Sam Morrow brings raw, Texas-bred southern rock from his newest record, Southern Boogie, alongside Andy Thomas, an electrifying guitarist known for his work with The Trongone Band and Yarn.
Kate Cosentino is a Nashville-based pop-rock singer-songwriter known for her sharp irony, emotional honesty, and painfully accurate observations on modern life. She will be joined by Marilyn Hucek and Jeff Toth.
Neon Habits is an energetic Pop Rock band based in Washington, DC. Flora & The Fauna are a 4-piece, all-transfem rock powerhouse from Richmond, Virginia, and Pet Names is a harmony-driven folk rock duo from Maryland.
Dirt Champ is a noisy new band from DC featuring members of Outerloop, Lud Roes, and XK Scenario. This is their debut show with support from little a and Petrichor.
Abby Jeanne & The Shadowband is a NYC based indie/garage soul band, birthed in 2024 as the latest project by frontwoman Abby Jeanne. The sounds drift between wailing, soulful vocals that are reminiscent of Etta James and the gritty cool of The Velvet Underground, wrapped in subtle odes to garage, surf, soul, and psychedelia.
The 4411 is an alternative rock band from Austin, Texas made up of Cogan McBride (vocals), Tomas Gerlach (drums), Alan Holmquist (guitar), and Nick Speer (bass). Together, the four friends create music built around emotional songwriting, driving guitars, and the kind of live energy that turns shows into experiences people want to come back to.
Johnny Based is New York City born gothic alt artist and producer redefining the boundaries of Black expression in alternative music. Blending elements of gothic rock, punk rock and hip-hop, and more, his sound is both raw and cinematic, driven by themes of artistic freedom, identity, romance and rebellion against cultural confinement.
TONE is a Washington, DC-based five-piece instrumental ensemble. Unwed Sailor offers shoegazing, new wave escapism with journeying melodies and throttling atmosphere, while Ice Out performs instrumental music drawing from ambient, chillwave, post-rock, and cinematic styles.
THE INSPECTOR CLUZO is back in the US for a massive North American tour to promote their 10th LP "Less is more" produced in Nashville by Vance Powell. The French farmers, the biggest independent French rock band, have played more than 1300 gigs in 67 countries all over the world within the last 20 years.
Otto Benson is a musician and recording artist from Brooklyn, NY whose sound has evolved in increasingly surreal and introspective directions, blending emotional vulnerability with experimental textures.
Jenny Owen Youngs delivers an achingly beautiful exploration of loss, resilience, and growth with her new debut, Avalanche, while Northcote brings a powerful, resonant acoustic performance rooted in honesty, grit, and emotional depth.
INSOMNIAC coalesce onto our plane like a third eye opening into the beyond. The outfit's transcendent, mind-expanding psychedelic heaviness casts light on the magic and strange beauty, balanced between unconsciousness and dreams.
stop.drop.rewind is what happens we emo kids grow up and get jazz degrees. Kris and DJ have been playing together since 2000, Andy is new(ish)!
Adam Paddock is a pop/rock artist from Ohio, based in Nashville, TN. Kate Lardner is a singer-songwriter from San Anselmo, CA, who now brings her talents to Washington, DC, where she continues to write and perform with Puzzle.
London-based songwriter Elanor Moss will be releasing her new full length, ’The Knife, The Needle’, on Merge Records in August 2026.