 We Have Ignition

Jesus Casino

Starseer

WE HAVE IGNITION - playing high energy original instrumentals

JESUS CASINO - Not your Sky Daddy’s church music. Dark techno / cold wave

We Have Ignition / Jesus Casino / Starseer

Static Age Records

NANCY STRONG - Philly noise / indie / pop rock

with FULMETRIC - Multi-instrumental audio/visual person from Asheville, NC creating intricate soundscapes through various sequencers, software, and synthesizers <3

Nancy Strong / Fulmetric / Vernal Pools

Quinn Bee

Paper Pills

Tanner York

Quinn Brodsky is a folk and alternative musician from Texas. She is the lead singer of Tailwind, a Boston-based funk-rock band and one half of the duo SIBLINGS.

Growing up on the mean streets of Texas, Quinn survived by participating in numerous petty scams and by smuggling roadkill and twinkies across the border into Oklahoma. One fateful night, after evading the sheriff by disguising herself as a tumbleweed, Quinn rolled into a bar and experienced live music for the first time. She knew immediately that it was time to change her ways and devote her life to music (with physics as a side-hustle just in case). Time for some fun facts! Few people know that when Quinn sings, the sound is actually coming out of her eyeballs. Because this is occasionally seen as disconcerting by the audience, Quinn has trained extensively in the art of lip-syncing to hide this, going so far as to study the art under the legendary performer RuPaul.

Quinn Bee / Paper Pills / Tanner York

Paprika

Safety Coffin

The Floral Hygienists

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.

Paprika / Safety Coffin / Floral Hygienists

Windier

Idle County

Liliana Hudgens

Windier - Alternative folk rock from Portland, ME.

Liliana Hudgens - Appalachian folk songweaver

Windier / Idle County / Liliana Hudgens

Re-Animated (6-27-25)

Static Age Loft

McKay

"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/ OSCAR LINDSAY, HEADRINGER, and SOFIA PACE

McKay / Oscar Lindsay / Headringer / Sofia Pace

Zastava

Soured

Motocrossed

"Zastava is a music maker of motor city’s new generation worthy of knowing their names, which are Mateja Matic, Arman Bonislawski, Cam Frank, and Ollie Elkus. On a night out in the East Village, I caught their set and though I had heard the recordings and been a fan, I was struck by their live performance. I was captivated. Inspired, even. I felt like I wished I had learned to play guitar instead of earning an English degree.
Their fervor and precision chaos applied to an on-stage presence that was both confident and scrutable, assembled yet dangerous, combined with songs that are genuinely danceable and undeniably alluring and specifically and emphatically not the same old half-hearted sadboy dogshit being chucked out by the flacid idiots who happened upon a pirate stream of the Meet Me in the Bathroom documentary their first year at NYU film school and who plague dozens of curated ‘hot new indie’ Spotify playlists, all in my view added up to one thing for Zastava: quality. Zastava had the room - it was completely theirs - and their music earned them the right to it." - MONSTER CHILDREN

Zastava / Soured / Motocrossed

MORDAGA

4th of July Gabber Rave presented by DJ Digital Spliff aka BUGGY

sounds of: organic house, gabber, uptempo, dungeon techno, house, trance

THE GABBER RAVE RETURNS TO STATIC AGE RECORDS (Asheville, NC)

We’ve got a super exciting line up for you on July 4th! Get ready for a night of raucous EDM and curated vibes. Bring a friend, and stay the whole time. This one is NOTAFLOF (no one turned away for lack of funds), so come and enjoy the experience!

Lineup:
1. Dayowulf (organic house)
2 DJ Digital Spliff aka BUGGY (gabber, uptempo)
3. Mordaga (dungeon techno)
4. DJ Arielle (trance, house)

Visuals by 



The show starts promptly at 10Pm (doors at 9pm) and each set is an hour long. Suggested admission: $10.

Attached audio by 

DJ Digital Spliff

Gabber Rave Returns!! 

Daddy Deem's R&B Night (7/4/25)

Roamck

Rhinestone Pickup Truck

East Ritual

DIVISION OF FIRE - Chattanooga 3 piece power rock

RHINESTONE PICKUP TRUCK - So far, all indications are that Tristen Colby’s Rhinestone Pickup Truck only travels at full throttle. Since the Asheville, North Carolina native launched the project in 2020, he’s emulated his heroes in Guided by Voices by firing out music at a breakneck pace, with three records, two EPs and two live releases already in the rear view mirror.

