoken word interludes. - Biography by Mark Deming

wed11nov7:00 pmwed10:00 pmInternet Girl7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Zone One at Elsewhere, 599 Johnson Avenue

wed11nov(nov 11)8:00 pmthu12(nov 12)12:00 amHoney Revenge8:00 pm - 12:00 am (12) Theatre of Living Arts, 334 South Street

thu12nov7:00 pmthu9:00 pmGwenifer Raymond7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Union Pool, 484 Union Avenue Event Organized By: Crossover Touring

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The headline greeting visitors to Welsh multi-instrumentalist Gwenifer Raymond's website describes the artist as a "Guitar Convincer. Banjo Thumper. American Primitive Musician." Based in Brighton, England, Raymond's driving, acoustic fingerstyle playing descends from techniques developed by John Fahey, Mississippi John Hurt, Skip James, and Roscoe Holcomb. Her 2018 debut single, "Deep Sea Diver"/"Bleeding Finger Blues," wove together a hypnotic amalgam of bluegrass, acoustic blues, and mysterious Americana. New York's Tompkins Square label issued her debut album You Never Were Much of a Dancer to international acclaim. While touring Europe in support, the influence of the Welsh landscape, its folk traditions, and the rich history of Celtic and British Isles folk music crept into her playing and was revealed on 2020's Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain. Raymond was born in Cardiff, Wales in 1985. At age eight, her mother gifted her a cassette copy of Nirvana's Nevermind. She was so moved that she asked for a guitar and began teaching herself to play. She spent her entire adolescence playing guitar or drums in a series of punk and rock bands across Wales, soaking up influences from a variety of punk and post-punk outfits like the Butthole Surfers and the Fall. Her musical world expanded again when she discovered vintage recordings by Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and the Velvet Underground in her parents' record collection, but Nirvana intervened yet again. Their MTV Unplugged CD contained a cover of Lead Belly's "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" Raymond found its sparse presentation, modal melody, and lyrical emotional directness astonishing. Though inspired to learn Lead Belly's version, the song opened the restless, curious young musician's eyes to the world of American pre-War blues recordings and players. Raymond began teaching herself to play fingerstyle acoustic guitar from instruction books by Stefan Grossman. She eventually found a capable blues guitar player locally who agreed to teach her. In addition to technical instruction and folk-blues music players and history, he exposed her to the recordings of players from the American Primitive school including John Fahey, the player she most identified with due to his dominant, rhythmic right-hand playing. While attending Cardiff University she earned an MA and a PhD in Astrophysics. She studied folk music on her own, relocating to England and beginning her career as a professional programmer, first in artificial intelligence, and later as an audio programmer for video games. She continued to study and play gigs in coffee houses and pubs. In 2017, after receiving a tip from WFMU DJ Jeffrey Davison, Tompkins Square's Josh Rosenthal contacted Raymond and established a correspondence. He signed her to the label in late 2017 and in April of the following year issued her debut vinyl single "Deep Sea Diver"/"Bleeding Finger Blues" on Record Store Day. In June, after critics had embraced it, Tompkins Square released her debut long-player, You Never Were Much of a Dancer. The album's release was greeted with critical acclaim in Europe, the United States, and even Asia. She received massive press attention that made her the subject of large, glossy magazine spreads in English music publications such as Mojo and Uncut, as well as airplay on the BBC. Raymond undertook short touring jaunts around the U.K., building her fan base. In December, she issued the digital single "The Three Deaths of Red Spectre." Raymond finished out the year playing high-profile gigs across the U.K., including a headline show at London's Royal Festival Hall in November. In February of 2019 she toured Finland and England through the spring and summer and made appearances at the Black Deer Festival of Americana and Country Music, Cafe OTO, Great Escape, Green Man Festival, and the Moseley Folk Festival. While traveling, her musical repertoire continued to expand as she wove more traditional folk sounds from Wales into her kinetic American Primitive stylings. For her second album, Raymond took inspiration from the eldritch Welsh countryside, as well as from her homeland's tradition of folk horror. Recorded and mixed in a small, makeshift studio in a basement flat in Brighton, Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain appeared in November 2020 on Tompkins Square. - Biography by Thom Jurek

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thu12nov7:00 pmthu10:00 pmGenesis OwusuPirate Radio Tour7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Baby's All Right, 146 Broadway

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Genesis Owusu is a Ghanaian-Australian songwriter and performer whose hard to categorize music draws from laid-back funk, hardcore rap, and the energy of alternative rock. Naming Frank Ocean, Kanye West, OutKast, and Jimi Hendrix as influences, his songs are both celebratory and introspective, while touching on relevant social issues such as cultural appropriation and police brutality. After earning attention throughout Australia with early releases such as the 2017 EP Cardrive and his highly energetic live shows, Owusu's single "Don't Need You" received airplay from U.K. and U.S. tastemakers in 2020. His debut album, Smiling with No Teeth, arrived in 2021 to almost universal acclaim and went on to win Album of the Year at the ARIA Awards. Owusu's similarly rangy and delightfully eclectic sophomore LP, Struggler, was released in August 2023. Redstar Wu & the Worldwide Scourge, a more politically reflective third effort, appeared in 2026. Kofi Owusu-Ansah was born in Ghana and moved to Canberra, Australia, with his family when he was two. In 2013, he formed a duo called the Ansah Brothers with his older brother Koji, better known as Citizen Kay, and began performing solo as Genesis Owusu soon after. In 2015, he started performing with a pack of dancers and backup singers in matching red outfits known as the Goons, adding a striking visual element to his live show. He also began receiving support through influential Australian radio station Triple J, placing as a Top Five finalist in their Unearthed High competition, then being named as an Unearthed featured artist in early 2017. Following the release of Owusu's Cardrive EP, his song "Sideways," produced by Perrin Moss and Simon Mavin of Hiatus Kaiyote, became a radio hit. Additional tracks such as "Wit' da Team" (2018) and "WUTD" (2019) attracted attention, and Owusu was awarded ACT Live Voice of the Year during the 2019 National Live Music Awards. His 2020 single "Don't Need You" became a number one hit on Triple J, additionally receiving airplay on BBC Radio 6 in the U.K. and American stations like KCRW and WXPN. Owusu recorded his debut album, Smiling with No Teeth (2021), alongside notable Australian musicians such as Kirin J. Callinan, Touch Sensitive, and World Champion's Julian Sudek. While it peaked at number 27 on the ARIA charts, the set was widely hailed by critics and went on to win a trio of ARIA Music Awards including Album of the Year. A couple of non-album singles, "GTFO" and "Get Inspired," as well as a collaboration with Jack River ("Endless Summer") satiated fans while Owusu worked on his highly anticipated follow-up album. Led by the strident punk-rap single "Leaving the Light," his sophomore LP, Struggler, appeared in August 2023 and featured production from Mikey Freedom, Sol Was, and Jason Evigan. Owusu began previewing his third album with the 2025 singles "Pirate Radio" and "Death Cult Zombie." Redstar Wu & the Worldwide Scourge arrived in May of 2026, commenting on political, social, and economic issues. Ladyhawke and Duckwrth both made appearances on the album. - Biography by Paul Simpson

thu12nov7:00 pmthu10:00 pmThaoShow Me Tour7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Mercury Lounge, 17 E Houston Street

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(Thursday) 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

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17 E Houston Street

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With tendencies toward the musically playful and lyrically heavyhearted, Thao Nguyen is an indie singer/songwriter with a raspy voice and offbeat style that touches on intricate indie folk, funky indie pop, bluesy, riffy indie rock, and stations in between. She began her solo career by drawing comparisons to artists like Fiona Apple and Cat Power on her 2005 debut LP, Like the Linen. Her music became more reminiscent of acts like tUnE-yArDs and Ava Luna after adopting the band moniker Thao & the Get Down Stay Down for the bolder grooves and high-contrast indie pop of full-lengths like 2008's Tucker Martine-produced We Brave Bee Stings and All and 2016's A Man Alive. The latter release was produced by tUnE-yArDs' Merrill Garbus. After five Get Down Stay Down albums, Nguyen went forward as THAO beginning with 2026's Show Me. Produced by tUnE-yArDs, it featured collaborations with Neko Case and the Lindas Lindas, among others. Raised in the City of Falls Church, Virginia, Nguyen took up the guitar and songwriting as a pre-teen. During high school, she worked at her mother's laundromat and would play guitar when she wasn't helping customers. She was also part of a country-pop duo. Nguyen moved on to playing local shows while attending Virginia's College of William & Mary. In 2005, Nguyen released her folky debut album, Like the Linen, on the Trust Me imprint and played a few Washington, D.C. and New York City dates. She subsequently collaborated on a single with tUnE-yArDs' Merrill Garbus under the name Merrillthaocracy, and formed Thao & the Get Down Stay Down with Like the Linen producer Frank Stewart and fellow College of William and Mary students Adam Thompson and Willis Thompson (no relation) in 2006. In the meantime, she sent a copy of Like the Linen to Laura Veirs, who liked it so much that she not only had Nguyen open for one of her dates at the Mercury Lounge, Veirs also took her on a European tour and introduced her to Slim Moon, Veirs' former manager and owner of Kill Rock Stars, as well as producer Tucker Martine. Nguyen made her debut on Kill Rock Stars by contributing a song to the 2007 compilation The Sound the Hare Heard. The Martine-produced We Brave Bee Stings and All arrived in early 2008, credited to Thao & the Get Down Stay Down. It was followed by a Nguyen collaboration with labelmates Portland Cello Project and Justin Power called The Thao & Justin Power Sessions, and then a second Martine-produced Thao & the Get Down Stay Down album, Know Better Learn Faster, both in 2009. The latter was made without Stewart but featured guests including Andrew Bird and Jenny Conlee (the Decemberists). Having relocated to San Francisco, Nguyen released 2011's eponymous Thao & Mirah, a project with singer/songwriter Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn that was co-produced by Garbus. Marking her main band's move to Ribbon Music, another Get Down Stay Down album, We the Common, followed in early 2013, this time without Willis Thompson. It was produced by John Congleton and again involved several guests, including Midlake's Paul Alexander and McKenzie Smith. With official membership down to Nguyen and Adam Thompson, the group's nonetheless muscular fourth album, March 2016's A Man Alive, was produced by Garbus. After a break during which Nguyen considered retiring from recording and later got married, the duo of Nguyen and Thompson returned on Ribbon Music in May 2020 with the more personal, self-produced Thao & the Get Down Stay Down album Temple. Amid threats to the music industry posed by the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic, Nguyen eventually returned to recording with the anxious April 2022 single "Ambition," a self-produced solo effort released under the name THAO. She then got together with Garbus and tUnE-yArDs bandmate Nate Brenner to record her THAO debut, Show Me. Released on Kill Rock Stars in October 2026, it featured collaborations with Neko Case, Black Pumas' Adrian Quesada, and tUnE-yArDs with the Lindas Lindas. - Biography by Marcy Donelson

thu12nov7:00 pmthu11:00 pmThe OBGMsHeart Problems Tour7:00 pm - 11:00 pm Kung Fu Necktie, 1248 N Front Street

thu12nov8:00 pmthu11:00 pmKate Stephenson + lighthearted8:00 pm - 11:00 pm MilkBoy, 1100 Chestnut Street

