Upcoming Events
About This Calendar
This calendar compiles creative music events around Pittsburgh, both hosted by Pittsburgh Sound Preserve and not. We also do show announcements every other Monday at the Open Improvisation Lab.
Want us to list your event? Contact us here.
XENHARMONIC Music Summer Workshop
2025 Xenharmonic Summer Workshop!
Place: Gesundheit Institute, Hillsboro, WV (home of our 2011, 2012 and 2019 events)
Dates: 6-20 July 2025
Lodging, Food, and Session: $2000--value exchange and financial aid can be discussed; write to summercamp@untwelve.org
Website: https://www.patchadams.org/course/xenharmonic-music-summer-camp/
We're an experienced team who have hosted 10 like events dating back to 2008, which explore a unique, non-institutional, and almost neo-anthropological approach to microtonal tuning and the harmonic imagination.
Many attendees have felt their worlds change and their networks grow.
In summer 2024 we had a mini 4-day camp that was exciting and replenishing for attendees, but since losing our 2020 event to the pandemic, we've been seeking the momentum to hold a full camp. This year, we believe we have it.
Our present course of action: find out who is coming; what projects/tech/interests they are bringing; and thus see what we've got. Expect abundant demos, coaching/project development, and sing-alongs with xenharmonic achievers.
The point is as much to see each other, revel in our shared joy in xeno-tuning, and enjoy community and the outdoors, as to get anything specific done... though fascinating projects and recordings often have a way of taking flight.
And some just keep going from there, with awesome results:
Hark Ye, Music Lovers, 2019 EP incubated at past camps:
Microtonal cover song compendium, Stephen Weigel:
Mirage for string trio by Nicholas Osborn:
Nature's First Green Is Gold, vocal round by Danny Newman-Lessler:
So here are our two requests:
1) Add the save-the-date to your calendar, to begin squaring this opportunity to your other summer commitments.
2) If you become sure this is an event that would be great for you, don't be shy to APPLY (&). Your expression of interest need not become a firm commitment until April 4, but seeing the list of likely attendees and their interests is what begins to bring this event into focus, so those who say yes earlier are influential.
Best for a year full of bright creativity, for which dark times are ultimately no match,
Bruce, Chris, Jacob, and Thomas
SWEET ABYSS w/ Gag Reflex, Vani-T, Heather Harper, Bella Figlia
https://arcane.city/events/sweet-abyss-w-gag-reflex-vani-t-heather-harper-bella-figlia
SWEET ABYSS w/ Gag Reflex, Vani-T, Heather Harper, Bella Figlia
GAY PSYCHEDELIC VIBES & MORE
WEDNESDAY JULY 9 / 7-11PM / $5–$20 ALL AGES AT @banthateabar 5002 Penn Ave
Pittsburgh sonic weaver & vocalizing extraordinaire @bellafiglia777 will be conducting a live experience of fluidity, voice, & rhythmic beats w/ @ca11.11una for a debut performance at Sweet Abyss inbetween entrancing selects by Gag Reflex & Vani-T
BELLA FIGLIA, ELIZABETH JOAN HARRIS, IS A MULTIDISCIPLINARY, GENRE- FLUID ARTIST AND SOUND DESIGNER
Using piano, guitar, found sound from her own field recordings, Ableton, and her classically trained voice, elizabeth creates expansive soundscapes with expressive pop melodies. bella figlia extracts the divinity from the mundane, fuses the grotesque to the holy, and finds the sensual in the spiritual.
Communal Psychomagic Ritual: B. Dumbauld / Yotzeret Sheydim
https://www.facebook.com/share/16izfED8aP/
B. Dumbauld / Yotzeret Sheydim
COMMUNAL PSYCHOMAGIC TIRUAL
In Three Parts
Persad Center
5301 Butler St, Suite 100
Jully 11, 7pm
free
Required Admission:
A single thought, rumination, obsession, compulsion, dead name, personality trait, toxic relationship, anxiety, fear, or unhealthy attachment to dispel
Foundation Series #19
Foundation Improvised Music Series
Every 2nd Sunday, 7pm
Bantha Tea Bar, 5002 Penn Ave
$10-20 suggested donation
No one turned away for lack of funds!
