Baby's Presents: First Day Back

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+ Doors @630pm

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Thundering out of Santa Cruz’s thriving and resurgent music scene, First Day Back have spent their final years in college solidifying their place in the emo revival revival. Heralded as the rightful torchbearers of second wave emo, First Day Back recalls the vocal exasperation ofCap'n Jazz, the twinkle of American Football, and the youthful exuberance of Braid, all while reinventing the sound with the organic additions of violin and harmonica. A love letter to the past, Their debut and sole album Forward, self-released in June 2025, was recorded utilizing the acoustics of their Empire Grade house living room, and a muted blue that graces the cover matches the outer panelling of this sentimental domicile key to to the band’s foundations and process. "Forward enchants on first listen, Pitchfork wrote in their 8.1 review "First Day Back play with a transparency usually reserved for private moments: screaming into a pillow in your bedroom, or putting your hoodie up to stress-cry on the bus."The quintet's DIY perspective continues in their live show, which began in houses and anarchist bookstores before blossoming with sold out tours opening for Algernon Cadwallader, EveryoneAsked About You, and Jejune, where thousands of kids screamed along to every word, wax, and woo.

Venue Information:

Baby's All Right

146 Broadway

Brooklyn, NY 11211

http://babysallright.com/

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Bar & Restaurant open at 6pm every night

J/M/Z to Marcy Avenue

L to Bedford Avenue

Garage parking one block west on Broadway