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1100 Chestnut Street

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It’s kind of unbelievable. A gentle voice, a dagger for a pen. Kate Stephenson has found a way to offer this balance at once. Songs that hurt to relate to, but offer a lifeline if you do. Breaking free of genre’s limitations, Stephenson shares these blistering stories with stunning arrangements that dare to take on different shapes every time. Her unforgettable writing is the through line, finding the right sounds to express it all is her magic. From intimate, acoustic, profound songs like ‘Shoving’ to the full-band-get-up-and-dance ‘Summerfoot’, she can do it all. Living in Nashville, she’s finding her ever-changing sound, moving closer and closer every day. Oh, and she’ll wipe the floor with you at the bowling alley. lighthearted is a dynamic indie-folk band from Athens, Georgia, fronted by identical twin sisters Gracie Huffman & Eliza Lemmon. Formed in 2019, the band draws from the deep wells of folk traditions and contemporary indie influences. They write the type of hushed, kaleidoscopic songs that appeal to anyone that takes to gorgeous harmonies and plumbing the depths of human nature (Ethan Fogus, Immersive Atlanta). Drawing inspiration from classic folk artists like Fleetwood Mac and Joni Mitchell, as well as modern indie-folk innovators such as Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver, their sound is characterized by lush arrangements, harmonious vocals, and lyrics that explore themes of love, loss, and the beauty of the natural world. They first released their EP “Asking for a Friend” (2020) in the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. It might have been exactly what people needed, because the lead single, “This Old Car” has accumulated over 2.1 million streams on Spotify alone since its release. They released their debut album, “from here on out,” in 2023, which contains even more lyrical depth and emotional resonance. Upon its release, the title track off the record was added to Spotify editorial playlists Fresh Finds Indie, Fresh Finds, and Fresh Finds Folk. These playlists rotate songs out, but the editors also curated a Fresh Finds: Class of 2023 playlist, on which lighthearted earned a permanent spot. This song has over 1.1 million streams on Spotify alone. Their second album is in the works, which showcases more of the band's evolving sound and musical maturity. They have played to crowds across the country, both for crowds of their own and opening for acts such as hey, nothing, Johnnyswim, Hans Williams, Briscoe, Sarah Kinsley, Family and Friends, among others. lighthearted is committed to creating heartfelt and poignant music. With each new release, they aim to embody their name, blending their influences to create music that is easy to listen to and rich with meaning.

thu12nov8:00 pmthu11:00 pmSlow Pulp8:00 pm - 11:00 pm Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden Street

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When the members of Slow Pulp discuss Yard, their second full-length record and first for ANTI-, their vocabulary often defaults to synesthetic imagery and sensation. "We have so many visual cues for how we talk about music," singer and guitarist Emily Massey says as she stops herself in the middle of explaining how the album's second song, "Doubt," sounds like wakeboarding. "Doubt is quite dark lyrically, but it is found in this upbeat and almost campy environment." On Yard, the Wisconsin-bred, Chicago-based four-piece nestles comfortably into pockets of nuance, impressions, contradictions — sonics and lyrics finessed together to bottle the specific tension of a feeling you've never quite been able to find the right words for. In that regard, listening to Slow Pulp can feel like being in a room with someone who's known you so long that they can read your every micro-expression and pinpoint exactly how you're feeling before you can. Perhaps this spawns from the band's own shared history and chemistry; in various ways, the four of them grew up — are still growing up — together. Guitarist Henry Stoehr and drummer Teddy Mathews attended elementary school together in Madison. Not long after, they met bassist Alex Leeds at the west side location of the now-closed local music program called Good'nLoud Music. And while Massey didn't enter the fold until later on in college at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with Mathews and Stoehr, it turns out she was in the same program on the other side of town at Good'nLoud's east side location. In fact, the chords to Yard's addictive track "Slugs" are from a song Stoehr wrote for his crush in the sixth grade. "Imagination," Mathews immediately chimes in with the name of Stoehr's original. The album's iteration of the song is, fittingly, also about a crush: "You're a summer hit, I'm singing it," Massey swoons over a warm wave of guitar fuzz and syrupy background vocals. With Leeds attending college in Minneapolis and the other members in Madison, the quartet started recording, playing shows around the Midwest, and eventually released their first EP as a four-piece, EP2, in 2017. It's an intimate, restless, and decidedly lo-fi 17-minute debut by a band with an obvious knack for creating sticky hooks that tend to stay in the space behind your eyes long after the songs are finished playing. So obvious that, without much promotion on the band's end, EP2 picked up traction across YouTube channels and blogs, and thanks to the power of the internet, Slow Pulp unexpectedly found themselves amid their first wave of buzz. In September 2018, the band relocated to Chicago and moved in together, writing and recording most of their Big Day EP at a cabin in Michigan the following January. As they put in the hours on stage and in the studio, the buzz continued to grow, they kept refining their work, and by 2019, they were touring with Alex G and working on their debut full-length record, Moveys. But the journey to Yard wasn't linear: Massey was diagnosed with Lyme disease and chronic mono, leaving her to grapple with physical and mental health challenges amid a blossoming music career and the demands that come with it. Then, just days before the COVID-19 lockdown, her parents were involved in a serious car accident, and she moved away from Slow Pulp and back home to care for them. The band finished Moveys in isolation, with Emily recording her vocals with her dad, Michael, in his small home studio. It was their only option at the time, but the band opted to record the vocals with Michael again on Yard. "This time, we decided to do it because it went so well the first time. My dad is a musician and a singer and has a lot of really insightful things to say, especially about delivery," Massey explained. "Working together we can be very honest with each other in a way that I wouldn't be able to do with a stranger or a producer that's not my family. He already has so much context for what the songs are about, knowing my life so intimately. He is able to be very direct, saying things I often don't want to hear but need to hear. I think it often leads to getting the best takes out of me." You can feel Massey reaching new vocal heights across Yard, particularly on the weepy americana ballad "Broadview," which features pedal steel (Peter Briggs), harmonica, and banjo (Willie Christianson), and on "MUD," a pop-punk track seemingly designed in a lab to belt along to in the car. On the raw-to-the-bone piano ballad title track, emotion trickles out of each of her careful words, cresting into waves of sustained wails. Massey's dad wasn't the only lesson from Slow Pulp's pandemic-era album creation that the band brought to their next record; Yard first started taking shape in February 2022 when Massey was staying alone at a friend's family cabin in northern Wisconsin. "I feel like there's an interesting interplay between the albums, where the isolation during Moveys was forced, it was something we used intentionally with Yard," Leeds explained. Isolation was an important part of their process on Yard, but they were able to employ it strategically. "Part of what we discovered — or what Emily discovered — is taking that time to be intentionally isolated is really important, as is being more collaborative at other times. We've learned a lot about balancing and being intentional about that through this process." Themes of isolation and the subsequent process of learning to be comfortable with yourself sprout up throughout Yard, right alongside the importance of learning to trust, love, and lean on others. Within Slow Pulp, this trust between members is evident in the playful collaboration that remains core to Slow Pulp's creative process. Take album opener "Gone 2:" the "2" was added when they decided to scrap the first version and record a new iteration of the track just before turning the record in. They saw the video for "Scar Tissue" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers playing (on mute) and immediately knew the visuals were exactly what they wanted the song to sound like. "It was a silver song and we turned it into a brown and purple song," Stoehr says matter-of-factly, the other three nodding in agreement. The chilling desert desolation mixed with road-trip listlessness of the "Scar Tissue" visuals are evident in the song's final mix and double down on its lyrics. "'Gone' is about searching for love in other people or searching for things and feeling like you're not doing a good enough job at it or feeling like you're coming too late to it," Massey says. It's followed by the taunting and upbeat "Doubt," a track about begging someone to validate your insecurities. "I like that by the end of the album, you're finding the love within yourself, not searching for it within other people. It has that full circle moment, in that way." The lyrics to album closer "Fishes" were written while Massey was alone at the cabin, listening to Lucinda Williams ("Do you think Lucy understands?") and watching the fish swim around in the lake. Yard leaves us with gentle strums, a stripped-back meditation on acceptance, and a reminder to show up for yourself: "Sink and swim and / Sink it all again / I've gotta catch myself this time / Like I know that I'm the prize / Like the fishes / And their winning size."

thu12nov8:00 pmthu11:59 pmThe WldlfeLong Way Home Tour8:00 pm - 11:59 pm Underground Arts, 1200 Callowhill Street

thu12nov8:30 pmthu11:00 pmMadeonVictory Live Tour8:30 pm - 11:00 pm Franklin Music Hall, 421 N. 7th Street

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(Thursday) 8:30 pm - 11:00 pm

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Franklin Music Hall

421 N. 7th Street

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Hugo Leclercq produces joyful, hook-heavy nu-disco and dance-pop under the name Madeon. He first garnered attention for his mash-ups and remixes before scoring hits with his original tracks and studio work for several major pop acts, like Lady Gaga and Coldplay. His vibrant full-lengths Adventure (2015) and Good Faith (2019) reached number one on Billboard's Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart, and the latter was nominated for a Grammy. He continued releasing wistful electro-pop singles such as 2020's "The Prince" and 2022's "Love You Back." His uplifting third full-length Victory arrived in 2026. Born in Nantes, France, in 1994, Leclercq started producing dance music before he hit his teens. Around 2010, he began releasing his first tracks as Madeon in a lush, sleek style influenced by French house and electro-pop. He also produced several mash-ups, including "Pop Culture," which jammed over three-dozen songs into three minutes. The track went viral as soon as it was uploaded to YouTube in 2011, immediately racking up millions of views. Additional work followed, including original singles ("Gold," "For You," "Shuriken," "Icarus") and remix work (for Alphabeat, Yelle, Deadmau5, and Martin Solveig). Born This Way During 2012, Leclercq performed at several major festivals, including Ultra Music Festival, Coachella, and Lollapalooza. His singles "Finale" and "The City" charted in several countries. All this publicity helped Leclercq get work with more pop stars. He produced Ellie Goulding's song "Stay Awake" and mixed an alternate version of Muse's "Panic Station." After opening for Lady Gaga on her Born This Way tour, he produced and co-wrote three tracks for her Artpop album. Madeon's debut album, Adventure, was released by Columbia in 2015. The record hit number one on Billboard's Dance/Electronic Albums chart and spawned several charting singles, including "Pay No Mind" (featuring Passion Pit) and "Nonsense" (featuring Mark Foster of Foster the People). Leclercq went on two headlining tours following the album's release. In 2016, he collaborated with Porter Robinson for the single "Shelter," and the two artists toured together, wrapping up their tour at the 2017 Coachella festival. Leclercq then relocated to Los Angeles and worked on his second full-length. In May 2019, he released "All My Friends," a buoyant single featuring his own vocals. Two more singles preceded his second full-length, Good Faith, which was released in November. Eschewing samples for manipulated instruments and vocals, including contributions from gospel choirs and steel guitarist B.J. Cole, the album became Leclercq's second to top Billboard's Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart. It earned a Grammy nomination for Best/Dance Electronic Album. Leclercq worked with Lady Gaga again, co-writing and co-producing her 2020 single "911." A remix of Madeon's song "No Fear No More" featuring EARTHGANG, an EP titled 12122017 (Celine), and the single "The Prince" also appeared that year. "Love You Back," a song Leclercq had performed live for years, was released as a single in 2022. "Gonna Be Good" was issued in 2023, and "All Ur Luv" (with Wavedash and Toro y Moi) appeared in 2024. Madeon released the punk-ish single "Hi!" in 2025, and the full-length Victory arrived in 2026, including guests such as Slayyyter and Sam Gellaitry. - Biography by Jason Lymangrover

fri13nov7:00 pmfri10:00 pmMarlon Craft7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Kung Fu Necktie, 1248 N Front Street

