Pearly Drops
Lost Lake Presents Pearly Drops on Saturday, March 28th. Painting with a bold, slightly macabre palette, Pearly Drops’ Sandra Tervonen and Juuso Malin create a realm of strange, softly smudged pop. On the Helsinki act’s third full-length, The Voices Are Coming Back, fantasy and the mundane tangle into an alluring web of mystery. The record — issued by forward-thinking New York City label Music Website — centers on an age-old tale: the saga of Hollywood hopefuls. Branching beyond their home of Finland, Pearly Drops are an emerging fixture of the global indie-electronic scene. The act wraps sweet, dreamy melodies in futuristic hues. It’s fitting that Tervonen and Malin share backgrounds in music production and collaborated on sound design efforts before morphing into an artist project. Pearly Drops’ 2020 debut, Call For Help, and its 2023 follow up, A Little Disaster, introduced a mesmerizing formula — blending misty rock and electronic elements. The pair’s often playful, grungy fashion sense enhances these chic sonics, with all photos and styling handled in house. Pearly Drops has received a Teosto Prize — one of the Nordic countries’ most prestigious music awards. The duo has collaborated with artists such as Vitesse X and KROY, and their own songs have been covered and remixed by acts including XL Recordings’ Nourished by Time and American dream-pop favorites Dream, Ivory. On The Voices Are Coming Back, Tervonen and Malin swapped the familiarity of Finland for the peculiar glamour of Los Angeles. “We’d always imagined LA through the lens of David Lynch: saturated in surrealism, a little menacing, a little magical — and that’s exactly how it felt. A puzzling, but beautiful cultural shock,” Tervonen and Malin reflect on the city. The bizarre energy of Southern California beams bright on album opener “Delusional On Sunset Boulevard.” “I think I just got older / Growing cold and dumber too / No pat on my shoulder / I ride my horse through Hollywood,” Tervonen’s elven vocals skate around vast chords and the strobe of a synth lead. The album draws a relatable, yet otherworldly picture adrift in uncertainty, drawn by the age-old allure of reinvention. Instead of glamor, they find themselves lost in the woods of Franklin Hills. Hiding behind a tree from mystical voices one moment, the next they’ve transformed into mermaids in the sewers under Sunset Boulevard. Time melts away on drives around the eastern Santa Monica Mountains. In the end, the only way back is through a forest in Silver Lake. Despite the storybook universe it conjures, Pearly Drops cite The Voices Are Coming Back as a work of autofiction. As The Voices Are Coming Back’s journey nears a close, Pearly Drops are emotionally unraveled. “Only believe in / My digital feelings / Still reaching for the / Undo in the void,” Tervonen sings on the closing track, “Silver Lake Mystery Forest.” “It feels like with this third album, we bottled up that feeling of losing your mind and your identity when trying to chase your dreams — whatever they happen to be,” Tervonen and Malin muse. Across this feverish vision of a record, the uncertainty and burnout of everyday life manifest in uncanny, albeit deeply human ways. All ages, ticketed guests under 16 ONLY ADMITTED WITH TICKETED GUARDIAN 21+ All sales are final. Check your tickets carefully, NO REFUNDS FOR ANY REASON Your name will be on the Will Call list the night of the show at doors time.
SosMula w/ Ricky Hil
Lost Lake Presents SosMula with Ricky Hil on Tuesday, February 17 — Bar open: 6pm Doors open: 7pm Show: 8pm All ages, ticketed guests under 16 ONLY ADMITTED WITH TICKETED GUARDIAN 21+ All sales are final. Check your tickets carefully, NO REFUNDS FOR ANY REASON Your name will be on the Will Call list the night of the show at doors time.
