Monday August 18 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS

Don Barry: A Quixotic Exploration re-enlivens the meta- narrative of Cervantes’ Don Quixote by placing a real-life experimental filmmaker, Barry Gerson, into the Don’s role and filming his life work’s exploration of madness in a mad world among the crowds of Mexico’s magical city of Guanajuato. 

The life and work of an experimental filmmaker in his 80s is layered atop the first great novel to draw out explorations of intuitive processes, cathartic landscapes, and the specters of death and creative succession. A young assistant (Sanchia, stand-in for Cervantes' Sancho Panza) helps revive Don Barry’s creative drive and push him to expand his cinematic explorations of light into new realms beyond narrative. The film is about the struggles that all artists face in today’s changing world.

Tuesday August 19 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS

Grace A. Keller (of Hotel Sewing Kit)

Otracami is a songwriter and artist based in New York.

Broommaker began as Teething Veils in 2006 in Washington, DC, playing occasional live shows at places such as the Montgomery College Planetarium and their own living room at 611 Florida Ave, becoming more active about six years later. They have released five full-length albums (Velorio, 2013; Constellations, 2014; Sea and Sun, 2017; Canopy of Crimson, 2020; and To Have and to Hold, 2022) and a 7” single (Dinner Date, 2015) through the artist-run DC-and-Santa-Fe-based collective Etxe Records. They have played live for audiences in 48 US states and the District of Columbia, and two Canadian provinces.

***POSTPONED***Wednesday August 20 * 7pm * RSVP

Come celebrate the launch of Rhizome's new literary and art magazine!

Thursday August 21 * 7pm * $10 * TICKETS

Daunting Nightmare
(DC Punk) Final Show and EP Releaae

Grand Scheme
(DC Hardcore)

Reason Why
(DC Hardcore)

Show will benefit a family impacted by ICE.

Friday August 22 * 7:30pm * $10-20 suggested donation * RSVP

Revolution Selfe expands the horizons of documentary storytelling while broadening our understanding about the lesser-known fronts in the global “War on Terror.” Filmmaker Steven De Castro paints a portrait of a 48 year-old Maoist guerilla army in the Philippine hinterlands known as the New People's Army. But rather than simply presenting interviews and images in a traditional journalistic manner, this flm weaves fantasy elements and web-based camera techniques into the documentary form to disrupt our entire matrix of widely held beliefs underpinning the discussion of terrorism, poverty, and the motivations of the warriors who fight in a peasant revolution.

All donations will go to support the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP).

Saturday August 23 * 10am * Free / donations * RSVP

Learn about making nonfiction comics from a professional comics journalist, and leave with a mini comic of your own! We’ll start with an introduction to this kind of storytelling and end with a beginner-friendly exercise to start making your own comics, with room for questions. Supplies will be provided.

Connie Jin (they/them) is an artist, visual journalist and dancer based in Washington D.C. They write and publish comics through NPR, in addition to creating data visualizations and graphics for news stories. Recently, they spent time in Joshua Tree National Park researching for a graphic novel as an artist in residence with the National Park Service. You can usually find them dancing, whether it’s in their kitchen or in a studio.

Lilac Peril is a DC-based small press by and for trans writers, with a particular interest in the subversive and experimental. Our next book TABOO is out soon. 

Saturday August 23 * doors at 1, show at 1:30 * $10-15 * TICKETS

Gooma Productions 1 Year Anniversary

Metalcore Blast Matinee Cookout

Out to Destroy (DC)

Balisong (DC)

Denouement (MD)

HardTruth (New DC Metalcore!)

Saturday August 23 * doors at 7, music at 7:30 * $10-20 * TICKETS

COLD COURT, no member older than 21 and none younger than 17, stand fearless, rough, tumble, and undeniably young. They’re stage tested at this point, recently crowned by the Philadelphia Council Of The Unimpressed as “most likely to take the title in 2025” due to their furious live shows. The bass player is from London and surely has a sixth finger somewhere. The guitarists, seemingly psychic, are brothers with stunning hair circumference. They formed the final member out of 100 percent New Jersey clay on a lazy July Sunday, purely on a whim. Now they have a sax player. No obstacle too large. Gigs with Black MIDI behind, gigs with Deerhoof ahead. Onward.

Lean Tee is a indie rock project from baltimore city, drawing deeply from midwest emo, slowcore, and post-rock.

Baltimore Avenue: noise rock from college park.

Sunday August 24 * noon-4pm * $5-10 suggested * RSVP

The DC Modular Society is a group focused on learning, teaching, and performing electronic music with modular synths. DCMS meetups are open to all with an interest in electronic music, modular and other hardware synths, and hybrid systems for creating and performing music. We encourage and support building a diverse and inclusive community—if you’re wondering if you belong—the answer is yes! No equipment is necessary to attend meetups, but feel free to bring gear if you like. Mixer and PA system provided. We frequently do informal demos of synths and electronic music techniques.

