The Dead Ringers

East Ritual

Blissful Thoughts

Based out of Durham NC, THE DEAD RINGERS fuse pop melodies with punk sensibilities to make fun, energetic, and heartfelt music. Hailed as "pretty good" by most of Nora's friends, and "loud and obnoxious" by most old people, the dead ringers are doing their best to not really care what people think.


+ Locals EAST RITUAL and BLISSFUL THOUGHTS

The Dead Ringers / East Ritual / Blissful Thoughts

Static Age Records

Playing uptempo electronic / dance music largely inspired by black American music ( house, footwork, ghettotech, jungle, club, afrohouse...)

Drip Sweat (9/21)

Static Age Loft

Walker Rider

Walkhome

Lavender Blue

Ben K. Lochen

WALKER RIDER - Love, regret, guilt songs from the midwest!

w/ local darlings WALKHOME, LAVENDER BLUE, & BEN K. LOCHEN

Walker Rider / Walkhome / Lavender Blue / Ben K. Lochen

Meter & Melody: Poetry Night (9/25)

Jessie & the Jinx

The Crybabies

THE CRYBABIES (New Orleans) - Five fearsome ladies out of New Orleans, singing their little hearts out.

JESSIE & THE JINX (Avl) - Haunty tonk country western 2 steppin originals written and sung by an angel herself.

The Crybabies / Jessie and the Jinx / JoJo Harnish

Karaoke Night (9/26)

NIGHT MOVES
FRIDAY NIGHTS AT STATIC LOFT
Brandon
Manitoba
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Guests
Weekly dance party
featuring the very best DJs in Disco, House, Techno, 80s,
New Wave, & Pop hits

Night Moves (9/27)

Nostalgianoid

Terrordome

Nostalgianoid / Ho oH / Terrordome

Monthly Resident DJs Jose Vera & Chris Felinski plus guest DJs

Time Lapse (9/28)

Rickshaw Billie's Burger Patrol

SunBearer

“Our catalog has never been short on big dumb riffs, but the idea on this record was to really turn the screw,” says RBBP bassist Aaron Metzdorf. On Big Dumb Riffs, that screw is cranked incredibly tight.“We just wanted ‘the part’: The opening of Pantera’s ‘Primal Concrete Sledge’, the breakdown in Primus’ ‘Pudding Time’ — the shit that makes you move and lose your mind. Just that part the whole time.”Hot on the heels of their breakout 5th studio release Doom Wop (2023), Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol returns with Big Dumb Riffs: A whole new variant of the fuzzed out, overdriven, melodic, groovy music they have been making since 2016. While Big Dumb Riffs is decidedly more aggressive and rhythmic, it still retains the overtly melodic feel of Doom Wop. But Leo Lydon’s vocals are considerably more angry and negative (song titles like “1-800-EAT-SHIT” and “Body Bag” should be a clue.)“The whole writing process was, ‘what if we just played two notes the whole song’,” Metzdorf says. “‘What if we tuned down to almost unusable string tension?’, ‘what if we write a record that will make everyone say ‘wow that is dumb’? Leo and I really move around on stage a lot. Being a dingus is crucial to the groove. All these riffs were designed to allow us to act bigger and dumber on stage.”

Rickshaw Billie's Burger Patrol / SunBearer 

Aphex Twin Listening Party

Joyer

Dish

JOYER - indie slowcore bedroom pop from NY, NY.

w/ SHEP TREASURE, DISH, and SHINING ABYSS

Joyer / Dish / Shep Treasure / Shining Abyss

Byron Asher

Quinn Sternberg

Alan Hall

* Performing solo acts and a set as a trio *

 is a saxophonist and clarinetist and composer based in New Orleans and working at the intersection of broadly experimental composition and jazz and improvised music. Since arriving there in 2011, he has become an integral member of New Orleans’ creative music community as a bandleader, collaborator, improviser, composer, and curator.

His practice is dedicated to exploring new sounds across genre, and he is committed to building community through assembling and participating in ensembles that bring together musicians from a diversity of training and aesthetic backgrounds.

 is an Asheville based bassist and composer originally from Bloomington, Indiana. He plays music that draws from a wide range of influences to create a unique, melodic, and groovy sound.

 has been a professional drummer for over 45 years. He’s performed and/or recorded with international jazz artists Lee Konitz, Paul McCandless, Art Lande, Ed Simon, Geoffrey Keezer, Kenny Washington, Rebecca Parris, and Joyce Cooling.

