Amazing list; they got Velocity Girl to regroup?!
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Velocity Girl, the DC dream-pop greats who broke up in 1996, are coming back to play this show. It’ll be the first Velocity Girl gig in more than two decades; their last show was a 2002 reunion set at the same venue. Velocity Girl will headline one night, while
Ex Hex, the great current band from DC fixture Mary Timony, will headline the other. The bill also features the return of
Grey Matter, who broke up for the second time in 1993, and
Ted Leo’s Pharmacists, who (at least according to Setlist.fm) haven’t played live since 2019.
Other bands on the bill include the
Messthetics, the instrumental trio that includes two former Fugazi members, and
Hammered Hulls, Mary Timony’s newish band with DC punk lifer Alec MacKaye, as well as
Flasher,
Bad Moves,
Birthday Girl, and the
Owners. The shows go down 9/8-9 at the Black Cat, and tickets go on sale Friday morning.
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