Sid The Cat

Sid The Cat Presents

Dark Tea

W/ The Berries, Gabriel Bernini

11/18/2025 at Scribble

Dark Tea is the Los Angeles based project of Gary Canino, founded in 2013. Emerging with the debut single "Providence Sky," a duet with Alexandra Savior in 2017, Dark Tea went on to release two critically acclaimed albums on Fire Talk in 2019 and 2021. Dark Tea II featured contributions from Matt Barrick (drummer for The Walkmen) and Loren Humphrey (engineer for Arctic Monkeys, drummer for Florence and the Machine). Endless shows and touring followed from 2017 to 2020, with the open road carrying Dark Tea from Vegas to London. During the lockdown, cinematic music videos were created for tracks like "Academy Award," “Deanna,” and “Highway Mile," with each video serving as a captivating genre exercise, and a self-contained short film in its own right. A five-week national tour with Current Joys in 2022 further expanded Dark Tea’s fanbase, alongside contributions to two songs on Surf Curse's Magic Hour. With the Dark Tea Cinematic Universe established, the bar was raised with 2023’s “Irish Hello,” a captivating film noir experience. Now, Dark Tea is gearing up for a monumental return with its upcoming fifth album, Dark Tea Forever.

This is an All Ages event. 

Dark Tea

Providence Sky (feat. Alexandra Savior)

The Berries

Gabriel Bernini

Gigs

Los Angeles

Scribble

Sid The Cat Presents

Jobi Riccio

W/ Johanna Samuels

11/18/2025 at Healing Force Of The Universe

Born and raised in Morrison, Colorado - a tourist town in the foothills outside of Denver that’s home to Red Rocks Amphitheater - Jobi Riccio grew up surrounded by music and found inspiration in artists ranging from Sheryl Crow to Joni Mitchell. Sonically, Jobi’s music exists between worlds, melding the classic craftsmanship of her songwriting with modern indie-leaning production to forge a lush, expansive sound that feels traditional and experimental all at once.

She has received significant acclaim for her songwriting, including winning the 2019 NewSong Music Competition and the 2019 Lee Villiare Scholarship from her alma mater Berklee College of Music. More recently Jobi was awarded the 2023 Newport Folk Festival John Prine Fellowship, chosen as a 2024 Luck Reunion Artist On The Rise and is nominated for the Americana Music Association's 2024 Americana Honors and Awards in the category of Emerging Artist of the Year.

Her debut album, Whiplash (out now on Yep Roc), has garnered praise from The New York Times, Billboard, NPR, and The Nashville Scene to name a few. “This is the kind of album where you leave knowing an artist better than you ever thought you could in less than 40 minutes, and learn a thing or two about yourself in the process” Says Marissa R. Moss, who named Whiplash her number one Country album of 2023 for Stereogum. Not one to be confined into any one mold, Riccio’s Whiplash introduces influences from a variety of genres, while still holding space for her love for all decades of country and americana music.

This is an All Ages event.

Jobi Riccio

Green Flash

Johanna Samuels

Pasadena

Healing Force of the Universe

Sid The Cat Presents

boxtrod

with Jacob Cummings, Allie Kelly

11/20/2025 at Permanent Records Roadhouse

21+

boxtrod is a folk music project spearheaded by Aaron Kennedy, a producer and writer based in Los Angeles. The music blends acoustic instruments with ambient and electronic elements. Drawing from folk traditions while embracing modern production, boxtrod offers songs that feel grounded yet open to new sonic spaces. It’s a project focused on clarity and balance, where natural and mangled sounds work together to tell the story.

This is a 21+ event.

boxtrod

Permanent Records Roadhouse

Sid The Cat Presents

Madi Diaz - The Fatal Optimist Tour

with Morgan Nagler, Olivia Kaplan

11/20/2025 at Highland Park Ebell

Madi Diaz is an artist who cuts to the emotional core of her own experiences with startling precision. Her last two albums, 2021’s History of a Feeling and 2024’s two-time Grammy- nominated Weird Faith, set off a breakthrough for the professional songwriter. These records won over critics, audiences, and other collaborators with well-crafted songs and a compelling arc: first there’s the difficult breakup, then a mourning period and slowly, a sense of reinvention; when love comes around again, Weird Faith seemed to say, it’s worth fighting through the fear and uncertainty. Fatal Optimist, the Nashville singer-songwriter’s forthcoming LP, could be considered the final chapter in this heartache trilogy, and also its rawest entry. This time Diaz is asking audiences to lean closer in to hear what she has to say.