He’s performed with Cirque Du Soliel, Teatro Zinzanni, Wicked S.F. He’s toured in Europe, USA, and Canada with various artists and groups, playing various styles.

Byron Asher / Quinn Sternberg / Alan Hall

KARAOKE NIGHT (10/3)

Busy Weather

Cooper!

Softie

Marble Berry Seeds

Busy Weather: Asheville local home town heroes are about to go on tour and ready to play some punk rock hits from their new album “Look Up” released on Dead Broke Rekords and Anxious and Angry and you don’t wanna miss it!

Softie: Soft boiled pop punk with plenty of sing- alongs- in store. Last show for a hot second so snag it while you can. Also releasing a new EP on Banana Split Records.

Cooper!: On tour from Gainesville, Fl and soon to be playing Fest! Cooper! Brings us self proclaimed “Shania Twain of DIY” vibes that you can’t help but dance too!

Marble Berry Seeds: Checking in from Raleigh to remind us that folk punk isn’t dead and is alive and well!

Cooper! / Softie / Busy Weather / Marble Berry Seeds

NIGHT MOVES (10/4)

Music by: Selector, Chrissy Zebby, and DJ Sass

On The Block: Video Release Party

Goth Night every first Saturday
Hosted by DJ Baranovva (aka Ashley)

Music ranges around a dark dance night, to traditional goth, to darkwave

$5 cover

Sanctum (10/5)

Tongues Of Fire

Feeling Format

MX Lonely

MX LONELY - Brookyn post-punk shoegazers / Candlepin Records

TONGUES OF FIRE - Asheville post-punk indie warriors

JACKSON FIG - Rock n stuff from Charlotte, NC

FEELING FORMAT - weirdo pop shoegaze from Avl

CANCELLED: MX Lonely / Jackson Fig / Tongues of Fire / Feeling Format

KARAOKE NIGHT (10/10)

Mono Feo (NOLA) / 03d (ATL) / Citadel (first show - improv noise funk / Nostalgianoid

CANCELLED: Mono Feo / o3d / Citadel / Nostalgianoid

NIGHT MOVES 10/11

Ronnie Stone

The New Romantics

Kangarot

, in his peculiar temporality, marries both retrospective charm and forward-looking innovation, presenting a brand of synth-pop that gracefully fuses vintage allure with contemporary dance vibes. This NYC stalwart, a prodigious producer and musician, crafts all of his tracks from a secret studio, surrounded by a treasure trove of 1980s synthesizers, to deliver dance-pop gems for eccentrics and introverts alike.

THE NEW ROMANTICS (Knoxville, TN) - The New Romantics has explored everything from synthpop to psychedelic rock and coldwave over the years. The solo project of multi-instrumentalist Brandon Biondo, The New Romantics has released several singles and EPs since 2013. When Biondo was struck by the passing of his mother, he turned to the album format as a distraction. The result, The New Romantics, is a cohesive collection of sounds that mirrors Biondo’s own diverse set of influences. The album is shaped by his ability to make great music regardless of his chosen style.

w/ KANGAROT (Asheville electro-industrial) and DJ BARANOVA

CANCELLED: Ronnie Stone / The New Romantics / Kangarot / DJ Baranova

Trace Mountains

Hannah Cole

TRACE MOUNTAINS is the musical project of American indie rock musician Dave Benton. Benton was formerly the lead singer of lo-fi 

HANNAH COLE - Nashville based artist and indie pop rock singer.

CANCELLED: Trace Mountains / Hannah Cole - EARLY SHOW!

Mint Field

The Silver Doors

Night Walks

MINT FIELD - Mexico City based band is guided by Estrella del Sol and Sebastian Neyra. Mint Field explores the nostalgia and the melancholy of daily life with loud guitars and ethereal vocals that bring to life a unique way of doing shoegaze. Exploring and experimenting with different genres like ambient, dream pop and shoegaze sounds, Mint Field creates a mesmerizing experience to escape to.

THE SILVER DOORS - 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.

