$15 advanced / $20 at the door / or sliding scale
General Admission (Standing) - Doors open at 7PM
RESIST. RECLAIM. REHUMANIZE
Amid escalating political attacks on queer, trans, BIPOC, and femme lives, "The QueerCore Collaborative Presents Live at the Drake" exists as a bold act of collective resistance. Our DIY basement show ethos unites hardcore punk music, art, and activism for a night of radical community care, catharsis, and a rallying point for queer, trans, gender-nonconforming, black, brown, femme and all other marginalized folks who face the systemic oppression and violence and our allies to gather together and affirm, nourish and resource our collective humanity.
LINEUP:
We are absolutely blown away and honored to have such an absolutely incredible lineup of trans, gender-nonconforming and BIPOC fronted bands joining us!! Thank you to the HIRS Collective, Commitment and ABBATIA for making the trip out to us, and to local heroes Deathless Forever and Film and Gender for believing in these events with us!!
HIRS Collective
The HIRS Collective exists to fight for, defend, and celebrate the survival of trans, queer, poc, black, women and any and all other folks who have to constantly face violence, marginalization, and oppression. We are a collective of freaks and faggots that will never stop existing. Infinite and never ending. No one is going to kill us, we are going to live forever.
Commitment
Commitment is an inevitability, set to release their full length, “Fear Of”, on LA-via-Philadelphia label Get Better Records this spring. “Fear Of” packs a punch composed of raw punk, hardcore, and d-beat inspired music that essentially results in fast punk that sometimes includes groove as often as it does blast beats. Lyrically, the themes of “Fear Of “include sexual liberation, sacred rage, vengeance, violence, insecurity, surveillance, overconsumption, social media, and mind control/brainwashing. The band aims to peel off listener’s faces, leaving grinning skulls and exposed brains as the canvas for vocalist Tatiana Salazar’s indoctrination. The formula is quite simple, but the result isn’t.
ABBATIA
ABBATIA is an intense, ever-changing music project ripping through America’s northeast and beyond. Fronted by Jazz, Droogie, backed by Syd Solanke’s cutthroat production and vocals, and the relentless drumming of Peter Sukeena, ABBATIA shouts tortured poems through an unyielding sonic field. These multiple voices morph within and without each other, leaving their anthems a dense, varied world to be yanked into.
Deathless Forever
Deathless Forever is an experimental project from South Windsor, Connecticut and Western Massachusetts unlike anything you’ve ever experienced before. They are truly one of the most artistically creative bands we know, deftly bending sound and dissonance into brilliant tension that will utterly hold captive your attention and emotion! They draw influence from noise rock, metal, jazz, avant-garde and New Music. They write songs about conflict, alienation, dysphoria, and belonging.
Film & Gender
Inspired by the defiant spirit of ‘90s and early 2000s hip hop, Film and Gender unleashes a raw and unruly strain of garage punk driven by bombastic rhythm and unapologetic social fury. And, the sonic wall they conjure as a two-piece hits harder than most five-piece bands could ever dream. Every Film and Gender show is a volley of energy passed back and forth between the band and the crowd—a shared pulse that drives the whole room. For the band, music isn’t just performance; it's something that is co-created by all who are sharing in that moment. It’s connection. It’s community. It's everything that they stand for… and everyone that they stand with.