Wednesday July 9 * 7pm * $10-25 * TICKETS

Justin Gunter and Ben Rempel are percussionists based in NYC and LA. Having met in music school, they’ve reunited to form a percussion duo rooted in their wide-ranging shared musical interests. In a style that feels organic and intuitive, their music combines free improvisation, complex rhythmic composition, minimalism, classical percussion sensitivity, and a sensibility for groove. Their first album together, Live in Prospect Park, is available on Searching Records July 3, 2025.

John Hoegberg is a multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter whose music is an idealistic marriage of the emotional intensity, poetics and narrative of songwriting with the instrumental experimentalism, novelty and freewheeling energy of free-improvisation. The songs bend back and forth between order and disorder, using confoundment as a major compositional tool.

Iliana Yare creates soulful, immersive ambient music with her harp and effects. A Somali-American artist, she draws inspiration from R&B, jazz, Arabic scales, and chamber music—channeling her ancestors to craft a haunting, spiritual sonic experience.

2nd & 4th Wednesdays * online at 8pm Eastern * Free / donation * RSVP

A weekly guided dream-sharing hangout…. Welcome to the theater of your dreams—an inexhaustible source of images and stories that can provide entertainment and insight, and that requires no cable service and no subscription—just attentiveness and an open mind. Participants will share dreams, using a gentle, non-intrusive method for unlocking the metaphors that structure dreams (derived from the long-tested method of Dr. Montague Ullman). We’ll also talk about techniques for recalling and recording dreams, as needed.

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Thursday July 10 * 7pm * Free / donations * RSVP

Please join us for a special performance to celebrate the release of Fargo Tbakhi's TERROR COUNTER. This hourlong performance will be supported by Francesco Leandri, and books will be available for sale after the performance courtesy of People's Book.

TERROR COUNTER is a debut collection of poems which acts against the many languages—interpersonal, legal, literary, rhetorical—constricting the lives and meanings of Palestinians. It moves through sections of varying experimentalism, from an invented visual form (the Gazan Tunnel) to all-caps queer ecstatic, attempting to carve out a space for the negotiation of an alternative subjecthood. The voices in this collection are driven by despair, futility, utopia, vulnerability and the spirit of a collective liberation; they move in search of a lyrical voice which can inhabit both the paranoid preservationist mode that facilitates Palestinian survival, and the imaginative possibilities that might make possible Palestinian life. TERROR COUNTER asks: where and how might a Palestinian subject escape the public consumption of American letters? And, ultimately, how can we continue to love each other amidst the endless terror of the colonial world?

Friday July 11 * doors at 6:40, music at 7 * $15-20 * TICKETS

Joseph Allred is a Tennessee-based guitarist, singer, multi-instrumental composer, and visual artist with deep roots in the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee and Kentucky. Their guitar playing draws from diverse musical styles including Appalachian folk, bluegrass, blues, flamenco, and classical guitar, as well as from folk iconoclasts John Fahey and Robbie Basho, figures of the 20th century avant-garde like Albert Ayler, Derek Bailey, and Henry Flynt, and the musical traditions of India, Iran, and the Arab world.

Growing up in the Annapolis area and attending University of Maryland with friend and labelmate Robbie Basho, Max Ochs contributed two tracks for the 1967 "Contemporary Guitar" on John Fahey’s Takoma label. Inspired by his friend Fahey, Ochs developed his own interest in fingerstyle guitar, learning from one of the masters, Mississippi John Hurt, during a one-month residency in Ochs’ New York apartment when Hurt reappeared on the folk scene in 1964.  Ochs was also performing with the legendary band, Seventh Sons, founded by Greenwich Village mainstay and early folk innovator Buzzy Linhart.