After ending a relationship with someone she once envisioned marrying, Diaz turned away from everyone and everything she knew and took herself to an island. This heartbreak felt different. Every one of them does. Admittedly, she was embarrassed to be in this position again. How was she going to write about this? "I put myself on an island,” Diaz wrote in her journal during that time. “I was already describing myself as an emotional island swimming in so much of an ocean of feelings... It was the perfect physical manifestation, alone with all of my disappointment.” She began to navigate isolation, and the good things that can come from it. Although people often warn others about isolating, Madi's time alone emerged as a powerful, insightful period of introspection. Rage, embarrassment and romantic grief shifted into inner wholeness and the pieces of Fatal Optimist started falling into place. “I didn’t know that I hadn’t chosen myself yet,” she says. “The only person I’m never gonna leave is myself.”

Madi Diaz - The Fatal Optimist Tour

Madi Diaz

Morgan Nagler

Olivia Kaplan

Highland Park Ebell

Sid The Cat Presents

The Sophs

with Dylan Thom

11/21/2025 at Gold-Diggers

21+

In September 2024, when The Sophs’ singer, Ethan Ramon, cold emailed Rough Trade’s Geoff Travis a demo reel including “SWEAT,” he didn’t expect a response. Before the end of the year, the band was signed. Now, the Los Angeles indie rock outfit makes a striking debut with the track—a woozy, driving anthem with urgently vulnerable vocals that builds to a powerful crescendo, echoing the spirit of acts like The Strokes and Weezer. With an LA residency kicking off in May, a New York debut in August, and confirmed festival appearances across the UK and EU, The Sophs are quickly emerging as a bold new voice in alternative music.

The Sophs

Gold-Diggers

Sid The Cat Presents

Laura Stevenson

11/21/2025 at Scribble

“Music is a resource we can tap into to heal ourselves,” Laura Stevenson says. She’s talking about her studies in a music therapy graduate program, but her explanation parallels the overarching message of her sixth full-length album Late Great — a record that finds Stevenson excavating the messy emotions of heartbreak for the very first time. “When I started this new career path a few years ago, I kind of quieted my own healing relationship to music, just because I honestly didn’t have time, but this record was me getting back to it. This was me processing, and reconnecting with that part of myself and it carried me through.”

In the four years since her self-titled album was released, Laura’s entire life has been upended by pandemic-era motherhood, a painful split, and navigating new loves. Her new album is about letting go, taking charge, and learning to rebuild from the deepest layers of your being: “It’s a document of loss for sure, but it also kind of draws the map of this exciting precipice that I’m standing on. I am making my own life now. With the record, with everything, this is the first time I get to call all the shots.”

Late Great is Stevenson’s first album to be released on life-long friend and collaborator Jeff Rosenstock’s Really Records. “Laura has always had this supernatural ability to write these abstract lyrics that cut straight to your heart,” says Rosenstock, “but the feeling of perpetual heartbreak on this record is more pointed, universal and vulnerable than anything she's ever done before and it hits so hard.”

Laura Stevenson

Living Room, NY

Laura Stevenson - Jellyfish

Sid The Cat Presents

Folk Bitch Trio

with Alex Amen

11/22/2025 at Scribble

Melbourne/Naarm-based Folk Bitch Trio deliver a point of view as undeniable as their songs and voices. Here is a fresh, young band pulling from traditional forms: in their vocals, in their themes, in their songs’ compositional structures. The so-called “trad” isn’t hidden; the harmonies are rich and timeless. But what makes Folk Bitch Trio exciting is they’re unafraid to get a little scuffed up, to be funny, to take risks, to subvert the genre’s expectations and pull it into the present. The result is lively, layered and beautiful; thoughtful and playful in the right places; serious, but never humorless.

Folk Bitch Trio formed five years ago, and its members – Gracie Sinclair (she/her), Jeanie Pilkington (she/her) and Heide Peverelle (they/them) – have been largely inseparable since. “We have three individual voices,” they say, “but the story we tell is unified because our hearts are very melded.” Their music comes from the deep connection and collaboration that evolves between the three of them, encapsulating the growing pains they felt as people and a band in their early adult lives, touching on, as Heide says, “loss, fear, sex, rage, elation but most importantly love and laughs.”

The band showcase this during returning single “The Actor”, their first release for new label Jagjaguwar (Angel Olsen, Bon Iver, Sharon Van Etten). It’s a song about “falling hard and fast and breaking down quick too”, they explain, through lyrics that “flow down from affectionate details you notice about someone when falling in love, fighting and fucking, and ultimately the demise of a relationship at your partner’s solo theatre play”. There’s honest, confessional storytelling delivered via their signature resplendent three-part vocals, laced with barbs, humour and in-jokes of shared experiences.