Sunday August 24 * 4pm * Free / donations * RSVP

Join us for a crafty skill-share and enjoy an afternoon of crafting, community, and conversation around policing and abolition. We’ll offer guidance on how to wheat paste and on making your own protest signs or abolitionist posters.

Poster-making materials, general art supplies, and snacks provided.

Not interested in making posters, or have your own project you’d like to work on? No problem! Bring your own work or make art with the supplies provided, and take pleasure in the simple act of creating with other people. All levels of crafting skills or know-how welcome, no artistic experience required!

We are a group of friends and organizers working toward a world where abolition is possible. Originating out of SURJ DC, the Policing + Abolition team aims to build widespread support for alternatives to policing and prisons.

Sunday August 24 * 7pm * $15-25 * TICKETS

ZĀM - NEMESES RECORD RELEASE SHOW - ZĀM is the guitar-bass-drums trio of Anthony Pirog, Andrew Colwell, and Dan Sharnoff. ZĀM’s second full length album arriving in August 2025 on Ramble Records features 13 distinct pieces of music;  evolved but familiar juxtapositions, at times focused, hypnotic circadian grooves staring down searing, ferocious percolations of feedback, skronk and sludge. There are smoke veiled interiors, throbbing halations and jagged icy cliffs here. Encounter electric swirling, molten chambers and iridescent eddies of meditation. There are glimpses of elegance and whiffs of panic and nausea. ZĀM stretches and contorts its sonic fabrics, a mosaic arcade of colors and textures, a cascade of undulating inner visions. These are Nemeses.

Red Sunflower is a DC-based instrumental trio formed by brothers Kiyan Saifi (guitar) and Teymour Saifi (bass), with Nick Murphy on drums. The band explores noise, textural improvisation, and experimental rock. Drawing on the energy of punk and free music, Red Sunflower favors intensity and unpredictability over convention.

Monday August 25 * doors at 6:30, show at 7 * $15 * TICKETS

Taylor Hollingsworth is a fingerstyle guitarist and songwriter based in Birmingham, AL. Taylor is primarily known for his roles as lead guitarist and co-writer for Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band. Since that time, Taylor has developed a solo performance style he’s dubbed “Folk n Roll.” His style takes cues from Mississippi Hill Country blues artists like R.L. Burnside, folkies like Richard Thompson, country pickers like Merle Travis, and rock n rollers such as Chuck Berry. His most recent release, "Yahola," is out through Dial Back Sound.

Cody Summit is a songwriter from Baltimore, MD. He plays fingerstyle acoustic and resonator slide guitar, and sings his own songs influenced by folk traditions. Since releasing his album “Welcome to Greener Then” in 2019, he plays regionally on a regular basis, at festivals and opening for nationally touring artists.

Tuesday August 26 * 7pm * $10-15 * TICKETS

Bohemian Waxwing is a coming together of four musicians with roots in alt-country, punk, ambient, and indie rock. With songs that range from propulsive post-punk to delicate meditations, their lyrics sit at the intersection of our internal and external lives. Their songs might be compared to Yo La Tengo, with the harmonic leanings of XTC, and the lyrical bent of Bill Calahan. 

Insect Factory is the music of Jeff Barsky (and collaborators) and is a meditative project focused on deconstructing the possibilities of guitar to create detailed, hypnotic compositions. 

Laundry List: DC-Based eclectic indie rock trio

Wednesday August 27 * doors at 7, music at 7:30 * $10 * TICKETS

Gnats (Synth-Punk from FL)
https://riprecords.bandcamp.com/album/demo-5

Mr. [Redacted] (Top-Secret Sounds from GA)

Powerband (DC Rock N Roll)
https://powerband.bandcamp.com/

Peace Be With You (NEW!!!! DC Hardcore First Show!)

Friday August 29 * 7pm * $15-25 * TICKETS

Bark Culture is a Philadelphia-based trio led by vibraphonist Victor Vieira-Branco, featuring Joey Sullivan on drums and John Moran on bass. The group released their first  album “Warm Wisdom” on Vieira-Branco’s label Temperphantom in September of 2024 with an accompanying 20 date tour through the United States. Warm Wisdom was included on Bandcamp’s “Best Jazz of September 2024”, and acclaimed jazz writer and critic Hank Shteamer listed the album as his Debut Release of 2024.

Victor Vieira-Branco is a Brazilian/American vibraphonist, having spent the 2010s in the vibrant São Paulo music scene. While Bark Culture is Vieira-Branco’s primary vehicle as a leader, his performances include work with Rob Mazurek’s Exploding Star Orchestra, the Chad Taylor Quintet, Daniel Villarreal Trio, as well as a new duo with pianist Sam Yulsman.

