2026 lineup
Lollise
Lollise is a multi-disciplinary artist from Francistown, Botswana, based in NYC. She shares her bold Afro-futurist pop sound, rich with layers of kinetic, danceable percussion. Creating hybrid songs for this moment, she takes influence from the music she grew up with – Setswana and Kalanga folk songs, '80s and '90s South African electronic bubblegum and kwaito, Congolese soukous and Zimbabwean sungura. Using sound, color and movement, Lollise tells stories in real and imagined worlds that are multidimensional and nuanced, historical and futuristic. She performs with a potent energy and commitment to the music, in body and in spirit.
In 2025 Lollise recorded on the Kronos Quartet’s rendition of Bob Dylan's “A Hard Rain” alongside Iggy Pop, Laurie Anderson, Asha Bhosle, Willie Nelson, Allison Russell and many others. She has performed extensively in New York, from DIY community spaces to arts institutions including BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn, Public Records, BAM, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn Museum, Little Island Festival, Elsewhere and Symphony Space. She has toured the US opening for Ibibio Sound Machine and Rubblebucket and played at the Durchlüften 2025 Festival at Humboldt Forum in Berlin.
Lollise has performed extensively in New York, from DIY community spaces to arts institutions including BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn, Public Records, BAM, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn Museum, Little Island Festival, Elsewhere and Symphony Space. She has toured the US opening for Ibibio Sound Machine and Rubblebucket and played at the Durchlüften 2025 Festival at Humboldt Forum in Berlin. Her music has been featured on Hearing Things, Pop Matters, KEXP, Rolling Stone, Bandcamp Radio, Bandcamp Daily, Okay Africa,and New Sounds with John Schaefer on WNYC radio.
MISHA
NAME: Misha Savage
CLASSIFICATION: Hot Grandpa
SPECIAL ABILITIES: DJ / PRODUCER / GUITARIST / MC
DISPOSITION: Likes to party. A lot
LAST SEEN: At the club transmitting Classic/Soulful House, Ghetto Tech, Jersey Club, Soca/Dancehall, Ballroom, Baile Funk and other booty bouncing sounds.
Multiple witnesses report involuntary cases of "throwing it back" upon exposure.
Known to host Sugarbump and broadcast on Don't Date a DJ, which experts believe is either a public service or a distress signal. Results inconclusive / containment unsuccessful.
Nour Jamil
Nour Jamil (He/They): Nour Jamil is a Brooklyn-based selector, scholar, and cultural activist. Nour curates DJ sets for ecstatic ass-throwing: funky baselines, percussion-heavy grooves, and euphoric drops. They mix global sounds, electro-arab, funk, soul, and disco house that keep the dance floor floating.
Nour hosts The Party Is Not Over! mutual aid dance party, and the Solidarity Mixtapes Project, a series of listening sessions curating 1970s–80s SWANA music. Nour has played some of Brooklyn's hottest rooms like Elsewhere and Mood Ring. They toured in summer 25 throwing mutual aid dance parties and playing festivals around New York State.
Olivia K.
Olivia K & The Parkers is the brainchild of Olivia K, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and fearless leader. After playing such venues as Baby’s All Right and City Winery early on and opening for Kermit Ruffins at Sony Hall, OK&P sold out Joe’s Pub in 2021, turning a dumbstruck crowd into their congregation.
In the height of the pandemic, OK&P recorded a dual-EP,The Sankofa Project: a meditative act of creation and closure dedicated to the wisdom of the Ghanaian symbol, Sankofa. Within a month of announcing the project, the band blew past their crowdfunding goal,and the project was released at Brooklyn Bowl, with its lead single “Good Things” featured as the theme song for the UN Youth Assembly in 2023.
Since its release, Olivia K & The Parkers has electrified venues across NYC and beyond, from BRIC’s Celebrate Brooklyn and Brooklyn Museum, to headlining two nights at Summer Hoot Festival and Lincoln Center. Their all-Brooklyn, Black diasporic fusion of soul, jazz, gospel, and rock speaks to expansive minds and righteous spirits everywhere.
Their most recent track, No Hay Frontera, was selected as an NPR Tiny Desk Contest Top Shelf performance in 2026. Sending love to all who are under the thumb of tyrants everywhere
Rara & The Performers
Step right up to the Smoke Show: the hottest, wildest circus show on this side of the Adirondacks. NYC based producer and burlesque starlet Rara Darling brings together a band of gorgeous freaks for a smoking hot circus show that will surly blow your mind.
Hosted by your ringleader Theydy Bedbug, the show features death defying performances by The No Ring Circus, Eva Mystique, Jon Joni and Rara Darling themselves and is stage managed by Limb Snapping heroes Aviv for Vendetta & Ax of Service. Bring your sticks and marshmallows cause this show is FIRE.
The Pale Hand
With members hailing from around the globe, The Pale Hand is a cross-cultural heavy metal phenomenon taking New York City’s underground by storm. With a wide range of influences beyond metal, including gospel and middle eastern music, their show is theatrical, interactive, even spiritual, and they use their music to explore the question “what really is evil?” In The Pale Hand’s world, the sinner is the saint, and corruption is the true enemy.
Tipa Tipo
Tipa Tipo fuses '70s soft rock and disco with Latin rhythms to create their fresh take on tropical yacht rock en español. Praised by KEXP for their "spellbinding rhythms, infectious pop hooks and endless grooves," the power trio serves up a bilingual sonic landscape that makes you want to dance and think while exploring feminist and political issues. Fronted by interdisciplinary artists and producers Adele Fournet and Felipe Wurst, with Jordan Auber on drums and percussion
Home Visitor
Home Visitor are an anti-folk group from Central New York that instils humor into the mundane horrors of modern life. Known for their eclectic mix of instruments, singalongs, and a live show that can be more like a circus than an indie band. They recently self-released their debut album "Welcome" on vinyl and streaming everywhere. Come check them out, see why they're developing a cult following, but are almost definitely not a cult, probably.
Z!
Born and raised in Montreal, zi! has been very active in the city’s vibrant underground scene for over half a decade. They enable dancefloor euphoria through DJing as well as with event organizing, as part of queer collective FLUSH (@arriverflush) and of Missed Connections (@missed_connections_radio). As a DJ, zi!’s musical selections draw from a range of genres, from house to dubstep, always a dubby touch. After making their mark in Montreal’s DIY scene, zi! has gained international recognition with standout sets at underground festivals Sustain-Release and Honcho.