Folk Bitch Trio

Shivers

Alex Amen

Sid The Cat Presents

Delicate Steve (Early Show)

W/ Harry Perry

11/23/2025 at Gold-Diggers

21+

Take a visit to Luke’s Garage, Delicate Steve’s latest album, and you’ll discover a place where sparks of creativity fly in all directions, where melodies splatter the walls like brightly hued paint, where no idea is too simple, too ingenuous, too full of childlike wonder. The L.A.-via-Jersey guitarist born Steve Marion, whose credits include session work for Amen Dunes, Paul Simon, and Deradoorian, had no grand plan for making it: he would simply book some time at a friend’s studio, hunker down, and play. He’s always allowed intuition to guide him, composing his jubilantly tuneful instrumentals as he records them, but this time, he felt freer than ever to “keep the seams showing, and don’t polish everything, and keep it raw, and alive, and electric-feeling,” he says. He chose the title, Luke’s Garage, as a tribute to his pal and sometime collaborator Luke Temple, but also for the anything-goes adolescent innocence it conjured: the feeling of heading over to a buddy’s house, turning up the amps, and creating your own world.

This is an 21+ event.

Delicate Steve (Early Show)

We'll Be Friends

Delicate Steve

Harry Perry

Sid The Cat Presents

Delicate Steve (Late Show)

W/ Harry Perry

11/23/2025 at Gold-Diggers

21+

Take a visit to Luke’s Garage, Delicate Steve’s latest album, and you’ll discover a place where sparks of creativity fly in all directions, where melodies splatter the walls like brightly hued paint, where no idea is too simple, too ingenuous, too full of childlike wonder. The L.A.-via-Jersey guitarist born Steve Marion, whose credits include session work for Amen Dunes, Paul Simon, and Deradoorian, had no grand plan for making it: he would simply book some time at a friend’s studio, hunker down, and play. He’s always allowed intuition to guide him, composing his jubilantly tuneful instrumentals as he records them, but this time, he felt freer than ever to “keep the seams showing, and don’t polish everything, and keep it raw, and alive, and electric-feeling,” he says. He chose the title, Luke’s Garage, as a tribute to his pal and sometime collaborator Luke Temple, but also for the anything-goes adolescent innocence it conjured: the feeling of heading over to a buddy’s house, turning up the amps, and creating your own world.

Delicate Steve (Late Show)

Sid The Cat & Bob Baker Marionette Theater Present

the christmystical tree under the sea - a very hemlocke holiday soirée

12/3/2025 at Bob Baker Marionette Theater

**A portion of the proceeds will benefit Field Trips For LA Youth.**

Once upon a time, there was an artist named hemlocke springs who dared to create fantastical worlds by weaving hyper-personal tales into exuberant, ’80s-inspired art-pop anthems. Now residing in the faraway land of Los Angeles, the singer, songwriter, and producer born Isimeme “Naomi” Udu was crowned a bedroom pop star in 2022 with her first songs ever “gimme all ur luv” and “girlfriend,” released while in graduate school for health informatics. Bestowed with early praise for those singles’ quirky melodies and bubblegum synths by DIY icons like Grimes and Steve Lacy — and dubbed one of Chappell Roan’s favorite artists — she swiftly went on to open for tours by fellow world-builders Doja Cat and Ashnikko (and shall sally forth with Conan Gray next). And her era-transcending catalog continues to capture new fans, with DOECHII going live on social media this year to walk her fans through “girlfriend,” saying, “This song is not even of this time. It surpasses this time. It’s incredible ... She’s so good, she’s a rockstar, it’s crazy.” But now, hemlocke pushes her whimsical work to new genre-defying heights, revealing the next level of her theatrical artistry on her debut album, the apple tree under the sea.