Since 2003, Philadelphia-based improv ensemble Kohoutek has constructed a dynamic, stylistic range of abstract sound, consisting of textural drone, atmospheric rock, harsh noise freakouts, clattering percussion, guitar heroics and alien electronics, all congealing to form a multihued psychedelic extravaganza. Inspired by such varied musical entities as Can, Amon Duul 2, Trad Gras Och Stenar, Dead C, Sun City Girls, Hawkwind, This Heat, Sun Ra, Art Ensemble of Chicago, and King Crimson, they inhabit a world of murky terrain where drone, musique concrete and noise coalesce with cosmic folk, where doom and sludge metal merge with fiery jazzoid polyrhythms.

2nd Saturday of the month * online at 1130am Eastern * to REGISTER, please email rhizomepuppetlab@gmail.com

Rhizome Puppet Lab is committed to the performance side of puppetry. It supports the development of works in progress. You can present work for feedback or direct others in the lab to improvise or puzzle out specific scenes. You may use the group to figure out how your show might work. Anyone may lead a lab about any aspect of performance.

Puppet Lab’s purpose is to be a hub for all those interested in puppet theater who would benefit from: boosting creative power; honing puppet-manipulation skills; cross-pollinating ideas; receiving feedback about works in progress; building puppet community. Types of labs have included shadows, Laban, suspense, metaphor, music, voice, Clown, character development, props, table top, humanette, hand puppets, and much more. Open to all levels of experience.

Saturday July 12 * 3-10pm * $15 * TICKETS

Fashion designers create outfits for bands at OCCIPITAL, serving & encouraging collaboration between fashion and music.

OCCIPITAL II presents eclectic performances, customized style, craft workshops, and vendors. OCCIPITAL’s clothing swap, photoshoots, and sustainability efforts add to this community building via local art.

Chrysalis Dagger (hardcore/alternative) x Sessho (alternative fashion w/ a Japanese twist)

Anxiety Monster (neolithic art grunge) x Alightenment (insane screen printing, dyeing, & embellishment)

Quiet Room (experimental fusion rock) x Bbugnug (silly block prints, patch work, and embroidery on thrifted fabrics)

Whiskey Girl (trip hop) x Vintage Thrivals (sustainable, inclusive, & expressive wearable art)

Niiasii (alternative pop) x Beaver Run Club (street style)

Tripping Corpse (punk rock) x Beane Beane (punk-inspired maximalist & distressed fashion)

Candle Making Workshop w/ @smokeandfireartwork

Petri Dish Art Workshop w/ @makhe02 & @paint.brains

OCCIPITAL organized by Alana McCarthy Light @alightenment

Sunday July 13 * 11am * MASKS REQUIRED * $35-45 * REGISTER

Dye sessions act as an interactive introduction to natural dye. Every dye session is uniquely tailored to each group and may change seasonally due to the availability of natural dye materials. Each participant will work with cotton bandanas to learn and practice a variety of dye techniques.

Fatima Janneh is a Gambian American fiber and textiles artist. Based in DC, she works primarily with natural dye and is an avid knitter. Currently teaching dye workshops and selling at markets around the city.

Scholarships are available - please reach out via email to info@rhizomedc.org

Sunday July 13 * 7pm * $15-25 * TICKETS

Eric Frye is an American composer and artist. He is known for his solo performance and installation work - an exploration of the dissociative and psychoactive functions of sound and image. Frye’s music dances and drips around the inside of your skull, a folding transmutation of paranoiac pastiche and entropic jamais vu. Over the past decade Frye has toured extensively in the US, UK, Europe, and Asia. He has presented lectures at The Institute of Sonology Den Haag, held residencies at EMS Elektronmusikstudion Stockholm, and been featured in The Wire Magazine and Neural Magazine. Frye is a recipient of the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emerging Composers Grant.

Michael Masaru Flora is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in the Santa Cruz Mountains. His work explores the emergent phenomena that occurs through non-deterministic and autopoietic processes. Informed by architecture, systems, perceptual psychology, and computer music, his works often take the form of large scale installation and performance.

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.

