The March Violets ~ Rosegarden Funeral Party
AGE RESTRICTION: Only Ages 21+ can purchase tickets for this show. NO REFUNDS/EXCHANGES for anyone underage who purchases or attempts to use these tickets. Doors: 7:00 PMShow: 7:30 PM The March VioletsThe March Violets are an English post-punk/gothic rock[1] band formed in 1981 in Leeds, incorporating male & female singers, drum machine rhythms and echo-laden electric guitar, much in the style of fellow Leeds band the Sisters of Mercy.https://www.marchvioletsband.com/Rosegarden Funeral PartyRising from the inferno of heartbreak with a determination towards gentility, humility, graciousness, and kindness, Rosegarden Funeral Party takes influence from life’s tragedies and spins chaos into beauty. Leah Lane fronts the band with a voice like that of the lovechild between Morrissey and Siouxsie Sioux and her guitar playing has been compared to that of Daniel Ash. with bass playing that takes obvious inspiration from Peter Hook. With synths trapped in the loving arms of the 1980’s, rhythmic percussion and drums inspired by dark dance floors, Rosegarden Funeral Party prove to be the second-coming of traditional goth.https://www.rosegardenfuneralparty.com/
Deceits ~ Past Self ~ LLYNKS ~ Johnny Dynamite ~ DJ Paul T
AGE RESTRICTION: Only Ages 21+ can purchase tickets for this show. NO REFUNDS/EXCHANGES for anyone underage who purchases or attempts to use these tickets. Doors: 7:00 PMShow: 8:00 PMDeceitsโฑโพ๐๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐๐ญ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ-๐๐ฎ๐ง๐ค ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ฉ๐ญ๐ก๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฌ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฌ, ๐๐ โกโฑhttps://deceitsband.bandcamp.com/Past SelfPast Self is a Las Vegas-based Darkwave and Shoegaze band. Known for their swirling guitar tones, distinct image, and blend of Korean and English lyrics that the band has dubbed “K-Goth,” they’ve quickly become a favorite within the local Las Vegas music scene. They have frequently been compared to acts such as The Cure, The Horrors and My Bloody Valentine. They’ve opened for such acts as Mareux, Drab Majesty, Twin Tribes, Panda Riot, French Police, Secret Attraction and Midwife. Their music has been featured on DKFM, Your First Listen 89.1, 91.5 The Rebel HD2, and Eardrum Buzz. They have also been covered by White Light//White Heat, Las Vegas Weekly and Destroy//Exist.https://pastself.bandcamp.com/LlynksIntroducing the enchanting world of Llynks, formerly known as Sara Kendall, a mesmerizing Boston-based dark popwave artist. With her upcoming album slated for release in the Fall of 2024, Llynks epitomizes a fusion of otherworldly soundscapes and raw emotional resonances a fusion of otherworldly soundscapes and raw emotional resonance.As a multifaceted songwriter, producer, and vocalist, Llynks delves into the depths of the human experience, infusing her haunting melodies with introspective lyrics that resonate with themes of empowerment and self-preservation. Drawing inspiration from realms both fantastical and futuristic, her compositions serve as a mirror reflecting her personal journey, each lyric a poignant testament to her innermost thoughts and struggles.https://www.llynksmusic.com/Johnny DynamiteJohn Aaron Morisi better known by his stage name Johnny Dynamite is an American multi-instrumentalist, producer, and singer-songwriter. Inspired by the illustrative work of his grandfather, Morisi took on the name of one of his most iconic characters, an anti hero detective from the underworld; “Johnny Dynamite”. Morisi started his career playing in bands with DIY self-releases on Bandcamp, playing local shows in his native New York City and building up an audience through extensive touring and festival appearances. His solo debut “Heartbroken” (2020) garnered the attention of Philadelphia’s Born Losers Records who released his sophomore effort “Sleeveless” (2021) and his follow up “The Tale of Tommy Gunn” (2023) to critical acclaim from publications such as Post-Punk.com, Under The Radar Magazine, and CVLT Nation. https://bornlosersrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sleeveless DJ Paul T before, after and between sets