Olivia Barton
Lost Lake Presents Olivia Barton – For Myself and For You Tour on Friday, February 6th. Sometimes it seems like everything has been said before. And then sometimes you hear a song that speaks so directly and honestly to experience, it reveals the deep and profound humanity in everyday language and life. On her third album For Myself and For You—a record about no longer bullshitting yourself about your life, your struggles, or your love—Olivia Barton does it time and time again. Across its 12 songs, Barton is unflinching, first with herself, and then with the world around her. She sets her gaze inwards and she does not blink. The result is a delicate but powerful collection about queer love, family life, heartbreak, aging, anxiety, and body image that are startling in their directness and crushing in their emotional weight. Barton’s commitment to honesty and clarity is the guiding principle of For Myself and For You. That commitment forms not just her approach to lyric-writing, but also the way she composes her music. “I’m always improvising melody and lyrics simultaneously,” she says, “which creates such a marriage between them that you couldn’t take one out of the other.” This approach means her melodies sound natural and fluid, as if they themselves are writing the words. That ease of creation, and her voice’s simple elegance, can almost disguise the heaviness of what Barton is singing–though not quite. “I want to recognize myself,” she sings in “My First House,” wandering through her childhood home years after it’s been sold, confronted with the passage of time. “The playroom is an office now,” she observes, in a way that is both casual and devastating. For Myself and For You is full of moments like this. “All I want is you to notice when I leave the room,” she sings in “Matter to You,” co-written with Madi Diaz; Barton also co-wrote “Everything Almost” on Diaz’s LP Weird Faith and “Movie Star” on Lizzy McAlpine’s LP Older, and has supported both on North American tours. It’s a straightforward lyric on paper, but takes on tremendous weight as she unspools it into the song’s still air. “Anyone could say that, it’s not a clever phrase at all,” Barton says. “But I’m always in pursuit of a line like that: something everybody’s saying, but nobody’s singing.” “I’m not trying to show off,” Barton says, though that should be obvious by now. “I’m trying to clear away everything that gets in the way of the song. It allows much more room for what’s actually being talked about,” she continues. “And that’s what I care about more than anything else.” That means being able to speak the truth plainly and clearly, both for one’s self and for the people you love. Only then can you come to terms with who you are and where you find yourself. “The truth can’t travel backwards,” she sings in the closing track of For Myself and For You, “The Hardest Thing,” “and that’s gonna have to be OK.” All ages, ticketed guests under 16 ONLY ADMITTED WITH TICKETED GUARDIAN 21+ All sales are final. Check your tickets carefully, NO REFUNDS FOR ANY REASON Your name will be on the Will Call list the night of the show at doors time.
Late Night Thoughts
Lost Lake Presents Late Night Thoughts on Saturday, October 18th. Late Night Thoughts are a singer-songwriter duo taking the world of folk-pop by storm. Michael and Brian are New England Natives combining catchy, ear-worm hooks and relatable, honest lyrics to bring you feel-good, nostalgic folk—one hit at a time. All ages, ticketed guests under 16 ONLY ADMITTED WITH TICKETED GUARDIAN 21+ All sales are final. Check your tickets carefully, NO REFUNDS FOR ANY REASON Your name will be on the Will Call list the night of the show at doors time.
Sincerely Ours w/ Moda, Opal Grove + Animals in Exile
Lost Lake Presents Sincerely Ours with Moda, Opal Grove and Animals in Exile on Sunday, September 28th. All ages, ticketed guests under 16 ONLY ADMITTED WITH TICKETED GUARDIAN 21+ All sales are final. Check your tickets carefully, NO REFUNDS FOR ANY REASON Your name will be on the Will Call list the night of the show at doors time.
Rose Cold w/ As of Today, Ballpark! + Manali
Lost Lake Presents Rose Cold with As of Today, Ballpark! and Manali on Friday, September 12th. Bar open – 7pm Doors – 8pm Show – 9pm All ages, ticketed guests under 16 ONLY ADMITTED WITH TICKETED GUARDIAN 21+ All sales are final. Check your tickets carefully, NO REFUNDS FOR ANY REASON Your name will be on the Will Call list the night of the show at doors time.