The apple tree under the sea is a fever dream of a concept album in which our hero, hemlocke springs, sets off on a journey of self-discovery — one that requires her to confront the chaos and repression of her past in order to claim the full, liberatory life she once didn’t even know was possible. Sprinkled with references to her Christian upbringing with Nigerian immigrant parents, the project begins with her coming across a red apple — a symbol of knowledge or “worldly” things, as hemlocke explains, and then tracks her inner transformation as she unpacks the traumatic memories and longheld beliefs that held her back from self-acceptance.

the christmystical tree under the sea - a very hemlocke holiday soirée 

Hemlocke Springs

Bob Baker Marionette Theater

Sid The Cat Presents

Scarlet Rae

W/ Ella Woolsey

12/5/2025 at Permanent Records Roadhouse

21+

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Los Angeles born and Brooklyn based Scarlet Rae has been performing and releasing music since she was 15-years old. By high school, Rae was fronting the indie folk band Rose Dorn, who became favorites in the Los Angeles DIY circuit, and the trio’s sepia tinted debut, Days You Were Leaving, was issued by Bar None Records in 2019. A move from California to Brooklyn in 2020 enabled Rae to creatively refresh. Lower rents and the introversion provided by Covid-19 lockdowns led her to begin focusing on material she hadn’t had the time to pursue while occupied with Rose Dorn.

Her early singles under the Scarlet Rae name have allowed her to build her musical community in the city and around the US, gaining the co-sign of and making videos with Surf Gang, playing as a live member of bar italia, and sharing stages with the likes of fantasy of a broken heart, Sedona, Winter, Bloomsday, and CFCF.

“Bleu” borrows its title from part of Scarlet's sister's name. An honest homage to her late sibling, it aims to convey Rae’s emotions as she watched her grapple with a period of difficulty. Rae’s lyrics are filtered through the numbness of dissociation, colored with layers of burbling AutoTune. Resonate strums and buzzy synths paint a thorny sonic backdrop. “Bleu” came together fluidly as a home recording, and was mixed and mastered by Rae’s current bassist Harry Teardrop.

Scarlet Rae

Scarlet Rae - Going Through

Sid The Cat Presents

Flock Of Dimes

with Jill Ryan

12/5/2025 at Zebulon

21+

Flock of Dimes – the solo project of multi-instrumentalist and producer Jenn Wasner – releases her third album, The Life You Save, worldwide on October 10th, 2025, on Sub Pop Records.

Across the last few decades – whether it be as Flock of Dimes, as half of beloved duo Wye Oak, or via one of her many collaborations with Bon Iver, Sylvan Esso, and a sprawling list of other musical juggernauts – Wasner’s extensive catalog displays her gift for balancing authenticity and directness with an unmistakable left-of-center sensibility. Her songwriting has always found her as a keen-eyed observer, a deeply empathetic and thoughtful storyteller with a skill for probing memory, heartbreak, and unhealed trauma, a shroud of syncopation or off-kilter guitar taking a song somewhere quietly prodigious.

Her last solo album, the critically-lauded Head of Roses, took on heartbreak from a dualistic perspective, following a winding thread of intuition into the unknown and into healing. Her new album, The Life You Save, takes that a step further; put simply, it’s the most honest, intimate and personally revealing record of Wasner’s career. As heart-wrenching as they are hopeful, its twelve tracks delve the depths of addiction and codependency, inherited and experienced trauma, and the process of finding peace in the face of others’ suffering. The Life You Save is resonant, unflinchingly exposed – like a missive from the eye of a storm. But while it somehow manages to feel both viscerally raw and vulnerable, above it floats a sense of quiet peace, a sheen of hindsight, or perhaps of acceptance. It is the story of how it feels to be trapped between two worlds—the one you came from, and the one you’ve escaped to; about the belief that somehow, you can take the ones you love with you to this place; about the grief of realizing that the only person you can save is yourself.

This is a 21+ event

Flock Of Dimes

Flock of Dimes

Jill Ryan

Zebulon

Sid The Cat Presents

Pleasure Pill

W/ Sunday Mourners

12/5/2025 at Permanent Records Roadhouse

21+

After their Jonathan Rado produced singles (the instant classic “Not Giving Up,” the bombastic, psych infused “Wonder How,” and the girl groop jangle of “I’d Rather Be”) Pleasure Pill have released a blazing rock n’ roll document, the full length live album Heaven Can Wait. To support it they decamped to New York City and became part of the fabric of Manhattan with a month long residency at the club of the same name. They are currently mixing their debut studio album with a release date set for March 2025.

Pleasure Pill were raised in San Diego’s underground scene, spending their young adult years skating together, going to DIY punk gigs, and putting on shows in community centers. Lead singer and project founder Jonah Paz, along with his brother Ethan (rhythm guitar) and friends Luke Blake (lead guitar), Ivan Delgado (bass) and Dom Friedly (drums) learned self-sufficiency and dedication early on – ideas that drive the way they operate today. “The DIY ethos teaches you at a very young age that you have to do everything yourself because no one else is going to do it for you,” says Luke. “We’re not waiting on someone else to do stuff for us – we would just rather do it ourselves.” Pleasure Pill are a pop band with stadium-sized ambition; they want to make the best music possible, and be as big as their idols while doing it. But they’re not giving up their values.