No Trick Pony is a Washington, DC power-trio. Consisting of seasoned DC veterans Amy K. Bormet (piano, voice), Keith Butler Jr. (drums), and Brian Settles (tenor saxophone), the group presents a unique sound that most often finds Bormet constructing song, poetry, and harmony, above a quiet tornado of exploration from Settles and Butler underneath. Though each member is steeped in streams of traditionally defined music — jazz, popular music, punk, and classical, to name a few — the group tends to focus on a deconstruction of the strict barriers of jazz, exploring instead on the transitional points between composition and improvisation. Groove abounds as a way to moor the listener in these explorations, which have the uncanny ability to present as both song and not-song. No Trick Pony has appeared at The Duck Pond in Georgetown, Rhizome DC in Takoma Park, and was a featured billing as part of the 2022 Capital Fringe Festival.

***THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. NEW DATE TBD***

Saturday August 30 * 12-4pm

Free Entry - Music - Delicious Raw Vegan + Vegan Food - Fresh Juice - Holistic Health Workshops - Midwifery - Colon Therapist - Herbalist + More!

Presented by Secrets of Nature Health Food Center

Saturday August 30 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS

ALT COMEDY REVIVAL

Join long-time veterans of the DC comedy scene and some very special visiting acts for non-traditional comedy incorporating music, visual art, and projection. 

Featuring:
Andrew Bucket
Michael Foody 
Grace and the Gang
Kevin Tit 
Cheemus
Joanna Harris
Mike Bock
The Three Brained Robot
Gabbie Watts

Sunday August 31 * 7:30pm * $5-10 * TICKETS

Jam nights are an opportunity for people to show up and create art together. Bring a guitar, sticks, sketch pad, didgeridoo, or your dancing shoes and come vibe. Amps, speakers, drum set, and microphones are provided. Featured artist: Eunbi Hina

Monday September 1 * doors at 3pm, show at 4pm * $10-20 * TICKETS

Bunnygrunt (St. Louis twee)

Anno (experimental electronic)

live at Rhizome, a Labor Day Matinee Mon, Sept 1

Show starts at 4pm

Tuesday September 2 * doors at 7, music at 7:30 * $12-24 * TICKETS

Inner Ear Brigade (IEB) is an ensemble of musicians based in the San Francisco Bay Area who play a unique mix of progressive rock, jazz, and experimental pop, all delivered through their originally detailed compositions and arrangements. They recently released their 2nd full length album “Dromology”. The music is “fun, happy, accessible, and proggy.” Steeped with a vintage analog sensibility, effects processing, and synthesizers, IEB crafts their sounds from “ RIO elements (Rock In Opposition), Canterbury (Sound), and Zappa”. IEB is: Bill Wolter - guitar; Stephen Wright - Bass; Tim Rowe - Drums; Madeline Tasquin - Vocals and FX; Evelyn Davis - Keyboards; Josh Marshall - Saxophone; Phillip Greenlief  - Saxophone.

Clay’s Auto Portraits is a jazz ensemble built on sharp ears and quick reflexes. Their music thrives on real-time dialogue — trading lines, shifting roles, and building momentum through collective instinct. Drawing from bebop, post-bop, and modern improvisation, they blur the line between structure and spontaneity. Every set is a conversation in motion, driven by deep listening and shared risk.

Also Chosen is Abe Mamet (French horn and effects), Zoë Jorgenson-Speirs (bass and effects), and Keith Butler, Jr. (drums). The trio creates soft and lush landscapes woven from traditions of jazz, improvisation, and groove.

Wednesday September 3 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS

Aphid is the new project of Chester Hawkins (Tucson, AZ) which picks up where his BLUE SAUSAGE INFANT left off when it was killed in 2013: synthetic krautrock rituals for cosmic dervishes and animal-brain levitation.

Wet Monkey recording stars Filthy Pink Doll is the trio of Arthur Harrison, Carl Merson, and Kevin Buckholdt.

Choking Boys - Noise rock from Baltimore.

Virginia Warwick. primal drums + voice.

Thursday September 4 7pm $10-20 * TICKETS

Rhizome DC and Filament present the second edition of A Night of Moving Images, a juried showcase of short film and video from the DMV. The screening will take place at Rhizome DC on Thursday, September 4 at 7:00 PM followed by a conversation with the selected artists. Prints of the films will be screened when possible.

The selected artists are: Gabriel Achilles Bellone, Adam Beuttler, Taylor Elise Colimore, Danielle d'Amico, Jeremy Drummond, Alexander Fingrutd, Brice Goldberg, Eva Grandoni, Jo Jovel, Nick Karpinski, Jessie Kraemer, William Love IV, Alex Menick, Mishkh, Sara El Moustakim, Vasilios Papaioannu, and Natasha Woods.

