To request ADA seating: Please send us an email at boxoffice@thechapelsf.com or call our box office at (415) 551-5157 and we can assist you. Our ADA area can reach capacity early, so we highly recommend contacting us as soon as possible. Day of show requests may not be able to be accommodated. bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube | Instagram It’s important to state that “the world is still here and so are we” is the fourth Mclusky album (no qualification being needed). They had an asterisk next to the name for a bit - out of respect for past band members and the precious memorial glue of teenage musical crushes - but fuck that, in for a penny, in for a pound. Lyrically it touches on subjects as rich and as varied as work-it-out-yourself and impenetrable-inside-joke-for-the-band, but one thing is clear, all of the songs have different words. All hilarious joking aside, the best songs are about things without being precisely about them. Mclusky endorse this sentiment. They positively insist on it. Formed in Cardiff, Wales in the late ‘90s, Mclusky quickly became one of the most beloved underground punk bands of their era, known for their biting lyrics, angular riffs, and chaotic live shows. The band released three critically-acclaimed albums – “Mclusky Do Dallas” (2002), “The Difference Between Me And You Is That I’m Not On Fire” (2004) and “My Pain And Sadness Is More Sad And Painful Than Yours” (2000) – before disbanding in 2005. Since reforming in 2019, they’ve continued to bring their ferocious energy to stages, with their fourth album, “the world is still here and so are we”, set for a Spring 2025 release via Ipecac Recordings. Mclusky is Damien Sayell (bass, vocals), Jack Egglestone (drums, vocals, percussion), and Andrew Falkous (guitar, vocals). pink balloons is about disruption. But it’s also about Washington, DC, queerness, partying, money, violence, difference, irony, and religion. And also: fuck you. The debut longplayer from Washington, DC-based Ekko Astral — Jael Holzman, Liam Hughes, and Miri Tyler — is a complex mesh of bubblegum noise punk and no-wave art rock that holds an elastic space for the knotty, tangled horrors of living in the imperial core. Their songs thrash with intense, necessary defiance against codified gender-based violence, their distortion and sibilance a direct response to the dangers outside our front doors. It’s blistering. It’s frightening. It’s Ekko fucking Astral. pink balloons — produced and mixed Jeremy Snyder (DITZ, Lambrini Girls, Pure Adult) — was widely acclaimed, garnering fawning coverage from the likes of Pitchfork (#1 Rock Album of 2024), Stereogum, Washington Post, The Line of Best Fit and Paste Magazine, and won Ekko Astral year-end plaudits from NPR Music, Uproxx, FLOOD, and KCRW, where host Henry Rollins declared the album his favorite of the year. pink balloons was also recently nominated for “Best Punk Album” for the 2025 Libera Awards. To commemorate the first anniversary of the album, Ekko Astral and Topshelf are releasing pink balloons: popped, a deluxe CD version featuring the original release’s 11 song tracklist along with five bonus tracks including “pomegranate tree” (originally released as a stand-alone single), ”shred empty blues (‘head empty blues: popped version’)”  by Mikie Mayo + Dreamrats,” “uwuwuwu (‘uwu type beat: popped version’)” by pet wife, ”unbrand (‘on brand: popped version’)” by They Hate Change, and a radio edit of “sticks & stones.” Ekko Astral is touring heavily in 2025 in support of pink balloons with U.S. East Coast support dates with Bartees Strange in April and May, and a support run for PUP and Jeff Rosenstock in the fall. Ekko Astral has also joined forces with Gender Liberation Movement to present “Liberation Weekend,” a two-day music and arts festival taking place in the nation’s capital on Friday, May 30th, and Saturday, May 31st. Ekko Astral will also visit the UK and Europe for the first time this year, performing at Pitchfork Music Festival in London and Paris this November. Ekko Astral was formed in 2021 and consists of best friends Holzman (vocals, bass), Hughes (guitar) and Tyler (drums; also co-leads the D.C. pop band Pretty Bitter)