Benefit for Trish II

Static Age Records

Chained 

Turn Cold

Tombstone

Circle Back

Chained - Hailing from the Tar Heel State, CHAINED have since their inception in 2019, maneuvered their brand of heavy metallic hardcore through the dark musical COVID times and emerged as a formidable force to be reckoned within the North Carolina hardcore scene and beyond.

Turn Cold - Neck breaking crossover thrash from Atlanta's Zone 6, Turn Cold is pumping out the jams for everyone, whether it be circle pits, the 2-steppers and the moshers.

Chained / Yellowjaket / Tombstone / Turn Cold / Circle Back

Corpse Dust

DPSD 

Corpse Dust - AVL - Industrial Harsh Noise

Sow Vervain w/ Brett Naucke - a duo of the imaginative minds of Adam McDaniel & Devyn Marzoula, with guest Brett Naucke

DPSD / Corpse Dust / Sow Vervain w/ Brett Naucke

Night Hawk

Claire Whall

Chrysalis

Wild Roots

 - Night Hawk is an American indie rock band from Brunswick, Maine, now based in Washington, D.C. Originally a songwriting vehicle for Colter Adams (Indigo Boulevard) and Peyton Semjen, the project has evolved into an acclaimed live act, earning a devoted following for its delicate guitar work, enchanting harmonies, and clear-eyed lyricism.

Adams and Semjen's music is defined by stark geometry and bold imagery, underpinned by a deep sense of melancholia and repose. Drawing on themes of urban isolation, childhood nostalgia, and the catalogue of 20th century painter Edward Hopper, the band blends traditional folk elements—fiddle, arpeggiated acoustic guitar—with the raw energy of barnstorming indie and alternative rock, creating a sonic palette that is as expansive as it is emotionally precise.

Night Hawk has shared the stage with nationally touring artists including Y La Bamba, Sadurn, Lady Lamb, Dino Gala, and Dead Gowns, and has headlined sold-out shows in New York City, Boston, D.C., and Portland, Maine. Their debut album, Before We Begin—engineered and produced by Colter Adams, Colin Miller (MJ Lenderman, Indigo de Souza), and Chris Flores (Sonar House Studios)—is available on all platforms on August 7.

 (Nashville) - With arrangements firmly grounded in folk revival soundings, chrysalis’ sound is more accurately described as a patchwork amalgamation of genres and sounds, as they stitch together influences from Alanis Morissette, Joni Mitchell, Brandi Carlile and Indigo De Souza.

 - Asheville based folk singer/songwriter

 - acoustic / folk. Wild Roots is an independent, women-led band based in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina.

Night Hawk / Claire Whall / Chrysalis / Wild Roots

Deceit

Dark Hand

Falling Behind

Falling Behind / Deceit / Reality. / Dark Hand

Idle County

i26connector

Tanner York

IDLE COUNTY - WNC Farm-rock, headed by Ben K. Lochen

i26connector - southern rock country goth

Idle County / i26connector / Tanner York

Next 2 Jimmy

Star Anise

DJ Tommy M

Cloutchaser

NEXT 2 JIMMY - NYC music from the heart / experimental no wave noise pop (feat. former members of Pons)

Next 2 Jimmy / Cloutchaser / Star Anise / DJ Tommy M

Blisspoint

Sweat FM

Pool Holograph 

ArawrA

Blisspoint - Brooklyn electronic punk (Candlepin Records)

Combining the scarthing swoon of classic shoegaze, the harsh and exhilarating soundscapes of industrial and the propulsive pop of new wave, Blisspoint carves out a sonic universe all to themselves.

Pool Holograph - Chi / Avl - art rock garage pop

ArawrA - Avl - Experimental cloud rap taking inspiration from hyperpop and crunkcore

Blisspoint / Sweat FM / Pool Holograph / ArawrA

Simon Joyner

Leah Senior

SIMON JOYNER (Omaha, NE) is a world-renowned American singer-songwriter from Omaha, Nebraska who has released albums on independent labels since the early 90’s. His music is often compared to Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed, and Townes Van Zandt for its exploration of dark themes and its poetic storytelling. Gillian Welch calls him her favorite poet and Kevin Morby and Conor Oberst both claim him as a major influence.