Friday September 5 * doors at 630 show at 7 * $10-15 * TICKETS

Could Be Better (Tennessee Emotive Girl Rock)
https://couldbebetter.bandcamp.com/

Widaparte (Kentucky Cowthem Book Screamo)

Several Arms (VA Post Nu Melodic Noise)

Dr. Girlfriend (DC Mystery Music)
https://doctorgirlfriend.bandcamp.com/album/first-performance

Saturday September 6 * 1pm * Free / donations * REGISTER

Are you interested in any of the following: theater, building community, making new friends, board games, tabletop role playing games, improvisation, and/or trying new things? Then you would probably enjoy Live Action Role Play (or LARP)! LARP is an umbrella term for games where you physically embody a character using a huge variety of rules, props, locations, and participants. LARPs can go from as few as 2 to as many as 100s of people, and explore stories ranging from the silly and fluffy to the dark and tragic, but for now we'll be exploring some entry-level LARPs that are great for new players.

On Saturday, September 6 from 1-2:30 pm, we'll be exploring our exploration of the moon (and why we don't go back there anymore). 2-9 players will collectively develop a documentary about fictional attempts to go to the moon, examining both the stated and underlying reasons for why we went there and subsequently stopped going. Take on the role of a former astronaut and spill your guts (or don't) about what really went on out there in space. The tone for this game can vary widely from farce to tragedy, so come prepared for anything!

Saturday September 6 * 1pm * in the backyard * $15-25 * REGISTER

Itching to get creative? Come dye with me! This class will cover making and dyeing with indigo, including the basics of shibori (Japanese tie-dye). You'll learn how to:-make an indigo vat-dye with indigo for long-lasting color-tie up the cloth for a variety of beautiful patterns-care for your indigo-dyed itemsEach participant will receive 1 bandana to dye with. All other materials provided. You may bring a few additional items to dye from home. Small to medium sized items with 50% or more natural fiber content work best.. In addition, wear clothing that you don't mind getting stained. Bring an apron if you wish, and rubber gloves if you have them.

Instructor: Sophie Kanter: www.thebluesti.com/

Saturday September 6 * doors at 7, music at 7:30 * $15-30 * TICKETS

Presented by Outside Time

Season Pass for all four Outside Time shows in Fall 2025 available HERE.

Zoh Amba
Zoh Amba is a songwriter, composer and multi-instrumentalist from Tennessee residing in New York. She began her musical journey steeped in the musical traditions of the South and has taken it from coast to coast and is mainly known as a saxophonist who blends avant-garde, noise, and devotional hymns, though has not shied from incorporating folk melodies into that world. Over the past several years Amba has been also been focusing on writing songs on guitar with lyrics that come from the heart and her love of nature and experiences.

Deakin
Josh Dibb (aka Deakin) is an artist, producer & composer most notably a member of the band Animal Collective.

Monday September 8 * doors at 7pm * $20 * TICKETS

A collective turned trio, Tara Clerkin craft free-flowing psychedelia with heavy dub drums amidst woozy washes of harpsichord and synths. Influenced by the natural landscape and their West Country hometown, their 2023 EP On the Turning Ground is a mesmerising sophomore release. Their sound lies somewhere between the avant-jazz of Moondog, the sun-tinged psych-folk of These Trails, and something else entirely. Tara Clerkin Trio embody an extraordinary otherness that should be witnessed by all.

“Drifting from dubby minimalism to smudged acid jazz, Tara’s stark and tuneful voice acts as the vehicle for her concise poetic lyricism. The group coalesce disparate influences into a cohesive sound, reflecting a romantic view of a familiar world.” - The Wire

The Caribbean - "They're taking Brill Building songs and writing them in invisible ink, turning jazz standards into Twilight Zone episodes, turning folk songs into clouds of fog." - PopMatters

Thursday September 11 * 7 PM SHARP * $15-25 * TICKETS

Terror Cell Unit - California Cultural Terrorism Power Electronics

Infinexhuma - Bay Area Dark Ambient/Ritualistic Industrial

Threat Of Innocence - Los Angeles Heavy Electronics

Home Is The Void - Bay Area Industrial A/V Assault

Weapons Envelope - harsh noise and power electronics by Emily Haugh. War poetry for remembering.

Struggle - “For them there will be gardens of eternity; beneath them rivers will flow; they will be adorned therein with bracelets of gold, and they will wear green garments of fine silk and heavy brocade. They will recline therein on raised thrones. Excellent is the reward and beautiful is the paradise as a resting place”

Saturday September 13 * doors at 6:30, music at 7 * $12-24 * TICKETS

Nice Breeze: "an ever-changing, beautifully-deteriorating sound capable of primitive slobber, muscle-moving fire, and profound Ashbery-worthy poetics, often all within the span of one chopped verse. Let’s call it Nice Breeze." -- Marc Masters    Nice Breeze will release "Everything Disappears" on Siltbreeze Records this spring.

