Noise Pop Festival 2026 Presents Rogue Wave performing Out of the Shadow with Meric Long — Returning to the stage for the first time in eight years, Rogue Wave will perform Out of the Shadow and Descended to celebrate the re-release by Sub Pop in March. ‍ Rogue Wave ‍Over the decade and a half that Rogue Wave has made music, Zach Rogue has continued to expand his band’s emotional spectrum. Drawing inspiration from the inevitable delusions of everyday American life, Rogue, his longtime bandmate Pat Spurgeon, and their fellow members have returned reinvigorated, and with a fresh sound founded on the art of patience, the fearlessness of experimenting, and the unbridled joy of creating something meaningful to help us navigate through these vacant times. Trusting in its own abilities and leaning on each other, Rogue Wave has seized creative control of its identity and sound and is set to smash any preconceptions of its music, revealing the most truthful, powerful, and urgent sonic blueprint of the band to date. Meric Long In songwriting, inspiration can come from just about anywhere. People, places, and events are all too common examples. But for an artist like Meric Long, one half of famed Bay Area duo The Dodos, and in-house recording engineer for Tiny Telephone Studios (American Football, Moses Sumney) – it’s sound, perhaps unsurprisingly, that serves as his most elusive and rewarding muse.