"Omaha has given us the reigning heir to Henry Miller's dark emotional mirror, Townes Van Zandt's three-chord moan, and Lou Reed's warehouse minimalism: his name is Simon Joyner." 

LEAH SENIOR - Australian folk diviner Leah Senior silences audiences with vivid lyricism and a voice that soars with a disarmingly honest Sandy Denny-like clarity. Quietly revered as a master songwriter, she effortlessly weaves together spring-time baroque pop playfulness with a fragile blend of 60’s bedroom folk.

A chance late night encounter with King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard saw Leah Senior joining their independent label Flightless to release her first three albums. 

Her captivating live performances have seen her perform extensively throughout Australia and Europe opening for the likes of Jessica Pratt, Bedouine, Jeff Tweedy and Juliana Barwick.

JACKIE KELSH is an optimistically sardonic storyteller who will have you laughing hysterically one moment and drinking to forget the chaos of life the next.

Simon Joyner & the Nervous Stars / Leah Senior / Jackie Kelsh

Cardiel

Shred Crust

Known for their unique blend of fuzz punk and psychedelic dub, CARDIEL's raw sound and high-energy performances are legendary.

SHRED CRUST - punk skate rock from Wilmington, NC

Cardiel / Shred Crust / Rest Home

George Terry McDonald's work is concerned with creating narratives from cultural history employing a variety of painterly techniques. From multi-layered allegory to agit-prop reportage, the intrigue of storytelling drives his expression.

The beauty and horror of the natural world resonates throughout his work which juxtaposes mountain landscapes and waterfalls with imaginative depictions of disasters, such as the hellish carnage of Hurricane Helene.

Closing Party with The Zealots, Fr. Nov. 14

George Terry McDonald Paintings

Frank Hurricane 

Mad Mike Martinez

Sounding Arrow

Zack Kardon

"In a world with nothing to love, you can't love anything that's of this world. You need something holy. Better yet, you need something holy and spiritual. EVEN better would be something holy and spiritual that fights for righteousness instead of destruction. Well, your fuckin' troubles are over, dude -- the Holy Spiritual Gangsta Frank Hurricane is back!"

w/  ZACK KARDON / SOUNDING ARROW / MAD MIKE MARTINEZ

Frank Hurricane / Sounding Arrow / Zack Kardon / Mad Mike Martinez

Tear Dungeon

Ton of a Bitch

Have you ever just wanted to headbang for years? PUT THIS DAMN THING ON REPEAT because Tear Dungeon has arrived and ain't a damn person that's ready.

Made up of bozos from the fine pedigree of Austin, Texas' own And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, A Giant Dog and Sweet Spirit - Tear Dungeon is here to tear a hole in the sun and probably your ass.

Tear Dungeon / Ton of a Bitch / Rest Home

claire rousay

(presented by Static Age + Revolve) *Show takes place at Revolve*

 is a Canadian-American musician, composer, and artist currently living in Los Angeles. rousay’s work operates in genre-spanning fashion; she is primarily known for composing highly emotive whisper-quiet musical works that heavily forefront music concrete and sound design elements like haptic sound and field recordings. These avant garde elements are often paired with strings, piano, and electronic melodies and textures. Her albums in this vein – on celebrated labels like Thrill Jockey and Shelter Press – gained her notoriety in the international ambient and experimental community.

rousay remains stylistically mercurial and incorporates generic elements from rock, electronic, hyperpop, noise, folk, free jazz, and more into her compositions. In some ways rousay is always busy making music about music, and too, music about everyday life, about the ordinary. A delicate and deeply timbrel quality is helixed into the musical components of rousay’s work. Quotidian sounds and spoken word elements are woven into melodies that have been temporally manipulated; time is compressed and expanded, chords are frozen in place, instances take eternities, and occurrences flash by with immediacy. Her work investigates styles, forms, times, and experiences. In this way, rousay is a formalist – interested in the material of music and sound, in technique – and yet her work is profoundly emotive and incredibly impressionistic.

claire rousay 

Revolve

Mint Field

The Silver Doors

Mexico City based band Mint Field is one of these bands that make it shine. Guided by Estrella del Sol and Sebastian Neyra. Mint Field creates a unique blend of avant dream pop and shoegaze with some touches of trip hop that explores the nostalgia and melancholy of daily life with strong guitars and voices that are like sighs. Intrumentation and atmospheres are accompanied by delicate, harmonious and ethereal voices that are fundamental part of the sound.