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(Friday) 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

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Kung Fu Necktie

1248 N Front Street

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New York native Marlon Craft worked for years on his music before sharing his heady, lyrical rap. Gravitating towards an instrumental style that incorporated both rugged golden-age East Coast hip-hop influences and jazz-touched live instrumentation, Craft's politically conscious lyrics and social questioning were the driving force behind his 2019 studio debut, Funhouse Mirror, and its 2021 follow-up, How We Intended. Marlon Craft grew up in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, the son of a jazz musician father. He spent his teenage years playing basketball and ravenously absorbing hip-hop sounds, and in college he began making music of his own. In 2015, while finishing college, he self-released his first mixtape, Pieces. He followed it the next year with the so, what are you doing? EP and singles like "Workin'" and "Reason." Craft's style developed over the course of these releases, and his technical abilities sharpened on 2017 mixtape The Tunnel's End. In 2019, he signed on with Sony affiliate Same Plate Entertainment for the release of his politically charged studio debut, Funhouse Mirror. The album's lyrics unpacked issues of racism, classism, and wealth disparity and featured cameo appearances from Ricky Motion, Dizzy Wright, and others. Led by the singles "Hoodie Weather" and "Get Off My Yard," Craft's sophomore album, How We Intended, arrived in early 2021. - Biography by Fred Thomas

fri13nov7:30 pmfri10:00 pmFreak SlugAmulet Tour7:30 pm - 10:00 pm Ukie Club, 847 N Franklin Street

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(Friday) 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm

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Ukie Club

847 N Franklin Street

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The whimsical lo-fi indie pop/rock of Freak Slug recalls the intimacy and double-tracked vocals of Elliott Smith and the extended chords and squishy bedroom timbres of acts like Barrie and MUNYA while adding touches of jangle and distortion for good measure. After releasing a series of self-recorded EPs and LPs in the early 2020s in which the U.K. singer/songwriter explored these sounds and developed an unflinching lyrical style, she made her Future Classic label debut with the more mid-fi I Blow Out Big Candles in 2024. The sharp yet dreamlike Amulet followed in 2026. I'm in Love Manchester's Xenya Genovese began sharing her music online under the pseudonym Freak Slug as early as 2015, with the self-recorded EPs Who stole my bike and Brain appearing in 2015 and 2017, respectively. The album-length Girlfriend and La Love both saw release by the end of 2019, with no contributors credited except for a pair of featured vocalists (Roves and Brad Stank) on the latter. Genovese worked with producer glue70 on March 2020's trippy one-off single "Proud" before the self-produced Videos EP appeared that October. Her fourth EP, I'm in Love, arrived in August 2022, three months before the release of the stand-alone single "Love U Better," a duet with Stank. Released on Our House, May 2023's Viva la Vulva EP fully embraced oddball production and playful vocals. Freak Slug signed with Future Classic for the November 2024 release of her third album, I Blow Out Big Candles. Her most assertive-sounding effort to that point, it incorporated many established tendencies into band arrangements that added hints of '90s alt-rock. An EP titled Loose Tooth and a Short Skirt appeared in 2025, then the full-length Amulet arrived in 2026. - Biography by Marcy Donelson

fri13nov7:30 pmfri11:00 pmThe MaineThe Tour Next Door7:30 pm - 11:00 pm Wellmont Theater, 5 Seymour Street

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(Friday) 7:30 pm - 11:00 pm

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Wellmont Theater

5 Seymour Street

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The Maine are a thrilling aberration in the unruly world of modern rock music: a band whose following has organically grown to unprecedented heights nearly 20 years into their career, thanks to the raw emotional power of their cathartic breed of alt-rock. In a bold new pinnacle for the Arizona-bred five-piece—vocalist John O’Callaghan, guitarists Jared Monaco and Kennedy Brock, bassist Garrett Nickelsen, drummer Pat Kirch—their tenth studio album Joy Next Door arrives as their most high-concept work yet while doubling down on The Maine’s singular balance of sonic ferocity and unflinching sincerity. Completed just before embarking on their biggest tour to date (the 2026 headline run I Love You But…I Chose The Maine), the result is a glorious testament to a band whose unbridled passion only burns brighter with time. With its title inspired by O’Callaghan’s recent move back to his childhood neighborhood, Joy Next Door intimately chronicles the chaotic beauty of the human condition. “The title refers to being reminded of a more carefree time in your life, but it’s also about acknowledging that joy can coexist with fear and worry and doubt, and all the other complicated feelings we all struggle with and maybe try to suppress,” says O’Callaghan. “For me it’s the most difficult record we’ve ever done as far as the lyrical element—mainly because I wanted every single song to tell the truth about what was happening with me internally, with an openness that I haven’t always fully embraced.” To amplify the impact of that viscerally personal storytelling, The Maine recorded Joy Next Door in the exact sequence of its tracklist. “We’d never worked that way before, but it really helped us to capture all the emotional peaks and valleys that are such a huge part of this album,” says Kirch. Co-produced by O’Callaghan and Beach Weather’s Sean Silverman at The Maine’s own studio, Joy Next Door ultimately embodies a relentless intensity and reveals a band transformed into an unstoppable force through their expansive live experience—including, in the past few years alone, performing at major festivals like Boston Calling and When We Were Young, embarking on an arena tour with Fall Out Boy, and headlining the fourth biannual iteration of their massively successful 8123 Fest. After opening on the acoustic-guitar-led confession of “Green,” Joy Next Door tears through wildly combustible songs like “Half a Spark”: a frenzied meditation on longing to return to the recklessness of youth. Next, on “Palms,” the album turns triumphant as the band offers up a galvanizing anthem for claiming authorship over your own life. “If ‘Half A Spark’ is an attempt to escape or deny your current reality, then the sentiment behind ‘Palms’ is more like, ‘Fuck fate, I get to decide,’” says O’Callaghan. Later, on the exhilarating lead single “Die To Fall,” Joy Next Door takes on a breakneck momentum and delivers a full-tilt burst of life-affirming energy. “That song came from feeling like I’m watching life from the sidelines, and being envious of those with the ability to live in the moment,” says O’Callaghan. “I wanted the song itself to sound like completely letting go—almost like you’re being shot out of a rocket.” True to The Maine’s ethos of perpetual evolution, Joy Next Door radiates a potent urgency partly born from their refusal to retread well-worn terrain. “We’ve done a ton of exploration over the last 20 years, and doing the opposite of what feels familiar is usually the best way to get to a place we haven’t gone yet,” says O’Callaghan. “With this record in particular, I remember telling Sean, ‘I’m 37 and don’t want to make an album that sounds like I’m trying to be 23.’ The important thing was to create something that we all loved, with the level of authenticity that people have come to expect from us.” Since the arrival of 2008’s Can’t Stop Won’t Stop (the first of five LPs to chart on the Billboard 200), that authenticity has earned The Maine one of the most devoted fanbases in American rock—a close-knit contingent called the 8123 Family, named for a parking garage where the band members often hung out in their early years. Known for cultivating an extraordinarily deep connection with their fans (including committing to meeting all audience members in admission-free post-show gatherings and phoning fans as thanks for pre-ordering their albums), The Maine have watched their following expand exponentially and extend to younger generations in recent years. “It’s crazy to be two decades in and going out on our biggest tour ever, and in some cities playing venues with double the capacity of places we’ve played before,” says Kirch. “There isn’t anything in particular we can identify to explain why that’s happened, but it feels really great to keep building an audience that’s beyond so passionate. It feels like a Grateful Dead type of thing, where we have fans who’ve been to hundreds of shows and still travel all over to see us live.” Looking back on their journey so far, The Maine express an immense gratitude for what O’Callaghan sums up as the “symbiotic relationship between us and our fans.” “There are so many people who’ve grown up with us and have become familiar faces at this point,” he notes. “They’re the ones who’ve given us the ability to be a band for so long, so we’re always thinking about how we can nurture that connection as much as possible.” “One of the most common things we hear from fans is that we’ve brought them a sense of community,” Kirch adds. “I always loving hearing that, because that’s exactly what the band did for me. It’s incredible that we have these amazing fans who are all in on our music, all the way down to the deep cuts—but the best part is knowing we’ve helped them find a place where they belong.”

fri13nov8:00 pmfri11:00 pmLilies of David8:00 pm - 11:00 pm Asbury Lanes, 209 4th Avenue

fri13nov(nov 13)10:30 pmsat14(nov 14)1:00 amGenesis OwusuPirate Radio Tour10:30 pm - 1:00 am (14) Baby's All Right, 146 Broadway

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13 (Friday) 10:30 pm - 14 (Saturday) 1:00 am

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Baby's All Right

146 Broadway

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Genesis Owusu is a Ghanaian-Australian songwriter and performer whose hard to categorize music draws from laid-back funk, hardcore rap, and the energy of alternative rock. Naming Frank Ocean, Kanye West, OutKast, and Jimi Hendrix as influences, his songs are both celebratory and introspective, while touching on relevant social issues such as cultural appropriation and police brutality. After earning attention throughout Australia with early releases such as the 2017 EP Cardrive and his highly energetic live shows, Owusu's single "Don't Need You" received airplay from U.K. and U.S. tastemakers in 2020. His debut album, Smiling with No Teeth, arrived in 2021 to almost universal acclaim and went on to win Album of the Year at the ARIA Awards. Owusu's similarly rangy and delightfully eclectic sophomore LP, Struggler, was released in August 2023. Redstar Wu & the Worldwide Scourge, a more politically reflective third effort, appeared in 2026. Kofi Owusu-Ansah was born in Ghana and moved to Canberra, Australia, with his family when he was two. In 2013, he formed a duo called the Ansah Brothers with his older brother Koji, better known as Citizen Kay, and began performing solo as Genesis Owusu soon after. In 2015, he started performing with a pack of dancers and backup singers in matching red outfits known as the Goons, adding a striking visual element to his live show. He also began receiving support through influential Australian radio station Triple J, placing as a Top Five finalist in their Unearthed High competition, then being named as an Unearthed featured artist in early 2017. Following the release of Owusu's Cardrive EP, his song "Sideways," produced by Perrin Moss and Simon Mavin of Hiatus Kaiyote, became a radio hit. Additional tracks such as "Wit' da Team" (2018) and "WUTD" (2019) attracted attention, and Owusu was awarded ACT Live Voice of the Year during the 2019 National Live Music Awards. His 2020 single "Don't Need You" became a number one hit on Triple J, additionally receiving airplay on BBC Radio 6 in the U.K. and American stations like KCRW and WXPN. Owusu recorded his debut album, Smiling with No Teeth (2021), alongside notable Australian musicians such as Kirin J. Callinan, Touch Sensitive, and World Champion's Julian Sudek. While it peaked at number 27 on the ARIA charts, the set was widely hailed by critics and went on to win a trio of ARIA Music Awards including Album of the Year. A couple of non-album singles, "GTFO" and "Get Inspired," as well as a collaboration with Jack River ("Endless Summer") satiated fans while Owusu worked on his highly anticipated follow-up album. Led by the strident punk-rap single "Leaving the Light," his sophomore LP, Struggler, appeared in August 2023 and featured production from Mikey Freedom, Sol Was, and Jason Evigan. Owusu began previewing his third album with the 2025 singles "Pirate Radio" and "Death Cult Zombie." Redstar Wu & the Worldwide Scourge arrived in May of 2026, commenting on political, social, and economic issues. Ladyhawke and Duckwrth both made appearances on the album. - Biography by Paul Simpson

sat14nov6:00 pmsat10:00 pmThe OBGMsHeart Problems Tour6:00 pm - 10:00 pm The Wood Shop, 21a Meadow Street

sat14nov(nov 14)10:30 pmsun15(nov 15)1:00 amMarciMask Lady and Late Night Girl10:30 pm - 1:00 am (15) Night Club 101, 101 Avenue A