Credit: band from md, ga, long island ny

Black Rails are a DC area trio that have been playing textured, guitar-based post-punk since 2017.  “Leaving the Migration,” their 6 song debut EP, was recorded at Viva Studio in Fairfax, Virginia and released by Impatient Records — the band’s self-run label — in November 2023.

Tuesday September 16 * doors at 630, music at 7 * $20-25 * TICKETS

Glenn Jones is a master of American Primitive Guitar, a style invented in the late 1950s by John Fahey, whose traditional fingerpicking techniques and wide-ranging influences were used to create modern original compositions. Jones, who led the post-rock ensemble Cul de Sac, brings his own made-up tunings, the use of custom-crafted partial capos, and a highly skilled picking style on both banjo and guitar, to create personal compositions that are lyrical, emotive and elegant.

Liam Grant is a New England guitarist with a punk ethos, cut from the American Primitive cloth. The restless guitar explorations, modal epics, and driving uptempo rags recall the likes of Grant's pedagogue; Takoma Records, and the path that was paved by his forebears John Fahey, Robbie Basho, Peter Walker, Max Ochs, and later, Glenn Jones, Steffen Basho-Junghans, Jack Rose, and others.

Kajwan Ziaoddini started performing Santour in 1998. He earned his master’s degree in Iranian classical music at the University of Tehran. As a musician, he has collaborated with several Iranian ensembles such as Eghbal, Ravian, and Hamnavazan, and has contributed to five albums: From the Saba’s Rose Garden, Hashtrud, Delkesh, Goshayesh, and Nowbang.

Wednesday September 17 * doors at 7, show at 7:30 * $12 advance / $15 day of show * TICKETS

Null/Void Presents

Latter
Latter is a heavy noise rock duo from Chicago featuring Meredith Haines (MAIR) on vocals and guitar, alongside Jon Alvarado (Beach Bunny) on drums. The band formed in a chance encounter in 2022, after Meredith had given up playing music and was starting her career in sound art. Drawing inspiration from Chicago's rich art scene, Jon’s indie-pop background, and Meredith's Philadelphia roots, the duo crafts an immersive experience that pushes the boundaries of noise rock.

NÜDE
NÜDE is an experimental duo composed of Chicago-bred musicians Ruby Lucinda and Luke Clohisy. Both multi-instrumentalists, Lucinda and Clohisy write music that pulls from indie rock, drone, no wave, and grunge. The duo seeks to write honest music, about what feels like to be home— comforts and complications alike.

Life
Emotive hardcore since 2017

xmiseryisabutterflyx 
sxe screamo from DC

Thursday September 18 * doors at 7, music at 730 * $10 * TICKETS

Finnish Postcard

Mannequin Fight

Room Corners

Wishbone Zoe

Monday September 22 * 7pm * $15-25 * TICKETS

Katie Porter: Phase to Phase duo for two bass clarinets
Katie Porter is a clarinetist and curator specializing in experimental music. Passionate about creating musical communities, she co-founded the venue Listen/Space (Brooklyn) and curates the Listen/Space Commissions, responsible for 46 new works for mixed chamber group. She also co-directs the biennial VU Symposium for experimental, improvised and electronic music (Park City, Utah) and is working on a giant multi-year project of experimental works for solo clarinet at Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels, a land artwork in remote northern Utah. She currently lives in New York City. Porter will perform Phase to Phase for two bass clarinets with a special guest from Argentina by way of Berlin.

Naoco Wowsugi is a community-engaged artist who blurs the lines between being an artist and an engaged citizen. As a first-generation immigrant living and working in Washington, DC, Wowsugi's cross-disciplinary projects—including portrait photography, participatory performance, sound healing, and horticulture—explore the nature of belonging and inclusive community building. She will be presenting a solo performance for gong.

Jadyn Brick (she/they/he) is a queer, mixed race, Asian American dancer/maker from Silver Spring, MD. As a creator, Jadyn is interested in storytelling, big emotions, grief, and tenderness. They are currently dedicated to a practice of feeling emotions and resisting numbing. They aim to engage this practice in their artistic work as in life!

Saturday September 27 * 7pm * $20-25 * OFFSITE at Tonal Park (7014-C Westmoreland Ave, Takoma Park) *TICKETS*

Join Transparent Productions at TonalPark studios for an evening of music from the trio of Devin Gray (drums), Anthony Pirog (guitar), and Dave Ballou (trumpet). This performance will celebrate the release of their new recording “Live at FEMA” on Out of Your Head Records.

