Tall Juan

Sounding Arrow

Powder Horns

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.

w/ SOUNDING ARROW - “Softly philosophical and redolent of primo 70’s Topanga Canyon rock,” - Dennis Cook - Dirty Impound

& POWDER HORNS - Powder Horns is a band born from the mind of Brett J Kent in Asheville, NC. Based in the traditions of the almighty rock and roll, Powder Horns finds itself a culmination of influences and life experiences.

Tall Juan / Sounding Arrow / Powder Horns

Static Age Records

Barbie.Ai feat. Psythones / DJ Digital Spliff / Lady Kabela / Arawra

Barbie.Ai / Psythones / DJ Digital Spliff / Lady Kabela / Arawra

SunBearer

Dead Runes

Lore

DEAD RUNES (Nashville, TN) - Stoner Rock from Music City. Nashville's Dead Runes bring the frantic anxiety of MASTODON mixed with the chill majestic vibes of THE SWORD. Head-bangable, dynamic, fuzz-drenched rock'n'roll.

LORE (Columbus, OH) - This 5-piece rock band is electrifying their way through the Midwest music scene, slamming together heavy psychedelic rock and fuzzy stoner riffs to craft a face melting haze of doom and psychedelia.

Sunbearer / Dead Runes / Lore

Valletta

Doltz

Old Dead Gods

 rock n roll doom band, featuring the drummer from Mo'ynoq


Valletta / Doltz / Old Dead Gods

Boat Command

Mad Mike Martinez

Eli Kahn

Boat Command EP Album Release Show!
with special guests Eli Kahn & Mad Mike Martinez (Full Band!)

Boat Command (Album Release) / Eli Kahn / Mad Mike Martinez

DiTrani Brothers

Bandit Queen of Sorrows

Black Sea Beat Society

, by way of bent melodies and driving rhythms, play perilous tunes for the hopeful influenced by elements of Balkan music and early American jazz and swing.

 is a dark folk + blues story telling singer-songwriter & multi instrumentalist.

 - Black Sea Beat Society brings traditional Balkan, Turkish, and Middle Eastern music and performs it with a rock & roll spirit in Western North Carolina and beyond. This high energy band has a wide ranging repertoire, moving from Balkan Brass, to Turkish Psychedelic, to Middle Eastern classics, to Klezmer tunes. Featuring accordion, a horn section, telecaster guitar, and drums.

DiTrani Brothers / The Bandit Queen of Sorrows / Black Sea Beat Society

with SARAH LOUISE, APORRHAIS, SLEEP NUMBER, MOUNT, APRIL WILSON

Gaza Benefit Show (2.28.25)

Big Trouble

Ton of a Bitch

Tantric Death

Serrator

Big Trouble / Ton of a Bitch / Tantric Death / Serrator

Lavender Blue

Walkhome

Feeling Format

LAVENDER BLUE cassette tape release show!

The vessel for the songwriting and guitar playing of Kayla Zuskin. Lavender Blue the band consists of Mike Henry Johnson on Pedal Steel and Synthesizers, Mary Steinbrecher on Electric Bass and Jack Victor on Drumkit and occasionally keys. They are in the process of recording and producing their second full length LP. Their music is best described as slowcore and alternative indie with a dash of Americana.

Lavender Blue (Tape Release) / Feeling Format / Walkhome

Daddy Deem's R&B Night (3/7)

Static Age Loft

McKay

Trust Blinks

Star Anise

"Rising indie-folk band McKay combines spot-on harmonies, insightful lyricism, and passionate performances for a live show far surpassing many of their contemporaries. With two members entering their freshman year at Belmont in the Fall, they're already alums of Sevier Park Fest, Light the Nations, Acme Feed & Seed, The 5 Spot, The Basement, The East Room, and many more of Nashville's dedicated performance spaces. Writing with the perspective and wisdom of more seasoned songwriters, McKay represents a new generation in Nashville's storied lineage of landmark poets and musicians."

w/ TRUST BLINKS, STAR ANISE, and i26connector

McKay / Trust Blinks / Star Anise / i26connector

Soot

Tongues Of Fire

Two Planes

American rock musician Soot, who is from the thriving city of Nashville, has made a name for themselves in the Alternative Rock genre. Soot's raw and gritty sound gives the genre a new, energizing vitality, and their passionate and expressive tone captivates listeners.