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14 (Saturday) 10:30 pm - 15 (Sunday) 1:00 am

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Night Club 101

101 Avenue A

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When we last heard from Marci aka Marta Cikojevic, she was dancing the pain away on 2022’s Marci. A longtime member of Montreal soft-rock group TOPS, Marci established Cikojevic as a solo artist with an intuitive understanding of pop as a vehicle for emotional catharsis. Four years later, Cikojevic returns with Mask Lady and Late Night Girl, a record of party girl anthems for when the party is over, delivered with love and compassion for the good times and great memories. Collaborating again with TOPS bandmate David Carriere, Mask Lady has elements drawn from both the Y2k-era messy pop girlies like Uffie and Kesha and Cikojevic’s love of 80s power balladeers like White Snake and Def Leppard, along with the vintage synths that gave Marci a warmly futuristic aesthetic. Album opener “Stars Are Fake” calls back to funk-inflected synthwave with a tight drum pattern and a juicy synth line. “Butterfly Sticker” pulses with a melodic rhythm reminiscent of 90s classics like Savage Garden’s “I Want You.” Glam metal influences come to the fore on “Chaotic Princess,” written and produced with Mike Silver (CFCF), an over-the-top guitar-driven banger about a crazy night out on which Cikojevic begs an officer not to take her to jail—Eddie Van Halen riding shotgun in a car with Britney at the wheel. Of course, this is a Marci album, so there’s plenty of pure pop sugar, as on “99 Dimensional,” a bubbly Janet Jackson-esque dance track about a telepathic connection that lasts forever. With a balance of bittersweet and breezy sentiments, Mask Lady and Late Night Girl explores the dualities that define our lives: rock and pop, past and future, happiness and sadness. We all have both a masked woman and a late night girl inside—sometimes we live as if the sun will never rise, sometimes we hide our true face from the world. “It’s anybody and nobody,” Cikojevic says. “It’s you”.

sun15nov6:30 pmsun9:00 pmSophie HunterStereoscope Tour6:30 pm - 9:00 pm Baby's All Right, 146 Broadway Event Organized By: Move Forward Music

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(Sunday) 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

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Baby's All Right

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Sophie Hunter is an emerging artist based in Brooklyn, New York, whose music blends alternative pop and rap into a distinctive, genre-bending sound she describes as “ctrl_alt + pop + rap.” A self-taught creator, she began gaining traction through social media platforms such as TikTok and Instagram, where her witty lyricism, bold personality, and self-produced beats quickly captured the attention of a growing fanbase. Her music combines playful experimentation with sharp songwriting, reflecting a DIY ethos that has become central to her artistic identity. Hunter has continued to build momentum with a series of independent releases, including her EPs WAIL! (2024) and (go!) (2025). Her catalog features standout singles such as “Mic Check,” “CVNT,” “Cha Cha,” and “2 Shots of Patron,” which showcase her energetic style and offbeat pop sensibilities. In addition to her online presence, she has taken her music to the stage, touring with established acts such as Prof and Sleigh Bells. With a rapidly growing audience across streaming and social platforms including Spotify, YouTube, and TikTok, Sophie Hunter is establishing herself as a fresh and inventive voice in the alternative pop and rap landscape.

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sun15nov7:00 pmsun8:30 pmLalah Hathaway7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Sony Hall, 235 W 46th Street

sun15nov7:30 pmsun10:00 pmJesse Roper7:30 pm - 10:00 pm MilkBoy, 1100 Chestnut Street

sun15nov8:00 pmsun9:30 pmInayahTherapy Wasn't Enough Tour8:00 pm - 9:30 pm Blue Note, 131 W 3rd Street

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(Sunday) 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm

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Inayah is a contemporary R&B singer and songwriter with a knack for upfront lyrics that delve deep beneath the surface of relationships. She achieved social media fame with her narrative twist on Ella Mai's "Boo'd Up" and made her commercial recorded debut in 2018. S.O.L.A.R. (2019), her first album, featured the platinum hit "Best Thing," a cathartic breakup ballad. The EPs Side A (2021) and Insecure (2022) preceded Wait, There's More (2024), a more pop-flavored (if no less frank) second full-length. The East Houston native has since released Therapy Wasn't Enough (2026), led by the yearning "Choose" and the Lil' Mo-referencing "Outside." Born Inayah Lamis in Houston, Inayah developed her storytelling writing style from absorbing the gospel, blues, and R&B records her mother played, and eventually got into hip-hop. From Johnnie Taylor to 504 Boyz, most of Inayah's formative inspirations were distinctly Southern. She had been working as a writer at a jingle company for several years when her version of "Boo'd Up" went viral on Instagram, reposted by the likes of Tiffany Haddish, Maxwell, and Jamie Foxx. Another fan was rapper Trick Daddy, who put Inayah in touch with soul legend Betty Wright, another one of her mother's favorites. Wright herself had become a fan and mentored Inayah in the music industry. After Inayah struck a distribution deal with Empire, she independently released her first singles in 2018 and 2019, and during the latter year also issued S.O.L.A.R. ("storytelling over lyrics and rhymes"), featuring production from Micah Powell, Cassius Jay, and tha Aristocrats. The album's "Suga Daddy" and "Best Thing" raised her profile considerably. Next came Side A, a six-track EP with "Fallin," "What Are We," and "Missin It" increasing the singer's commercial momentum even more. Inayah returned after the birth of her second child with Insecure, an eight-track project with openhearted material such as "Always Something" and "Most Girlz." "Best Thing" proved to have considerable staying power, with a platinum certification awarded the next year. Without dulling her songwriting blade, Inayah diversified her sound with the 2024 effort Wait, There's More, which incorporated club-oriented productions and a greater emphasis on pop hooks. She returned in 2026 with Therapy Wasn't Enough, on which she teamed with the likes of Triangle Park and Mustapha LeBeau ("Choose"); Ghost Note, DeezyBaby, and Starchild Yeezo ("Outside"); and the Underdogs and Eric Dawkins ("Too Much to Lie"). - Biography by Andy Kellman

sun15nov9:30 pmsun11:00 pmLalah Hathaway9:30 pm - 11:00 pm Sony Hall, 235 W 46th Street

sun15nov10:30 pmsun11:59 pmInayahTherapy Wasn't Enough Tour10:30 pm - 11:59 pm Blue Note, 131 W 3rd Street

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(Sunday) 10:30 pm - 11:59 pm

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Blue Note

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Inayah is a contemporary R&B singer and songwriter with a knack for upfront lyrics that delve deep beneath the surface of relationships. She achieved social media fame with her narrative twist on Ella Mai's "Boo'd Up" and made her commercial recorded debut in 2018. S.O.L.A.R. (2019), her first album, featured the platinum hit "Best Thing," a cathartic breakup ballad. The EPs Side A (2021) and Insecure (2022) preceded Wait, There's More (2024), a more pop-flavored (if no less frank) second full-length. The East Houston native has since released Therapy Wasn't Enough (2026), led by the yearning "Choose" and the Lil' Mo-referencing "Outside." Born Inayah Lamis in Houston, Inayah developed her storytelling writing style from absorbing the gospel, blues, and R&B records her mother played, and eventually got into hip-hop. From Johnnie Taylor to 504 Boyz, most of Inayah's formative inspirations were distinctly Southern. She had been working as a writer at a jingle company for several years when her version of "Boo'd Up" went viral on Instagram, reposted by the likes of Tiffany Haddish, Maxwell, and Jamie Foxx. Another fan was rapper Trick Daddy, who put Inayah in touch with soul legend Betty Wright, another one of her mother's favorites. Wright herself had become a fan and mentored Inayah in the music industry. After Inayah struck a distribution deal with Empire, she independently released her first singles in 2018 and 2019, and during the latter year also issued S.O.L.A.R. ("storytelling over lyrics and rhymes"), featuring production from Micah Powell, Cassius Jay, and tha Aristocrats. The album's "Suga Daddy" and "Best Thing" raised her profile considerably. Next came Side A, a six-track EP with "Fallin," "What Are We," and "Missin It" increasing the singer's commercial momentum even more. Inayah returned after the birth of her second child with Insecure, an eight-track project with openhearted material such as "Always Something" and "Most Girlz." "Best Thing" proved to have considerable staying power, with a platinum certification awarded the next year. Without dulling her songwriting blade, Inayah diversified her sound with the 2024 effort Wait, There's More, which incorporated club-oriented productions and a greater emphasis on pop hooks. She returned in 2026 with Therapy Wasn't Enough, on which she teamed with the likes of Triangle Park and Mustapha LeBeau ("Choose"); Ghost Note, DeezyBaby, and Starchild Yeezo ("Outside"); and the Underdogs and Eric Dawkins ("Too Much to Lie"). - Biography by Andy Kellman

mon16nov6:30 pmmon9:00 pmQendresaDate Night Tour6:30 pm - 9:00 pm Baby's All Right, 146 Broadway Event Organized By: Move Forward

mon16nov7:00 pmmon10:00 pmsahn7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Zone One at Elsewhere, 599 Johnson Avenue

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sahn is embracing the mess of becoming. Hailing from the Twin Cities, the artist has built a sonic world that resists boundaries, moving freely between folk, rap, R&B, pop, and whatever else feels right in the moment. As his star status ascends, he remains intentionally elusive, allowing his songs to reveal his innermost thoughts. Yet on his upcoming mixtape, ten thousand mistakes, his heart is on full display more than ever before. Arriving October 2, the 12-track project finds sahn revealing the vulnerable person behind the mystique: someone who has loved deeply, hurt people, been hurt himself, and is bettering himself along the way. “This is a genuine commentary of me being human, making so many mistakes, messing up relationships and confronting the person who I’m becoming,” sahn explains. After moving between Minnesota, New York City, Los Angeles, and elsewhere, ten thousand mistakes transformed into a document of his life journey. More than a collection of songs, it’s a reckoning with the choices that brought him here. That vulnerability comes through immediately. On “how long,” sahn pleads with someone he knows doesn’t love him back: how long will it take for that love to be returned? “Tell me how long it takes / I’ll be there as fast as you need / I might just die waiting,” he confesses atop a piano melody that aches just as much as his heart, before transitioning to a tearful electric guitar break. Elsewhere, “protect my energy” marks a different kind of realization, the moment when loving someone unfortunately turns into leaving them behind. “And I just don't have no more left in me / So hold my hand when I say this / We could've been the greatest / But I gotta protect my energy,” sahn sings as he cuts the last thread of a romance that has sadly expired. Hazy, nocturnal synths paired with his aloof vocals add even more distance between him and his former lover. That sense of mental clarity runs through sahn’s artistry. His creative foundation is deeply rooted in Minnesota and the Midwest emo tradition, drawing inspiration from artists including Bon Iver, The Replacements, and Prince—musicians who embraced abrasive textures, emotional honesty, and sounds that demanded to be felt and relistened to rather than immediately understood. Growing up, his mother expanded that palette even further, filling their home with records from Depeche Mode, The Cure, Steve Miller Band, Electric Light Orchestra, Boston, and other classic rock acts, alongside Roc-A-Fella-era hip-hop and early Kanye West. “That’s why I am a genreless artist,” sahn says. “How couldn’t I be? There’s just so many flavors and I’m in a candy store.” That instinct to explore has followed sahn throughout his journey. While still in high school, he was already taking college courses and questioning whether it was worth it to spend four years waiting to pursue music. After graduating, he traveled to London, where he immersed himself in a growing indie scene and realized he wanted to give music a real shot. He later moved to New York City, which reinforced his decision. Since then, he’s continued to build from the Twin Cities outward, eventually releasing his 2025 album 20, a sprawling exploration of the sounds he had been collecting throughout his young career. The record later caught the attention of critics like Pigeons & Planes, who named sahn their “Best New Artist” of 2026. For sahn, mistakes are part of the human experience. But he urges listeners to keep moving, keep learning, and keep loving. ten thousand mistakes does not attempt to resolve life’s contradictions. Instead, sahn gives them a place to exist freely. As he steps into this new era, he’s excitedly pulling down the curtain just a bit—not by overly explaining everything, but by letting the music reveal what the mystery was protecting all along.