Roamck / Division of Fire / Rhinestone Pickup Truck / East Ritual

Moontype

Julie Odell

Infinitikiss

Moontype is an American indie rock band from Chicago, Illinois. The group was originally a solo project of vocalist Margaret McCarthy while she attended Oberlin College, but later expanded into a full band with guitarist Ben Cruz and drummer Emerson Hunton. As a solo project, McCarthy released her first EP under the Moontype alias titled Fan Music. The band released their debut full-length album, Bodies of Water, in 2021 on Born Yesterday Records.

Moontype expanded into a fully-fledged four-piece since the release of their Bodies of Water LP. The band now features Emerson Hunton on drums, and Joe Suihkonen and Andrew Clinkman on guitar.

In 2025, Moontype signed to Orindal Records, the label run by Advance Base’s Owen Ashworth. The signing coincided with the release of their first music since 2021, single "Long Country."

Moontype / Julie Odell / Infinitikiss

Fake Sick

FAKE SICK - industrial / noise / pop - bi-coastal rock band (Oakland, CA//rural queer Tennessee) made up of two childhood best friends who’ve been making music together for decades and continue to do so in the spirit of friendship, making noise and indulging the creative spirit.

Fake Sick / Jackie Welsh / Liliana Hudgens

My Body With Blood

Slow Packer

Dish

DJ Tommy M

Natural Blk Invention

My Body With Blood - experimental progressive pop out of BK, NY.

Slow Packer - Asheville art rock / avant pop

DJ Tommy M x Natural Blk Invention - collab

My Body With Blood / Slow Packer / Dish / DJ Tommy M x Natural Blk Invention

Briana Marela

 is a Peruvian American composer/artist raised in Seattle, WA. Her music varies from experimental, electronic and ambient to lyrically forward pop music.

 (Sci-fi sandwich artists/ Asheville debut) & 

 (twangbient duo feat. Jed (Khandroma) and Sophie (Sleep Number).

Briana Marela / Tyler Martin / Fourth Moon

Charlie Paso

Good Trauma

Star Anise

Charlie Paso - surf-wop tweedly donk garage pop n porridge from Raleigh, NC. Sweet tunes for sweet people.

w/ Good Trauma (indie altcountry project of Eli Raymer w/ friends) and Star Anise (alt shoegaze slowcore indie) and Idle County (WNC Farm rock)

Charlie Paso / Good Trauma / Star Anise / Idle County

Mol Sullivan

Claire Whall

MOL SULLIVAN - “A dreamy love song, the mesmerizing track is anchored by Sullivan's piano and warm vocal embrace. The slow-tide rhythms and atmospheric music on "Golden" wonderfully encapsulate the dizzying euphoria of a heady new love affair…” - Mike Breen, Citybeat 

alt country / chamber pop / indie folk / (member of WHY?)

w/ BRIAN CORUM (lead singer of NC indie act Lonnie Walker / solo set)

and CLAIRE WHALL (Asheville based folk singer)

Mol Sullivan / Claire Whall / Brian Corum (of Lonnie Walker)

Rig B

Trust Blinks

Feeling Format

RIG B - nashville slowcore // shoegaze doing "the quiet-loud thing"

CELLTOWER - emo / post hardcore / post rock from Nashville

TRUST BLINKS - Slowcore alternative folk from Asheville.

FEELING FORMAT - Feeling Format is a band from Asheville, NC, that makes weirdo pop / shoegaze music.

Rig B / Celltower / trust blinks / Feeling Format

Barrow

Senza

ythgrp

Barrow - Greensboro, NC based post hardcore / screamo / dynamic & cathartic sound / melodic post-rock

Senza - Eugene Oregon based blackened screamo

Barrow / Senza / ythgrp

U.S. Christmas

Planning For Burial

Nightosphere

As USX enters their third decade as a band, they continue to push their sound into challenging new territory, blending wall- of-sound torrents of guitar, melancholic Appalachian dirge, and experimental electronic textures into a seamless and intense whole.

Planning for Burial is the musical project of American musician and singer-songwriter Thom Wasluck. Based in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Wasluck started to perform as "Burial" in 2005 and released the debut album, Leaving in 2009. Wasluck plays all instruments during both his home recordings and live performances.

