Sat, Dec 12
TANUKICHAN
Badvril
Stargirl Mare
8 pm doors
$22 adv / $25 doors
all ages
Tanukichan is the solo project of classically-trained Bay Area native Hannah van Loon, whose music screeched to a halt when she discovered what she affectionately calls “dad rock” in her tween years. Throughout her self-described “sheltered” adolescence, van Loon taught herself guitar by spending hours in front of the radio, replicating riffs and chords from omnipresent bands like The Beatles and Incubus.
Van Loon’s breakout debut LP, Sundays, earned her enthusiastic critical acclaim, with Pitchfork writing that it “captures the spirit of a day whose wide-open nature fosters anxieties as well as ambitions” and Rolling Stone lauding its “bruising riffs, taut grooves, and open-road-ready guitar anthems.”
In March 2023, Tanukichan released her sophomore album GIZMO. While still rooted in the eerie shoegaze she’s become known and loved for, it also sees her go beyond her comfort zone, incorporating elements of grunge, industrial synths, nu metal basslines, and electric guitars that culminate into a captivating wall-of-sound.
Here 2024 EP Circles takes Tanukichan to new heights and sonic territory that feels larger, arena-ready, and more like a high speed night drive than the hazy summer dream of its predecessors.
Badvril is a San Francisco-based noise-pop project, lovingly self identified as, “backwoods rock”. Existing at the intersection of chaos, tension, self-expression and creative control—Badvril blends music, film, art and fashion into a fully immersive world. Founded by singer Becket Schroeder, the band is rooted in a DIY ethos shaped in rural Eastern Washington, where he learned to create out of necessity—building stages, making merch, and recording music with whatever was available. Since forming in 2022, the band has toured the U.S. performing everywhere from DIY venues to a yo-yo competition, and debuted their album In Heaven live for inmates at Washington State Prison.
Stargirl Mare: moon music 🌙 sf artist.
