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Holy Fawn
Arizona quartet HOLY FAWN bring an amalgamation of blackened-shoegaze and atmospheric post-metal; imbued with their somber textures, crushing wall of sound, and haunting imagery of nature and dream-like states, HOLY FAWN has made waves touring alongside bands like Thrice, Deafheaven, Rolo Tomassi, across North America and Europe.
Infinite Cathedral
Ty Walker & The Humanoids
Ty Walker & The Humanoids is a group of heavy-hitter artists that bring what is often described as an ‘otherworldly’ performance to the stage. A space cowboy frontman leading a group of extraterrestrials are on a strange, musical journey. Their live sound combines elements of galactic country, gospel, soul and psychedelia accompanied by synthesizers, drum machines and hand-triggered samples, creating a strange yet beautiful sonic experience. While an emerging act, they have successfully headlined a tour earlier in 2024 to full (some sold out), enthusiastic rooms in legendary venues like Tractor Tavern (Seattle) and Bottom of the Hill (SF). Izaak Opatz Hailing from Montana, Izaak Opatz is a well-traveled, well-loved troubadour. His performance promises a captivating blend of country, folk, humor and heartbreak, straddling the line between unconventional and traditional. Izaak has a significant cult following all across the states and Europe.
Jay Webb
Holding nothing back, Alabama native Jay Webb brings an unfiltered approach to country music with his unapologetic attitude and lyrics that ring true to his fans. Jay has been widely touted as an artist to watch in 2025, with momentum rolling from singles like DOWN HERE, BURY ME WITH BOURBON, BROKEN, & many more. He will hit the road again this year after his first headline tour exceeded all expectations and gave fans a glimpse of where Jay came from, what he’s been through, and what it feels like to have the time of their life. Jay Webb has us all on the edge of our seats, waiting to see what’s coming next. His fanbase continues to grow by thousands every single day, and there is no doubt that Jay Webb will be around for a very long time.
Pons
Pons is a constantly changing/growing experimental project started by Sam Cameron and Jack Parker in North Carolina directly after we graduated high school in 2018. After releasing a couple of demos, playing some shows as a two piece, and relocating to Burlington, Vermont, we added our percussion player Sebastien Carnot to the live lineup in 2019. Our recorded music and live set are extremely different from each other in terms of arrangement and presentation of the songs, but most people describe our music as being no wave/noise rock adjacent. There are also a lot of influences from glam rock, tribal/percussion music, and psychedelic music as well. Pons is all about fighting expectations and striving for constant evolution. Trying to be on the road as much as possible is also definitely part of our M.O.
Heartstrings
PRHYME
Cut from the same cloth as the Omaha music scene that birthed them in 1997, PRHYME are a raw, alt-rock band forged in friendship. After a decade-long hiatus, the original trio of Mike Otepka, Dan Peters, and Zak Olsen reignited the fire in 2023, adding Joe Pietro and Scott Irvine to the fold. Now, with a sound honed by years of experience and a renewed sense of purpose, PRHYME are back to deliver a sonic assault that’s as explosive as it is infectious.
Florist
On Jellywish Florist invite listeners to question everything — to imagine a world where magic, surrealism, and the supernatural are our companions in day-to-day life. It dares to present a realm of possibility and imagination in a time that feels evermore prescriptive, limiting, and awful. The album finds Florist exploring life’s big questions without offering silver linings, morals, or definitive answers. Instead, the band asks perhaps the most difficult of questions: Is it possible to break free from our ingrained thought cycles and pedestrian way of life? That, Florist posits, may be the only way to be truly happy, fulfilled, and free. Singer, guitarist, and principal songwriter Emily Sprague says that the record is purposely complicated. “It’s a gentle delivery of something that is really chaotic, confusing, and multifaceted,” she explains. “It has this technicolor that’s inspired by our world and also fantasy elements that we can use to escape our world.” “We enter an observational fever dream about floating through liminal space between lifetimes, individual perceptions. There is reflection on our connectedness in joy and suffering through the wish for a peaceful place for our spirits to live and land,” Sprague explains. “‘Have Heaven’ establishes the world of the album to be not quite always lucid, but rather a perspective that is blended into the worlds of the magic and death realms swirling around us. The chorus is a chant that pleads for a better symbiosis between these worlds, and between our earthly forms trying to survive alongside each other, bound to the systems we must exist within.” Jellywish is an exercise in multidimensional world building. The album’s panoramic cover art, which looks like something out of a Henry Darger volume, wraps the music in a collage of color that presents as science fiction-adjacent, hinting at something mysterious, fantastical, and mythological. Inside the album’s jacket, however, are tender and catchy sonic meditations on life’s most knotty subjects: life, death, earth, reality, relationships, joy, and pain. Taken together, Florist offers an acute sense of the band at this moment, one that worries about the world and its place in it. In contrast, it also presents an alternative to the doldrums of day-to-day life, and the necessary suggestion that very different things may be true at the same time. With Jellywish, Florist offers a complex album in a time that is anything but simple. In mining the chaos and wonder of physical and spiritual worlds, the band holds a mirror to itself to the great benefit of all. It tells us that we are not alone, and challenges us to believe in magic.
Worry Club
Worry Club is the moniker of Chicago-based indie musician Chase Walsh. Walsh integrates dreamy synth-pop guitar and muted percussion into gritty and unflinching lyricism. He looks depression and heartbreak dead in the face with his poetry, packaging these difficult subjects into truly gorgeous songs.