Nightosphere seem to have found themselves at a certain stage in being a band. After several years of playing and performing together, they’ve defined a sound and identity for themselves to stand on. Katabasis, their album from last year, contains the downtrodden slowcore sound fit for many of the wide open, grey expanses found in the Great Plains area.
This though, is enlivened through dark, western sounding flourishes, and an eerie but reassuring etherealness that transudes throughout its runtime. It’s expressive and has a feeling of resolution.-- POST-TRASH

US Christmas / Planning For Burial / Nightosphere

Blue & Green / Cudimitsu & Friends / DJ Tommy M / Zander & Akimbo / Peeled / Gos

Whip Appeal

Lavender Blue

THE WHIP APPEAL - (New Orleans) A wooden stage & a wooden dance floor. Standing almost circled, shoo-be-doo'ing a Rock & Roll chorus towards a Bottom Shelf Country night-cap. Drums, Guitars; Vice, no Guilt; Velveteen & Wool. Tending little forest traps for one another, blurring the line between negligence and agility, like an old drunk, elegantly riding the waves of Live Oak roots in the brick sidewalks, almost home.

LAVENDER BLUE - 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.

w/ RUBY LOU (Mass/NY) - alt americana country

The Whip Appeal / Lavender Blue / Ruby Lou / + Puppet Show!

Cube

Corpse Dust

CUBE is an experimental electronic music project from Adam Keith. Musically, he touches on industrial, techno, noise, dub and more, but does so with a distinctly personal, emotional touch – the spirit of a singer-songwriter lurks underneath his waves of distortion.

w/ CORPSE DUST and FKA Ice and RELAY FOR DEATH

Cube / Corpse Dust / FKA Ice / Relay for Death

Sophia Corrine

KINSHIP is the alt-folk recording project of upstate-NY-native-turned-Boston-music-person Steve Kurz. Kinship’s 2024 record, ‘Today and Tomorrow Night’, is about the space between what can and can't be controlled, thinking and overthinking, homes real and imagined. Leaning into home recording as a means to reflect the sonic ethos of a physical space, the groundedness of Kinship’s sound serves as the anchor to the themes of curiosity – equal parts cosmic, introspective, and playful – that emerge in the record’s lyrics. For the summer of 2025, the stars align and Kinship manifests as a four-piece band of longtime musical collaborators, friends, and heroes: Max Morton, Luke Diamond, and Roy “bigroy” Marshall.

BADVRIL (San Fran) - San Francisco based, Badvril, is derived directly from dichotomy. From creating contrast both sonically and aesthetically, the band seeks to generate a persona that is true to the creator, lead singer, and lead guitarist, Becket Schroeder.

Badvril pulls influence from rural upbringings representing their diy spirit while also drawing from city elements in their visual storytelling. Additionally, the band attempts to layer soft hazy vocals with jarring instrumentals to further their juxtaposing ideals.

SOPHIA CORINNE - "Sophia Corinne harvests poetry for the lines of each song from her life, one lived paying attention. Her songs are witness to the raw difficulties and layered radiant joys that every heart bears. In both writing and voice, Sophia’s songs offer the companionship of something beautiful for us to hold close in any season. She is currently based in Asheville NC." ~Malena Sweers

Kinship / Badvril / Tanner York / Sophia Corinne

Powers Ensemble

Libby Rodenbough

Lemon Balm

Music by Michael Powers with an ensemble of musicians/friends. Styles of folk / experimental / noise / ambient / old world

This event celebrates their upcoming album release, featuring a live performance of their 6 piece band. Expect sounds of Guitar, Mandolin, Upright Bass, Flugel horn, Violin, Percussion, Drums, Bass clarinet. 

Libby Rodenbough is from Greensboro, North Carolina, and has played with the four-piece folk band Mipso for more than a decade. Her debut album as a solo artist, Spectacle of Love—an intimate, inventive chronicle of heartache and abjection—was released in 2020; she has also built up numerous collaborations in the tight-knit North Carolina music scene....

A singing trio of wide eyed dears living in Sandymush North Carolina, Lemonbalm is the project of April Wilson, Kortney Schwartz and Lyndsey Brummell. They started hootin and hollerin about all things love and longing in 2024. With tight harmonies, thoughtful simplicity, and sparse acoustic accompaniment, they echo the spirit of the past, and the glimmer of worlds that could yet become.

