Reunion Summer

Bands

Formed in 2016 by four friends with minimal experience as musicians, Bacchae make music with no assumptions about what a punk band should sound like. On their LP, “Pleasure Vision”, brooding synth-driven pop sits alongside prickly, fast-paced punk and spooky post-punk sounds. Sometimes you get all of that in a single song. But whether the band is exploring the pain of a doomed relationship or the push and pull of disgust and desire while shopping online, what carries through it all is a sense of uncertainty, dissolution and dread.

Princessed was founded in the mid-90s by high schoolers in a suburban basement outside of DC. Influenced by the urgent, DIY energy of riot grrrl & alt rock icons like Babes in Toyland and the Lunachicks, they processed teen angst while poking fun at the patriarchy. Nurtured in local record stores, Princessed found a home at DIY punk shows in VA & benefit shows for which DC punk is notorious.

Rooted in the basic tenets of rock, Jackie and The Treehorns create music from just outside the nation's capital in Alexandria, VA and just outside the mainstream. Formed in 2009 and fronted by Steven Rubin under the guise of an altered ego (Jackie) and his band (The Treehorns) the group fight to keep the flames of the rock and/or roll fire lit with inspired original inventiveness. Jackie and The Treehorns' music covers a wide sonic palate, taking the listener down familiar paths before detouring towards parts unknown, while Jackie's lyrics explore topics ranging from celebrity stalkers, robots, serial killers, and hitchhikers to odd phenomena like UFO's, déjà vu, ghosts, and extraterrestrial party favors. The bands most recent releases, Go Get Your Ghosts (2023), Made You Run (2021), Hidden Cameras (2020) and It's Never Too Late (2019), were recorded at Ivakota Studios in Washington, DC with Ben Green. For their previous releases, The J. Album (2018), singles Writer and A World Gone Mad (2017), RU4REAL? (2016), and Do You Mind If I Wear A Clown Mask? (2015) the band worked with legendary engineer Don Zientara at the famed Inner Ear Studio in Arlington, VA.

Breezy Supreme is a black alternative rock artist from the Washington DC/ Maryland area. Not being restricted to just 1 sound, Breezy has experimented with multiple genres such as Pop Punk, Punk, Hardcore, Hip Hop and more. Breezy mostly expresses different struggles and emotions in his music, all in which are personal to him. Though he doesn't have a specific end goal, he aims to inspire and create space for other black alternative creatives across the globe.

Lincoln was a Morgantown, WV band formed in 1992 by Jay Demko (vocals/guitar), John Herod (guitar), Justin Wierbonski (drums), and Johanna Claasen (bass). Dan­ Ball would take over as bassist when Claasen couldn't tour due to conflicts with college. Lincoln was a band for just a brief time, and left behind only a handful of recordings, but they remain highly respected and are often regarded as one of the many foundational pieces of what would become known as “post-hardcore,” as well as the proto-emo scene that was birthed by bands like Rites of Spring and Moss Icon.

After a 27-year hiatus, melodic punk/post-hardcore band Samuel reformed as Samuel S.C., the added initials reflecting a change in personnel and a nod to the group's original home of State College, PA. Known for their beloved mid-90s seven-inch EPs and split with Texas Is The Reason, Samuel rose from the ashes of singer Vanessa Downing's previous band, Junction, and was one of the flagship bands of drummer Eric Astor's legendary label Art Monk Construction. Both the band and label relocated to DC in 1995, then split before recording an anticipated full length. Between 2019 - 2021, four of the five geographically scattered-but-still-close longtime friends revisited and reconstructed older songs, crafted a few new ones, and finally made their debut LP High Places, released on Org Music in early 2023, along with a compilation of their early material, titled 94-95. Shows and more new music to come!

Bed Maker is Jeff Barsky, Amanda MacKaye, Arthur Noll and Vin Novara. Separately, we have done a lot and now, together, we are doing this.

Three human friends who have been in a bunch of other bands before this one. Darren plays drums. Michael plays bass. Ryan plays guitar and "sings."