mon16nov8:00 pmmon11:00 pmDie Spitz8:00 pm - 11:00 pm Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden Street

mon16nov9:00 pmmon11:00 pmForrest Nolan9:00 pm - 11:00 pm Mercury Lounge, 17 E Houston Street

tue17nov8:00 pmtue11:00 pmJoJoThe High Road Tour8:00 pm - 11:00 pm Theatre of Living Arts, 334 South Street

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(Tuesday) 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm

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Singer and actress JoJo is known for her hooky, R&B- and hip-hop-influenced pop music. She rose to fame with her number four Billboard 200 debut, 2004's JoJo, which spawned the hit "Leave (Get Out)." JoJo has remained a chart regular, releasing albums like 2006's The High Road, featuring the platinum-selling single "Too Little Too Late," and 2016's number six Billboard 200 album Mad Love. She also moved into acting, including starring in 2006's RV with Robin Williams, 2008's Lifetime movie True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet, and on the 2017 TV series Lethal Weapon. She also starred on Broadway in Moulin Rouge! The Musical and authored her memoir. Along with diversifying her career, JoJo's sound has also evolved, as evidenced by sophisticated productions like 2020's Good to Know, 2021's Trying Not to Think About It, and her 2025 EP NGL. Born Joanna Noelle Blagden Levesque in 1990 in Brattleboro, Vermont, JoJo grew up in Foxborough, Massachusetts, where she developed a love of singing by listening to her mother practice hymns. She initially started singing by imitating her mother, but she quickly put her own spin on everything from nursery rhymes to pop tunes. An ad in the paper announcing open auditions for the television show Kids Say the Darndest Things: On the Road in Boston led to the young singer wowing the audience along with the show's host, Bill Cosby, and eventually led to a phone call from Oprah Winfrey offering JoJo a spot on her show. Appearances on talk shows and gospel festivals followed, but it was her appearance on the television show America's Most Talented Kids that brought the call from producer Vincent Herbert. The former Aaliyah, Toni Braxton, and Destiny's Child producer had the young singer signed to Blackground Records and arranged sessions with famed producers like the Underdogs and Soulshock & Karlin. Her platinum-selling eponymous debut album followed in June 2004. JoJo featured the hit "Leave (Get Out)," which reached the top spot on the Billboard charts, making her the youngest solo artist to have a number one single in the U.S. JoJo went on to add actress to her resumé, starring in the comedies Aquamarine and RV with Robin Williams. In 2006, she released her sophomore effort, The High Road, which featured her platinum-selling single "Too Little Too Late." After The High Road, JoJo became embroiled in contractual disputes with her label, Da Family Entertainment, which lasted until 2009. Although she made guest appearances on songs by Timbaland and the rock band Jet, she wouldn't return to her own music until late 2010, when she self-released the mixtape Can't Take That Away from Me. She joined tours with Joe Jonas, Jay Sean, and Big Time Rush to support her new music; however, label issues returned, delaying the release of an official album. In December 2012, JoJo released another mixtape, Agape, and embarked on a headlining tour. After filing a lawsuit against her label in 2013, she was finally released from the contractual delays that she claimed caused "irreparable damage" to her career and signed with Atlantic Records. She went on to release three EPs in 2015: #LoveJo, III, and #LoveJo2. Her third official LP, Mad Love, was released in 2016 with featured appearances from Alessia Cara, Wiz Khalifa, and Remy Ma. The album peaked at number six on the Billboard 200. In 2017, JoJo parted ways with Atlantic and launched her own Clover Music imprint with Interscope Records. The following year, she re-released her debut and sophomore albums featuring re-recorded vocals and some reworked production. She then moved Clover Music under the Warner Records umbrella for the release of her fourth studio album, 2020's Good to Know. Included on the record were the tracks "Man," "Lonely Hearts," and "Comeback" featuring Tory Lanez and 30 Roc. The album debuted at number 33 on the Billboard 200 and landed at number 19 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. Also that year, she released the holiday-themed December Baby. In 2021, JoJo was a finalist on season five of The Masked Singer, where she competed as "The Black Swan." On the heels of her appearance, she released the standalone song "Creature of Habit." In October of the same year, she delivered her sixth studio album, Trying Not to Think About It. The production found JoJo digging into the feelings of fear, anxiety, and loneliness she experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic and which she felt were universal. It spawned the single "Worst (I Assume)," which reached number 25 on the Adult R&B Airplay Chart. She then embarked on her global JoJo Tour 2022. In 2023, JoJo made her Broadway debut starring as Satine in Moulin Rouge! The Musical. The following year, she returned to pop, supplying a cover of REO Speedwagon's "I Can't Fight This Feeling" to the soundtrack to her friend director Zelda Williams' horror-comedy Lisa Frankenstein. Also in 2024, she authored her autobiography, Over the Influence: A Memoir. In January 2025, she released the NGL EP, featuring the single "Too Much to Say." - Biography by David Jeffries

tue17nov8:00 pmtue11:00 pmAustin GiorgioLovers Never Die Tour8:00 pm - 11:00 pm MilkBoy, 1100 Chestnut Street

tue17nov9:30 pmtue11:59 pmQendresaDate Night Tour9:30 pm - 11:59 pm Baby's All Right, 146 Broadway Event Organized By: Move Forward

wed18nov8:00 pmwed11:00 pmInayahTherapy Wasn't Enough Tour8:00 pm - 11:00 pm Underground Arts, 1200 Callowhill Street

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(Wednesday) 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm

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1200 Callowhill Street

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Inayah is a contemporary R&B singer and songwriter with a knack for upfront lyrics that delve deep beneath the surface of relationships. She achieved social media fame with her narrative twist on Ella Mai's "Boo'd Up" and made her commercial recorded debut in 2018. S.O.L.A.R. (2019), her first album, featured the platinum hit "Best Thing," a cathartic breakup ballad. The EPs Side A (2021) and Insecure (2022) preceded Wait, There's More (2024), a more pop-flavored (if no less frank) second full-length. The East Houston native has since released Therapy Wasn't Enough (2026), led by the yearning "Choose" and the Lil' Mo-referencing "Outside." Born Inayah Lamis in Houston, Inayah developed her storytelling writing style from absorbing the gospel, blues, and R&B records her mother played, and eventually got into hip-hop. From Johnnie Taylor to 504 Boyz, most of Inayah's formative inspirations were distinctly Southern. She had been working as a writer at a jingle company for several years when her version of "Boo'd Up" went viral on Instagram, reposted by the likes of Tiffany Haddish, Maxwell, and Jamie Foxx. Another fan was rapper Trick Daddy, who put Inayah in touch with soul legend Betty Wright, another one of her mother's favorites. Wright herself had become a fan and mentored Inayah in the music industry. After Inayah struck a distribution deal with Empire, she independently released her first singles in 2018 and 2019, and during the latter year also issued S.O.L.A.R. ("storytelling over lyrics and rhymes"), featuring production from Micah Powell, Cassius Jay, and tha Aristocrats. The album's "Suga Daddy" and "Best Thing" raised her profile considerably. Next came Side A, a six-track EP with "Fallin," "What Are We," and "Missin It" increasing the singer's commercial momentum even more. Inayah returned after the birth of her second child with Insecure, an eight-track project with openhearted material such as "Always Something" and "Most Girlz." "Best Thing" proved to have considerable staying power, with a platinum certification awarded the next year. Without dulling her songwriting blade, Inayah diversified her sound with the 2024 effort Wait, There's More, which incorporated club-oriented productions and a greater emphasis on pop hooks. She returned in 2026 with Therapy Wasn't Enough, on which she teamed with the likes of Triangle Park and Mustapha LeBeau ("Choose"); Ghost Note, DeezyBaby, and Starchild Yeezo ("Outside"); and the Underdogs and Eric Dawkins ("Too Much to Lie"). - Biography by Andy Kellman

wed18nov8:00 pmwed11:59 pmEzra CollectiveHere Because of Hope Tour8:00 pm - 11:59 pm Webster Hall, 125 E 11th Street

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(Wednesday) 8:00 pm - 11:59 pm