Powers Ensemble / Libby Rodenbough / Lemon Balm

Blood Handsome

Cold Choir

Blood Handsome is the Los Angeles based darkwave project of Gerren Reach. Since debuting, he has continued to forge a path of his own, having extensively toured the US and shared stages with acts such as Kontravoid, Buzz Kull, The Soft Moon, Twin Tribes, Actors, Spike Hellis, Geneva Jacuzzi, and more. The 2022 album "A New Calm" solidified the project's stamp on the genre. Signed to German-based label Young & Cold Records, anticipation is building after the announcement of a new album on the way and new band members joining Blood Handsome live.

Blood Handsome / Healng / Cold Choir / Rodent

Sooflay

Sean O'Hara

Krekel and Whoa

SOOFLAY - (Indiana) - cardboard rock n/ roll / lofi power-pop

SEAN O'HARA (of Feeling Format) singer-songwriter / shoegaze

KREKEL and WHOA - An adaptable duo, their show can be folk-y and acoustic, or rockin’ and electric with Krekel playing drums with his feet while still shredding the strings. This versatility means you might hear them saw through vintage fiddle tunes, weave original yarns, or pound out esoteric rock-n-roll beaters. One moment they’ll touch your heart, and the next they’ll get you dancing. Whether unplugged or cranked up, every Krekel and Whoa performance is full of heart, harmonies, and happiness.

Sooflay / Sean O' Hara / Krekel and Woah

Powder Horns

Flowers for the Dead

 is the DC-based alternative rock project of guitarist/vocalist Jessie Szegö, bassist Ella Buskirk, and drummer Ten Bears.

 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.

Flowers for the Dead / Powder Horns / Soured

Propolis

Walkhome

 - The loudest band at the potluck. Anarcho-Folk from the backwoods of southern Michigan. "..if Harmony Korine decided to do farm folk rock instead of film.." (fan on Bandcamp)

w/ WALKHOME, SOLEIL and RHINESTONE PICKUP TRUCK.

Propolis / Walkhome / Soleil / Rhinestone Pickup Truck

Lone Quail

Oil Derek

Mechanical River

LONE QUAIL writes songs about lost places, stray chases, and finding your covey. While traces of doo-wop, experimental pop, psychedelia, and even post-punk wend their way through the music, her core inspiration is shaped by iconic roots artists such as Townes Van Zandt, Emmylou Harris, Neil Young, Freddy Fender, and Vic Chesnutt. 

She also draws heavily from the pioneers of the early alt-country scene--Cowboy Junkies, Freakwater, and Giant Sand--lending her songs a quiet edginess and subterranean power. LQ was born and raised in rural northern New Hampshire, made homes for herself all over the world, and now holes up in Santa Barbara, California.

MECHANICAL RIVER - Mechanical River is the moniker for Charleston, South Carolina native Joel Hamilton’s most recent musical project — a lo-fi folk masterpiece constructed with fuzzed out, crooning vocals, crunchy acoustic guitar arrangements, and drum machine percussion. In the spirit of true DIY, Hamilton plays every instrument on his debut album Astral Castle, which he recorded and produced himself.

OIL DEREK - Marshall, NC - outsider folk / alt country

LILIANA HUDGENS - Born on a half moon in georgia currently living in the blessed hills of southern Appalachia.

Lone Quail / Oil Derek / Liliana Hudgens / Mechanical River

Ahleuchatistas

Wind Cults

Scribblers

 is an avant-rock trio that formed in 2002. They play instrumental music that is meticulously thru-composed and relentlessly paced from beginning to end, morphing through perpetually evolving subtle variations of unfolding poly-tonal melodies that are simultaneously angular and organic. The current lineup is Shane Parish on guitar, Trevor Dunn on bass, and Danny Piechocki on drums. Their 9th studio album, Expansion, was released on October 22, 2022 on Trevor Dunn’s Riverworm Records.

 is an Asheville-based improv trio. Comprised of Brett Naucke (electronics), Thom Nguyen (drums), and Adam Lion (vibraphone), the trio utilizes an idiosyncratic improvisational language which prioritizes spontaneity, process, and the unknown. A sonic mishmash of cacophony, harmony, density and repetition, the group embodies musical extremes which branch in every direction.

combine prog rock excess with 1970s power pop ear Candy. Like other Texas luminaries Doug Sahm and Billy Joe Shaver, Aubrey's lyricism combine heart felt sincerity with self reflective humor. Modular synth Wizard Jared Hooker gives the music a sophisticated, harmonic language, creating the perfect backdrop for Andy Burns' incendiary lead guitar. Drummer Joe Exposito and bassist Steve Streit dutifully serve the song providing a firm back bone to these rock 'n' roll gems.