July 13th lineup:
Ethan Isaac / Danny Fratina
Sheer Anxiety
Jay Rauch / eli namay / Caleb A. Smith

Tough Pill #48
Tough Pill is a creative music and performance series held primarily at The Government Center, third Thursdays of Every month in Pittsburgh. Tough Pill seeks to create space for practitioners while also expanding the scope of the experimental art audience. It's not always this, but it's always good... so always come!
Tough Pill 48: July 17th, 2025
$10-15 suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds!
Druid Stone (VA) / PTSD (MD) / The Worm Oroboros (PGH) / Static Wound (PGH)
https://www.facebook.com/share/1GFHX7dSqT/
Sunday 7/20
A night of experimental music with all trans artists featuring:
Druid Stone (VA)
PTSD (MD)
The Worm Oroboros (PGH)
Static Wound (PGH)
Doors at 7! Music at 8!
Persad Center, 5301 Butler St, Suite 100, Pittsburgh, PA
$10-20 NOTAFLOF
all ages
David Scanlon with Caleb A. Smith, millie DREAD, and dlb
https://www.facebook.com/share/19hGdwsWxM/
Wednesday July 23
Bantha Tea Bar, 5002 Penn Ave
Doors at 7pm
David Scanlon
Caleb A. Smith
millie DREAD
dlb
Slow Mass / Edhochuli / Genital Shame At Brillobox
Slow Mass / Edhochuli / Genital Shame
at Brillobox, July 26 ~8p
[Check IG, Arcane City, and Brillobox’s website for details]








































Skeletonized, Wiring, Main Area, Histrionic
https://arcane.city/events/skeletonized-wiring-main-area-histrionic
Skeletonized, Wiring, Main Area, Histrionic
JULY 5 AT BANTHA TEA BAR, 5002 Penn Ave
kame house takes on @banthateabar for the first time with a stellar lineup of bands, including @histrionictheband , @skeletonizedpgh , joined by @wiring____ and @justmainera on tour. lock in bridge the gap
DOORS @ 7, $10 COVER
All Ages
BLOODRAVE III w/ Nowhere2Run, Rita Lukea, Visciousswishes, Arie Cole, Slow Danger, Rob Chilldren
BLOODRAVE III w/ Nowhere2Run, Rita Lukea, Visciousswishes, Arie Cole, Slow Danger, Rob Chilldren
goth, industrial, freak shit, multimedia rave
friday july 4th. 9pm.
Spirit, 242 51st Street Pittsburgh
21+ $25
Nowhere2Run, Rita Lukea, Visciousswishes, Arie Cole, Slow Danger, Rob Chilldren
fire breathing, cage dancing, with tantalizing tigers
light install by projectile objects

Matmos and How Things Are X PJ Roduta at The Government Center
Matmos
How Things Are x PJ Roduta
07-04-2025 at 8pm $15
The Government Center
715 East St, Pittsburgh, PA 15212
Tickets - https://events.humanitix.com/matmos-pj-roduta
Experimental/electronic legends who have released music on Matador & Thrill Jockey as well as touring/production work with Bjork
Matmos - https://matmos.bandcamp.com/music
How Things Are x PJ Roduta
https://howthingsaremade.bandcamp.com/
https://bandcamp.com/pjroduta
Lylyth EP Release Party (All proceeds benefit Casa San Jose)
https://www.instagram.com/p/DLib4iQxV5y/?img_index=2
The Rose Bowl Presents:
Lylyth “Fight Back” EP Release Party
Fourth of July @ Little Giant (100 Asteroid Way, Pgh, 15210)
7pm / all ages / $10-20 sliding / all proceeds benefit Casa San José
Live Music:
Lylyth (queer punk / alt rock)
GLITCH - Binghampton, NY (rap rock)
EYECANDY (hard rock / metal)
THE BOOK CLUB (ska)
+ Piercings + Flash Tattoos

Throughline Series at Telephone
Improvised music at telephone, 5120 Penn Ave. for First Friday.
