Live Music: Solemn Shapes / Hemlock for Socrates / Ships in the Night

Solemn Shapes is a North American electronic, dark synth band based in Charlotte, NC. Scott Sunset and Melanie Foxfire perform live with synthesizers, samplers and drum machines to create dark distorted beats, vocal/sample effects and warped synth tones which evoke a haunting, psychedelic vibe…Solemn Shapes lives somewhere between 80's horror soundtracks & a dark dance floor in the dead of night

Hemlock for Socrates is the moody, danceable electronic art-rock partnership of Heather Shore and Kegan Heiss. Together they create genre-traversing music that explores themes of personal introspection and social commentary in surreal, science-fiction inflected language. After releasing their fourth album, Cavern, in 2022 they have been playing live regularly across the eastern half of the US as well as in their hometown of Pittsburgh, PA, including several regional dark-alternative festivals.

Ships In The Night is an electrifying mix of haunting, dark electronic and ethereal, ambient lullabies. Alethea Leventhal's magnetic solo project pulls from dreams, memories and echoes from the outer world to paint an atmospheric landscape with sweeping waves of synths and kinetic beats.