Pleasure Pill have been playing music together since they were kids. The band were raised on the classics—Jonah is a Beatles devotee; 90s British bands are a key reference point—and you can hear devotion to melody and pop form throughout their music. Although the band started as Jonah’s solo project, inspired by punk records and bands like the Prodigy, when this iteration of Pleasure Pill started in earnest, in mid-2021, classicism became a guiding principle. “This is just a rock and roll kind of band,” says Jonah. “We don’t want to confuse people – we just want to be as straightforward with it as possible.”

Pleasure Pill

Sunday Mourners

Sid The Cat Presents

Liam Kazar

with Adriana McCassim

12/10/2025 at Gold-Diggers

21+

Liam Kazar is a Chicago-born, Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter whose music finds folk, rock, pop, jazz, and alt-country within moments of each other. Raised in a rich musical community and performing from a young age, Kazar honed his craft through years of collaboration and touring with artists like Jeff Tweedy, Hannah Cohen, and many others. His solo work began in 2021 with his debut Due North, a boisterous offering full of existential fears and manic guitar arrangements.

Now, Kazar returns with Pilot Light, his long-awaited sophomore album and most emotionally candid release to date. Produced by Sam Evian and featuring contributions from close collaborators, Pilot Light finds Kazar exploring the enduring embers of love, heartbreak, and personal growth. Stripped-down and sonically direct, the album moves with a quiet confidence—its vulnerable songwriting and intimate arrangements illuminating Kazar’s evolution into a singular and resonant voice in indie music.

Liam Kazar

Adriana McCassim

Sid The Cat Presents

Dick Texas

W/ Punxsutawney, Sepe

12/11/2025 at Permanent Records Roadhouse

21+

Detroit based band Dick Texas is based around the songwriting and vision of bandleader Valerie Salerno, stretching traditional guitar-based rock sounds into new forms that exist in strange, arid landscapes. Salerno experiments with unusual instrumentation and arrangements, with songs that can come on as suspiciously straightforward, but almost always veer into wildly unforseen territory. Dick Texas tours often, and recently released their first full-length album, All That Fall.

Dick Texas

SEPE

Sid The Cat Presents

Jackson and the Janks

with Big Harp

12/14/2025 at Permanent Records Roadhouse

21+

Jackson and the Janks are a New York based rock and roll and rhythm and blues garage gospel band. Known to light up the floor with fresh and time honored dancin' music. Sacred steel lifting you up and bass saxophone holding it down.

Jackson and the Janks have performed at the Brooklyn Folk Fest, Blackpot Festival (Louisiana), and Oldtone Festival (New York) and did video sessions for GemsOnVHS, Western AF and Jackson a solo session for Paste. Their residency on Fridays in Brooklyn (when they’re not on tour) packs the house week after week with fans and folks drawn in by the word-of-mouth buzz and the sound.

Jackson and the Janks

Big Harp

Sid The Cat Presents

Westside Cowboy

with Fat, Evil Children

12/15/2025 at Scribble

Westside Cowboy

Fat, Evil Children

Sid The Cat Presents

Lou Hazel & Alexa Rose

12/17/2025 at Permanent Records Roadhouse

21+

Lou Hazel grew up along the Allegheny River, where New York meets Pennsylvania and Northern Appalachia slips into quiet obscurity. In a landscape of cold towns, blue-collar fatigue, and early brushes with hardship, music wasn’t inherited—it was uncovered. There were no venues, no mentors, no real sense of a scene… only what you could scrape together with curiosity and a cassette deck.

That absence—of direction, of mentors, of art—shaped Lou’s songs as much as any influence. His music echoes the loneliness of those forgotten towns and the strange resilience it takes to create something where nothing was planted. Blending folk, indie, and an eye for the overlooked, Lou writes like someone who’s learned to pay attention. His songs are spare, vivid, and weathered with warmth.

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Headwaters are the source of a river. The furthest point from where water merges with something else. They are not mighty. Just a network of small tributaries, like a creek, not necessarily picturesque, but they’re the most important part of the river. Water is fluid and inconsistent and sacred and indifferent. You can be miles down a river, but you’re still at the origin. And in that way, water feels like it has transcended time. That’s how these songs found me—the way memories find you, in that slivering, elusive water. As quickly as you come across them, you bend in another direction.