~7p
………………………….
mauthær
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trē seguritan abalos
Colter Harper
eli namay
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Drew Collins
Lindsey Willis
Abstrata
Frogonbough
Dittocrush
FOLK MUSIC [NATE WOOLEY/CHRIS CORSANO/CHES SMITH] with BEN OPIE and CHIFFCHAFF TRIO + PATRICK BREINER
https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/tcrps-prsnts/folk-music-nate-wooley-brillobox
Thursday July 3rd 2025
tcrps prsnts
an evening of experimental electro-acoustic music
featuring
FOLK MUSIC
[NATE WOOLEY - trumpet, amplifier, CHRIS CORSANO - drums, clarinet, feedback, and CHES SMITH - drums, sampler, electronics, percussion]
with
BEN OPIE
and
CHIFFCHAFF TRIO + PATRICK BREINER
[Trē Seguritan Abalos, Ricki Weidenhof, Caleb Gamble]
8:30pm
$20 at the door /$15 advance
(no one turned away for lack of funds)
21+
Brillobox
4104 Penn Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15224
Banjo Club
https://alleghenyelks339.weebly.com/banjo-club.html
Banjo Club* in the Elks Lodge Allegheny Room on Wednesdays
Doors at 7pm, Band starts at 8pm
Food 7:30 - 9:30pm
Free Admission
400 Cedar Avenue, 15212
Improve Your Wednesdays With the Pittsburgh Banjo Club. The Elks Lodge on the North Side is filled with banjo music, singing, polka dancing and people of all ages
* Not an Elks hosted Event

The Transition of Things
new rooms showing art in pittsburgh—come check out TTOT, The Transition of Things (thetransitionofthings.com), in its first instance, sunday june 29, 2025, from 3 to 4 pm—dm @romanantopolsky on iG for address or email pittsburghsoundpreserve@gmail.com
five sets of work: Joella Clove, Carl Fuermann, Trever Hadley, Roman Antopolsky, Jay Rauch
electronics, tapes, flute, clarinet, cello play’d and soun’d by trē seguritan abalos, Dittocrush, Joshua Malave, Jay Rauch
come by and check the website for more info!
Effects Pedals Workshop for Wind & Brass Players
https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/little-giant/effects-pedals-workshop-for-wind-brass-players
Bring your horn and join flutist Kaleem Kheshgi to test and try a variety of effects pedals in this 2-hour pedal playground workshop!
Kaleem will open with a brief description of the basics of using a microphone, overcoming signal impedance issues, planning your signal path, and the available effects pedals to try.
After the overview, attendees will have ~45 minutes to move between several mic & pedal stations to experiment with various pedals and equipment made available by Kaleem, Little Giant Studios, and other generous peers.
There will be a break and time for Q&A while the stations are disassembled.
After the dissassembly, attendees will have the opportunity to collaborate to pick and choose pedals to make new stations, and to continue experimenting for the remainder of the workshop.
Attendees are welcome to bring their own gear to let others try, but there's no requirement to bring anything but an instrument.
Address: 100 Asteroid Way, Pittsburgh, PA 15210, (Loading dock at the corner of Asteroid Way & Manton Way)
Parking: Public lot at Asteroid & Manton Way (diagonally opposite Little Giant), Dollar Bank lot on Manton Way, Little Giant’s remote lot (at the end of Asteroid Way by the church), Street parking on Industry Street
Fems and Thems
“Fems and Thems”
June 27th - 7p - under the 40th St. Bridge
Sinus Infection
Little Gunpowder
Olia Emeris
Pittsburgh Noisefest
https://pittsburghnoisefest.com/About.html
Pittsburgh Noise Fest will be held at Little Giant Studios on June 27th and 28th, 2025.
Doors at 4pm
Regular Two day passes available now!
