BattleaXXX is a band of three wom+n in Albany, NY. They want to put the raw in rock. You get it. Meg Hotter of Swamp Baby and knotworking is on bass and vocals. Brooke Degener of The Tender Breasts and Gay Tastee is on drums. Martha Moscowitz of Princess Mabel and The Tortfeasors is on guitar and lead vocals. Although they are unfailingly polite to check-out clerks and fellow drivers, they are ruuuuuude bitches with an agenda to put the P-Y in art, in order to make PARTY.

W.S.A.B.I. [Warped Sangot And Boss Interior] is performance art prog encompassing music, movement, video, & craft led by decolonial Filipinx Brooklyn-based artist, plant medicine & Kali student, Jennae Santos. “Sangot” is the Visayan word for sickle— a farming tool and combat blade that serves as a dual beacon guiding WSABI’s personal, artistic, and political practice in the Harvest of love & community, and the Fight for collective liberation. WSABI Fox believes in progressive art for progressive change. Their work concerns food justice, land & body revolution, and radical love through community urban farming in Red Hook, Brooklyn, art campaigns for peasant farmers & Indigenous peoples in the US & Philippines (Santos’ motherland), feminist survival arts training in Kali, BIPOC-centered herbalism, and more. WSABI Fox upholds rhythm as sacred memory invocation, gathering influence from the odd, the angular, the polyrhythmic, and the infectious grooves of British prog rock, post punk, Latin, Afrobeat, and Kulintang music. Built on a foundation of non-quantized, live-performed guitar loops, time is an organic, malleable construct felt and informed by the present company and environment. Numerous collaborative, cross-disciplinary incarnations of WSABI have included movement cycles, soft sculpture installation, live sound-generated video art, site specific walking mixtape, aromatics ritual, upright bass trio, and full band with horns and strings. WSABI Fox upholds art as a cultural blade that propagates lushness to life and shapes revolution.

wsabifox.com

Members of Dead Leaf Echo, Pilot to Gunner, Habibi and Lulls.

https://clonebk.bandcamp.com

During the pandemic in 2020, Ken, Avery and Tsugumi started jamming and writing just for fun at their practice space. Each member was usually very busy with rehearsals and live shows for their other projects, but during 2020 everything was frozen. Since they had plenty of time, they decided to continue as a new band, recording the material by themselves, along with art direction by Chiaki.

https://coupy.band/

Based in Kingston, NY, Geezer formed in 2012 and have made a bluesy spirit a staple of their approach, and especially with 2014’s Gage and their 2016 self-titled leading into Psychoriffadelia, they expanded this idea to more open, jammier explorations, a take on heavy psychedelia still informed by the swamp that led to their first European tour in 2017, including Freak Valley Festival in Germany. They have shared stages with High on Fire, Acid King, Nebula, Earthless, Ufomammut and many more. After spending the better part of the last three years touring, writing and solidifying their lineup around guitarist/vocalist Pat Harrington, bassist Richie Touseull, drummer Steve Markota, the Kingston-based trio return with what is unquestionably their most realized work to-date, Groovy. It is their fourth long-player and solidifies their approach to trippy, heavy blues and classic songwriting.