Thursday July 31 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS

BASSMASTERS is a rowdy synth punk duo from Washington DC. Mason Scan (Catscan!) and Khai Phan (The People) serve up short, intense dance punk rock with irreverent lyrics and distorted heavy bass riffs, a stiff cocktail of Death From Above 1979, DEVO, Viagra Boys, and IDLES. Their new 7" single 'Stainless Steel' is now available on super-limited vinyl from Exactly Records.

Syd's Lunch is a band from Arlington, Virginia influenced by the punk music of DC. Songs range from math rock instrumentals to 1 minute hardcore songs that harken back the likes of Minor Threat and Void. As of now, they function as a duo, consisting of guitar and drums. This is their first (or second, depending on how you think about it) show. 

Different Answers is DC's favorite gutter band. Beautiful melodies, heavy lyrics, jangling acoustic guitar meets thudding basslines. Check out their EP Where I Been Known to Go and demo Car Troubles No More on soundcloud. As seen at DuPont Circle Sings, DC's District of Pride at the Lincoln Theater, WUMC Third Rail, and more.

Friday August 1 * 7pm * $15 * TICKETS

Speedway (from Sweden on Revelation Records)

Poisición Unida (from DC on Rebirth Records)

Square One (from New York on Scheme Records)

Sluggo (from DC)

Saturday August 2 * doors at 6:30, music at 7 * $10-15 * TICKETS

Brothers Kardell is an eclectic experimental electronic duo blending genre chaos with pure creative energy. Composed of Josef Kardell on guitar and Devon on keys and bass, their sound ricochets from absurdist hip hop to dreamy pop to blistering 8-bit prog metal—and just about everywhere in between. With no rules and zero expectations, their intense live sets are as much for their own amusement as the audience’s. Their debut album is out on Bandcamp, and they’re currently deep in the studio crafting album number two.

Max Powell (VA)

Foxye is foxy hot electronic dance music, delivered straight to your doorstep with a smile. Don't wait another second! Come celebrate the upcoming release of Foxye's very first experimental album, TRUE AMERICAN, this Saturday 8/2 at Rhizome! ARE YOU A TRUE AMERICAN?! Prove it, by immersing yourself in the sweet soulful tunes of Foxye and supporting your local fox by following @foxyemusic on Instagram TODAY! Songs off the upcoming album may include, but are not limited to: Toast, Jelly, Hot Sauce, True American, Plastic Fish, Gangster Anastasia, Rice, and Strangely Happy. There is no other artist as hot and foxy as Foxye, so come find out fur yourself!! Visit crowsstudios.com for more

teaming in chess is the solo project of Tiago Woodyard. On his albums, he writes songs as he records them, coming up with melodic and lyrical ideas just 2 or 3 takes before what you hear on record. Most of the lyrical topics are focused on personal insecurities and how they stand against the problems of the outside world. Live, teaming in chess offers a slim selection of reimagined work from his recorded output combined with improvisation including assorted percussion and guitar pedals.

Sunday August 3 * 1pm * $5 suggested * REGISTER

Gain the knowledge you need to attend live drawing sessions! This workshop is intended for beginners to help build confidence to jump into live drawing sessions and connect with local figure drawing communities (we'll provide a list of regular sessions in the DMV area). But people at all levels are welcome~

To keep this budget friendly, we'll be taking turns modeling for each other (with relatively short poses). We've got basic supplies covered, but feel free to bring your own!

Sunday August 3 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS

Music researcher and Canary Records founder Ian Nagoski uncovers the forgotten musical masterpieces of early 20th-century immigrants and natives in this engaging lecture and listening party.

Ian Nagoski is an independent music researcher and reissue record producer in Baltimore, Maryland, who has specialized for 20 years in early 20th-century recordings made by immigrants to the U.S., especially musicians from the Ottoman Empire. He has made anthologies for Dust-to-Digital, Tompkins Square (including To What Strange Place: The Music of the Ottoman-American Diaspora in 2011), the Database of Recorded American Music, Mississippi Records, and his Canary imprint, which has released over 150 digital albums. He has toured widely as a speaker from Thessaloniki to Fresno, including talks at the Library of Congress, Brandeis, Carnegie Mellon, NYU, UCLA, the University of Chicago, the Armenian Museum in Watertown, MA, and the Onassis Cultural Center in Athens. He has presented installations at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, the Wellcome Collection in London, and the Center for PostNatural History in Pittsburgh.