Monday September 29 * 7pm * $20 - $30 * TICKETS

Carl Stone is one of the pioneers of live computer music, and has used computers in live performance since 1986. He has been hailed by the Village Voice as “the king of sampling.” and “one of the best composers living in (the USA) today.”. RELIX has written that “Stone makes music that can hit your ear holes like a DMT flash.” He was born in California and now divides his time between LA and Japan. He studied composition at the California Institute of the Arts with Morton Subotnick and James Tenney and has composed electro-acoustic music almost exclusively since 1972.

“He just opens up time in this marvelous way that I’ve never heard another composer do.” – Jonathan Gold, Vogue Magazine 2016

Alma Laprida (born in San Miguel, Argentina) is a multi-disciplinary artist whose creative pursuits encompass composition, improvisation, performance, installation, and radiophonic pieces. Her artistic journey began with formal training in piano at the Julián Aguirre School of Music, followed by studies in Arts Management and Electronic Arts at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero.

Tuesday September 30 * doors at 7, show at 8 * $15 * TICKETS

For fans of the song and how to feel it. Kath Bloom (Connecticut) is some kind of legend. She comes from a  special place where country, blues and folk are made beautifully translucent and emotive. She has a special gift – her voice is delicate and tender, yet retains that raw emotion and hard worn truths that allows each sung word to be felt.

Growing up in the Annapolis area and attending University of Maryland with friend and labelmate Robbie Basho, Max Ochs contributed two tracks for the 1967 "Contemporary Guitar" on John Fahey’s Takoma label. Inspired by his friend Fahey, Ochs developed his own interest in fingerstyle guitar, learning from one of the masters, Mississippi John Hurt, during a one-month residency in Ochs’ New York apartment when Hurt reappeared on the folk scene in 1964.  Ochs was also performing with the legendary band, Seventh Sons, founded by Greenwich Village mainstay and early folk innovator Buzzy Linhart. 

Suzanne Doogan - song-poems; Baltimore.

Wednesday October 1 doors at 6, show at 7 * outside, weather permitting *$12-20 * TICKETS

On October 1st at Rhizome DC, select members of the New-York centered but diasporic puppet show collective "We Wiggle Dolls” will perform a new adult-aimed puppet cabaret set! We Wiggle Dolls (ig:@wewiggledolls) is a diasporic puppet show collective spun out of a popular Brooklyn Puppet Slam.

Peter Redgrave and Khristian Weeks are celebrating 10 YEARS of performances together. In this collaboration, movement, sound, lighting, and the space itself are used as materials. Their pieces are constructed with highly adaptable and improvisational scores. Character and dialogue become elements to construct and enact purposeless task-oriented spectacles.

Georgia Beatty is a songwriter and fiddler, focused on cycle, lineage, and healing through cultural transmission. Her first full-length album, Apprentice to Transformation, (self-released Oct 2022) is a collection of original and traditional fiddle tunes devoted to the practice of witnessing Death as a moment in cycle, rather than the end. The stories told in Georgia's music come from a faith that our liberation will be embodied and communal.

Monday October 6 * doors at 7, music at 7:30 * $15-30 * TICKETS

Presented by Outside Time. Season Pass for all four Outside Time shows in Fall 2025 available HERE.

Neti-Neti is the lo-fi ritual music duo of Matt Evans (drums/electronics) and Amirtha Kidambi (vocals/electronics) that formed amidst their mutual experiences surrounding grief after the death of loved ones. Neti-Neti, translated as “It is not this, it is not that” from Sanskrit, is a contemplation on the nature of reality, life, death, birth and rebirth extracted from the Hindu text of rituals The Upanishads.

Wednesday October 8 * 7pm * $15 * TICKETS

Sensor Ghost
Luke Stewart
Aaron Leitko

Thursday October 9 * doors at 7, music at 730 * $10-20 * TICKETS

If Gus Englehorn didn’t exist, one of his songs would have to invent him. A former pro snowboarder reborn as a nomadic psych-pop prophet, Englehorn has lived a rollercoaster life that reads like one of the fantastical fables that fill his songbook. Gus's latest album The Hornbook magically 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.

Mia and the Argonauts - A new quartet from Washington, DC featuring all teachers from Jackson-Reed High School, formerly known as Wilson. Singer-songwriter Mia Chu on guitar and vocals, with James Kelly (Boys Club) on lead guitar, Marc Minsker (MFS JMB & Co.) on bass, and Tom Murphy on drums.