$50
Buy tickets here:
http://cleanertapes.ticketleap.com/pittsburghnoise
LINEUP:
https://pharmakon.bandcamp.com
COMPACTOR
https://compactor.bandcamp.comSTCLVR
Richard Ramirez's
AUTOPSY EXPERIMENT
https://deathbedtapes.bandcamp.com/album/televised-death
https://whitephosphorous.bandcamp.com
HUMAN FLUID ROT
https://humanfluidrot.bandcamp.comBISON SQUAD
https://woodroomcollective.bandcamp.comJANNA LEE
https://jannaleemusic.bandcamp.com
GYNA BOOTLEG
https://gynabootleg.bandcamp.comPAIN CHAIN & NQISE COLLAB SET
https://pain-chain.bandcamp.com
https://farrahfaucet.bandcamp.com
FUCK TELECORPS
CHOP CHOP CHOP
CHOP CHOP CHOP CHOP
https://chop7times.bandcamp.comZILMRAH
https://zilmrah.bandcamp.com
https://figurerecords.bandcamp.com/album/perdition
DRAOIDH
https://orbtapes.bandcamp.com/album/calamity-of-man
VIATOR
https://viator.bandcamp.com
7D
https://notforcommodity.bandcamp.com/
AETHER
https://aether42.bandcamp.com
SLACKING
https://slacking.bandcamp.com/
FOREST ALTAR
https://seanematzus.bandcamp.com/music
SUPPORT UNIT & SCARLET DIVA COLLAB SET
supportunit.bandcamp.com
https://thomaspuopolo.bandcamp.com/music
NIKU DARUMA
https://nikudaruma.bandcamp.com
SHE WALKS CROOKED
https://shewalkscrooked.blogspot.com
ECHO LIGHTWAVE UNSPEAKABLE
https://echolightwaveunspeakable.bandcamp.com
NEGLIGIBLE WOUND
https://negligiblewound.bandcamp.com
VOIDWELLER
https://voiddweller000.bandcamp.com
LUCITE SPINE
https://lucitespine.bandcamp.com
MOTHERLESS FUCK
https://motherlessfuck.bandcamp.com
Wolf Eyes (Michigan), Orgone Archive, Cloning, Slacking + Nightglare
https://arcane.city/events/wolf-eyes-orgone-archive-cloning-slackin-nightglare
Wolf Eyes, Orgone Archive, Cloning, Slackin + Nightglare
Thursday June 26th at
Wood Street Galleries 💫 601 Wood St.
doors open at 7pm
all-ages
$10 - $20 donation
no one turned away for lack of funds
All Ages
tcrps presents:
An evening of electronic sound + image
Curated by @edgarumtcrps
Featuring live performances by:
WOLF EYES [Michigan] @wolf_eyes_official
THE ORGONE ARCHIVE
CLONING @slopmachine
SLACKING @jrlslacking
with entrance & interstitial sounds by NIGHTGLARE @marzsipan
Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
(2nd Floor)
601 Wood St, Pittsburgh, PA 15222
USA
For thirty-one years, Wood Street Galleries has been a vital platform for innovative and experimental art, offering unique exhibitions and boundary pushing programs that engage the local community.
Cryptwarbler / Sadnoise / Barbie.ai / echo lightwave unspeakable / nasty taxi / farrah faucet
bantha tea bar, 5002 Penn Ave
wednesday. june. 25.
doors: 7pm / noise: 7:30pm / $10-15 notaflof
Get warmed up for Pittsburgh Noisefest in a gay way:
(on tour)
cryptwarbler
sadnoise
barbie.ai
echo lightwave unspekable
nasty taxi (visuals)
farrah faucet

Kevin Sapp and Anthony Levin-Decanini / Brian Riordan / David Bernabo / Jim Storch and Julian Dunn
Kevin Sapp and Anthony Levin-Decanini / Brian Riordan / David Bernabo / Jim Storch and Julian Dunn
Bantha Tea Bar
06-22-2025 7pm
$10 suggested
Solstice Celebration
Creative Music Solstice Celebration
Saturday, June 21st, 7:30p at Bantha Tea
Lavender Lilt
Dittocrush
Kenta + Hellcat Sneer
Make Music Day Free Improv Workshop
Free Improvisation Workshop, June 21, 4-6p with Vicky Davide and collective, at the Greenhouse Co-Op 557 Greenfield Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15207

EVERDARK MIDSOMMAR RAVE
FRIDAY, JUNE 20TH
UNDER 40TH STREET BRIDGE 9 PM - 3 AM
$10 NOTAFLOF
Lux Lucet in Tenebris
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Azrael - @djazrael_
- (Techno)
Cecropia - @everyone_i_fuck_is_gay
- (Experimental Ambient / Noise)
djentsen_ - @djentsen_
- (Techno / Jungle)
Dylan - Alynment - @produced.by.alynment
- (Minimal / Deep House)
Psychostasia - @psychostasia_pgh
- (Acid Techno)
CosineVi - @viviantanygin
- (Atmospheric Breakbeat / Jungle)

Tough Pill #47 - Microplastique (Chi)//Vicky Davide + Collective//Luke Farakas & Corey Hackathorn
Tough Pill is a creative music and performance series held primarily at The Government Center, third Thursdays of Every month in Pittsburgh. Tough Pill seeks to create space for practitioners while also expanding the scope of the experimental art audience. It's not always this, but it's always good... so always come!