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The groove-laden, genre-bending British jazz-funk outfit Ezra Collective are one of the more ubiquitous groups on the dynamic London jazz scene. While their wildly energetic live gigs brought out people in droves, it was the wide release of their debut album, 2019's You Can't Steal My Joy, that helped break the jazz mold. They toured England and Europe for the next couple of years. In March 2022, the group issued the bumping "May the Funk Be with You" followed by "Victory Dance" in June. In November, the quintet released its sophomore full-length Where I'm Meant to Be. They became the first jazz band to win the Mercury Prize for their efforts. The band toured in 2023, playing clubs across the globe. In September 2024 they released Dance, No One's Watching, inspired by the dancers in those clubs. They returned in 2026 with Here Because of Hope, a journey through jazz, geography, and time, offered in three movements following the historical evolution of Black music across the diaspora. Formed in London in 2016 by Femi Koleoso (drums), his brother, TJ Koleoso (bass), Joe Armon-Jones (keys), Dylan Jones (trumpet), and James Mollison (saxophone), the group first made a name for themselves on the underground London jazz scene. Using elements of Afrobeat, hip-hop, grime, R&B, and jazz, the five-piece delivered their debut EP, Chapter 7, in 2016. A follow-up, Juan Pablo: The Philosopher, appeared a year later and was picked up by Gilles Peterson and awarded "Best Album" at his own Worldwide Awards. With the London jazz scene going through a renaissance, the Ezra Collective, along with the likes of Kamaal Williams, Sons of Kemet, and the Comet Is Coming, quickly became a hot ticket in the capital, playing sold-out shows across the city and also the country. 2018 saw them pick up gongs for "Best UK Jazz Act" and "Live Experience of the Year" at the Jazz FM awards, and also found them recording their full-length debut. Released in 2019, You Can't Steal My Joy saw the group breathing new life into the jazz scene, with an eclectic mix that drew on all their influences and saw them collaborating with Loyle Carner, Jorja Smith, and Kokoroko. Just before the end of the year, Armon-Jones issued the solo album Turn to Clear View on Brownswood. The reaction to You Can't Steal My Joy from England's nu-jazz scene was immediate, and it caught on with funk, R&B, and even some EDM DJs and got substantial radio play. Ezra Collective toured Great Britain and some European venues. While the musicians all did session work. Femi worked with Smith, Nubya Garcia, and Sarah Tandy, while Armon-Jones played with Tony Allen and Hugh Masekela, and Seed Ensemble, while Mollison played in the keyboardist's solo group and Cykada. Jones also played in Armon-Jones' quintet, and with Ashley Henry. At the end of 2020, the Collective's "Quest for Coin II" EP, in collaboration with JME and Swindle (it earned the designation "hottest record of the year" from BBC Radio 1 DJ, Annie Mac), was released. In 2021, they resumed playing live gigs and did some very limited touring. Just before the year's close, they delivered "More Than a Hustler" in collaboration with rapper Novelist. Ezra Collective re-established their prime role on the club scene in 2022, though the venues were often a lot larger. They also played summer jazz festival stages in Europe. In November, Ezra Collective released their sophomore full-length, Where I'm Meant to Be, on the Partisan label. The 14-song set crisscrossed Afrobeat, jazz, funk, and hip-hop; it featured guest spots from Kojey Radical, Emeli Sande, Nao, and Sampa the Great on first single "Life Goes On." The video for the latter was shot alternately in London, England, and Lusaka, Zambia, by director Nathan Miller. Met with almost unanimous critical acclaim, steady airplay, and excellent sales, Where I'm Meant to Be was awarded the annual Mercury Prize in September 2023, naming it the best album released in the United Kingdom in 2022. It marked the very first time a jazz recording won the prize. They toured the globe for the rest of 2022 and much of 2023, playing large clubs from Lagos to Sydney, from Chicago to London. The dancefloor punters directly inspired new music from Ezra Collective. In September 2024 they released the long-player Dance, No One's Watching. While recording the 19-song set at Abbey Road Studios, they were visited by friends, colleagues, and family. They enlisted some of those visitors on the singles "God Gave Me Feet for Dancing" (feat. Yazmin Lacey), "Streets Is Calling" (feat. M.anifest & Moonchild Sanelly), and "No One's Watching Me" (feat. Olivia Dean). It took home 2025 Brit Awards for Best British Group and Best Alternative/Rock Act. In September 2026, Ezra Collective returned with Here Because of Hope. Conceived as a conceptual work in three spiritual and geographical movements, it traced the movement of Black people and Black music and culture across history and continents, from Africa to the rhythms of the Caribbean to the streets of London. It included poetry read by Leticia Wright, as well as musical collaborations with Pa Salieu, Lila Iké, Leona Lewis, and Libianca, to reach across the full breadth of the global African diaspora (including America, where those African and Caribbean roots gave birth to jazz). - Biography by Thom Jurek

wed18nov(nov 18)10:00 pmthu19(nov 19)1:00 am8RO8Hammajang Tour10:00 pm - 1:00 am (19) Baby's All Right, 146 Broadway

thu19nov6:30 pmthu9:00 pmJessie Mazin6:30 pm - 9:00 pm Baby's All Right, 146 Broadway

thu19nov7:00 pmthu10:00 pmJames Ivy7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Zone One at Elsewhere, 599 Johnson Avenue

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James Ivy, a 23-year-old Korean-American producer, singer, and songwriter from New Jersey, began making music in high school. By 15, he had played his first show at former Manhattan venue China Chalet, followed by gigs in Los Angeles and at South by Southwest. His early start teaching himself the ins and outs of home production was inspired by the rise of PC Music, and the innovation in electronic music from SOPHIE and A. G. Cook. From there, he found an online global community of like-minded fans and producers. “We had this little scene headed by Simon Whybray, who had a radio show called JACK Dansu.” Upon moving to New York to study music, James had already amassed enough technical skill to build a solid tune. “I was comfortable producing, but I wasn’t fulfilled,” he says. “Doing electronic music was confining me from what I could do with songwriting. I still needed to find my voice.” In the process, he detached from the computer and began writing with guitar in hand. The result is something that’s simultaneously grungy and dreamy—a confluence that remains honest to where he’s been and where he wants to go. “There isn’t much Asian-American representation in rock music, and I don’t want to be boxed in to any of those expectations,” he says. “I want somebody to see this and think, ‘I can do that too.’” He released his debut EP, Good Grief!, in the Fall of 2020 via FADER Label, which he performed alongside Porter Robinson opening for his nurture tour through North America and Europe in 2021-2022. The acclaimed artist also showed Ivy early support in tapping him for an official cover release of “Something Comforting.” Additionally, he’s seen early support from Anamanaguchi (for whom he opened for on tour in fall 2019), and prominent outlets like Triple J, XMU, Nylon, MTV News, and more. He’ll be taking his talents on the road once again, joining Keshi’s Spring 2023 North American tour as direct support alongside Deb Never, No Rome, and others.

thu19nov8:00 pmthu11:00 pmDeer TickTour-O-Matic8:00 pm - 11:00 pm House Of Independents, 572 Cookman Avenue

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Deer Tick is a rough-and-tumble outfit from Providence, Rhode Island that began as an outlet for the solo material of singer/songwriter John McCauley and later evolved into a full band who integrate sounds from indie folk-rock, alternative country-rock, and blues-rock. The debut album from the fully formed version of the band, War Elephant, was released in 2007, and their approach grew only more visceral and vigorous through years of restless touring and the release of studio albums like 2013's Negativity and 2023's Emotional Contracts, their first for ATO Records. After celebrating their 20th anniversary in 2024, Deer Tick offered their first ever self-produced album in 2026's Coin-O-Matic. John McCauley, the songwriter behind the Deer Tick moniker, grew up in Providence, Rhode Island, where he began his career by teaching himself to play drums, guitar, piano, and pedal steel. McCauley started recording his own compositions and touring the area while still in high school, and he widened his circle after graduation by touring the entire country. Although he'd often perform solo, the young musician began piecing together a proper band, occasionally playing as a duo with drummer Dennis Ryan or with a small group. His music fit loosely into the alt-country category, but his vocals -- rough, raw, and ragged -- brought a distinctive character to the sound. In these early days, Deer Tick's music existed on self-released CD-Rs and other miscellaneous releases, such as a split EP with bassist/songwriter Nat Baldwin. Following the September 2007 release of their first album, War Elephant, McCauley's Deer Tick project began earning comparisons to Bright Eyes, Modest Mouse, and Uncle Tupelo. Although originally released on FEOW! Records, War Elephant was reissued in late 2008 by Partisan Records. Partisan went on to release 2009's sleeker Born on Flag Day and 2010's less country- and more rock-minded The Black Dirt Sessions. They both featured the core lineup of McCauley, drummer Dennis Ryan, bassist Christopher Dale Ryan, and guitarist Andrew Tobiassen, while Titus Andronicus' Ian O'Neil joined as additional guitarist beginning with the latter album. The band's fourth studio outing, Divine Providence, arrived the following year, sporting 12 rowdy and raucous originals drawing inspiration from the raw power of the Stones and the Stooges. It was recorded without Tobiassen and with keyboardist/saxophonist Rob Crowell. 2013's dark-hued Negativity took a more streamlined approach with producer Steve Berlin (Los Lobos) tightening up the band's sometimes ragged sound. Though they continued to tour, and their lineup remained steady, Deer Tick didn't record again for nearly four years. In September 2017, the band released not one but two albums simultaneously: Deer Tick, Vol. 1 and Deer Tick, Vol. 2. Recorded at Memphis' famed Ardent Studios, the first set focused on the band's softer folk-driven, Americana-tinged roots rock style, while the second allowed Deer Tick to flex its punk-inspired garage rock muscle. In February 2019, they followed with companion album Mayonnaise. The compilation featured a grab bag of material, including two new songs, covers, outtakes from the two-volume series, and other miscellanea. It would prove to be their final release with Partisan. The self-released concert LP Live at Fort Adams appeared in mid-2021 before Deer Tick signed on with ATO Records for the release of their eighth studio album. Recorded with Mercury Rev's Dave Fridmann at his Tarbox Road Studios in western New York, 2023's Emotional Contracts featured diversions into a harder rock sound that reflected subject matter like depression and topical concerns like book bans. Recorded during those same sessions with Fridmann, the eight-song EP, Contractual Obligations, appeared in 2024 as the band celebrated their 20th anniversary together. For their next full-length, Deer Tick recorded themselves at their home studio in Providence. Released by ATO in June 2026, their ninth album, Coin-O-Matic, marked the first time the group had ever worked without a producer. - Artist Biography by j. poet

thu19nov8:00 pmthu11:00 pmLow Cut Connie8:00 pm - 11:00 pm Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey Street

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Since Low Cut Connie's debut record Get Out The Lotion, they’ve firmly established their reputation as one of the most exciting live shows in the US, with Greg Kot (Sound Opinions / Chicago Tribune) exclaiming they are “the essence of what rock n roll should be” and The New York Times stating, “Low Cut Connie’s word-of-mouth legend is built on live shows like this one.” Sweat-drenched, piano-pounding songwriter and frontman Adam Weiner’s writing has been described as “Seventies Stones (but dirtier), the New York Dolls (but tighter) and Jerry Lee Lewis (but Westerberg-ier)” (Rolling Stone). Low Cut Connie made unprecedented strides in 2018 as they released their 5th studio album Dirty Pictures (Part 2) via Contender Records. In August 2018, Low Cut Connie made their network television debut on Late Night with Seth Meyers where they performed the rollicking album opener “All These Kids Are Way Too High.” That following month, the band, who can already count Barack Obama, Bruce Springsteen, and Nick Hornby as fans, received a shoutout from Sir Elton John when he took the stage at Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center. Sir Elton John dedicated “Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me” to the sold out crowd and said, “There’s a band that I love at the moment so much called Low Cut Connie...They’re amazing.”

fri20nov7:00 pmfri10:30 pmBrooke Candy7:00 pm - 10:30 pm Elsewhere Space, 599 Johnson Avenue

fri20nov8:00 pmfri9:30 pmAneesa Strings8:00 pm - 9:30 pm Blue Note Jazz Club, 131 W 3rd Street

fri20nov8:00 pmfri11:00 pmCupcakKeThe Bakkery Tour8:00 pm - 11:00 pm Terminal 5, 610 W 56th Street

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(Friday) 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm

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Bold and outspoken Chicago rapper CupcakKe has achieved viral success and critical acclaim with her brazen, unapologetically explicit songs and videos that channeled the likes of Lil Kim, Foxy Brown, and Gangsta Boo. Her work explores sexuality in graphic detail, and while many of her songs are humorous and playful, she has more serious, introspective material that deals with sexual abuse ("Pedophile"), racial issues ("Picking Cotton"), and LGBTQ empowerment ("Crayons"). She debuted in 2016 with a pair of raunchy EPs and a full-length, Audacious, following with the critically acclaimed Queen Elizabitch (2017) and Ephorize (2018). Elizabeth Eden Harris was born in Chicago in 1997. At the age of 14, she began writing religious-themed poetry, performing in local churches. She started turning her poems into raps and uploading them to YouTube, receiving thousands of views. In late 2015, inspired by Khia's hit "My Neck, My Back," she decided to write sexually explicit material. The videos "Vagina" and "Deepthroat" appeared and quickly spread on the Internet like wildfire. Both songs appeared on her debut mixtape, Cum Cake, in February 2016. S.T.D (Shelters to Deltas), named for Harris' years spent in homeless shelters, followed in June, and the studio album Audacious arrived in October. The releases received praise from Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, MTV News, and numerous hip-hop websites. Harris guested on Charli XCX's song "Lipgloss," which appeared on her March 2017 mixtape, Number 1 Angel. CupcakKe's second studio album, Queen Elizabitch, appeared soon after, and the rapper toured North America twice during the year, in addition to releasing two subsequent singles, "Exit" and "Cartoons." Both songs appeared on her third studio album, Ephorize, which dropped near the beginning of 2018. The set peaked at number two on the Heatseekers chart, while landing in the Top 20 of the Billboard Independent Albums chart. Months later, she issued her fourth full-length, Eden, featuring the singles "Quiz" and "Blackjack." CupcakKe closed her decade with a flood of singles in 2019, including the size-obsessed viral hit, "Squidward Nose." The following year, she reached a career high with the single "Discounts," which topped streaming charts and rose into the Top Ten of the Billboard Digital Songs chart. - Biography by Paul Simpson

fri20nov8:00 pmfri11:59 pmAngine De Poitrine8:00 pm - 11:59 pm Franklin Music Hall, 421 N. 7th Street Event Organized By: WXPN

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(Friday) 8:00 pm - 11:59 pm

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Since 2023, the noble brothers Klek and Khn de Poitrine have been crafting a repertoire of cardboard anti-arena instrumental rock that, much like techno music, is built around a dynamic interplay of adding and subtracting sonic motifs in constant metamorphosis. Using his agile toes and an electronic looping module, Khn records and harmonizes multiple layers of melodic ornamentation in real time, constantly switching between microtonal guitar and bass lines that intertwine through angular, chromatic quarter-tone phrases. Within this vortex of repetitive cells, Klek’s dry-toned drumming behaves with the wisdom and restraint of a sherpa; the gradual and calculated addition of elements, or the stoic use of silence, guides the listener through the journey — making asymmetrical grooves dance, pushing intensity to its peak, or shifting the rhythmic anchor point at exactly the right moment. Disciples of planet Earth’s rock deities, space-time voyagers Klek and Khn de Poitrine gaze in wonder at hot dogs, pyramids, and rock music in all its glorious excess. Asymmetrical and dissonant, Angine de Poitrine’s music makes hearts race and bodies move with ecstatic abandon. Through tight, pulsing drum grooves and intricate tangles of double-neck microtonal guitar, the band summons swirling vortices of hypnotic sound and vision. Since the release of Vol. 1 in 2024, Angine de Poitrine are in the eye of an ever-growing storm of enthusiasm from audiences, critics, and music industry’s main actors. After delivering electrifying performances at Quebec’s major festivals, including the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, Angine de Poitrine sets their sights on the prestigious Trans Musicales in Rennes. All these facts are strictly reserved for the humanoids: Angine de Poitrine are simply thrilled to play rock ’n’ roll.

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WXPN 3025 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

fri20nov8:30 pmfri11:00 pmFruitionSomething More The Final Tour8:30 pm - 11:00 pm MilkBoy, 1100 Chestnut Street

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(Friday) 8:30 pm - 11:00 pm

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MilkBoy

1100 Chestnut Street

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A spirited and versatile Americana quintet, Fruition performs folk-rock with touches of soul, bluegrass, and country. Emerging in the early 2010s from Portland, Oregon, the band released a succession of well-received albums and EPs including 2018's Watching It All Fall Apart and 2020's two-part project Wild as the Night, Broken at the Break of Day. After being sidelined by the lockdowns of the global pandemic, they got back together in the studio for an entirely live set, 2024's How to Make Mistakes. In 2026, they released Something More. Fruition was formed in 2008 by Jay Cobb (vocals/guitar/harmonica), Kellen Asebroek (vocals/guitar/piano), and Mimi Naja (vocals/mandolin/guitar), who each arrived in Portland from different spots in the U.S. After cutting their teeth busking, they recruited bassist Jeff Leonard and drummer Tyler Thompson to round out the group. Their debut effort, Hawthorne Hoedown, was a rootsy, string-centric affair that lived up to its title. As Fruition grew, they incorporated more rock influences and focused on their songwriting. The self-titled Fruition arrived in 2010, boasting a fully formed sound familiar to fans of Greensky Bluegrass, Railroad Earth, and even more mainstream acts like Lake Street Dive, Edward Sharpe, and the Lumineers. It Won't Be Long was issued in 2012, quickly followed by Just One of Them Nights the next year. After the release of the Holehearted Fools EP, Fruition unveiled their fourth effort, Labor of Love, which featured extended jam explorations incorporated into their signature rustic sound. In 2018 they released their fifth album, Watching It All Fall Apart. Including singles "Northern Town" and "Turn to Dust," Watching also found the band experimenting with more electric, plugged-in production provided by Tucker Martine (My Morning Jacket, the Decemberists, First Aid Kit). The group wasted little time getting back into the studio, releasing their next full-length effort in two parts which were then combined into a full-length. The self-produced Wild as the Night, Broken at the Break of Day was released in early 2020 and featured the breakout single "Dawn." At the height of their momentum, the global pandemic grounded the hard-traveling band. Fruition eventually regrouped and recommitted their approach, though a four-year gap preceded their next studio release. The buoyant and big-hearted How to Make Mistakes was released in August 2024. Another self-produced set, it was unique in being the band's first to be recorded entirely live in the studio with no overdubs. It also covered the wide range of Fruition's sound from electric folk-rock bangers to breezy acoustic fare. Two years later, the group issued Something More, once again produced by Martine. - Biography by Neil Z. Yeung

fri20nov10:30 pmfri11:59 pmAneesa Strings10:30 pm - 11:59 pm Blue Note Jazz Club, 131 W 3rd Street

sat21nov7:00 pmsat10:00 pmTiny HabitsKeepers Tour7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Irving Plaza, 17 Irving Place

sat21nov7:30 pmsat10:00 pmJames Ivy7:30 pm - 10:00 pm Ukie Club, 847 N Franklin Street

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(Saturday) 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm

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Ukie Club

847 N Franklin Street

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James Ivy, a 23-year-old Korean-American producer, singer, and songwriter from New Jersey, began making music in high school. By 15, he had played his first show at former Manhattan venue China Chalet, followed by gigs in Los Angeles and at South by Southwest. His early start teaching himself the ins and outs of home production was inspired by the rise of PC Music, and the innovation in electronic music from SOPHIE and A. G. Cook. From there, he found an online global community of like-minded fans and producers. “We had this little scene headed by Simon Whybray, who had a radio show called JACK Dansu.” Upon moving to New York to study music, James had already amassed enough technical skill to build a solid tune. “I was comfortable producing, but I wasn’t fulfilled,” he says. “Doing electronic music was confining me from what I could do with songwriting. I still needed to find my voice.” In the process, he detached from the computer and began writing with guitar in hand. The result is something that’s simultaneously grungy and dreamy—a confluence that remains honest to where he’s been and where he wants to go. “There isn’t much Asian-American representation in rock music, and I don’t want to be boxed in to any of those expectations,” he says. “I want somebody to see this and think, ‘I can do that too.’” He released his debut EP, Good Grief!, in the Fall of 2020 via FADER Label, which he performed alongside Porter Robinson opening for his nurture tour through North America and Europe in 2021-2022. The acclaimed artist also showed Ivy early support in tapping him for an official cover release of “Something Comforting.” Additionally, he’s seen early support from Anamanaguchi (for whom he opened for on tour in fall 2019), and prominent outlets like Triple J, XMU, Nylon, MTV News, and more. He’ll be taking his talents on the road once again, joining Keshi’s Spring 2023 North American tour as direct support alongside Deb Never, No Rome, and others.

sat21nov8:00 pmsat9:30 pmAneesa Strings8:00 pm - 9:30 pm Blue Note Jazz Club, 131 W 3rd Street

sat21nov8:00 pmsat10:00 pmSurfing For Daisy8:00 pm - 10:00 pm Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey Street

sat21nov8:00 pmsat11:00 pmJorja SmithWhat Are The Odds Tour8:00 pm - 11:00 pm Kings Theatre, 1027 Flatbush Avenue

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(Saturday) 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm

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Kings Theatre

1027 Flatbush Avenue

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orja Smith combines an aching voice and captivatingly raw songwriting with a natural ability to move across styles including modern hip-hop soul, garage, and alt-pop. The singer/songwriter experienced a swift emergence in the latter half of the 2010s. Shortly after she hit the indie chart in her native U.K. with her moody, MOBO-nominated debut single, "Blue Lights" (2016), she nearly cracked the Top Ten of the U.K. dance chart with "On My Mind" (2017), and after three additional MOBO nominations, she crossed into the Top 40 with the ballad "Let Me Down" (2018). During this time, Smith contributed to Drake's More Life playlist and the soundtrack for Black Panther, audience-expanding appearances that intensified anticipation for her own Lost & Found (also 2018). A Top Five U.K. hit, Smith's album debut was acknowledged with three Brit Award nominations and a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist. Smith continued to build on her success with Be Right Back (2021), an EP preceded by the Top Ten U.K. hit "Be Honest," and Falling or Flying (2023), a wider-ranging second album led by the speedy dancefloor track "Little Things." What Are the Odds (2026) followed in this dance-driven direction, encompassing Afro house, grime, and U.K. garage. Raised on reggae, soul, and hip-hop, Jorja Alice Smith was encouraged to pursue music by her musician father. She started performing at the age of eight, and shortly thereafter began writing original songs, later earning a music scholarship. After she completed her studies, she made her recorded debut in 2016 with "Blue Lights," a hip-hop soul single inspired by racist police motives. The song, issued through her own FAMM label, reached number 22 on the U.K. indie chart and was nominated for a MOBO award in the category of Best Song. By the end of 2016, she also added the Maverick Sabre collaboration "A Prince," the powerful "Where Did I Go?," and the five-track EP Project 11 to her discography. Smith's international profile was elevated in 2017 with contributions to Drake's playlist More Life. Both of the songs on which she appeared, "Jorja Interlude" and "Get It Together," charted in multiple territories. A handful of additional solo singles, beginning with "Beautiful Little Fools" and "Teenage Fantasy" and concluding with "On My Mind," arrived throughout 2017. The last of the batch reached number five on the U.K. indie chart and peaked at number 54 on the pop chart. MOBO nominations followed for Best Female, Best Newcomer, and Best R&B/Soul Act. In early 2018, Smith released the conflicted ballad "Let Me Down," which featured grime artist Stormzy and eventually peaked at number 34 on the U.K. chart. Just as notably, she appeared on the Black Panther soundtrack with "I Am," a collaboration with album orchestrator Kendrick Lamar. This activity neatly set up the June arrival of Lost & Found, Smith's first album. A number three U.K. hit, it prompted Brit Awards nominations for Album of the Year, Breakthrough Act, and Female Solo Artist. In the U.S., it reached number 41, and Smith was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of Best New Artist. The singer/songwriter responded in August 2019 with the track "Be Honest," featuring Burna Boy, a number eight hit in the U.K. Several other singles and stray tracks -- including an update of St. Germain's "Rose Rouge" -- preceded the June 2021 arrival of Be Right Back. An eight-track intermediary EP, Be Right Back placed three songs on the U.K. pop chart before the end of the year, by which point Smith had also taken part in numerous additional collaborations, teaming with Afrobeats specialist GuiltyBeatz for the co-headlined "All of This," and featuring on fellow singer/songwriter Sasha Keable's "Killing Me," among other recordings. Smith made more featured appearances throughout 2022 as she continued to work on her second album. Her contributions to songs such as FKA twigs' "Darjeeling," Ibeyi's "Lavender & Red Roses," and Calvin Harris' "Somebody Else" served as a kind of indication of the many styles she would explore with the proper follow-up to her debut LP. Preceded by singles covering vast ground from contemporary R&B to garage to alternative pop, Falling or Flying was released in September 2023, once again reaching number three in the U.K. The re-recording Falling or Flying (Reimagined) appeared in 2024. Smith collaborated with Childish Gambino and Amaarae on the song "In the Night," then released the solo dance single "High." A Falling or Flying deluxe edition was followed by the Maverick Sabre collaboration "Loving You." The garage-influenced single "The Way I Love You" appeared in 2025 and reached the U.K. Top 40, and "With You" was issued soon afterward. Smith continued to draw from house and garage with What Are the Odds, a 2026 release with guest appearances from Wizkid and Devlin. - Biography by Andy Kellman

sat21nov8:00 pmsat11:59 pmJulia Jacklin8:00 pm - 11:59 pm Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden Street Event Organized By: WXPN