NIGHT WALKS - The solo project of Maddie Shuler (they/them), a multi-instrumentalist and songwriter based out of Asheville, NC.

Mint Field / The Silver Doors / Night Walks

Manalia Li Roeze / The Last Arizona / June Henry / Peach Rings

CANCELLED: Manalia Li Roeze / The Last Arizona / June Henry / Peach Rings

Julie Odell

JULIE ODELL is an Asheville by way of New Orleans singer-songwriter. Her music is folky, dreamy, and soulful, marked by her powerful, peculiar vocals, detailed textures, and an instinct for immediate songcraft. Her songs are complex and multifaceted, in part because they don’t follow expected trajectories or settle into long stretches of even-keeled languor. “Internally I always feel either really chaotic or really calm,” Odell says. “So, it’s a lot of really loud, fast-paced stuff, and then it’ll shrink down to really quiet delicate things. I’m obsessed with dynamics.” Odell wanted to be a meteorologist when she was a kid, chasing tornadoes in a van with all her friends. Although she chose a life as an artist instead, she reckons she’s chasing musical tornadoes, since her songs are wispy, unpredictable beasts.

w/ BECCA LEIGH, JESSIE AND THE JINX, TEDDY LAMSON

Julie Odell / Becca Leigh / Jessie & The Jinx / Teddy Lamson

Davila 666

Las Nubes

 is one of the biggest rock 'n' roll attractions in the country. Over the past two years, they have amassed a large local following and their shows have a reputation as must-see spectaculars.Describing themselves as like "Menudo on drugs," Davila 666 combine Stooges-like garage rock fire with the occasional sugary pop melody. 

Their theatrical live show -- which includes themes, props, costumes, and dancers -- won them fans in the States when they toured with the Black Lips and the King Khan & BBQ Show.

 - After the 2019 release of their debut LP, “SMVT,” Las Nubes took a hiatus from releasing music to tour and participate in recording sessions all over the U.S. and Mexico. The group performed with artists like Shannon and the Clams, Jens Lekman, The Coathangers, Sheer Mag, Mark Sultan, Torche and Alice Bag. 

They also backed Iggy Pop in the legendary performer’s first all-female lineup of The Stooges.“Las Nubes are far and away the hottest band in Miami, and the most socially relevant,” said Iggy Pop in a provided news release. “Like the children and the young at heart across North and South America, they rock from the soul, covered in tattoos and attitude. They represent an uncompromising lifestyle trend that is the future. They’re f - - - ing loud, too.”

Davila 666 / Las Nubes / Yellow Bellies

KARAOKE NIGHT (10/17)

NIGHT MOVES (10/18)

Chris Cohen

Sham

CHRIS COHEN has plied the inside and outside folds of pop musical possibility since at least 1978, when he first set infant drumstick to skin at the tender age of three, initiating decades of sonic experimentation across multiple bands and nearly a dozen recordings.

An American singer-songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist, he's perhaps best known for his solo albums as well as for having been a member of the band Deerhoof between 2002 and 2006. 

"Whether autobiographical or artistic, As If Apart is a powerful, exquisitely realized journey, the sort of bummer that sounds strongest in that alien hour between when you’re supposed to fall asleep and when you should be jerking awake.” - Pitchfork

"Overgrown Path is a perfectly conceived album, rich with both surprisingly sticky melodies and deceptively powerful psych-rock touches.” - allmusic.com

Chris Cohen / Sham / Zack Kardon

Mount

Chuck Johnson

Infinitikiss

CHUCK JOHNSON is a California-based composer, producer, and musician. He approaches his work with an ear towards finding faults and instabilities that might reveal latent beauty, with a focus on pedal steel guitar, experimental electronics, alternate tuning systems, and composing for film and television. Recordings of his work have been published by Western Vinyl, VDSQ, Thrill Jockey, Temporary Residence, Kompakt, Ghostly, and Three Lobed, among others.

MOUNT - Tashi Dorji is a Bhutanese guitarist and improvisational musician known for his avant-garde and experimental approach to music. Tashi’s idiosyncratic take on the instrument, one defined by movement and profound openness to technique, adds up to a post-colonial disembowlment of guitar traditions.