TRAITRS ~ Saint Cyanide ~ genCAB
AGE RESTRICTION: Only Ages 21+ can purchase tickets for this show. NO REFUNDS/EXCHANGES for anyone underage who purchases or attempts to use these tickets. Doors: 7:00 PMShow: 8:00 PMTRAITRSCanadian cold wave duo TRAITRS conjure nightmarish tapestries of icy cold post-punk synth and guitars, motorik drum machine rhythms with horror-inspired lyrics and imagery. Their modern take on post-punk and relentless touring has cemented TRAITRS as one of the leading new goth bands in the international underground music scene. Formed in Toronto, Canada in late 2015, vocalist/guitarist Shawn Tucker and synth player Sean-Patrick Nolan bonded over a shared fondness for punk, post-punk, electronic music and art house horror films. In April 2016, TRAITRS released their debut cassette tape Rites and Ritual on the boutique Toronto label, Pleasence Records. TRAITRS quickly garnered attention with their critically acclaimed 2018 follow up Butcher’s Coin (Pleasence Records, Manic Depression Records, Alchera Visions). Based on the strength of lead single “Thin Flesh” and live favorites “The Lovely Wounded” and “The Suffering of Spiders”, Butcher’s Coin has proven itself to be one of the seminal goth releases in modern times. TRAITRS have performed in over 20 different countries including showcases at international festivals: Wave Gothik Treffen, Amphi, Castle Party, Extramuralhas, Nocturnal Culture Night, Wavefest, Canadian Music Week and Pop! Montreal. TRAITRS were the first signing to the brand-new record label Freakwave Records and in November 2021, they released Horses in the Abattoir, which was Sonic Seducer’s Album of the Month and topped several “year end” lists. TRAITRS spent the better part of 2022 supporting She Past Away, Lebanon Hanover and She Wants Revenge all across North America. Starting on February 23, 2023 in Copenhagen, DK and ending on April 25 2024 in Santa Ana, California, TRAITRS opened for alternative EDM legends VNV Nation on the “ Electric Sun World Tour ”.Saint CyanideSaint Cyanide makes designer noise. Their music combines dark synth basslines with post-punk guitars and dance floor drums – a reflection of their various influences and inspirations. The result is familiar yet original; a party and a gut punch. They consist of Philip Schorn (synth, percussion), Rick Mitchell (guitar, synth) and Steven Haslam (vocals). They’ve played in a bunch of bands over the years – together and separately – and blah blah blah, etc., etc. Proudly from Philadelphia.https://saintcyanide.bandcamp.com/track/mouth-knife genCAB Since reforming genCAB in 2020, David Dutton has hit the ground running. “II transMuter” was released in 2008 and considered ahead of it’s time structurally, blending elements from EBM and synthpop into song arrangements suited for aggressive rock . genCAB signed with Metropolis Records in 2023 and released the LP “Signature Flaws”. The album was a meditation on one‚Äôs own demise, and introduced elements of shoegaze and post hardcore to the already densely amalgamated songs, and thus becoming something new unto itself. Now, in 2024, genCAB are releasing “THIRD EYE GEMINI” (III I II), half a modern day update to the best material on their first release, as well as new tracks inspired from re-recording those past sessions. The update to their sound was already apparent via the rework they had released for “Perish The Thought”, and now everything else is also turned up to 11.