Monday July 14 * 6-10pm * $10-20 * RSVP

Come celebrate the release of Mt Plantry Zine Volume 1 at Mt Plantry-fest on Monday, July 14! This science-fair style event will feature multiple interactive stations where you can learn how to:

-Make pinhole cameras and take photographs using them

-Develop film and prints using coffee and wine

-Develop motion picture film with sustainable developer made using local invasive plants

-Create chemograms (photographic prints without a camera)

All methods are featured in Mt Plantry Zine Volume 1, available for purchase at the festival. Art from the zine and from collective members will also be on display.

No experience in photography or film development is necessary!

Festivities start at 6pm and run until 10pm. Come for a bit or come for the whole night! We’ll end the night with a movie screening of Super 8 film processed in plants at the event! It will be an homage to the original Rhizome event where this collective first formed.

Entry is $10-20 sliding scale, with any proceeds over $10 going to DC Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid.

Tuesday July 15 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS

Cube -  Cube is the electronic music project of NY-based artist Adam Keith. The project touches on industrial, noise, dub, drum & bass, and more, but it does so with a distinctly personal, infectious touch – the spirit of a songwriter lurks somewhere underneath. Live, Cube conjures a whirlwind of strobing light and video to hypnotic effect. Searing textures and violent rhythms give way to moments of hushed, eerie beauty.

Keith has toured extensively in the US, and performed in Europe, Canada, Mexico, Japan, and Hong Kong. He has performed alongside artists like: Boy Harsher, Container, Lightning Bolt, Helm, Hieroglyphic Being, Pharmakon, Beak>, The Soft Moon, Anika, YHWH Nailgun, Bill Converse, HIDE, Wolf Eyes, Vessel, and more.

Hen House - Oakland, California. Members of Relay for Death.

Creation In Vein - abstract percussive terror

Wednesday July 16 * doors at 7, music at 7:30 * $10-20 * TICKETS

Keaton Schiller

Lyla George

NightHawk

Hotel Sewing Kit

Thursday July 17 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS

Matt Robidoux is a San Francisco based composer, improviser, and educator interested in the convergence of movement and sound as it relates to free improvisation and accessibility. Their primary instrument is the “corn synth” — (Kinetically Operated Randomness Network) a modular system that interprets physical input from two “ears of corn” sculptures cast in aluminum.

Matt Norman (San Francisco)

ben ‘leshy’ krasner is an interdisciplinary sound artist and educator. propelled by a desire to stretch the senses, their practice often involves objects, ceramics, and various electroacoustic systems. they research and utilize de/compositional processes as means of exploring intra-active and perceptual phenomena. this work typically manifests as performance, installation, and intermedia collaboration.

Applied Communications makes noisy, screamy, mostly electronic pop music exploring middle-aged teen angst, existential dread, and all manner of dysphoria.

Christopher Griffiths: Tapes and electronics.

Friday July 18 * doors at 7, show at 7:30 * $10-20 * TICKETS

Steve Jansen is a sound maker originally from Arizona whose experimental music output includes solo and band performances on saxophone, prepared guitar, natural and manufactured objects, and cassette tape across a swath of genres, ranging from free jazz and electro-acoustic improvisation to harsh noise and primitive techno. A primary element of Jansen�s constructions hinges on live cassette tape manipulations featuring onsite field recordings and ad-libbed performances from worldwide locations such as Ghana, continental Europe, Mexico, rural Arizona deserts and forests, and a plane crash site in the Sandia Mountains. These sound emissions are often articulated through malfunctioning devices that may or may not work come performance time, which brings another improvisational element to the set.

Worm Jets are a Baltimore noise punk duo that sound like what their name sounds like.

Embroidered Bird (DC)
Embroidered bird is the project of DC based lalita (linc) kinnicutt, who makes minimalist music and sound using acoustic guitar, analog synthesizers and cassette tape loops.