Soot draws influence from Nashville's rich musical history and incorporates alternative elements into their rock songs to produce a dynamic and enthralling aural experience. Their songs deftly combine intense guitar riffs, pounding rhythms, and evocative lyrics to transport listeners to a setting where emotions are strong and boundaries are stretched.

TONGUES OF FIRE: Most bands fit cleanly within a genre but Tongues of Fire don't. At their heart they are a punk band, their shows are unhinged, the music is straightforward and hard hitting, there is no trace of pomp or excessiveness but they are accessible and there is a well crafted feel to what they do. The production on their albums is clean and the instrumentals deceptively complex. They have many contemporaries and influences like Bloc Party, Slint, IDLES and The Fall of Troy but can't be compared to them. Tongues of Fire are firmly themselves, and intent on moving the scene forward.

Soot / Tongues of Fire / Two Planes

Tami Hart

Krekel and Whoa

Yet To Be Gold

Tanner York

TAMI HART's music career began while still a high school student in South Carolina, when she was signed to Mr. Lady Records, and toured as a supporting act for Le Tigre. At age 18, Hart’s debut album, 

, was described in the NY Times by Ann Powers as being one of the best albums of 2000. During that time, Hart toured in support of Sleater-Kinney, Indigo Girls, The Butchies and many more.

Hart moved to San Francisco, forming the post punk band GangWay! (Featuring members of the band No Age). Following a move to NYC, Hart formed two more bands, Winning Looks, recorded by Kathleen Hanna. Hart also formed the Punk meets RnB duo Making Friendz, who’s album Social Life received several notable licensing placements (Last Bummer Records). In 2011, Hart joined the band MEN featuring prominent artist JD Samson of Le Tigre fame.

Tami Hart has recently resurfaced as a solo artist, releasing a collection of old and new demos on the Seattle imprint Disc Drive will be releasing her next EP, 

w/ KREKEL & WHOA, YET TO BE GOLD, and TANNER YORK

Tami Hart / Krekel & Whoa / Yet To Be Gold / Tanner York

Bestial Mouths

Cold Choir

Formless

As the voice and spirit of BESTIAL MOUTHS, Lynette Cerezo is a powerfully haunting figure. Across international stages and recordings, spellbinding performances take audiences through voidic visions.

From their inception in 2009, the core root of Bestial Mouths has combined Cerezo’s voice with myriad genre influences across the spectrum of goth, industrial, post-punk, New Wave, noise, metal, and other underground sounds using live acoustic and electronic drums and analog synthesizers. With a history in fashion design and gender activism, Cerezo’s visual and social aesthetics are interwoven deeply into Bestial Mouth’s presentation, building outward into captivating theatrical live performances.

Bestial Mouths / Cold Choir / Formless

Katy Pinke

Todd Weakley

Pilgrim Party Girl

KATY PINKE - New York based singer / songwriter / artist. Sophomore album will be out 02/21/25 on Glamour Gowns.

“High School,” the authoritative opening track of Katy Pinke’s sophomore album Look Around, begins at the beginning, as unapologetically as possible. “Giving you head on the bed, I wanted to know/What was my crime and why was I broke/Being my first time I thought you might show me/Something,” she recalls, tracing the lifeline of a deep wound back to its source.