Tuesday August 5 * 7pm * $10 * TICKETS

The Gobs (Olympia, WA)
Sad Roach (DC)
Power Pants (VA)

Wednesday August 6 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS

Jeff Krulik: Official Junk Collector is a business card created in Jeff Krulik’s 7th grade shop class. Over 50 years later, it’s still an accurate job title, and also the name for this evening’s program, a workshop of new video content, rumination on narration, and pondering thought balloons that may be part of an upcoming documentary presentation in early 2026. See and hear Jeff do his best to share what is swirling around his head on this new project, featuring Jeff’s 25-year plus relationship with a sometimes brilliant, sometimes deranged character. But who really is the deranged one in this mirror image journey?

Washington DC-based director/producer Jeff Krulik has screened at the Museum of Modern Art, Lincoln Center, the American Film Institute and on PBS. His resume includes work for Errol Morris, Discovery Networks, and National Geographic Channel. His commissioned work includes a one-hour documentary on carnival sideshow history for The Travel Channel. Krulik is also co-producer of cult documentary 'Heavy Metal Parking Lot' which was turned into a reality TV series for pop culture network TRIO called Parking Lot.' Other documentaries include ‘Tales of Belair at Bowie’, ‘Led Zeppelin Played Here’, 'Hitler's Hat,' 'Ernest Borgnine on the Bus,' and the award winning 'I Created Lancelot Link.' In 2008, he produced the Emmy Award-winning documentary Eatin' Crabs for Maryland Public Television's Chesapeake Bay Week.

Thursday August 7 * 7pm * $10-15 * TICKETS

Editrix, the annihilators of indie rock, are a trio of compassionate music nerds from NYC and Western Mass. They are currently touring on the release of their new album "The Big E".

Landowner plays abrasively-clean minimalist punk. They aim to slap hard, without using distortion. Their music utilizes repetition, and makes space for lyrics that touch on the systems our lives are tangled in and the dark absurdities we take for granted. They are from western Massachusetts and have released four LPs.

That This, of DC, is a new band from former members of Priests and Ex Hex.

Friday August 8 * doors at 7, show at 730 * $15 * TICKETS

Small Doses (Asheville)
https://smalldoses.bandcamp.com/

Continuals (DC)
https://continualsdc.bandcamp.com/

Future Living (Kalamazoo)
https://futurelivingkzoo.bandcamp.com/

Chill Parents (DC)
https://chillparents.bandcamp.com/

Saturday August 9 * 7pm * $15-25 * TICKETS

The Aaron Irwin Trio is an exploratory and dynamic ensemble featuring Aaron Irwin (saxophones, clarinets), Mike Baggetta (guitar), and Bill Campbell (drums). The group thrives on pushing the boundaries of structure, form, and improvisation, creating music that is both deeply interactive and texturally rich. With a focus on group interplay, the trio crafts non-conventional song forms that evolve organically in performance, blurring the lines between composition and spontaneous creation.

Sarah Basílio’s Blood of a Poet exists in a rare, prehistorical, nearly alchemical realm of quiet power. One may draw comparisons between Blood of a Poet and the early 70s works of Nico and Brigitte Fontaine. To be sure, there is a shared interest in the use of harmonium and voice to find a new modality, a poetry of the soul, informed by the distant past and that yet to come. TSS Bradley is a multi-instrumentalist based in Portland, OR drawing upon traditions of improvisational saxophone music reminiscent of the genre’s more spiritual and experimental edges.

Nik Francis is an improvising musician with a primary focus on the drum kit, occasionally integrating electronics and small acoustic instruments to expand his sonic palette, exploring a broad range of improvised and experimental music. Nate Scheible has performed and recorded in a variety of bands and ensembles spanning multiple genres over the past 25 years. His background is largely based in improvisation on drums, electronics, and analog tape.

