with special guests Das Kope
Being No One, Going Nowhere. The title of STRFKR’s fourth album may seem bleak at first. But hold it in your head a minute, feel its weight, and you may recognize the phrase for what it is: a goal. In the era of the personal brand — amid the FOMO Age — it’s increasingly hard to shed a stifling sense of self, or to just be in the moment that you’re in. Well, consider this an invitation to get blissfully insignificant. That’s what STRFKR founder Joshua Hodges aimed to do when he exiled himself to the desert to create this record, but he returned with his most significant work yet: a set of darkly glistening dance songs rife with sticky beats, earworming hooks, philosophical heft, and bittersweet beauty.
When Hodges started STRFKR in 2007, it was designed to be success-proof. The name was both unfit for radio and a jab at fame-chasers. But the project was also meant to be bright, playful and brimming with energy. He stumbled upon a winning juxtaposition that’s a STRFKR staple to this day: dark (or heavy) lyrics set to happy music. Hodges credits that to Elliott Smith’s influence, although Being No One, Going Nowhere has closer sonic kin in Italo-disco, kosmische musik and Tony Hoffer’s work with Phoenix, Beck and M83. English thinker/writer Alan Watts, a scholar of Eastern philosophy, was another muse for Hodges — his voice appears on nearly every STRFKR release, including this one. That’s him on “interspace,” talking about sloughing off preconceived identity to find one’s place in the universe, which is the story of Hodges’ eventual career: stop trying — no, start not trying — and succeed.
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Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Saturday, January 25, 2025
Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 8:00pm
Rock
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Houndmouth
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 8:00pm
Blues
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Rocky Horror Picture Show
Friday, February 14, 2025
Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 8:00pm
Musical Theater
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*MOVED TO CORNERSTONE* Benjamin Clementine
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 8:00pm
Jazz
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Jazz Is Dead: Alice Coltrane
Saturday, February 22, 2025
Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 8:00pm
Jazz
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Skegss
Friday, March 7, 2025
Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 8:00pm
Punk
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ALCEST "LES CHANTS DE L'AURORE NORTH AMERICAN TOUR 2025"
Saturday, March 8, 2025
Doors: 6:30pm / Show: 7:30pm
Prog Rock
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The Linda Lindas
Thursday, March 20, 2025
Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 8:00pm
Punk
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Destroy Boys
Friday, April 4, 2025
Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 8:00pm
Rock
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Los Amigos Invisibles
Saturday, April 5, 2025
Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 8:00pm
Latin
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CHAOS & CARNAGE 2025 W/ DYING FETUS + CRADLE OF FILTH
Thursday, April 17, 2025
Doors: 4:00pm / Show: 4:30pm
Metal/Hardcore
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The Wrecks INSIDE : OUTSIDE Tour
Friday, April 18, 2025
Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 8:00pm
Pop
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WHILE SHE SLEEPS / BURY TOMORROW
Saturday, April 19, 2025
Doors: 6:00pm / Show: 7:00pm
Metal/Hardcore
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EXODUS 40 YEARS OF BLOOD
Friday, April 25, 2025
Doors: 6:00pm / Show: 7:00pm
Metal/Hardcore
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OBITUARY "35 YEARS OF CAUSE OF DEATH" TOUR
Sunday, April 27, 2025
Doors: 5:00pm / Show: 6:00pm
Metal/Hardcore
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Jazz Is Dead: Ebo Taylor & Pat Thomas
Monday, May 12, 2025
Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 8:00pm
Jazz
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The Menzingers
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Doors: 6:30pm / Show: 7:30pm
Punk
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Turnover - 10 Years of Peripheral Vision
Monday, May 19, 2025
Doors: 6:00pm / Show: 7:00pm
Rock
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Steel Pulse
Thursday, May 22, 2025
Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 8:00pm
Reggae
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The Damned
Friday, May 30, 2025
Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 8:00pm
Rock
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Ashe
Thursday, June 19, 2025
Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 8:00pm
Indie
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IC3PEAK
Saturday, November 8, 2025
Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 8:00pm
Electronic