The Manhattan-based singer, songwriter, painter, and theater-maker relays her narrator’s origin story with humor and sadness, the discomfiting gift of hindsight lending it newfound perspective and depth. Each successive memory seems to be pushing her closer to transcendence—a recurring plot arc in Pinke’s catalog of spare and off-center experimental rock songs. “And with every song/A little bit less of you/A little bit less not true/To myself,” she sings. In this way, each track on Look Around—a mercurial, viscerally affecting big swing of a record—feels like a transformative act."-- Riot Act Media

TODD WEAKLEY - Asheville-based musician / former Hope & Anchor, Desperate Pilot, Impossible Vacation.

PILGRIM PARTY GIRL - For 8 years, Abe Leonard and Hannah Eicholtz have been making lo-fi experimental pop music together. While their songs are warped and screwy, they keep lush pop melodies at their core. The four-track is a star contender in their make-up, as all of their songs are born out of it as they pass tapes back and forth to each other collaging and shaping layers of tracks into hypnotic strangeness.

Katy Pinke / Todd Weakley / Pilgrim Party Girl

Femme Cell

Paper Pills

Bombay Gasoline

Femme Cell (PDX) - wet dream pop / psychosis rock from Portland, OR.

Paper Pills - Emo Alt-Rock outta Asheville, NC.

Bombay Gasoline - Dark electro rock / witchcore

Femme Cell / Paper Pills / Bombay Gasoline

Whiphouse

Violent Institution

Voltage Starve

VIOLENT INSTITUTION - Durham Darkwave Punk

VOLTAGE STARVE - Local Solo Industrial Noise

Whiphouse / Voltage Starve / Violent Institution

Dunums

Space Grandma

Manas

DUNUMS (Durham, NC) - Arty, noisey, post-rock, bedroom fake-jazz for a free Palestine. DUNUMS is the improvisations and churnings of Sijal Nasralla. Blending memory and homeland heartache into feelingsfull sonic moments on family, love, rage, and how "God" will always be greater.

Dunums / Space Grandma / Manas

Tongue Depressor

The Electric Nature

the duo of Henry Birdsey (fiddle, lap steel) and Zach Rowden (fiddle, upright bass)

. They write, improvise, and perform music that draws from the fields of drone, harsh noise, and church music, often using microtonal tunings.

 - For almost two decades, Michael Potter (Null Zone, Serrated Tapes) has been releasing music and noise as The Electric Nature. Birthed as a home-recording project, The Electric Nature has gone through several phases and iterations, congregating multiple full band lineups, each with a different sound and M.O. 

These days Potter usually plays solo, sometimes with added improvisers, with the sound leaning toward a mix of psychedelic noise and cosmic industrial. The Electric Nature's latest album, Plastic Mind, is available from Already Dead Records and streaming on select services.

Tongue Depressor / Rotovator / The Electric Nature

HIDE

MORDAGA

Corpse Dust

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 / Mordaga / Corpse Dust

Bleeth

Weight Shift

Wide Open Wound

BLEETH's songs revisit the classic sound of the fathers of heavy metal, Black Sabbath, and puts it in a blender with a bit of sludge and a touch of punk." -- Miami New Times

w/ WEIGHT SHIFT (avl doom heavy sludge fantasy) & WIDE OPEN WOUND (hc punk)

Bleeth / Weight Shift / Wide Open Wound

Tombstone Poetry

Oldstar

Idle County

TOMBSTONE POETRY - Noise pop stuff from Asheville, NC.

OLDSTAR - slowcore / lofi americana from Panama City Beach, FL.

Tombstone Poetry / Oldstar / Idle County

Nox Eternus

Aterra

Necrogasm

VRAS

NOX ETERNUS - Appalachian Black / Death Metal

VRAS - blackened crust punk / metal from Appalachia

NECROGASM - One-person slamming brutal TXDM from Austin, TX.

ATERRA - Black metal trio based out of North Carolina. Born of blasphemy and hellfire.

Nox Eternus / Aterra / Necrogasm / Vras

Jaguardini

treats music like a science project, combining the sounds of old video games and synthesizers to create a live blend of lofi synthpop and energetic dark wave. Christo manipulates a gameboy, a vocoder, synths, and an electric guitar with a CRT TV set on his head. Influenced by Crystal Castles, Pink Floyd, The Cure, Ghostland Observatory, Beethoven, Ladytron, MGMT, and Disasterpeace.