Suburbanabuse (DMV)

Saturday July 19 * 10am * Free / donations * REGISTER

For more than 10 years, Johns Hopkins professor Matt Pavesich has documented over 1,000 ways that Washingtonians get creative with the D.C. flag, a project called DC/Adapters (dcadapters.org). This public research project has evolved into an illustrated guide to the graffiti aesthetics and local politics of Washington, D.C., including commentary on gentrification, arts and culture, and local political causes, such as D.C. statehood and home rule. This event will begin with highlights of the DC/Adapters archive, including hidden adapted flags around the neighborhoods, how people artistically advocate for causes they believe in, and how some of these designs even speak back and forth to each other, debating the past, present, and future of D.C. Then, we’ll shift into a creative workshop, drawing on the lessons of the archive. D.C. flag adaptation kits will be provided, and participants will become public artists by adapting their own flag designs to support the local issues they care most about.  

Saturday July 19 * 1pm * in the backyard * $15-25 *REGISTER

Itching to get creative? Come dye with me! This class will cover making and dyeing with indigo, including the basics of shibori (Japanese tie-dye). You'll learn how to:-make an indigo vat-dye with indigo for long-lasting color-tie up the cloth for a variety of beautiful patterns-care for your indigo-dyed items. Each participant will receive 1 bandana to dye with. All other materials provided. You may bring a few additional items to dye from home. Small to medium sized items with 50% or more natural fiber content work best. In addition, wear clothing that you don't mind getting stained. Bring an apron if you wish, and rubber gloves if you have them.

Saturday July 19 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS

Please join us to be inspired by 8 individual puppetry shorts presented back-to-back! Warning: Puppet Shorts will probably cause you to have a sudden burst of inspiration about your own projects! 

Presenting:
Cecilia cackley 
Kara Turner
Prentiss & Prentiss
Genna Beth Davidson
David Greenfieldboyce
Merry Carver
Talia Linneman & Cooper Frank
Julia Tashiva

Sunday July 20 * 11am * $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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Sunday July 20 * 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 Sunday, July 20 from 1-2:30 pm it's time to unionize! Specifically, the henchfolk of renowned supervillain Professor Von Doctor are sitting down at the table with the Professor themselves to hash out issues surrounding wages, uniforms, a superhero bounty system, and parking. This is a comedy LARP for 4-8 players about dealing with a less-than-ideal work environment and also superheroes. Think Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, Mystery Men, and Star Trek Lower Decks for tone comparisons.

Sunday July 20 * 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 July 20 * 7pm * $10-$15 * TICKETS

Light Beams is a dance-punk band from Washington, D.C.
https://lightbeams.bandcamp.com

Time Room is a a Rock and Roll Music Group from Minneapolis
https://timeroom.bandcamp.com

Oddbodi is a DIY punk rock trio based in DC, known for their raw energy and introspective lyricism. Their 2024 EP, “ordinary / people” captures the bands gritty sound through four tracks that blend garage rock with post-punk influences. The lineup features thadMc on vocals and guitar, Ben Schultz on bass, and Antonio Peluso on drums and percussion.
https://oddbodimoe.bandcamp.com

Monday July 21 * 7pm * $10 * TICKETS

L.I.P.S.
Harlan, Kentucky hardcore punk

Triangle Fire
Athens Georgia crust punk

Dru the Drifter
Nashville Tennessee garage punk

PSYOP
DC hardcore punk

Wednesday July 23 * 7pm * Free / donations * RSVP

The poet Alice Notley passed away on May 9, 2025 in Paris, France, her home for many years, at the age of 79. The author of more than forty books, Notley was a poet, first and only. She wrote a thousand different poetries, invented forms and the substrate of forms, and spoke to the dead. Come be astonished as a group of poets offer her words to the air at Rhizome on July 23 at 7 PM. Bring food and drink if you'd like and are able. We love you.

2nd & 4th Wednesdays * online at 8pm Eastern * Free / donation * RSVP

A weekly guided dream-sharing hangout…. Welcome to the theater of your dreams—an inexhaustible source of images and stories that can provide entertainment and insight, and that requires no cable service and no subscription—just attentiveness and an open mind. Participants will share dreams, using a gentle, non-intrusive method for unlocking the metaphors that structure dreams (derived from the long-tested method of Dr. Montague Ullman). We’ll also talk about techniques for recalling and recording dreams, as needed.