The Silver Doors are something like Appalachian Desert Rock. Blending a love of psych, blues, garage rock, new wave, and shoegaze. Guitar riffs, fuzzy violins, thundering drums + bass.

Alex Homan is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and frequent musical collaborator most recently based in Vermont. His collaborative projects include Tendrills, Delaware Dan, Plake 64 & the Hexagrams, and Heumann Homan Highway, among others.

Mint Field (Mexico City) / The Silver Doors / Alex Homan

Finnish Postcard

Mult

Good Trauma

Trust Blinks

FINNISH POSTCARD - L.A. - rock indie lofi slacker

Chattanooga shoegaze band MULT made a bold statement with their debut EP 

, released in September 2024 via Delayed Gratification Records.

The band expands the boundaries of shoegaze, blending elements of alt-rock and grunge with the moody, introspective feel of acoustic-powered slowcore.

 echoes the shoegaze revival while paying homage to the genre’s ‘90s-era pioneers. Yet, MULT infuses the sound with inventive touches, carving out their distinctive voice.

Finnish Postcard / Good Trauma / Trust Blinks / Mult

HIDE

HIDE are an electronic duo based in Chicago. The pair create dark and heavy sample-based compositions using a combination of self-sourced field recordings and various pop culture and media references. Their music is textured, minimal, and powerful, giving raw vulnerability an opportunity to unfurl. Their work is honest, confrontational, powerful and thought-provoking.

HIDE + Corpse Dust + Dagger Wound

Tombstone Poetry

Gouge Away

Fliora

Forming in South Florida with the intention to record a short EP and play one show, Gouge Away were driven by the need to write music and take a stab at topics they weren’t hearing in their local scene. They were influenced by bands like Fugazi, Unwound, The Jesus Lizard, Nirvana, Sonic Youth, and Paint it Black.

A couple years later, they put out “, Dies” on local label, Eighty-Sixed Records, which they didn’t expect to reach beyond their hometown. After some touring, they released “Burnt Sugar” on Deathwish Inc. in 2018 which naturally took a more personal approach when Christina Michelle was dealing with her mom’s heart complications and misdiagnoses. Following the release of the album, they toured extensively throughout the US and beyond. While on tour and in their small pockets of downtime, they eagerly wrote and demoed songs for a third album, pulling influence not only from the nostalgia of the bands they grew up listening to, but developing and pushing the sense of urgency, noise, and introspective lyrics they felt most represented them.

Touring came to a halt in 2020, canceling a full year of plans in an instant. Gouge Away took time for themselves to move to different parts of the country and focus on their personal lives. On New Years Eve just beginning 2022, they decided it was time to revisit their demoed material, and to do it justice by allowing it to see the light of day.

They recorded with Jack Shirley at Atomic Garden East in March 2023, completely analog to tape and almost entirely live, without the use of a computer. The goal was to sound like five friends playing music in a room together, unpolished and far from being over-produced, which is what the heart of Gouge Away has always been.

SOLD OUT: Gouge Away / Fliora / Tombstone Poetry

Public Circuit

Headringer

Much like a close shave, Brooklyn synth outfit, Public Circuit, culminates a palpable intensity in their performance that can only be likened to that of a human spirit's indomitable will to live.

Public Circuit / Star Anise / Headringer

Yesterday's Clothes

Paprika

Cigarettes @ Sunset

Introducing "Yesterday's Clothes" - a fresh and vibrant alternative rock band hailing from Asheville, NC. Comprised of Hampton Schlock (vox/rhythm guitar), Connor Burchett (lead guitar), Jack Ritchie (drums), and Jackson Chisholm (bass), they bring an electrifying energy to the stage.

With a deep love for music and a passion for the great outdoors, Yesterday's Clothes finds inspiration in both realms. When they're not creating infectious melodies, you'll often find them camping and exploring the natural wonders around Asheville. This sense of adventure infuses their music, resulting in a unique blend of alternative rock that captures the essence of their surroundings.

