Wed., 10/14/26

Rip Room, Quattracenta (Baltimore), Fog Lamp

8:00pm, $12 adv., $15 door

Rip Room

John, Sarah, Gracie = wound up art punks

https://riproom.bandcamp.com/album/alight-and-resound

Quattracenta 

Quattracenta is a three-piece, no-wave, art rock band from Baltimore, MD. 

The trio’s name is a feminized reference to an Italian cultural movement of the 1400s — the Quattrocento — which saw the end of the Medieval period and the dawn of the Renaissance. Like an early Renaissance painting, the music of Quattracenta is grand, saturnine, and cathartic. 

Quattracenta formed in 2016, after guitarist/vocalist Sarah Matas (Home Recording Project) moved from Chicago to Baltimore and began to connect with other experienced local players, including bassist Christian Sturgis (The Uniform, Lo Moda) and drummer Andrea Shearer (Saddle of Centaur, Pariah Piranha). In the ensuing years, Quattracenta has toured the mid-Atlantic region and become a staple of the live music scene in Baltimore, performing venues like Ottobar and the Baltimore Soundstage.

Drawing on elements of post-punk, no wave, dub, and psychedelia, Quattracenta’s moody, genre-expansive music echoes influences like Slint, Earth, PJ Harvey, and The Birthday Party, anchored by Matas’ yearning guitar and lyrical meditations on mortality, and framed by Sturgis’ distorted, writhing bass lines and Shearer’s spacious, minimalist drumming. Together, Quattracenta establishes a riveting and dramatic atmosphere on every stage they occupy. 

https://www.quattracenta.com

Fog Lamp

"For a band that earns their name with a deep synth murk, San Francisco’s Fog Lamp come in hot on their debut album. They earn that Siltbreeze stamp of approval all over their six-minute track “Wash the Machine,” which starts out righteous and punchy and winds down with cathedral-worthy beatific noise. With clear influences from goth greats like Killing Joke, there’s this ragged quality to this band’s vocals that make everything they do sound like they’re at loose ends." - Evan Minsker, See Saw Fun

https://foglamp.bandcamp.com/album/still-entangled