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(Saturday) 8:00 pm - 11:59 pm

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Union Transfer

1026 Spring Garden Street

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Julia Jacklin is celebrated for her emotionally direct lyricism, captivating performances, and commanding voice. Since the release of her acclaimed debut Don’t Let The Kids Win (2016), Jacklin has become one of the most respected artists in contemporary independent music, with follow-up albums Crushing (2019) and PRE PLEASURE (2022) — the latter debuting at #2 on the ARIA Charts. Across her career, she has earned two ARIA Awards and had thirteen nominations and widespread international critical acclaim, with both Crushing and PRE PLEASURE landing on numerous year-end best-of lists and receiving universal praise from outlets including Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, NME, MOJO, and Uncut. A formidable live performer, Jacklin has built a substantial global touring audience through sold out headline shows at venues including London’s Roundhouse, Melbourne’s Forum, and Brooklyn Steel in New York, alongside appearances at major festivals such as Glastonbury, Primavera Sound, Austin City Limits, Pitchfork Music Festival, and Laneway. In addition to extensive headline touring, she has shared stages with artists including Mitski, Lana Del Rey, Courtney Barnett, and Faye Webster, with whom she has also collaborated musically. Following previous partnerships with Polyvinyl, Transgressive, and Liberation Records, Jacklin recently signed her first-ever global record deal with 4AD, marking a new chapter for one of Australia’s most internationally celebrated songwriters.

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WXPN 3025 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

sat21nov10:30 pmsat11:59 pmAneesa Strings10:30 pm - 11:59 pm Blue Note Jazz Club, 131 W 3rd Street

sun22nov7:00 pmsun10:00 pmFather of PeaceThe Year Of Madness & The Mystery Century Tour7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey Street

sun22nov7:30 pmsun10:00 pmTiny HabitsKeepers Tour7:30 pm - 10:00 pm Brooklyn Bowl - Philadelphia, 1009 Canal Street

sun22nov8:00 pmsun9:30 pmAneesa Strings8:00 pm - 9:30 pm Blue Note Jazz Club, 131 W 3rd Street

sun22nov8:00 pmsun11:59 pmJamila Woods10 Years of HEAVN Tour8:00 pm - 11:59 pm Music Hall of Williamsburg, 66 North 6th Street

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(Sunday) 8:00 pm - 11:59 pm

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Music Hall of Williamsburg

66 North 6th Street

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Tempering sharp and powerful lyrics with a sweetly melodic voice, Jamila Woods specializes in modern, soul-rooted R&B that is easily accessible without concessions to the mainstream. A vital part of Chicago's arts community, the singer/songwriter -- who is also an activist and award-winning poet -- raised her musical profile through collaborations with the likes of Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and Chance the Rapper. HEAVN (2016) marked Woods' full-length debut with material ranging from the celebratory spirit of "Blk Girl Soldier" to the romantic idyll of the title song. LEGACY! LEGACY! (2019), her galvanizing follow-up, put the spotlight on artists and writers of color with personal and familial lyrical threads. For her third album, Water Made Us (2023), Woods illustrated her journey along the arc and aftermath of a romantic relationship with buoyant alt-pop, atmospheric R&B, and fluid funk in the mix. Born and raised in Chicago, Woods started performing in church. After she graduated from Brown University with a Bachelor of Arts in Africana Studies and Theatre Arts & Performance Studies, she returned home and formed the self-termed "adventure soul" duo Milo & Otis, aka M&O. The pair released The Joy (2012) and Almost Us (2014), the former of which featured an appearance from Chance the Rapper. Woods and Chance reconnected on "Sunday Candy," a highlight from Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment's Surf (2015). Early the following year, she signed to Chicago's Closed Sessions label as a solo artist and released her first single, "Blk Girl Soldier." Around the same time, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis issued "White Privilege II," for which Woods delivered the song's closing lines. Shortly after that, she could be heard on "Blessings," the finale of Chance's Grammy-winning Coloring Book. HEAVN, Woods' highly anticipated debut album, arrived digitally on Closed Sessions in July 2016. Given its high levels of conviction and wisdom without preachiness, it sounded like the work of a veteran artist operating at her peak. The following year, the audience for HEAVN grew when an expanded edition was released on multiple formats by the Jagjaguwar label. Woods continued to glean inspiration from her work as associate artistic director of the nonprofit Young Chicago Authors, and in May 2019 released LEGACY! LEGACY!, her second solo album, through Jagjaguwar. Each one of its songs was influenced and titled after a writer or artist of color, from Nikki Giovanni to Muddy Waters. Assorted singles and featured appearances followed over the next few years. Woods' own releases included 2020's "Sula" (released in chilled-out "paperback" and more robust "hardcover" versions), an imaginative 2021 cover of Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car," and 2022's BLVK-produced "Boundaries," the latter of which found Woods embracing a textured acoustic sound. Among her collaborations during this period were Bonobo's "Tides" and Adi Oasis' "Red to Violet." Meanwhile, Woods was working toward her third album, having pushed herself to write at a prolific rate. She and Chris McClenney collaborated remotely before Woods was able to join the producer at his Los Angeles studio, where they shaped Water Made Us. The album arrived in October 2023, and though it was easily Woods' most inward-looking record to that point, it was a typically collective effort with featured appearances from Duendita, Saba, and Peter CottonTale. - Biography by Andy Kellman

sun22nov10:30 pmsun11:59 pmAneesa Strings10:30 pm - 11:59 pm Blue Note Jazz Club, 131 W 3rd Street

mon23nov8:00 pmmon9:30 pmRozzi8:00 pm - 9:30 pm Blue Note, 131 W 3rd Street

mon23nov10:30 pmmon11:59 pmRozzi10:30 pm - 11:59 pm Blue Note, 131 W 3rd Street

wed25nov8:00 pmwed11:00 pmRival SonsDomestic Bliss Tour8:00 pm - 11:00 pm Wellmont Theater, 5 Seymour Street

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(Wednesday) 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm

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Wellmont Theater

5 Seymour Street

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Like a gang of tried-and-true mavericks, Rival Sons march to the beat of their own drum. Right when you think you’ve got them figured out, the Long Beach quartet—Jay Buchanan [vocals, acoustic guitar], Scott Holiday [lead guitar], Mike Miley [drums], and Dave Beste [bass]—will flip the script and surprise you once more. Their very emergence is inexplicable in the best way. They don’t fit into any era or category, yet their uncompromising spirit might be more necessary today than ever. A sense of panache, a dash of mystery, and an unapologetic commitment to the craft of rock ‘n’ roll underscore their deep catalog highlighted by the likes of Pressure & Time [2011], Great Western Valkyrie [2014], and Feral Roots [2019], which garnered two GRAMMY® Award nominations in the categories of “Best Rock Album” and “Best Rock Performance” for the single “Too Bad.” Meanwhile, the Rock Radio #1 hit “Do Your Worst” has reeled in 70 million streams and counting. At the same time, they’ve held their own on stage with Black Sabbath, The Rolling Stones, AC/DC, Guns N’ Roses, and Lenny Kravitz in addition to blowing the roof off television staples such as The Late Late Show with James Corden, Jools Holland and Jimmy Kimmel. The band who hails from California, have recorded every release they have made with 9 x GRAMMY® Award winning producer Dave Cobb. Back in 2009, they released their debut full length album, Before The Fire, then the Rival Sons EP in 2010. This caught the attention of Nottingham (UK) metal record label Earache Records. Rival Sons signed to the British label that had previously specialised in grindcore & thrashmetal, where they quickly recorded and released their full-length worldwide debut, the critically acclaimed Pressure & Time (2011). In their own words from 2010 the band “wanted to give the people the rock and roll they deserve by keeping it honest, visceral, and dangerous”. The band are known for their thrilling live performances. Fans often likening the experience of seeing Rival Sons to a religious experience. For their early recordings, the band committed themselves to creating an experience that closely matches the attitude and excitement of their live shows. Right off a 4-week stint on the road, Rival Sons wrote, recorded, and mixed Pressure & Time in just 20 days: ensuring a rawness for both the listener and the band. As guitarist Scott Holiday put it at the time, “This is just the simplest way to not cheat ourselves or the listener. Rock and Roll can’t be over-thought, and if it is, it loses it’s immediacy and instinct … it needs to be a knife fight” It’s the relationship between extraordinary frontman Jay Buchanan and guitar whizz Scott Holiday that gives Rival Sons it’s tension, strength, and sweetness. The interplay of their instruments, Jay’s voice and Scott’s fuzzy guitar tones complement each other delivering a solid partnership, if one based in different yet both charismatic and resolute musical outlooks. Jay Buchanan, who grew up in Wrightwood, California came from a household where singing was second nature. As he matured, he developed a singer-songwriter approach with his own material, basing himself in Long Beach. Scott Holiday, who grew up on rock’n’roll further down the PCH in Huntington Beach, was brought together with Jay by the internet and Michael Miley, a classically trained drummer keen to play “maximum r’n’b” who once described his style at that point like “A bull tied up in a pen before a rodeo.” Scott Holiday stated in 2023 “From Before The Fire to Pressure And Time, Head Down, Great Western, Hollow Bones, and Feral Roots, each record progressively got a little less retro. We emulate our heroes until we can kick the training wheels off and actually have a sound. Every band does that more or less.” In 2023, they continued to subvert expectations releasing two full-length LPs—DARKFIGHTER and LIGHTBRINGER [Low Country Sound/Atlantic Records]. Though the genesis of these albums was intertwined, they also speak to the band’s perpetual progression forward. “More than ever, we sound like our own band,” Scott leaves off. “There’s still a fight in the music. We’re still trying to break out of the box. I still have excitement and inspiration in this group of guys—and I’m proud of them! “We made something important to us. Hopefully we’ve created something the fans can embrace. Ultimately though, our goal was to create something we could embrace, something that revealed a deeper more vulnerable side of the band that we wanted to share.” “I’m just trying to figure out who I am and illuminate things in myself,” Jay concludes. “It just so happens I’m doing so in front of a crowd every night. It’s my hope people relate and feel less alone in their despair or joy. Music is communal. At heart, I want to be part of the solution as a DARKFIGHTER or LIGHTBRINGER. It’s a lofty goal. With my art and life, I just want to leave things better than how I found them.”