Paprika is a rock band. Punched with swaying blues rhythms, desert rock stylings, and eerie cosmic flourishes, our music explores the pains of love, life, and desire through a dust-speckled lens. Our music is written, recorded, mixed, and cut to vinyl by ourselves here in Asheville, NC.

Cigarettes @ Sunset - Appalachian possum rock

Yesterday's Clothes / Paprika / Cigarettes @ Sunset

Emily How

Convalescent

Emily How is an indie rock artist whose music blends honest lyrics with gritty guitars and intimate melodies. Her debut full-length album, 

, released in summer 2025, marking a new chapter in her sound — more personal, more confident, and unafraid to sit with hard questions. The record explores themes of resilience, identity, and growing up, capturing the push and pull between strength and vulnerability.

Emily How / Convalescent / trust blinks.

Dion Lunadon

The Darts

Designer

 - Beyond your skin, beyond your screen, beyond what you think you know. What lies in this area? An area with no opinions, motives, sides or divisions. An area where governments and capitalists have no currency and the absolute truth reigns supreme.

After releasing his self titled debut album in 2017, 

 is set to release his sophomore album - 

 an ideal match for his music and was written, performed and recorded by Dion. The songs tap into a raw, palpable energy that blur the line between the music and the person. Drums on the record were played by Blaze Bateh (Bambara) and Nick Ferrante (The Black Hollies).

Born in Auckland, New Zealand and now residing in New York, Dion most notably played in 

, who released two albums on legendary NZ label 

Garage-punk-rock grrls will make your head slam and your feet shake. And then there's the music.

Dion Lunadon / The Darts / Designer

Soured

Ninth Realm 

Ninth Realm / Soured / Normal American / Mean Mugg'd

Porcelain Parrot

Puppy Chain

Blankstate

Porcelain Parrot - alternative / avant-garde / indie rock by Gray, a musician from Kill Devil Hills, currently based in Asheville, NC.

Blankstate - three-piece indie band based in Charlotte, NC.

Puppy Chain - Asheville cursed psychedelic funky fusion metal

Porcelain Parrot / Blankstate / Puppy Chain / Tanner York

MOCKERY - First show! (New band w/ members of Scaretactic)

Stress Positions / Mockery / Falling Behind / Non Applicable

Wagging

Real Companion

 - Wagging is Alison, Mark & Emily: three friends making harmony-driven, primitive pop in Asheville, NC

 - Real Companion is the music made by songwriter Seth Sullivan and multi-instrumentalist, producer and artist Derek Wycoff. Derek and Seth live and work in Boone, NC with their families. They spend their days discussing why it is better to play a high tempo style of offense on the basketball court and the merits of the early 90s Bruce Springsteen albums.

 - ATL - Rowan Newby writes heartfelt ear worms for the sentimentally inclined. Spending most of his teens and 20s developing his craft in the underground, his bedroom and copious nature trails along the East coast, Rowan ended up playing in weirdo indie folk and conceptual punk outfits. He emerges now after a long hiatus of soft releases and personal growth following his 2015 digital only release of his EP "Odes". His latest singles "Once You've Been Lonely", "Hurry Up and Wait", “This Way to Tinseltown” (and subsequent coming LP) continue the tradition of classic Americana and 60s/70s inspired songwriting with a particularly poetic and simultaneously humorous edge to the lyricism.

Wagging / Real Companion / Rowan Newby

Gus Englehorn

Floating Action

Reading his bio, it would seem that indie-rock singer-songwriter Gus Englehorn has lived quite transient life as he spent much of his life as a professional snowboarder but always dreamed of writing songs. Accompanied by his wife Estée Preda, his key collaborator with whom he produces his albums and creates music videos.

His new album `The Hornbook`, transmutes the entire history of 20th-century rock ‘n’ roll, ’50s golden oldies, ’60s garage spunk, ’70s glam flamboyance, ’80s indie transgression, ’90s lo-fi weirdness into an alien transmission from the future. A hornbook is an early-education tool for children dating back to the 15th century, a wooden paddle inscribed with the alphabet, numbers, and the odd Bible verse. “When I was writing these songs, it felt like I was making a children’s book—every song was a little story,” Englehorn says of the title concept. “But it also felt like a little bit of a cipher for our whole world.”

