Our recent recommendations for Exchange
Sell out warning! Enigmatic New York singer-songwriter Laura Stevenson brings her latest batch of catharsis - spanning motherhood, heartbreak, and hard-won clarity - to an intimate subterranean show in the Exchange’s newly refurbed basement. Trauma processing as songwriting FFO: Torres, S.G. Goodman, Hand Habits, boygenius.
Laura Stevenson at Exchange.
Portland’s latest scathing hardcore attack on the human disease, with Dani’s raging raw banshee vocal delivery leading a full-on assault on all senses. Please get this upgraded to the main room!?!? Unmissable, undiluted fury FFO: Gimic, Paint It Black, Gel, Spy, Punitive Damage, Buggin.
Dry Socket at Exchange.
Sell out warning! Louisville indie rock three-piece Wombo return to Bristol. Step into their murky, cavernous, post-punk-tinted haze, where cyclical basslines and combative drums shape slow-stalking tonal landscapes for Sydney Chadwick’s turbulent lyrics. Essential FFO: Truth Club, Dummy, Just Mustard, Water From Your Eyes.
Wombo at Exchange.
Calling all fuzz-fiends! On Mono returns with a second full-frontal blast of post-punk, shoegaze, and alt chaos. Noir-punk wrecking crew Grandma’s House headline the two-stage Exchange takeover - a wall-to-wall delirium featuring Bureau De Change, DYE, WYR, and more TBA. Buy-on-sight FFO: Witching Waves, Dry Cleaning, Enola Gay, Just Mustard.
On Mono at Exchange.
A rare matinee assembly of chaotic earnestness! New Jersey’s cult emissaries of emo revival, Ogbert the Nerd make their UK debut this year, unleashing a maelstrom of raw kinetic fervour at Exchange. Mega FFO: Algernon Cadwallader, Prince Daddy & the Hyena, Snowing, Record Setter.
Ogbert the Nerd at Exchange.