Tough Pill 47: June 19th, 2025
$10-15 suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds!
(flyer by Vicky Davide - @musicbyvix / @89vicky )
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Microplastique (Chicago)
Ben Zucker:
pocket trumpet, j horn, melodica, toy piano, harmonica, percussion, sound effects
Molly Jones:
soprano saxophone, flute, alto flute, percussion, sound effects
Josh Harlow:
toy piano, melodica, percussion, flutes, sound effects
Adam Shead:
wood blocks, snare drum, log drum, cowbells, banana bells, handbells, desk bells, elephant bells, shepherds bells, goat toes, splash cymbal, almaglocken, crotales, gongs, glockenspiel, bird calls, flutes, sound effects
https://irritablemysticrecords.bandcamp.com/album/blare-blow-bloom
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Vicky Davide + Collective
world premier of "Ode to Pittsburgh Urbanism."
Andre (Flute)
Caleb (Piano/Flute)
Steve (Chair),
trē (electronics)
Vicky (flute/original score).
@musicbyvix
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Luke Farkas & Corey Hackathorn
https://ofmusicandmind.com/2019/08/12/making-meaning-skeletonized-on-cannibal-cop/
https://simplisticscientists.bandcamp.com/album/idea
Suroor Hassan (Memphis) / Sherry CD-ROM / Cereza Online
Hyperpop Princesses 2: Great Lakes Edition:
Suroor (Memphis) coming to Pittsburgh, PA featuring local support from:
SHERRY CD-ROM
CEREZA ONLINE
Live at Pierogi Palace (DM @ pierogi.palace on iG for address or email pittsburghsoundpreserve@gmail.com.)
Thursday June 19th
doors at 7, show at 8
$10
Born in Karachi and now based in Memphis, Suroor’s music can best be described as industrial hyper pop but draws influence from shoegaze, Sufi eastern classical, vaporwave, Bhangra, alt-R&B, riot grrrl, UK drill, digital hardcore, spoken word poetry, among others.

THAT LIKE THIS debut album release with Your Elephant’s Cousin
THAT LIKE THIS is a Pittsburgh-based improvised music collective led by drummer Corey Hackathorn. This ever-changing cast of players will gather at Poetry Lounge to celebrate the release of their debut record, This is the Grip.
Relying on the beauty and ingenuity of "‘The Group’, and working always to serve the power of ‘The Moment’, THAT LIKE THIS smashes together palettes of sound and genre in real time. Anything in possible, from heavy groove, dub, noise, rock, free jazz, and beyond.
Opening set by experimental electronic duo, Your Elephant’s Cousin (Hellcat Sneer and Taker fka Darren Moore).
June 16
7-10pm
$5
21+
Sandy Ewen (NYC) / Sky Semone / Leg Day / Ill-Fitting Body
Sandy Ewen (NYC)
Sky Semone
Leg Day
Ill-Fitting Body (I.F.P. + B.O.R.)
June 14 / $10 / 7pm
ILLUSIONS [dark dance party] w/ LILAC/WEB, NONSITE, Rachel Ruckus, Cutups
https://arcane.city/events/illusions-dark-dance-party-w-lilac-web-nonsite-rachel-ruckus-cutups
ILLUSIONS [dark dance party] w/ LILAC/WEB, NONSITE, Rachel Ruckus, Cutups
Friday June 13th 2025
$10
9PM
at Brillobox
4104 Penn Ave
21+
ILLUSIONS
a night of
synth punk, dark italo, gothic wave,
industrial ebm, witch house
live sets:
LILAC/WEB
synthpunk / splatter pop
https://lilaccybercrust.bandcamp.com/
NONSITE
industrial techno collision
https://nonsite.bandcamp.com/
MSHR
ecstatic sensory zones & custom light sculpture
https://www.mshr.info/
dj sets by:
RACHEL RUCKUS
https://www.brutalismpgh.com/
CUTUPS
https://soundcloud.com/cutups/sets/illusions

Gravity Series: Bussy Kween Power Trip // Genital Shame // Farrah Faucet
Friday, June 13th, 8p at Roboto Project, Gravity Series! We are happy to host our dear friends from Chicago in Bussy Kween Power Trip!! Farrah Faucet and Genital Shame will be hitting as well. $10-20 suggested, no one turned away for lack of funds!! (If you'd like to throw some cash in advance so we make sure our friends on the road have a little something, venmo @eli-namay).