FLOATING ACTION is a band from Black Mountain, North Carolina, founded by Seth Kauffman. Kauffman is the band's sole lyricist, songwriter, recorder and producer, in addition to playing almost all the music. Kauffman has been called "the underappreciated genius of the Asheville music scene", and has been compared to Harry Nilsson. 

Jim James of My Morning Jacket, Kauffman's frequent collaborator, called him "the most underrated person in music". He has also been praised by the Black Keys, Zach Miller of Dr. Dog, and Jonah Hill.

Gus Englehorn + Floating Action

Glimmer

Subvertigo

Formed in February 2023 by cousins Jeff and Jaye Moore, Glimmer is a Brooklyn / Hudson Valley-based grungegaze band that pairs layers of heavy guitars with dreamy, swirling reverb. The band came together at warp speed: after taking a nearly two-year hiatus from music and then releasing the self-recorded home demo ‘Breathe’ under the name Glimmer, Jeff realized that writing and playing music was crucial to his mental health and was ready to put a new band together. 

In only eight weeks’ time, Glimmer was a fully functioning four-piece, with Jaye on drums, additional guitarist Johnny Nicholls, and bassist Kevin Dobbins. They played their first show after only six short practices together, but their instant chemistry and explosive on-stage energy was palpable. Their debut single “Self Destroyed” was recorded the following week.

Glimmer / Subvertigo / Tanner York

Lily Seabird

Thomas Dollbaum

Walkhome

's life has been in perpetual motion, spending nearly half of that time on the road performing her own music and as a touring bassist with Greg Freeman, Lutalo, and Liz Cooper. While she thrives in transit, back home she is anchored by "Trash Mountain," a pink house surrounded by other artists and creatives situated on a decommissioned landfill site at the back of Burlington's Old North End.

Here, Seabird has found belonging, friendship, and inspiration. It's a place that hosts artists, puts on shows, and has been passed along in her friend group for the better part of the decade. It's a symbol of transition and stability: something always evolving and growing but never losing its soul. It's only fitting that Seabird named her new album Trash Mountain, as it also contains its namesake's qualities. Over nine delicate but sturdy tracks of intimate folk rock, she pares her songwriting down to its most resonant essentials. It's an album of unwelcome exits and uncertain futures, but there's resiliency and hope at its core. It is Seabird's most confident and immediate effort to date.

’s debut Wellswood was released in 2022 via Fat Possum/Big Legal Mess, drawing comparisons of Justin Vernon and Damien Jurardo (Popmatters) to Richard Buckner and Arthur Russell (AllMusic) for his “compelling lyricism drawing as much from the dark caricatures of Harry Crews and Denis Johnson as Springsteen’s realism” (Beats Per Minute)

 - Asheville based unique songwriter rock, from the head to the heart

Lily Seabird / Thomas Dollbaum / Walkhome

BRNDA

Cor de Lux

BRNDA is a four-piece from DC with a few rules: No covers, No love songs. Simple enough, right? Think again. After perusing through the late 70s, 80s, and 2010s for musical detritus, it was discovered that only the least ostentatious, most off-kilter sound is fit for BRNDA. And so, if you find yourself unable to put your finger on just what you’re hearing, it is because BRNDA is not just some rehashed comfort listening.

Since their genesis in 2012, BRNDA has released 3 albums (2014, 2015, 2021) and an EP (2018). One could say that the stream of consciousness featured in 2021's Do You Like Salt? (on Crafted Sounds) is arguably BRNDA’s richest yet.

Above all, BRNDA pulls off an unpredictable and incredibly entertaining sound that can shift between testy art punk, noisy no wave, and groovin’ indie rock at any given moment. Not to mention, there is also a tasteful dusting of saxophone on the record. What is there not to like about all of that in a 10-track, sub-thirty-minute package?

Cor de Lux grew out of the music scene of North Carolina’s Outer Banks. The band found each other during a chance conversation about the love of music between Tim Lusk and Dawn Moraga while Moraga waited for a phone repair in Lusk’s shop. This was the catalyst for the band’s formation, their music: a mixture of post-punk, garage rock and early 2000’s influences.