Friday October 10 * 7pm * $15 * TICKETS

As a multi-instrumentalist and producer, Asher White’s auteurish pop vision is vulgar and transcendent: marrying skittering noise with swooping strings, lively banjo with blasts of feedback, dissonant flutes with elegant bossa nova. Since the early 2010s she has developed a sprawling discography that spans experimental drone, tropicalia, noise rock, and folk. Her heartfelt and compulsively inclusive aesthetic is often informed by her transness, her Jewish spirituality, and her ongoing negotiations with hedonism. Her music runs in parallel to her work as a visual artist and writer; her first book was published by Atlantic Filtration Systems in 2024.

Cathartic and cerebral, Richmond, VA quartet Hotspit offers a penetrating style of music with dense layers of emotion and resonance. This sound roots itself in the fully explored genre of alt-rock while also reaching upward for something more to add to its venerated tone. The band lands upon an expansive sound that helps decipher the enigmatic nature of everyday emotions that haunt our lives.

Rosslyn Station is Guinevere Tully, an anti-folk artist from Herndon, Virginia. Recorded cheap and released for free, her songs reach gently into past hurts and present despair for something kind to share. She sings about heartbreak, depression, and dysphoria with softness and sincerity in the stubborn hope that you'll sing along.

Sunday October 12 * 7pm * $20-25 * TICKETS

Transparent Productions presents... Byron Asher and Tomas Majcherski (reeds), Matt Booth (bass), and Doug Garrison (drums).

Sonic Chambers Quartet is a new formation co-led by New Orleans-based clarinetist and saxophonist Byron Asher and New York City-based saxophonist and clarinetist Tomas Majcherski and performing original music that sits at the nexus of new composition and free improvisation. The multi-instrumentalists and composers have known each other and performed together for over 10 years, primarily in the New Orleans music scene, though their collaboration on this project began in 2023. In addition to their shared experiences as musicians, their connection is deepened by strikingly similar life paths prior to meeting – including past work in avant garde theater and formal studies in philosophy and religion. Their music is richly informed by these experiences, grounding their collaboration in dialogues around improvisation and composition, performance, art and collectivity. In the group, they are joined by North Carolina-based bassist Matt Booth and veteran New Orleans drummer Doug Garrison. Their debut record Kiss of the Earth was released in April 2025 on 577 Records and hailed by Dave Sumner of Bandcamp Daily as "wonderful, wildly melodic and a rhythmic dynamo."

Wednesday October 15 * doors at 7, music at 7:30 * $10-20 * TICKETS

Glowhazel is the solo project of Arlington-based mountain dulcimer player Thiel Secrist, in an attempt to queer the boundaries between traditional music and experimental soundscapes.

Cyrus & Oz blurs the lines between left-field electronica, bedroom folk-pop, and experimental noise ambience in a musical style that is mellow, playful, and endearing.

James Wolf is a DC-area composer and musician. He has played violin, guitar, and keyboards in many groups over the last 25 years, including The Orchid, Fern Knight, Phoenix Auto Group, Laconic Chamber. and Air King.

Iliana Yare creates soulful, immersive ambient music with her harp and effects.

Thursday October 16 * 7pm * $15-30 * TICKETS

Join us for a night of outward-bound music celebrating the release of Broadsides, the new album by Berlin-based sound artist and composer Weston Olencki. The album is the first LP release on DC-based label Outside Time. Each artist's work speaks to concepts of tradition and innovation in striking, unique ways. Olencki will perform work from Broadsides, Pneumwrights (Alma Laprida, Jamal Moore, and Samuel Burt)  will improvise, and niki afsar will perform a composition entitled "baraye nika (for Nika)". 

Presented by Outside Time

Season Pass for all four Outside Time shows in Fall 2025 available HERE.

Thursday October 23 * 7pm * $15-25 * TICKETS

Transparent Productions presents…

Michael Sarian’s ESQUINA is a cinematic, electro-acoustic project blending jazz improvisation with modular textures and ambient soundscapes. Shaped by Sarian’s Armenian heritage and Argentine roots, the music explores identity, dislocation, and ritual through long-form compositions and extended trumpet techniques. Out now on by Greenleaf Music, ESQUINA invites listeners into a bold, immersive experience that pushes jazz into new territory. Michael Sarian (trumpet), Santiago Leibson (keyboards), Marty Kenney (bass), Nathan Ellman Bell (drums).

Washington DC-based ¡FIASCO! was first assembled in 2016 building a unique repertoire of sounds and materials rooted in droning folk songs, jittery hip-hop grooves, grunge, and punk rock. Throughout years of club gigs, experimentation with original and re-imagined repertoire, and growing sophistication with electronics and effects, combining a jazz form with rock aesthetics and attitude, ¡FIASCO! built a following and a sound uniquely their own. Andrew Frankhouse (sax), Nelson Dougherty (guitar), Steve Arnold (bass), Keith Butler, Jr. (drums).