INFINITIKISS is an ever-evolving musical and visual recording project conceptualized by Nic Jenkins, featuring a revolving ensemble of curious and experimental artists, musicians, and performers.

Chuck Johnson / Mount / Infinitikiss

DJ Digital Spliff

 is a DIY musician from Minneapolis, MN making various types of music ranging from emo to breakcore to country and beyond. In 2023 she released 3 full length albums and her 2024 is filled with touring across the US and Canada.

CANCELLED: Anita Velveeta / Anna Stern / DJ Digital Spliff

KARAOKE NIGHT (10/24)

Cold Choir

Hobbyist

HOBBYIST (Chicago) - We chant and rant about people and their problems over pre computer beat machines and guitars.

Hobbyist / Cold Choir / Formless

NIGHT MOVES (10/25)

Time Lapse (10/26)

Halloween Gabber Rave w/ DJ Digital Spliff

Rubber Udder

Scaretactic

Wastoid

Rubber Udder (Athens, GA) - barf punk noise terrorism

Scäretactic (Asheville) - raw / hc / punk

CANCELLED: Rubber Udder / Scäretactic / Wastoid

Meter & Melody Poetry Night

KARAOKE NIGHT (10/31)

DOC HENRY (Nashville) experimental indie pop

Doc Henry / Roux / Fulmetric / An Orb

Public Circuit

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 / XOR

NOUN 

A Deer A Horse

Kreamy 'Lectric Santa

is the dynamic ongoing project of Marissa Paternoster, the acclaimed former lead singer of the rock trio Screaming Females. Since age sixteen, Marissa has been crafting music under the NOUN pseudonym, releasing three studio albums, numerous home recordings, and singles, often collaborating with esteemed peers. The current NOUN lineup features multi-instrumentalist Phillip Price of Kayo Dot and Moor Jewelry. 

About Marissa Paternoster- Marissa Paternoster led Screaming Females for 14 years, emerging from New Brunswick, NJ—a hub of the underground punk scene. Her distinctive vocals, captivating songwriting, and stellar guitar skills earned her a spot among the world's top guitarists in Rolling Stone's 2024 rankings. As Screaming Females’ intense touring and recording schedule eased, Marissa shifted her focus to NOUN, channeling her experiences and creativity into this exciting new project. After a journey of global performances and collaborations, NOUN has become her primary artistic outlet.

Bathed in dim lights and fire baptized on well-trodden stages, A Deer A Horse wear the grime, grit, and gusto of hundreds of shows like a badge of honor. The band conjoins rock, metal, and punk in an unholy union praised by A.V. Club, Consequence of Sound, Village Voice, and Revolver who described them as “somewhere between the Melvins, Helms Alee, Red Fang, and Sleater-Kinney.” After stoking buzz underground, the group only sharpened their edges with unnerving melodies and cathartic dirges on their 2022 full-length debut album, 'Grind.'

Since 1992 Kreamy 'Lectric Santa has continually altered in line up and form. Haphazardly blending Punk, psyche, prog, experimental, electronic, trash -Long standing members Priya Ray and Robert Price are currently located in Asheville NC. A new LP is in the works and/or certain extenuation.

NOUN / A Deer A Horse / Kreamy 'Lectric Santa

Tombstone Poetry

Trust Blinks

TOTAL WIFE and BABY WAVE on tour from Nashville, TN !

w/ local faves TOMBSTONE POETRY and trust blinks.

Total Wife / Tombstone Poetry / Baby Wave / trust blinks.

Frankie Rose

 is an American musician and songwriter. She was an original member of Crystal Stilts, Dum Dum Girls, Vivian Girls and Beverly.

After spending nearly two decades establishing herself across New York and Los Angeles independent music circles, Frankie Rose returns after six years with a fresh form, aesthetic, and ethos embodied in her new full-length album "Love As Projection." Celebrated by countless critical and cultural outlets over the years for her expansive approach to songwriting, lush atmospherics, and transcendent vocal melodies and harmonies, "Love As Projection" is a reintroduction of her established style through the new lens of contemporary electronic pop.

It's more than a rebirth, a refinement, a resurgence – it's a culmination of influence, a newly-defined scope using the tools at her disposal, a long-form project that was heavily considered for half of a decade – resulting in the most personal and accessible collection of art-pop that Frankie has delivered yet, propelling her signature melodies and dense, ethereal harmonies into the future.

