From a young age, Japanese artist Haru Nemuri has been obsessed with translating the sounds in her head into music, but it wasn’t until after being unexpectedly inspired during a high-school trip that she began actually trying. Haru and a friend had been told by their chaperone to go to sleep and not turn the TV on in their hotel room. Instead, they did exactly that and found themselves mesmerized by a Japanese band called CreepHyp playing on a music TV show. On the spot, they began discussing starting a band of their own. “My friend decided to play the guitar and be the vocalist, and I decided to play the synth,” she says. “We needed a drummer and bassist, and we took our time looking, but we couldn’t find anyone. So, I had to try something else. Indeed, not many teenagers are inspired equally by American post hardcore icons such as Fugazi and Japanese avant-garde music legend Susumu Hirasawa, but therein lies the magic of Haru Nemuri and the work she has created over the past nine years. Presented by Chop Shop, Live Nation This is an ALL AGES event