Jaguardini / Cold Choir / XOR

Daddy Deem's R&B Night (4/4/25)

Miriam Hacksaw

Mother Marrow

Mira Lazuli

Traditional folk music and field recordings meld into fascinating long-form sound collages on the new LP from Shovel Dance Collective. On her debut, the New Orleans singer and guitarist balances shaggy jangle-rock riffs with warm alto vocals and subtle orchestral flourishes.

 - The sound of Mother Marrow is elemental and powerful, with deep drones, complex acoustic finger-picking, trance-inducing melodies, and strident vocals. Bewitching and poignant, Mother Marrow's music and imagery channel the voices of the elements, and the beings that dwell between, beneath and beyond. A musical journey into the depths...these tunes have teeth and tenderness.

- Mira Lazuli (she/they), an Algerian-Quebecois sapphic pop artist, crafts danceable, heartfelt anthems about queer lesbian relationships, healing, and self-love.

Miriam Hacksaw / Mother Marrow / Mira Lazuli

Sxvxnt

C.Shreve the Professor

Kaizër

Isa Ibn Wali

 - North Carolina based MC/producer & founder of the hip-hop collective Free The Optimus (FTO). The 2-time Carolina Music Award winners (2015 & 2016 Best Hip Hop Group) developed their following & relevance through an unrelenting tour & release schedule, largely driven by Shreve's vision. The Professor moniker references his 12 year career as a university professor teaching biostatistics, which coincided with his rise and success as a rapper during the blog era.

 - Charleston, SC’s 2023 Hip Hop Act Of the Year, the Yasiin Bey (fka Mos Def), Lupe Fiasco, Nas, Phonte Coleman, and Amel Larrieux influenced recording artist is one of the most dynamic nascent creators in the genre. And while that's apparent in his critically acclaimed music offerings (2010's "Delayed Entry EP" and 2023's "Wayfare, Vol. 1" EP), the Chicago-born rapper and classically trained musician's uniquely interactive live performances might be the defining reason he stands out in an increasingly crowded creative space.

- Charleston native by way of New York, has a unique care and yearning for honoring hip-hop's soul and expression.

 - NC-based recording artist, performer, and educator, who recently released his new mixtape "Free The World (Pt.1&2)" featuring the lead single "Murder Me" (prod. by NC producer Jon Brown).

Rap Attack: C.Shreve The Professor / Sxvxnt / Kaizër / Isa Ibn Wali

Yawni

Ly Ra Vega

Lurky Skunk

Idioms

YAWNi - tour homecoming show! - somewhere between down-home and extraterrestrial... Cuntry music for psychedelicate weirdos in the woods.

YAWNi / Ly Ra Vega / Lurky Skunk / Idioms

Bloodsports

Dish

Aunt Ant

 is a brooklyn-based slowcore and noise rock band. Since moving to New York at the beginning of 2024, they have built up a following through their dynamic and emotive live performances, dissonant guitars and driving rhythms.

bloodsports / Dish / Star Anise / Aunt Ant

Slow Slow Loris

XAMBUCA

unbridled sonic Anarchy

(Berlin) use voice and electronics to search for the intersections where melody meets noise, emotional meets avant-garde, feminine meets industrial, non-rhythm meets accuracy, and raw meets craft. Their 5 albums and various tracks were released by Cloister Recordings, Zaetraom, Staaltape, Syrphe, Klang and others. They have toured in western and eastern Europe, Russia, and the USA.

 - XAMBUCA does not really exist in the material space time continuum. Instead, XAMBUCA conceptually feeds on the subconscious figment of a host's imagination; a host that has a tendency to encounter its name or symbols in passing by mere coincidence.