Headwaters is the sophomore album from Virginian indie folk singer Alexa Rose. A series of minutely-observed vignettes that feel intimate and expansive at the same time. It captures the sweetness of life without avoiding any of the pain, with songs about time and its constraints, peppered with precise details pulled from Rose’s own life that make universal themes seem personal, inviting the listener to make each song their own.

Lou Hazel & Alexa Rose

Lou Hazel

Alexa Rose

Sid The Cat Presents

Dear Boy

1/16/2026 at Zebulon

Celebrator Record Release Show & Ben Grey's Birthday

21+

“Their work feels evergreen. It’s bittersweet and unabashedly nostalgic.” — SPIN

“Dear Boy’s melodic indie rock has seen them become a driving force in LA’s underground music scene, drawing primarily on late 70’s / early 80’s post-punk and early 90’s britpop, laced with their contemporary perspective, and powered by evocative, wistful lyrics.” — WONDERLAND

(June 20, 2025) Following the success of their 2022 debut Forever Sometimes, LA indie rockers Dear Boy return today with “Kelly Green,” the first single from their forthcoming sophomore album, on Last Gang Records.

With its swirling vocals and inescapable grooves, “Kelly Green” weaves together shoegaze, trip-hop and ‘90s alternative into Dear Boy’s singular sound. Jangly / fuzzed-out guitars and visceral Southern California poetry. It’s the sound of a band rediscovering pure, creative joy—confident, liberated, and utterly captivating. “Kelly Green is about a deep breath,” the band explains, “the one you take before your life changes. Before you tell someone how you really feel… and how there’s a part of you that never wants that moment to end.”

This latest offering underscores Dear Boy’s evolution from the careful construction of their debut to the unbridled enthusiasm that defines the new record. Where their first album was born from years of meticulous songwriting and DIY survival, the new collection emerged from creative euphoria – written in just twelve sessions and recorded live in under two weeks with producer Aron Kobayashi Ritch (Momma, Been Stellar, Snail Mail).

The band – comprising Ben Grey (lead vocals, guitar), Keith Cooper (drums), Austin Hayman (lead guitar), and Lucy Lawrence (bass, vocals) – set out to create something that celebrates human connection over algorithmic perfection. “We wanted to write songs in the way only best friends can,” Grey explains. “To craft a rock album in 2025 that doesn’t sound like all the ones that came before is almost impossible. It only works if the band feels it. And has something new to say.”

Dear Boy

Alluria

DEAR BOY

Sid The Cat Presents

Colin Miller

1/22/2026 at Permanent Records Roadhouse

21+

When you lose someone you love, you don’t just lose them once; you lose them in every moment you’re reminded they aren’t with you: in the drive-thru line, at the bar, or in the home you shared. You bury their body, sure, but living with the grief becomes its own perpetual “laying to rest” ritual. In his second full-length album, Losin’, Colin Miller – the multi-instrumentalist and songwriter from Asheville, North Carolina – looks deep into the shuttered places heartbreak stirs inside us all.

Losin’ is the follow-up to Miller’s much-praised release Haw Creek, where listeners were ushered into his home and place of inspiration: the community of Haw Creek located in East Asheville, North Carolina. His house and studio was owned by Gary King, who Miller describes as a father figure to him during his high school, college, and early adult life. He rented Gary’s house for thirteen years and took after the property, mowing the untended tobacco fields and creating music while Gary grew old next door and the abandoned cars he collected for years sunk into the woods behind his house.

Colin Miller

Sid The Cat Presents

Jo Passed

W/ Fashion Club, Red Ribbon

1/29/2026 at Permanent Records Roadhouse

21+

Jo Passed is the songwriting and creative project of Jo Hirabayashi, a musician based in Toronto and Vancouver. The project released two EPs "Up" and "Out" before signing with Sub Pop and Royal Mountain and releasing the album "Their Prime" in 2018. Following a maintenance hiatus, Jo returned in 2025 with the digital single "Weekend" and a sophomore album "Away" set to be released Jan 23rd 2026.

Jo Passed

Fashion Club

Red Ribbon

Sid The Cat Presents

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah — Piano & Voice

2/6/2026 at Barnsdall Gallery Theatre

***Fully Seated. Seating is first come, first served.***

While best known for his contributions to independent rock music with Clap Your Hands Say Yeah over the last two decades, few are aware that the piano is the first, and primary compositional, instrument of Alec Ounsworth.