Sunday August 10 * 1pm * RSVP

A community potluck event for home fermenters to share their favorite brews, batches, and recipes. Have an extra jar of homemade kimchi sitting in the back of the fridge? A loaf of sourdough? We'll trade recipes, swap tips, and sample one another's ferments! All levels of experience welcome, but please bring something for everyone to try. Email jasperswartz.m@gmail.com with any questions

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

Michael R. Bernstein lives and works in Takoma Park, Maryland, where he plays with light, sound, food, and dirt. In former lives he was a Leopard, a Knife, and was the co-boss of a gang of cassette slinging street toughs known as "Heavy Tapes."

Matchstick Percussion is a Maryland-based percussion quartet dedicated to new music and expanding the percussion repertoire. Through performance, they aim to promote opportunity for underrepresented artists, bridge the gap in racial and gender inconsistencies, and advocate for equity in the medium through collaborative performances and educational outreach.

Marcia Bassett is a NYC-based musician and artist known for her innovative and unconventional approach to music. Her work explores areas of sound collage, improvisation, and immersive audio-visual environments. Whether working with traditional instruments or electronic media, Bassett constantly pushes the boundaries of sound and image to create a heady sonic interplay of otherworldly narratives that are equal parts trance and critique. She is the founder of Yew Recordings.

CHUCK BETTIS was raised in the fertile harDCore soil, nourished within Baltimore's enigmatic avant garde gatherings, and currently blossoming in New York's experimental realms. His unique blend of electronics and throat has led him into various collaborations with great musicians from around the globe.

Monday August 11 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS

Fruit LoOops - No-wave dance pop from Chicago/Cincinnati. Manic live and digital percussion, frazzled synthesizer, and electronic saxophone with unhinged vocals and theatrical performance art. Midwest Blackhole. Musical Memory Hole.

Drawn - DC/Philly - memories from an unreliable narrator. Nenet on vocals, Nate Scheible on drums, Layne Garrett on guitar.

Weapons Envelope (DC) is harsh noise and power electronics by Emily Haugh. War poetry for remembering.

Tuesday August 12 * doors at 7, show at 7:30 * $12-20

Anna Johnson is a performer, composer and visual artist who creates experiences at the boundaries of sound, moving image and installation. Her practice centers body and intuition as primary sites of knowledge, in pursuit of newly vulnerable emotional, spiritual, and social realities. Anna’s hypnotic, devotional sonic landscapes are drawn from explorations of voice and electroacoustic instrumentation. With backgrounds in classical, traditional, and religious musics, her sound weaves medieval-influenced vocal melodies, chants, and choral layering with synthesizer atmospheres, heavy drone textures, and forays into experimental pop. She relies on improvisation, with a meandering, fluid sense of embodied time. Anna's performances regularly feature her cinematic projections, which use live cameras and manipulations of light and shadow to render surreal and fantastical environments. In creating for both stage and screen, she is guided by the emergent, alchemical conversations that open between sound and image when they are brought together.

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.

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.

Wednesday August 13 * doors at 7, show at 730 * $15 * TICKETS

Abuse Repression

4-piece harsh blackened screamo from port huron & detroit michigan

I Have No Mouth
Anti fascist hardcore punk from Indiana.

Samskara
Black/Post-Metal from Baltimore

Denouement
DMV Metalcore

August 14 * 7pm * $15-25 * TICKETS

Charmaine Lee (b. 1991) is an Australian vocalist based in New York. Using the voice, feedback, and live processing, Lee's practice is primarily concerned with risk-taking, playfulness, and improvisation. She has been recognized as “extraordinary” by New Yorker and has been featured in New York Times, Washington Post, and Wire Magazine. As a composer, Lee has collaborated with leading ensembles including Kronos Quartet and the Wet Ink Ensemble. Lee is a Jerome Hill Artist Fellow (2025), Emergent Ventures winner (2024), ISSUE Project Room Artist-in-Residence (2019), and a Roulette Van Lier Fellow (2021). Her long-standing collaborators include Conrad Tao, Eric Wubbels, and Ikue Mori (MacArthur Fellow).