Social Cinema & Sego w/ Chroma Lips
Lost Lake Presents Social Cinema with Chroma Lips on Sunday, October 12 — Social Cinema is a new band with over a decade of history. More accurately, Social Cinema is the latest chapter in a decade-plus friendship and artistic journey evolving alongside the people behind the music. When three Wichita friends, Austin Engler and brothers Griffin and Logan Bush formed Kill Vargas in 2013 as young teenagers, they couldn’t have guessed that they’d all be still performing together a decade later. Along the way, the trio would cross paths with Nebraskan band, Death Cow, featuring Mari Crisler and Reed Tiwald. Between sharing bills and sleeping on each other’s couches after shows while on the Midwest DIY scene grind, the three and two would become inseparably close, and eventually join forces as five in 2021, under the new name Social Cinema. Whether it’s due to their years as touring musicians, gradually honed songwriting and stylistic ambitions from scrappy, garage-y roots, or some combination of all of the above, Social Cinema makes an immediate impression with seasoned beyond their years songwriting chops and a road-hardened work ethic and resolve to match. Since adopting the Social Cinema banner in 2021, the alternative/indie rock quintet has issued four EPs — 2022’s Causing Scenes and Repeat, Get Along, and Stay Numb in 2023 — and a number of singles highlighting the outfit’s multifaceted songcraft prowess, and has shared bills with the likes of Metric, Saint Motel, Slothrust, The Velveteers, Spiritual Cramp, Bad Bad Hats, Sego, THICK, PUP, The Macks, and more. After releasing Stay Numb in Spring 2023, Social Cinema dropped its compilation album which is the sum of all three EP’s that they released that year, along with two new songs.Titled It’s Nice to Meet You: Singles Collection, the ten-track release continues Social Cinema’s adoption of professional studio polish, this time bringing that refinement to the direct, galvanizing punch of the band’s garage rock roots. Spanning territories that range from anthemic power-pop on the opener and title track, “When Is It Ever That Easy?,” to the groovy and grittiness of “Healer,” this latest chapter in Social Cinema’s journey is a celebration of the sounds and scenes that got each of its five members to where they are today. Whereas all of their EP’s released in 2023 showcased the quintet’s ambitions to bring its sound to new, more stylistically dynamic and fresh territories, It’s Nice to Meet You is a loud and proud assertion of the band’s DIY ethos and the wallop of its no-frills rock roots not only intact, but stronger than ever. All ages, ticketed guests under 16 ONLY ADMITTED WITH TICKETED GUARDIAN 21+ All sales are final. Check your tickets carefully, NO REFUNDS FOR ANY REASON Your name will be on the Will Call list the night of the show at doors time.
Thunderpussy w/ Hippie Death Cult
Lost Lake Presents Thunderpussy with Hippie Death Cult on Friday, November 7th. Thunderpussy: What if Thor’s Hammer of the Gods from “Immigrant Song” landed in the hands of four wise, willful, and wild women? Well, it would sound something like Thunderpussy. The quartet do the most rock ‘n’ roll thing possible and quite literally fuck up every rock ‘n’ roll stereotype you know to be true, piercing the halls of Valhalla in the process. The Seattle-based group turned into a quiet phenomenon with the endorsement of Rolling Stone and Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready, as well as a string of already legendary performances under their high-waisted belts. Thunderpussy is everything you want in rock – raw, spontaneous, bombastic, outrageous – and they’ve got the look, songs, musicianship and dynamic live show to take your breath away. Hippie Death Cult: Hippie Death Cult have been described as “a journey through shameless and triumphant artistic expression, exploration and discovery” in the realms of psychedelia and riff-heavy rock n’ roll. The band hails from Portland, Oregon and during their formative years they have transitioned from a 4 piece to a more consonant power trio consisting of guitarist Eddie Brnabic, vocalist/bassist Laura Phillips and drummer Harry Silvers. In 2019 they signed to Cursed Tongue Records for the release of “111” then in 2021 signed to Heavy Psych Sounds Records to release “Circle of Days” and the Doom Sessions Vol.5 split. Both full-length albums received international critical acclaim while debuting at #1 on the Doom Charts. The band is also known for their high energy and passionate stage performances, having performed to audiences across America, Canada and Europe. They are currently in production for their 3rd studio album and are set to announce extensive tours to follow. All ages, ticketed guests under 16 ONLY ADMITTED WITH TICKETED GUARDIAN 21+ All sales are final. Check your tickets carefully, NO REFUNDS FOR ANY REASON Your name will be on the Will Call list the night of the show at doors time.
TRSH w/ sports., Thoughts On Bowling + Kerosene Heights
Lost Lake Presents TRSH with sports., Thoughts On Bowling and Kerosene Heights on Saturday, November 15th. All ages, ticketed guests under 16 ONLY ADMITTED WITH TICKETED GUARDIAN 21+ All sales are final. Check your tickets carefully, NO REFUNDS FOR ANY REASON Your name will be on the Will Call list the night of the show at doors time.
Marissa Nadler
KGNU Presents Marissa Nadler on Sunday, April 5th. 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.”Her tenth full-length album, New Radiations, arrives August 15th. Expansive, melodic, and emotionally vivid, it captures Nadler at her most personal and visionary—an artist continuallyevolving, yet unmistakeable. All ages, ticketed guests under 16 ONLY ADMITTED WITH TICKETED GUARDIAN 21+ All sales are final. Check your tickets carefully, NO REFUNDS FOR ANY REASON Your name will be on the Will Call list the night of the show at doors time.