Piano versions of his songs have occasionally made appearances on albums, on bonus tracks, and in live shows. Most recently, an intimate tour across Europe has been sold out, complemented by a 10” and select tracks available on digital platforms. With more Piano & Voice shows to come, a very limited bootleg recording from the three-night residency at London’s Servant Jazz Quarters will be available on vinyl exclusively during the tour.

These piano and voice versions showcase the depth and resolute character of CYHSY’s repertoire in its purest form.

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah — Piano & Voice

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

Hollywood

Barnsdall Gallery Theatre

Sid The Cat and KCRW Present

Afternoon Bike Ride

2/6/2026

Afternoon Bike Ride is an eclectic indie trio based in Montreal and composed of Lia Kurihara, Éloi Le Blanc-Ringuette and David Tanton. It’s an audio diary of what they know will be their most cherished memories. They’ve released a series of cohesive projects where field recordings blend with ambient, folk, and pop, including their 2021 EP Skipping Stones, their self-titled debut LP of the same year, and their acclaimed 2023 LP Glossover. The three musicians work more and more tightly as a trio with each offering, splitting roles on guitar, vocals, percussion, and even mixing English and French. Their collaboration has led them into multiple US and Canadian tours including performances at Montreal’s Jazz Fest, Guelph’s Jazz Fest, Pop! Montreal, M for Montreal, and opening for one of the biggest names in folk, Novo Amor, at MTelus in Montreal and History in Toronto.

Their third record, titled Running With Scissors, is a poignant, genre-blurring exploration of life’s most tender and tumultuous moments. Across the twelve tracks, raw, emotional acoustic elements are fused with subtle electronic layers and indie rock grunge, creating a textured blend that feels as vast and intimate as the album’s themes. It’s an immersive record that shifts perspectives, from the micro to the macro, zooming out to explore the universe and zooming in on the personal experiences that define their lives.

Afternoon Bike Ride

Sid The Cat Presents

Ye Vagabonds

2/11/2026 at Gold-Diggers

21+

Ye Vagabonds are brothers Brían and Diarmuid Mac Gloinn. They grew up in rural Carlow but moved to Dublin in 2012 and became known on the traditional Irish, blues and folk scenes in the city, playing folk songs as well as their own original material. Their blend of harmonic folk music is influenced by traditional Irish and European music, American old time, and the music of the 1960s folk revival.

Ye Vagabonds

Sid The Cat Presents

Joan Shelley

2/15/2026 at Scribble

Joan Shelley is a songwriter and singer who draws inspiration from traditional and traditionally-minded performers from her native Kentucky, as well as those from Ireland, Scotland, and England, but she’s not a folksinger. Her disposition aligns more closely with that of, say, Roger Miller, Dolly Parton, or Tom T. Hall, who once explained—simply, succinctly, in a song—“I Witness Life.” Her 7th album Real Warmth was released in September. It was recorded in Toronto with producer Ben Whiteley (The Weather Station), and the 13-tracks feature many guests from the city's fertile music scene.

Joan Shelley

Cycle

Sid The Cat Presents

David Ramirez

with Sharon Silva

2/17/2026 at Gold-Diggers

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David Ramirez took a little time to get back to himself, and now he’s dead set on making music for himself—for the sake of the music, and nothing else.

“I love all the records I’ve made in the past,” says Ramirez. “But in making them, there was always the thought in the back of my mind of where and what it could get me. I made both creative and business decisions with a goal in mind; a goal that often never came. This time it was all about just the joy of making it, about having fun with it.”

The Austin, TX-based singer-songwriter—whose career has seen six full-length studio albums, three EPs, countless collaborations, and an illustrious supergroup project in Glorietta—spent a season of rest away from his focus on writing songs. In the wake of the end of a long relationship, he wanted to prioritize processing his grief as a human, not as an artist bleeding onto the page.

“The last thing I wanted was to write a heartbreak record. So I stopped writing altogether, and I just waited until I saw my heart start coming back to life. I wanted the next thing to be hopeful and sweet and beautiful—a testament to music and my love for it.”

Ramirez’s new record, All the Not So Gentle Reminders, is exactly what he was waiting for. The 12-song album is an expansive succession of dreamlike songs that indeed tell his stories—but more than anything, lean into the possibilities of the trip that music can take us on. “I’ve been a songwriter for a long time. I love words and stories. But this was about music. I wanted the long musical intros and outros \[as heard on “Dirty Martini,” “Twin Sized Beds,” “A Bigger World,” and “Dreams Come True”\] to contribute to the stories and be a part of them.”