Ahleuchatistas / Wind Cults / Scribblers

Possums

Porcelain Parrot

Possums / Porcelain Parrot / Sky Witch / Silver Kyrie

On The Block

Warmones

STGMA - We are muppets who make music to fight the gentrification of Fraggle Rock.We live in NEW ORLEANS. We write about what we know so we don't spontaniously combust. We write the songs we want to hear, and maybe so some day an outsider kid will hear it and not feel so alone. 

ON THE BLOCK - Antifascist Appalachian Oi!

WARMONES - Salutations from us in Warmones! We are a three-piece punk/grunge ruckus from Asheville, NC. Featuring Pockets Ov (formerly of Bonny Dagger), Brandon Askew (formerly of The Deathbots), and Sam Fox (currently of Busy Weather). Excited to keep creating music and sharing it about out little mountain oasis anf beyond. Enjoy!

STGMA / On The Block / Warmones

Harsh Realm

Sinister Feeling

Erode

"SINISTER FEELING is from Baltimore, Maryland and they play powerviolence, which I don’t usually listen to very frequently. This album, however, grabbed my attention from the start. It sounds gritty and a bit dirty (no offense meant). I guess I am trying to say that they sound like a veteran band that has been doing this through many long road trips in an old van and sleeping on people’s floors for months at a time, and they have distilled the essence of what powerviolence should be and put it into this album in all its glory. I don’t usually listen to powerviolence, but this stands on its own despite any type of categorizing." -- MAXIMUM ROCKNROLL


ERODE (Baltimore) - "The sound is immediately grim: vocals grind through each bar, guitars shift between crushing, stomping rhythms and discordant textures, and everything moves with a sense of tightly-wound tension. “Coiled” deals directly with the reality of finding connection through dysfunction. The band does not sidestep ugliness—lyrical themes across “Devout” are, as they put it, “overtly negative,” turning over topics like disillusionment, addiction, pride, and depravity." - IDIOTEQ

"As the album title suggests, the record reeks of disgusting ambiance, tones that'll turn your insides out, and an incurable infection of groove and melody that'll keep you smashing the repeat button." - Metal Injection, Frank Godla

Sinister Feeling / Erode / Harsh Realm

Re-Animated (8-8-25)

Killiad / Hashwitch / Bonedozer

Suroor

Seraph Siege

Born in Karachi and now based in Memphis, 

's music can best be described as industrial hyperpop, but draws influence from various musical genres, including shoegaze, sufi eastern classical, vaporwave, bhangra, alt-R&B, riot grrrl, UK drill, digital hardcore, spoken word poetry, among others. Her debut album LAVENDER SHOWERS was released in June 2023.

 Seraph Siege is the newest DIY dream pop artist out of North Carolina. Using ethereal vocals combined with orchestral elements of synthesis, Seraph Siege tells lyrical stories and emotions with mind and body.

Suroor / Seraph Siege / DJ Digital Spliff

 is a band from New Haven, Connecticut. They are 

 on drums. Their music has been described as “angular”, “introspective”, “off-kilter”, “harsh”, “complex”, “howling”, “delightful”, “energetic”, “meditative”, “wistful”, “unpredictable”, “good.”

WELCOME

TONIGHT AT THE SHOP

US Christmas / Planning For Burial / Nightosphere

8:00 PM / 8:30 PM

JUST ANNOUNCED

Zach Ritter and The Eternal Soup / Wagging / Real Companion

Dion Lunadon / The Darts / Designer

Public Circuit / Star Anise / Headringer

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

Cardiel / Shred Crust

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

Powers Ensemble / Libby Rodenbough / Lemon Balm

Up next

US Christmas / Planning For Burial / Nightosphere

Blue & Green / Cudimitsu & Friends / DJ Tommy M / Zander & Akimbo / Peeled / Gos

The Whip Appeal / Lavender Blue / Ruby Lou / + Puppet Show!

Cube / Corpse Dust / FKA Ice / Relay for Death

Kinship / Badvril / Tanner York / Sophia Corinne