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Nothing live right now — last week's results below.
Last week's results
The room goes still—HVAC hum and distant breathing piped through speakers that feel less like sound and more like surveillance, Lights Out pulling the dark closer. Then the curtain parts just enough for massive hands to claw at it, doom metal so heavy it sounds like felt tearing, Cry of the Muppets dragging you into the green room after hours where nothing airs cute. Two visions of what happens when we stop watching: one suffocates you softly, the other makes you wish you'd stayed asleep.
Cancelled — no votes recorded.
Medicated Yesterday brings the fluorescent hum of a waiting room into the venue—four voices stacked tight, every word earned, the kind of ache that doesn't need distortion to cut. Dudes Named Mike arrives already sweating through their shirts, summoning something between a bass riff and a séance, three Mikes locked in a five-minute loop that might break or might transcend, the air thick and slightly wrong. Sober sincerity meets beautiful accident; the room holds its breath or loses it completely.
Cancelled — no votes recorded.
Serenity Against the Machine's be-boop-and-hum synthwave floats through the room like someone's left the elevator music on in a medical waiting room—soft, vaguely soothing, the sound of surrender set to a drum machine that's forgotten what urgency feels like. Pun Ra's Snarkestra descends with free jazz that treats the whole genre like a punchline, all honking saxophones and deliberate wrong notes, the air itself getting thick and agitated while three men in their sixties nod along to something nobody else can hear. Contentment meets chaos; the room can't decide whether to take a nap or run for the exits.
Cancelled — no votes recorded.
The bathroom-stall rawness of Vowel Movement—pure guttural pummeling, no words to hide behind—meets GirlBoss & the BoyToz's impossible hybrid: barbershop harmonies threaded through pop-punk's sugar-rush tempo, the kind of thing that plays in a waiting room and accidentally makes you feel seen. One band guts language; the other embroiders it back on in four-part harmony. Stall versus sterile; the crowd decides which kind of catharsis wins.
Cancelled — no votes recorded.
Floyd Jenkins's fingers blur across the banjo like he's trying to outrun something, and tonight the room fills with that particular sweat-and-sawdust smell of a backwoods venue suddenly flipped into a Lagos dance floor—bright, polyrhythmic, terrifying in its joy. Six Miles arrives in the fluorescent hum of a community center gymnasium, tuning their guitars down to a funeral dirge while singing about the letter Q, and the crowd can't decide if they should headbang or raise their hands for story time. Between them: one man bleeding fear into something beautiful, the other transmuting a kid's mistake into a doom that rhymes. Mesmerizing versus ridiculous; the room's already moving.
Cancelled — no votes recorded.
Stuffyland Puerto Rico arrives still half-asleep, salt-sticky and warm, their surf-and-rhythm groove pooling like condensation on a dive bar's neon signs—you can feel the humidity in every snare hit. Rock, Paper, Scissors crashes in sharp and folded, psychedelic angles cutting through that haze like fluorescent kitchen light, their sound taut enough to make you flinch. One band is still finding its way home; the other never left the kitchen. Comfort versus restlessness.
Cancelled — no votes recorded.