Frankie Rose + Star Anise + TBA

Camp Saint Helene

Claire Whall

Pilgrim Party Girl

, the concept of otherworldliness is neither strange nor complex, but alluring and holy. Created by Elizabeth Celeste Ibarra, Dylan Nowik, Wesley Harper and Alex Wernquest, they approach their craft akin to a ritual, leaning into the notion that art and expression are sacred experiences on an overstimulated planet. Often informed by the spirit of a defunct Christian-summer camp turned arts-colony deep within the mountains of New York, their music searches for shimmers of hope amidst hints of doom.

Camp Saint Helene / Pilgrim Party Girl / Claire Whall

 is good for the world.. an incredible record.

“Phillips is an inventive songwriter, and his ear for sonic and compositional detail is remarkable.”

“Completely compelling...an album where light eventually triumphs over all.”

Big Bend / Emily Hay / TBA

 combines guitar, voice, and electronic production to forge deconstructed songs informed by a distinctive amalgam of post-industrial, avant-pop, glitch, minimalist, and experimental folk sensibilities.

Kee Avil

Hotline TNT

Will Anderson believes in true love — as both concept and catalyst, aspiration and inspiration. During his 34 years, the 

 founder and architect has found such love perhaps half-a-dozen times. Each instance has prompted some enormous swing of commitment, like a cross-country move or simply being honest about his budding attraction. It is a hopeful and vulnerable way to exist, a way to ensure maximum bruising during the fall of the breakup. And so far for Anderson, that is how it has always ended, whether the air has slowly seeped out of some once-full balloon or whether it has simply popped, those expanded feelings expelled in an instant.

This tension is the brain, blood, and beating heart of Cartwheel, the byproduct of Anderson’s decades-long quest to pin down the surging sound long in his head. But borne of real hurt and continued hope, lit by the flickering belief that just maybe things will sort themselves out, Cartwheel transcends those scene associations to become something greater—a classic encapsulation of youthful ardor, fading into adulthood’s grim acceptance. It is a beautiful, radical, and engrossing record about trying to find what most of us have not yet attained: fulfillment.

Hotline TNT + The Silver Doors

Formed in the mountains of Western North Carolina in 2008 and residing in Asheville for a decade-plus, Doc Aquatic is brothers J.C. and Zack Hayes, Charles Gately, and Kevin Boggs. The four combine to produce a special brand of catchy shoegaze-pop with familiar hints of 90’s alternative and Laurel Canyon flair concentrated through an unbleached paper filter into a live show described as  “…mesmerizing…high-energy.. orchestrated psychedelia..” .. “audacious fun” with “hypnotic grooves and a commitment to melody.” 

‘Blue Hour Yawn’ is the band’s fourth full-length record. A refined collection of 11 songs written, recorded, and produced by J.C Hayes + Charles Gately at the band’s studio, Mixed by Alex Farrar and Mastered by Lawson Alderson at Drop of Sun in West Asheville. The songs explore the fleeting moments as lightness gives way to the dark, a dream forgotten, because without death there can be no growth.

Doc Aquatic / Real Companion

Advance Base

Colin Miller

Corey Parlamento

 is the melancholic soft rock recording project of Chicago, IL singer/songwriter Owen Ashworth (formerly of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone). Using a two-handed arsenal of electric piano, Omnichord, samplers, effect pedals & drum machines, Ashworth builds minimalist, heavy-hearted, & nostalgia-obsessed ballads around his conversational baritone. The warm, electronic sound of Advance Base has been described as "lo-fi," "depressed" & "weirdly uplifting."

 - If the name Colin Miller sounds familiar, you have probably spent a not-negligible amount of time looking at the credits for other Asheville luminaries like MJ Lenderman (Miller helped engineer and produce last year’s Boat Songs), Wednesday (same for I Was Trying To Describe You To Someone), and Indigo De Souza (2018’s I Love My Mom). Miller also makes music on his own, and he’s racked up a decent amount of material over the past few years, mostly one-offs and shorter home-recorded affairs.

 - Corey Parlamento is an artist living in Asheville NC.

Advance Base / Colin Miller / Corey Parlamento

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