@bussykweenpowertrip
@genitalshame
@farrah.faucet.noise
@mr_roboto_project
@pittsburghsoundpreserve
@tawngs
Ruth E. Toothless / punk hardcore screamo at the Rock Room
Friday, June 13, 2025
8pm
Rock Room, 1054 Herron Ave
Ruth E. Toothless / Punk Hardcore Screamo
$15
Sweet Abyss w/ Sir E.U., DJ Chelle, Carrie Sours
Sweet Abyss w/ Sir E.U., DJ Chelle, Carrie Sours
two of the Midatlantic’s freakiest freaks & rogue innovators
WEDNESDAY JUNE 11 / 7-11PM / $5-$20 SLIDING SCALE ALL AGES AT @banthateabar 5002 Penn Ave Pittsburgh
Sweet Abyss returns to the magnetic cocoon of Bantha Tea Bar with two of the Midatlantic’s freakiest freaks & rogue innovators DJ CHELLE + SIR EU 🫣🫢🤭 @chellejoestar @sire.u These two bring a special pizzazz to all they do, whether it’s being a purveyor ov cosmic slut jackin disco mutations, an agent of chaos in our broken world, or on the cutting edge of diabolical eclectic & out of body soundscapes amidst violence - all facets of this thing we know as TRANSGENDER DANCE MUSIC 🩷😼🤓 EU will be gracing us with a live set of danceable beats & kinetic wordplay, while Chelle will meld your body to the rhythm & peel it off again like sticky icky flypaper 🪰📃💦 Resident DJ Carrie Sours will bring her signature Moody Bitch Disco selections to the esoteric confines of Bantha Tea Bar
Sweet Abyss is an event to center people that run afoul of societal expectations playing a wide variety of fun, strange, rhythmic sounds to dance or move their minds to. Dance to all kinds of synth-wave, trip hop, dub, disco, & electronic explorations. Hosted by residents Kiernan Laveaux, Malzof, Davis Galvin + Carrie Sours
GAY PSYCHEDELIC VIBES
COSMIC BEATS
ESOTERIC LOUNGE MUSIC
& MORE!!!
John Wiese (LA) / Lana Del Rabies / Ill Fitting Party
John Wiese / Lana Del Rabies / Ill Fitting Party
The Government Center
https://www.thegovernmentcenter.com/events/john-wiese-lana-del-rabies-tba
Date:
06/11/2025
Tickets - https://events.humanitix.com/john-wiese-lana-del-rabies-tba
$15
John Wiese - https://johnwiese.bandcamp.com/
Lana Del Rabies - https://lanadelrabies.bandcamp.com/
Ill Fitting Party - https://notforcommodity.bandcamp.com/album/there-is-a-cinnamon-moon
8pm All Ages
Bloodrot, Slowdanger, Burnt-Feathers, Johnny Arlett, Mercy Clinic
https://arcane.city/events/bloodrot-slowdanger-burnt-feathers-johnny-arlett-mercy-clinic
Tuesday Jun 10th 2025
Show 7:00 PM
Bloodrot, Slowdanger, Burnt-Feathers, Johnny Arlett, Mercy Clinic
noise, performance art, ambient and more
ConcertbyCleaner Tapes
Bantha Tea Bar5002 Penn Ave Pittsburgh
All Ages$10/ $15
tues june 10th
noise, performance art, ambient and more
Bloodrot
(dagger wound x kwami winfield)
https://dagger-wound.bandcamp.com/
https://kwamiwinfield.bandcamp.com/
Slowdanger
Burnt-Feathers
Johnny Arlett
Mercy Clinic
https://mercyclinic.bandcamp.com/