David Ramirez

Find the Light

Sharon Silva

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Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage

2/19/2026 at Scribble

The mind-spinning indie-rock/folk/art of Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage developed when songwriter and comic book artist Jeffrey Lewis began recording homemade cassettes in New York City in 1998; his critically acclaimed, unusual and word-dense songs lead to Jeffrey signing to Rough Trade Records in 2001 (record label of The Smiths, The Strokes, Belle & Sebastian, etc.), and the project evolved into a live touring cult sensation around the world. Creating a brilliant style of scuzzy urban indie-rock-folk, like a 21st Century mash-up of Sonic Youth, Pete Seeger and R. Crumb, Jeffrey’s band has played countless gigs all over the world, including playing as the opening act for icons like the Mountain Goats, Daniel Johnston, Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, Dinosaur Jr, The Fall, Dr. Dog, Pulp, Roky Erickson, The Vaselines, and more.

His most recent official album is “The EVEN MORE Freewheelin’ Jeffrey Lewis,” recorded by Roger (Yo La Tengo, Sleater-Kinney) Moutenot, and released on Don Giovanni Records (USA) and Blang Records (UK/Eu) in March 2025 (garnering rave reviews).

Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage

Cult Boyfriend

Jeffrey Lewis - Seattle

Sid The Cat Presents

Eleni Drake

with Adriana McCassim

2/27/2026 at Permanent Records Roadhouse

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British/Greek singer, songwriter and producer Eleni Drake’s hauntingly beautiful sound is at once refreshing and timeless, uplifting and introspective, inspired by a deep love of music that spans from Mazzy Star and Adrienne Lenker to Mac Miller and Cleo Sol. With over 40 million streams to date and still only just getting going, 2025 promises to be Eleni’s biggest year yet with her most personal and profound music on the way.

Eleni’s celebrated 2024 EP, 'Above Deep Water'; her first release on new label MNRK, having self-released her previous projects, picking up a devoted following in the process. She’s earned fans along the way at tastemakers including The Line Of Best Fit, Consequence, The Independent, The Arts Desk, CLASH, La Blogotheque and Wonderland, and last year took her intimate live set to The Great Escape and SXSW festivals.

Eleni Drake

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Divorce

3/19/2026 at Gold-Diggers

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For Nottingham quartet Divorce, home is a feeling. The band, made up of Tiger Cohen-Towell (vocals / bass), Felix Mackenzie-Barrow (vocals / guitar), Adam Peter Smith (guitar & synth) and Kasper Sandstrøm (drums), has spent much of their lifespan on the road. They met as teenagers through the city’s close-knit DIY scene but came together as Divorce in mid-2021, releasing a slew of genre-defiant singles that quickly caught the attention of Hand In Hive (TV Priest, Tancred, Wyldest). The years since have been breathless. In 2023 they signed to Gravity Records (Universal Music) for their acclaimed Heady Metal EP and sold out their first UK headline run off the back of it. Their 2024 schedule was filled with a raft of international festivals, a SXSW showcase, tours with Bombay Bicycle Club, The Vaccines and Everything Everything, rounding off with their biggest headline show to date at London’s Islington Assembly Hall.

Divorce

Divorce - Pill

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Marissa Nadler

3/21/2026 at Scribble

For over two decades, Marissa Nadler has carved out a singular place in the musical landscape, where ethereal folk, shadowy Americana, ambient soundscapes, shoegaze and experimental textures converge. Anchored by her unmistakable mezzo-soprano and intricate fingerstyle guitar, Nadler’s music conjures vivid emotional worlds—intimate, otherworldly, and timeless.

A prolific songwriter, Nadler has built a discography defined by spectral beauty and haunting lyricism. Her songs, dreamlike and lush, are rich with painterly imagery and emotional nuance. As The New Yorker writes, “To luxuriate in the spectral croon of Marissa Nadler is to step into a noirish world of mystery and glamour,” while AllMusic praises her “epic, aching songs, which refuse to keep tragedy at arm's length.”

Shortly after earning her bachelors and masters degrees from the Rhode Island School of Design, Nadler released her breakthrough debut Ballads of Living and Dying (2004), a collection that announced her as a major voice in the underground. A skilled visual artist as well, Nadler’s background in painting and drawing deeply informs the cinematic scope of her songwriting.

Following her early releases, she partnered with Sacred Bones and Bella Union for July (2014), marking a new chapter in both creative clarity and critical acclaim. Albums like Strangers (2016), For My Crimes (2018), and The Path of the Clouds (2021) further expanded her sonic palette while preserving the deep emotional resonance at the core of her work. As Brooklyn Vegan notes, “Just about everything she puts out is truly mesmerizing.”

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