Sunday October 26 * 7pm * OFFSITE at Tonal Park * $25-30 * TICKETS

Transparent Productions presents…

Adam Rudolph (handrumset, electronic processing, thumb pianos, mouth bow, bamboo flutes, glockenspiel, gongs, vocal, percussion)
Kaoru Watanabe (taiko, Japanese percussion, noh kan and fue flutes, electric koto, vocal and electronic processing)
Alexis Marcelo (piano, electric keyboards, kalimba, melodica, percussion)

Composer, improviser, and percussionist ADAM RUDOLPH has been hailed as “a pioneer in World music” by the NY Times and “a master percussionist” by Musician magazine. Rudolph has released several albums as leader and has also recorded with musicians Sam Rivers, Omar Sosa, Wadada Leo Smith, Pharoah Sanders, Bill Laswell, Herbie Hancock, Foday Musa Suso, and Shadowfax. Acclaimed composer and instrumentalist KAORU WATANABE'S work is grounded in traditional Japanese music while imbued with jazz, improvisation, and experimental music elements. ALEXIS MARCELO is a New York City-based pianist whose musical journey began with classical training at the Harlem School of the Arts. As a Black Latino artist Alexis was highly influenced by the vibrant musical landscape of New York in the 80’s and 90’s.

Wednesday October 29 * doors at 7, show at 730 * $15-30 * TICKETS

Presented by Outside Time. Season Pass for all four Outside Time shows in Fall 2025 available HERE.

Saxophonist, composer and improviser Cole Pulice traffics in shimmering, otherworldly beauty. On Land's End Eternal, their first album for Leaving Records (releasing May 9th), the Oakland-based artist expands their compositional palette beyond signal-processed saxophone to include layers of electric guitar and lush choral arrangements. The result is a prismatic collection of pastoral chamber jazz in six parts.

Heather Stebbins is a DC-based composer and multi-instrumentalist whose work explores the porous boundary between memory and emotion. She foregrounds cello, synthesizer, and an array of other electronics, creating music that is imbued with patience, unfolding slowly over the course of multi-movement suites. Her new album, On Separation, was released by Outside Time in May.

Lispectre is Jonathan Williger taking baby steps into the sonic unknown. Tools and methods are variable, but always outward bound. JW is the proprietor of the Outside Time label and show series.

Sunday November 9 * doors at 630, show at 7pm * $15 * TICKETS

“For 15 years the trio of Ak’chamel has built a solid reputation as a compelling stage project. Wearing nightmarish costumes and engaging in hallucinatory “rituals”, their singular sound comprising desert-scorched psychedelia, post-apocalyptic shamanism, and lo-fi ritual-folk is as unique as the physical theater of their live performances.”

Zelzeleh - Iranian multi-instrumentalist Kamyar Arsani (Faraway Ghost) and Indian-born drummer/electronic music producer Ravish Momin (Sunken Cages) create their own brand of digital folk music that draws on Sufi mysticism, traditional Persian Music, street rhythms from Mumbai and contemporary electronic music at once. Momin accompanies Arsani’s vocals and daf (frame-drum) with a masterful blend of electronic and acoustic percussion, including live-looping via his unique drum-loop performance system.

Derek Monypeny sees his musical mission as adding to and expanding on what he calls the "desert continuum;" the psychedelic sirocco swirl of desert-based stringed instruments played with utter abandon by musicians the world over. Derek is a former member of the bands Oaxacan (Oakland, CA), ALTO! (Portland, OR), and Sir Richard Bishop's Freak Of Araby Ensemble. He has an ongoing duo project with Bryan Hillebrandt, OAE (Oakland Afternoon Ensemble). He has performed and toured with artists such as Bill Orcutt, Mike Watt, Jozef van Wissem, Lau Nau, Arrington de Dionyso, and many others.

Friday December 5 * doors at 7, music at 730 * $15-20 * TICKETS

In support of her newest album Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark, Gwenifer Raymond returns to Rhizome during her winter tour of the States. The album is Raymond’s first since 2020’s Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain, which drew widespread acclaim for its repurposing of Mississippi blues and John Fahey’s intricate Americana to embody Raymond’s roots in rural South Wales and her interests in folk horror and the avant garde, a new form dubbed Welsh Primitive. Now, on her forthcoming album, Raymond finds herself conjuring the work of pioneering rocket scientists, the words of fictional hobo prophets and the concepts of mathematical infinity.

Christo Graham began writing his first songs when he was just 13. An old guitar and a Casio keyboard were all this lively singer-songwriter needed to fill summer after summer lovingly crafting demo tapes of the finest indietronica. His bedroom morphed into a recording studio, and Graham's head into an automaton that produced one quirky earworm after another. His effective minimalism is evident in his 2020 album 'Turnin'', whose 12 songs were inspired by a four-track recorder belonging to his grandmother and containing two songs recorded by herself at some point.