Please click through for more details.

Thursday, July 24 * 7pm * $15 * TICKETS

Potosí (NoVA screamo bilingüe)

https://potosiherndon.bandcamp.com/album/fujimori-is-dead

Sunshower (screamo from winston-salem, NC)

Muhnday (DC post-hardcore)

https://muhnday.bandcamp.com/track/gone-again

Cuni (DC emotional music)

https://cuni.bandcamp.com/album/prescribed-burn

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

CHEER-ACCIDENT

Hailing from the singularly vibrant musical hotbed known as Chicago, CHEER-ACCIDENT has been a creative, vital force in rock music for over 30 years. They constantly strive to surprise their audiences and themselves through relentless reinvention. From dreamy pop to angular art-rock, CHEER-ACCIDENT strikes a powerful balance between personalized and unique studio wizardry and the visceral excitement of a well-honed, explosive live rock band.

https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/vacate-2

Saturday July 26 * doors at 230pm * $15-25 * TICKETS

Jeff Surak (DC) focuses on deconstructing sound and reassembling it into beautiful slabs of nonlinear audio narratives.

AM Tango is a new Baltimore trio made up of long time collaborators Jeff Mcgrath, Emmanuel Nicolaidis, and Stephen Santillan. This is the 3rd project that all 3 have all been in together, and outside of that their histories run even deeper, allowing a further exploration of an idiolect started long ago. 

Hatchetface is a DC-based band that blends grunge with experimental elements.

Mia and the Argonauts

Opposite Tiger

Perfume is Fly is a psychedelic rock trio (guitar, bass, drums) from Baltimore,MD. Their new EP Fall Collection is out now.

Sunday July 27 * 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.

Sunday July 27 * 4:30pm * $20-25 * TICKETS

Transparent Productions presents Jen Chapin (vocals, guitar), Stephan Crump (bass), and Jamie Fox (guitar).

Jen Chapin, accompanied by GRAMMY© nominated bassist Stephan Crump and “impeccable melodist” (New York Times) Jamie Fox on electric guitar, will debut a new cabaret-style performance of her urban folk songs entitled Anything Goes, and How Did We Get Here? The two-set show weaves historically-informed, jazz-inspired questions and answers about our current and rapidly-changing political moment around old and new selections from Jen’s critically-acclaimed urban folk catalog.

"With songs delivered in a style that ranges from tender fragility to unexpected steeliness, Chapin brings a jazzy edge to the folk form. Sometimes she explores a fleeting emotion, sometimes she weaves a solid narrative—not at all surprising from the daughter of Harry Chapin, a master musical storyteller.” - The New Yorker

Jen Chapin has been celebrated for writing “brilliant soulfully poetic urban folk music” (NPR) for three decades. Nurtured in and around NYC by a large family of artists, writers, and musicians, Jen's “observant, lyrically deft, politically aware and emotionally intuitive” (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel) songwriting features both her "extraordinary voice” (De krenten uit de pop, The Netherlands) and “astonishing jazz band” (popmatters). As much as an artistic legacy, the roots of Jen's upbringing have inspired her "potent, jazzy, layered folk" (Newsday) songs and a lifetime of passionate activism, through ongoing work with WhyHunger (founded by her late father Harry Chapin), and teaching high school global history in Brooklyn. Since 2023, she has led the J. Chapes Jazz Band, playing spontaneous traditional arrangements from the classic American songbook.

Sunday July 27 * 7:30pm * $5-10 * TICKETS

Jam nights are an opportunity for people to show up and create art together. Bring a guitar, sticks, sketch pad, didgeridoo, or your dancing shoes and come vibe. Amps, speakers, drum set, and microphones are provided. Featured artist: Pony Payroll Bones

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)

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.

Click through for community expectations.

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.

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.

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!)

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 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 * $15 * 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

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.