Young Medicine & Danny Blu ~ DarkFly
AGE RESTRICTION: Only Ages 21+ can purchase tickets for this show. NO REFUNDS/EXCHANGES for anyone underage who purchases or attempts to use these tickets. Doors: 6:00 PM Show: 7:00 PMYoung MedicineRising synthwave rockers Young Medicine pull the best from diverse genres to build a carefully constructed music identity that defies simple categorization. Thumping double-bass beats and crunchy guitar riffs hammer out hard-hitting rhythms while chorus lines partner with sparking retro synth tones for a stunning mix of audio ideas. If synthwave and metal got together and started a boy band, the result might sound something like Young Medicine, who have put themselves on the map as pioneers for a new era by bringing rockstar swagger to the retrowave movement.Danny BluDanny Blu is a dark electro-pop act based in New York City. An electrifying, hybrid powerhouse, he bridges the sounds of industrial and pop through “infectious hooks” and serves up an expansive pop exhibition of fashion, video, and art. Dubbed as the “industrial pop idol” and featured on Billboard, Alternative Press, The Huffington Post, NewNowNext amongst many others; Danny Blu began his career with stunning shock-rock performances in queer nightlife leading to the formation of the band, Echo Black. After an album and several North American tours, Blu debuted his first solo single, “Bubble”, on Billboard Pride. The release of his first EP, “The Pale Horse” would storm the scene with provocative sex-positive singles & music videos and livestream shows throughout 2020. Enlisting the talents of producers MORIS BLAK and Walter Kazmier with the release of his sophomore EP, “MOLOTOV” on SHVDOW Records, Danny Blu solidified himself as “a force to be reckoned with”. In 2023, Blu embarked on his first co-headline tour with MORIS BLAK on “The American Dream Tour” — astonishing audiences nationwide.DarkFlyForming at Drexel in June 2021, DarkFly tastefully fuses elements of hair metal and glam rock. Comprised of Ted Halligan (vocals), Nicky Adams (guitars), Cole Seidel (guitars), Aron Feller (keyboards), Will Rainow (bass), and Steve Valentino (drums) the group has only grown closer over the past three years. In late 2021, the band released their first two singles, “Livin’ Wild” and “Believe.” They spent 2022 writing and producing eight more songs to complete a ten-song album, “Never Gonna Stop,” which was released in April 2023. Still residing in Philadelphia, DarkFly is ready to share their energetic and catchy arrangements with audiences across the city and beyond
Dead On A Sunday ~ Night Spins ~ Llynks
AGE RESTRICTION: Only Ages 21+ can purchase tickets for this show. NO REFUNDS/EXCHANGES for anyone underage who purchases or attempts to use these tickets. Doors: 7:00 PM Show: 7:30 PMDEAD ON A SUNDAYDarkwave rock from the city of Denver, Colorado, Dead On A Sunday’s live show is dangerously electric and emotion wrenching incorporating theatrical make up and at times orchestral instrumentation. The project began to see success quickly after serveral TIKTOK posts reached viral status, the most popular comparing Ryan’s vocals to those of Bob Belcher from the popular Fox TV show Bob’s Burgers which fans have dubbed the term “bob-core” as a description of the band’s sound. The trending viral videos have amassed several millions of views to date and have boosted Dead On A Sunday’s profile to developing an active following of dark music lovers as well as shinning light on the artist’s debut LP as well as the recently released “Things To Do In Denver When You’re Dead” EP. Dead On A Sunday was formed in early 2021 by artist/producer Ross Ryan. After years of touring under another moniker on the electronic music circuit, Ryan felt a calling back to his roots in dark-rock based music. Having never sung in a project before, he tried his hand at lead vocals (as well as performing, writing, producing and mixing all the music for the project). The result was Dead On A Sunday’s first single “So What If It Kills Me”. The track was released in August of 2021 with several singles to follow over the next year. The debut “Strange Days” was released in October of 2022 (a body of 12 songs Ryan had been curating over the past 18 months).https://open.spotify.com/artist/2y19rzmHIF4YOLHm7AW0pl?si=wdfmHEe2SBum-X5fP9MCtA&dl_branch=1&nd=1NIGHT SPINShttps://nightspins.bandcamp.com/LlynksSPOTIFY // IG
