Noise Pop Festival 2026 Presents illuminati hotties plays FREE IH Pity Party Buzzed Light Beer — Sarah Tudzin is in high demand these days. Not only is she a lauded engineer and producer who has helmed recent records by boygenius, Weyes Blood, and Speedy Ortiz, but her own band, Illuminati Hotties, has also emerged as one of the sharpest and most sensitive acts on the pop-punk side of indie rock this century—“tenderpunk,” she has often called it. On Illuminati Hotties’ radiant and bittersweet third LP, Power, Tudzin pairs that sense of modern professional busyness with scenes inspired by the extreme highs and lows of her personal life in recent years. To wit, the day before Tudzin released 2020’s surprise Free I.H, her mother died. But weeks before that, Tudzin had met the person who has since become her longtime partner, the one with whom she can share all these troubles. It’s not hard to imagine, then, all that propels Power. — Pity Party is an emo/pop-punk band formed in the SF/Bay Area now based between Portland and Los Angeles. Renowned for their frenzied, unforgettable live shows and deep commitment to community care through food distributions, sexual violence prevention, and mental health advocacy, Pity Party's been spreading their wild, barely-holding-it-together energy across the US and internationally since 2014, sharing stages with bands like Jawbreaker, The Ergs!, Otoboke Beaver, and Bad Cop/Bad Cop. They coined the term “care punk” to name what they’ve always practiced: looking out for each other, protecting their community, and making shows safer, onstage and off. The band is made up of Rikki DeLuna, Rachel Moon, Sarah Levy, JD Tonnesen, Ty Dykema, and Sasha Guleff, pulling members from multiple projects into a loud, emotional supergroup. After a two-year hiatus, they’re back with a new record and more urgency, care, and connection than ever. ‍— Buzzed Lightbeer, the Dionysian fuzzy slop rock trio from San Francisco, is taking the music scene by storm with their raw energy and unapologetic queerness. Described as “the groovy, queer antithesis to Charlie’s Angels,” this unholy trinity delivers a blistering, over-the-top rock show that defies convention. (Psyched! Records)