BRNDA / Cor de Lux

Wax Jaw

 built their sound on a drive to play high-energy shows that would leave no audience member standing still. Born within Philadelphia’s expansive music scene, the band fuses dynamic and fast-paced punk tunes with emotionally charged lyrics, inspiring fans to search their hearts while sweating it out on the dance floor. The five-piece outfit has captured the raw emotion and electricity of their on-stage performances in their debut album, It Takes Guts!, which is set to be released via Born Loser Records on October 10, 2025.

It Takes Guts! holds joy and suffering in the same breath. The album explores themes of addiction, sexual liberation, and self-worth, offering an authentic reflection of lead singer Shane Morgan’s lived experience as a transmasculine person. Despite its heavier themes, It Takes Guts! playfully embraces the ironies of life and the undeniable catharsis that comes from choosing to be sexy or sleazy when the mood strikes. The instrumentation of the record mirrors its lyrical duality, stitching together jagged punk riffs and new-wave danceability. It’s music that invites both movement and introspection, with each track built to hit home and blow out your speakers.

Wax Jaw + tba

Tall Juan

Minorcan

In San Antonio de Padua, Buenos Aires, Argentina, a six-year-old boy picks up an electric guitar for the first time. He feels the sharp steel strings and smells the wood while playing his first chords. This moment sparks a lifelong passion for music.


Raised in an inner-city environment, his childhood was half on the streets and half playing music with friends. At an early age he started experimenting with drugs and also playing in local bands. Soon, drugs became a problem and he started feeling a lack of motivation and self esteem. He eventually leaves his hometown for New York City at the suggestion of his sister, in an intent to save him from a deep depression.


In Rockaway Beach, Queens, Juan Zaballa becomes Tall Juan and begins his music career with the support of his New York friends, releasing albums that reflect his personal growth and experiences. His first album, 'Olden Goldies', reflects his English language learning journey and pays homage to his early punk music influences, showcasing his simplistic yet powerful songwriting while 'Atlantico' reconnects him with South American rhythms, displaying his musical growth.


His latest release, 'Raccoon Nights', showcases his evolution as a musician and producer, exploring psychedelic-pop with a blend of synthesizers and new wave overtones. Throughout his music, Tall Juan expresses his emotions and experiences, evolving his sound while maintaining his authentic voice inviting a diverse group of collaborators to join him on his journey.

Tall Juan / Good Trauma / Minorcan

Upchuck

In the messiness of daily life, one rule rings true above all else: artistry always beats mastery. No amount of fine technique or studied precision can match the release of real feeling, the genuine thrill of human bodies and spirits finding each other in the heat of the night. On Bite the Hand That Feeds (Famous Class), Atlanta’s Upchuck offer such real feeling in droves. 

Channeling the speed of youth and the heaviness of a fleshy, lived life in equal proportion, Upchuck’s second LP is a Trojan Horse par excellence, craftily smuggling in waves of sentimental emotion and clever pop songwriting under a veil of pulsing rhythms and scorching riffs.They are loyal to no genre or stylistic strictures—Bite the Hand That Feeds shifts effortlessly between fuzzed out, Sabbath-worthy dirges and ripping, Spits-worship punk, hardcore-freak-psychedelia and bright garage pop. 

Where other bands might falter under the weight of stylistic overload, Upchuck carve forward across the cement with a sense of charmed ease. What binds Upchuck together is a purity of intention, an organic loyalty to a thick knot of uncalculated friendships, struggles, and desires.

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Charmaine Lee / Brett Naucke / Chandra Shukla

Tall Juan / Good Trauma / Minorcan

Wax Jaw + tba

BRNDA / Cor de Lux

Lily Seabird / Thomas Dollbaum / Walkhome

Gus Englehorn + Floating Action

Stress Positions / Mockery / Falling Behind / Non Applicable

HIDE + Corpse Dust + Dagger Wound

claire rousay

Frank Hurricane / Sounding Arrow / Zack Kardon / Mad Mike Martinez

Up next

Blisspoint / Sweat FM / Pool Holograph / ArawrA

Simon Joyner & the Nervous Stars / Leah Senior / Jackie Kelsh

Cardiel / Shred Crust / Rest Home

George Terry McDonald Paintings

Frank Hurricane / Sounding Arrow / Zack Kardon / Mad Mike Martinez