New Desires Dance Party featuring N8NOFACE
AGE RESTRICTION: Only Ages 21+ can purchase tickets for this show. NO REFUNDS/EXCHANGES for anyone underage who purchases or attempts to use these tickets. Doors: 10:00 PM Show: 10:30 PM New Desires is a new dance party that encompasses modern post-punk, dream pop & darkwave. Music and Visuals curated by DJ Paul T (DJSC/Night Drive) https://www.instagram.com/djscphilly/?hl=enN8NOFACEHe’s been described as a Chicano Flannery O’Connor playing chiptune Ministry, the Sleaford Mods of the American Southwest, Suicide for the 21st Century and Ghostmane meets darkwave synthpunk dashed with early Ween’s glue-huffing pop. Lyrically, his sometimes romantic, oftentimes violent storytelling tunes lean toward Narcocorrido, the bloody ballads of Mexican drug cartels. It sounds dark on the surface, but really N8NOFACE’s music is a lot of fun, and as exciting and cathartic as the birth of punk rock and hiphop. Nate, or N8, NOFACE is animated and all over the map when he speaks. But, he always gets straight to the point, just like his music. His songs often clock in around 1-minute long, typically abruptly ending before even repeating a chorus. The songs are built around a few stark, evocative mantra-like lines about life’s struggles over a simple, hummable hook. That he’s so prolific with these 50-60 second dark pop masterpieces is astonishing. “If you can’t explain it simply you don’t know what you’re talking about,” he says. “I do scream rap, but after that I might pick up a banjo and do outlaw country,” N8 says, discussing the multiple personalities of his music. “I want to do it all. I am a little bit of everything, why can’t I use every frequency to tell those stories?” He’s been making and posting glitchy synthpunk since the days of MySpace, when he first gained attention in chiptune duo Crimekillz. Even before the demise of that band, however, N8NOFACE was disseminating his dadaist lo-fi rants online, recording them on the cheap on his home computer setup. “Even to this day, everything I do is recorded in my closet,” he says. “I’ve never recorded at a studio. My goal was always to try to make these genres with the gear that I have, which comes from hip hop. I just do it the wrong way and it comes out my sound.”
Lunacy ~ Un Hombre Solo ~ Molotov Lust ~ Cortex Angel
**All shows 21+—valid ID required**Doors: 7:00 PMShow: 8:00 PMLunacyLUNACY, a dystopian shadow figure located in rural Pennsylvania – which is a character set in the empty corroded future that focuses on themes of loneliness, emptiness, and mental illness. A character that often fits the description of late 80’s and early 90’s post-apocalyptic films.The project rose to the surface in 2016 releasing a set of 4 track demo recordings and consistently released material every 6 months until the release of the debut album “Age Of Truth” on Third Coming Records in Winter 2019. All releases have always been based around art and design of a specific release and have always been released in limited colorways, always selling out quickly. The project often described as lo-fi, noise and ambient explores different elements of shoegaze, minimal synth & post punk while developing a sound unique and identifiable to the project.“Echo In The Memory” marks a new chapter for LUNACY in a step of sonic annihilation focusing on trying to rebuild a world that no longer exists. Recorded over a two year period from 2019 – 2021, mixed by Connor Clasen & Mastered by Oliver Ackermann.As continued in Lunacy’s tradition “Echo In The Memory”, released Spring 2022 on Dedstrange, is pressed on two variants of limited color vinyl, featuring original cover art from Dusty Ray and logo work from Jesse Draxler.https://lunacy.bandcamp.com/ Un Hombre SoloUn Hombre Solo’s new mini-LP, “Desilusion Total”, is a work about the resounding sorrow of everyday life. Literally translating to “total disappointment,” the album by the New York City-based artist Fernando Jz (by way of Juarez, Mexico), continues on in the project’s theme of “loneliness and dissociation from the world.”https://un-hombre-solo.bandcamp.com/Molotov LustIndustrial EBM duo, Molotov Lust, unleashed their debut self-titled ep in the fall of 2021. Hard hitting militant anthems to stomp to.https://molotovlust.bandcamp.com/Cortex AngelHeavy, electronic audio from Lexington, KY-based solo project of Kyle Keener. His debut album, Lucid, was released this year.https://cortexangel.bandcamp.com/releases
Scout Gillett ~ Catherine Moan ~ Janna