 - an improvised experimental soundtrack project fusing noise textures and ambient sounds, based in Marshall, NC. The project made its live debut in 2009 at an experimental music festival, featuring bios+a+ic (Wesley Davis) and bahiya (Lia Petteway). They are currently recording their 8th album at symbolic insight studios. 

The duo has played numerous clubs in Denver, CO and since 2022 has found receptive audiences in Asheville at The ODD and 27 Club. üsA has performed at many unique events, most notably, transistor sound art festival, Denver Noise Fest (Denver, CO), Art for the People (Boulder, CO) and HARSH fest (Seattle, WA).

Slow Slow Loris / XAMBUCA / unbridled sonic Anarchy

Auralayer

is a power trio specializing in blending musical influences from doom, prog, and pop to unleash a new, unmistakable sound. Pushing the boundaries of rock to its limit, Auralayer brings forth heavy riffs, bombastic rhythms, and catchy hooks, featured on their 2021 demo release, Solar Plexus. Often compared to Mastodon, Torche, and Queens of the Stone Age, Auralayer is quickly leaving an unforgettable mark on the music scene.

Auralayer / Sunbearer

DJ Digital Spliff

BangX7

Rich Inner Life Love You So Much

+ bangx7 / Ton of a Bitch, Rich Inner Life Love You So Much / Soured / Soleil Ouimet

Mtn Dewbie / bangx7 / Ton of a Bitch / Rich Inner Life Love You So Much / Soured / Soleil Ouimet

Dauber

Matt Geary

 is a rock and roll band. Like any good rock and roll band, Dauber is rough around the edges, but bursting with vibrant, uninhibited energy. Formed in Hudson, NY by former Screaming Females bassist Mike Abbate alongside Quinn Murphy and Jenna Fairey, this poppy trio combines loud distortion, raw spirit, and infectious melodies in a way that feels primal yet carefully constructed.

Dauber is like a crude painter, daubing blobs of paint on canvas in a messy yet deliberate burst of creation. Their debut album, Falling Down, doesn’t shy away from its rawness. It’s a celebration of imperfection. Recorded in collaboration with the ever-adventurous John Hoffman (Vacation, BEEF, The Mimes), the album’s production captures the grit and energy of a new band finding their sound. From the ear-splitting opening chords of the title track “Falling Down” to the lamenting last chorus of the final track “Memory Lane,” Dauber delivers a strong debut album full of exuberant hooks, crunchy guitars, pounding drums, and a healthy dose of chaos for all the rock and roll freaks of the world. Rock and roll, Dauber-style.

 - American primitive guitar/ambient artist from Phila, PA

Dauber / Pipsqueak / Matt Geary 

Jackson Fig

Better Living

Sean O'Hara

Jackson Fig / Better Living / Sean O'Hara

Trauma Glow

yellow // pink

Subvertigo

Trauma Glow is an Austrian darkgaze band known for their emotionally charged live performances and immersive compositions. Their sound combines heavy guitar riffs, atmospheric textures, and melancholic vocals.

w/ yellow // pink (Baltimore electronic hyperpop), Subvertigo (Gaze adjacent noise from Charlotte), trust blinks. (AVL slowcore alt-folk)

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Dunums / Space Grandma / Manas

Tongue Depressor / Rotovator / The Electric Nature

HIDE / Mordaga / Corpse Dust

Nox Eternus / Aterra / Necrogasm / Vras

Miriam Hacksaw / Mother Marrow / Mira Lazuli

Rap Attack: C.Shreve The Professor / Sxvxnt / Kaizër / Isa Ibn Wali

Dauber / Pipsqueak / Matt Geary

Urocyon / Mo'ynoq / Plaguefever / Nganga

Up next

Katy Pinke / Todd Weakley / Pilgrim Party Girl

Femme Cell / Paper Pills / Bombay Gasoline

Whiphouse / Voltage Starve / Violent Institution

Dunums / Space Grandma / Manas

Tongue Depressor / Rotovator / The Electric Nature