Popscene x Rickshaw Stop Presents

DORIAN ELECTRA

Friday, 6/12

8pm doors, 9pm show

$27.00 advance, $32.00 week of show

All ages welcome

Support by OSKIE and DJ Aaron Axelsen

Pop provocateur Dorian Electra is a world-builder whose work blurs genre, performance, and spectacle into a singular vision. 

Their breakout debut Flamboyant (2019) introduced a maximalist universe rooted in satire, queerness, and theatrical pop. Its follow-up My Agenda (2020) pushed further into sharper political commentary and harder-edged sound design, fusing pop with metal, electronic, baroque, and experimental influences. Their third album Fanfare (2023) expanded that world even further, weaving together pop, glam rock, orchestral, and electronic music while leaning fully into excess, irony, and the cult of celebrity, with tracks like “Freak Mode” and “Sodom & Gomorrah” embodying its theatrical intensity.

Across this trajectory, Dorian has collaborated with boundary-pushing artists including Lady Gaga, Charli XCX, 100 gecs, Village People, and Pussy Riot, while more recent work with Amnesia Scanner, Frost Children, and f5ve reflects an ongoing period of exploration across singles, and remixes. This stretch has seen them experiment more freely with structure, texture, and tone - from high-gloss pop to club-driven and deconstructed approaches.

Now, Dorian enters a new phase with an ambitious covers project and forthcoming album, reinterpreting iconic songs through their distinct lens of theatricality, irony, and emotional intensity. The project transforms familiar material into something uncanny and immersive, blurring nostalgia with reinvention and further expanding the boundaries of Dorian's world.

Whether on record or on stage, Dorian Electra operates with total creative autonomy, using music as a tool for transformation, confrontation, and liberation.