**All shows 21+—valid ID required**Doors: 7 PMShow: 7:30 PMScout GillettBrooklyn-based Scout Gillett joins the Captured Tracks roster and shares her first release for the label: the title track of her debut EP one to ten, out April 29th, 2022. The five-song collection consists of four covers—of Broadcast, Blaze Foley, Ferrante & Teicher, and Brenda Lee—alongside the hypnotic original “one to ten”.https://scoutgillettmusic.bandcamp.com/Catherine MoanCatherine Moan is a solo electronic pop project based in Philadelphia.https://catherinemoan.bandcamp.com/JannaJanna is the solo project of Philadelphia-based sound engineer and multi-instrumentalist Johanna Baumann. After earning her B.F.A in media arts and sound engineering at University of Michigan’s School of Music, Johanna settled in Philadelphia and began working at Headroom Studios, where she recorded her debut, “starting gun,” released in January 2021.https://jannanana.bandcamp.com/
Vision Video ~ NITE ~ Activity
**All shows 21+ — valid ID required**Doors: 6:30 PMShow: 7:30 PMVISION VIDEOAs an active paramedic, firefighter, and veteran of the war in Afghanistan, Vision Video lead Dusty Gannon has seen more horror in real life than in the classic movies he draws inspiration from. When not saving lives on the front-line, Dusty dons torn fishnets, combat boots and makeup to play post-punk that recalls the genre’s heyday when the lines between goth and pop blurred to create some of the underground’s most beloved acts such as The Cure, The Smiths and Joy Division. But hidden within Vision Video’s catchy hooks and dancy beats is a nostalgic yet desperate message exploring the darker undertones of our existence. At its core, Inked In Red looks inward to understand the effects of war and the global pandemic. Dusty’s experiences in service have imparted an authentic gravitas to the music, revealing a cautionary tale of unhinged mental illness born of trauma. Sonically, this is reflected in every chord and melody through its enticingly gothic yet often upbeat nature. Vision Video’s debut imparts a duality of mania that, simply stated, is real malaise and existential dread that cannot be made facsimile. https://visionvideoband.com/NITENITE is an electronic rock band from Dallas, Texas.https://nite.bandcamp.com/ACTIVITYWe are friends and we’re working on album 2. New York / Philadelphia.https://activity.bandcamp.com/
Jay Aston’s Gene Loves Jezebel ~ Bootblacks ~ Rosegarden Funeral Party
*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*7 PM Doors7:30 PM ShowJAY ASTON’S GENE LOVES JEZEBELFor a band to stay relevant across decades is unusual — but to do so with much of the same line-up for most of that time is exceptional. Such is the case with Gene Loves Jezebel, which indicates that these musicians come together not only out of an appreciation for the memorable music they create, but also because they truly like and respect each other. Jay Aston (vocals), James Stevenson (guitars), Pete Rizzo (bass) and Chris Bell (drums) — with Peter Walsh producing — have created extraordinary GLJ songs for 30 years now. With their new album, they honour that legacy by expanding it.https://genelovesjezebel.co.uk/BOOTBLACKSBrooklyn post-punk.http://www.bootblacks.net/ROSEGARDEN FUNERAL PARTYRising from the inferno of heartbreak with a determination towards gentility, humility, graciousness, and kindness, Rosegarden Funeral Party takes influence from life’s tragedies and spins chaos into beauty. Leah Lane fronts the band with a voice like that of the lovechild between Morrissey and Siouxsie Sioux and her guitar playing has been compared to that of Daniel Ash. with bass playing that takes obvious inspiration from Peter Hook. With synths trapped in the loving arms of the 1980’s, rhythmic percussion and drums inspired by dark dance floors, Rosegarden Funeral Party prove to be the second-coming of traditional goth.https://www.rosegardenfuneralparty.com/