Scant is the alias of experimental musician Matt Boettke based out of New York City. He is a founding member of Thousands of Dead Gods, a record label in Brooklyn which previously operated a cassette focused record store from 2017-2022. Through his work as Scant he has produced over 30 limited edition tapes and CDs for American underground labels such as Chondritic Sound and Monorail Trespassing, while self-releasing through the Dead Gods imprint. Apart from solo recordings he has contributed to extensive collaborations with Justin Lakes (Shredded Nerve/Thousands of Dead Gods), Stefan Aune (New Forces), Rodger Stella, and Nick Klein amongst others. Vitiate, his second full-length album as Scant, was released in the fall of 2024 on Psychic Liberation.

Levogyre - Found and transmitted sound from DC.

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

Nikel is a quartet from Switzerland consisting of saxophone, electric guitar, percussion and piano. For this concert, they will be debuting “how strong the spindle” by David Menestres.

A mix of traditional and contemporary, these instruments combine to form an alternative chamber music output where electric and acoustic sounds are fused into a unified sonic organism built on a wide, yet discerning musical vocabulary. The continual search for new musical ideas is not based on aesthetic prejudice or dichotomies of musical genres, but on passion and devotion to making and performing great music.

Composer, flutist, and improviser, Rachel Beetz explores presence through sound and listening. Her works recreate physical atmospheres based on her deep listening adventures in the wild, exploring hidden worlds of nature and machines. Combining experimental field recordings and electronically modified flutes, her works examine community, environmentalism, and women’s work through sound, textiles, and lighting. Her projects have been featured in concert halls and galleries in Australia, Iceland, India, the United Kingdom, and the United States. You can hear her on Orenda, Blue Griffin, iikki, Neuma, and Populist record labels. She is currently a co-director of wasteLAnd music and Populist Records.

Saturday August 16 * 1pm * $15-35 * REGISTER

Join us for an afternoon of kinky model drawing, guided by painter and art teacher: Dom. We'll have models & expert artistic guidance. Meet your fellow Washington DC creatives. After a set amount of time we'll open up the floor for people to make use of the space and create whatever images they wish. This workshop aims to celebrate body positivity and diversity while fostering a supportive, judgment-free environment for creative exploration.

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Saturday August 16 * 6pm * $15-25 * in the backyard, weather permitting * TICKETS

Reign of Ferns (Taipei, TW and Colorado) is Ryan J Raffa and Andrew Weathers. They embark on their first US tour this summer, playing improvised sets of Fourth World fever dream music. The duo’s work has been released on Aural Canyon and Longform Editions.

Oms (Washington DC) is the multimedia collaboration between artists Monica Stroik and Doug Kallmeyer.Heavyweight sonics interact with an ever evolving tapestry of imagery, conjured through an improvisational blending of analog modular electronics, string instruments and customized video  software. 

Weathering (Baltimore, MD and Frederick, MD) is an electroacoustic duo formed by Matt Carey (clarinet, piano) and Carolyn Zaldivar Snow (modular synthesizers). Their work merges field recordings from natural environments with intricate, experimental electronics, creating immersive soundscapes that evoke both organic and technological worlds.

Sunday August 17 * 3-5pm * RSVP

Death Cafes are opportunities for people to enjoy refreshments together and discuss the topic of death. The objective is to “increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their (finite) lives.” There are Death Cafes all over the country. What's on your mind about death and dying? Contact Death Cafe Facilitators Margaret Branch at margaret603@gmail.com or Monica Lynch at mlynch19@comcast.net.. Death Cafes are NOT therapy, grief support, or counseling sessions. Cost: Free (small donation for the space encouraged)

Sunday August 17 * doors at 6, show at 7 * $10 * TICKETS

LOS MOCOS KILLED THE GOVERNMENT

Live at Rhizome with

Los Locos
Opposite Tiger
Fantazma

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

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.

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!)

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.

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.

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.

Saturday August 30 * 12-4pm * Free

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 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!

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

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

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.

Saturday October 25 * 7pm * OFFSITE at Tonal Park (7014-C Westmoreland Ave, Takoma 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.

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.