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Friday February 20
2026 7:30PM doors -- music at 8:30PM ••• ALL AGES $25 in advance / $30 at the door Noise Pop Festival 2026 presents... Hudson Freeman instagram.com/thehuddog iLofi-folk Dog Eyes instagram.com/dogeyesforever indie folk low-fi Pillowprince instagram.com/pillowprinceband grunge gaze Hudson Freeman -from Brooklyn, NY -Hudson Freeman is a Brooklyn-based Lofi-folk artist, inspired and forged by the DIY Midwest. The 27-year-old Freeman continues to record and perform songs equal-parts resonant, reflective, and poignant. He has quickly emerged as one of indie's most enthralling new voices. His recent full-length, is a Folk Artist, helped solidify his presence as the kind of songwriter unafraid to tackle life's most draining contradictions: modern identity, digital disconnection, and faith. Born to Evangelical missionaries, Hudson started writing songs upon a radical break at the age of thirteen when his family suddenly moved from the suburbs of Dallas to The Kingdom of Eswatini. The profound influence of indie big-hitters like Sufjan Stevens and Bon Iver as well as college years spent in Springfield, Missouri made a do-it-yourself Midwesterner out of Hudson. Now, his new song "If You Know Me" has recently started drawing in attention from the masses, catapulting Freeman into a wider spotlight than ever. It's a moody blend of bedroom pop, folk, slowcore, and post-emo, stitched together by a singular guitar riff and mantra-style lyrics, confirming Hudson's undeniable knack for melody. Dog Eyes -from Oakland, CA -For a band that traffics in emotional extremes, dog eyes maintain a gentle touch. The Bay Area indie folk duo of Hailey Firstman and Davis Leach aren’t writing first person confessionals. On their new EP, blue bird rain cloud, they’re far more interested in the pain and purity of the mundane or the ache and nag of the universal. “Many of these songs are about extremes, powerful joys and grievances,” says Firstman. “But they are not set right in the middle of the moments, the action, rather they are told like memories, hazy and gentle.” It’s that seemingly distant and fragile quality that forced the music world to take notice of their last record, 2024’s holy friend, a song cycle that worked like a magnifying glass for life’s tiniest moments. Here, the aperture has expanded, but that delicate breakability is still intact. Lead single “i remain you stay the same” is built from simple parts: a patient acoustic guitar, hand claps in another room, and a swirling breeze of Firstman and Leach’s vocal. “You’re gonna give your loving heart away or I’ll remain, you stay the same,” goes the refrain. “It feels like a coming of age moment,” says Leach. “Coming to terms with how all things, including love, have to change over time for better or worse.” “Nano,” a song about an ancient iPod re-envisioned as a lighthouse, uses a similar sonic tool kit. Trebley steel strings strum, piano notes twinkle like stars, all set against a whirring pedal note that the duo’s voices skip atop. While these spare moments shine, that’s not to suggest the band can’t flesh out the instrumentation to great effect. On the half-title track “bluebird” a flock of woodwinds join the fray to support a wordless chorus of do do do’s that somehow sounds both resigned and hopeful. “The EP title describes well the tension between joy and sorrow,” says Firstman. “How they are intrinsically related, constantly contextualizing each other. The EP lives in these moments big as love and loss or small as ants on a mound of dirt.” “tophy, honey,” the EP’s most syrupy moment, features a languid bass line supporting a tide of acoustic guitars, setting up that key line: “As I reach out, sweetly, for the trophy sitting on a dirt mound.” “The line feels like making peace with the mundane and the small,” says Firstman. “The discarded being where we might find the prize, acceptance of that ideal feels most joyous.” It’s at that very moment that a faint electric guitar lead emerges and gently, slowly turns the lights down on this profound EP. Pillowprince -from Oakland & Los Angeles, CA -Pillowprince is an Oakland/LA-based indie grunge gaze band that makes rock from cracking folds of leather and glittering chain link, from nights of red-gelled stage lights and mornings after that are way too bright, from hair matted with joy and danger and most of all from bodies making places for themselves only they know. Songwriter and guitarist Olivia Lee sings about queer joy, pain, love, and subversion, punctuating raw sincerity with vibrant brooding guitar riffs. Together with Silas Snyder on drums and Liza Stegall on bass, they create dense, propulsive shoegaze anthems. Massive and melodious, Pillowprince ebbs and flows between a dramatic intimate grandeur and irreverent indie pop on their debut EP, pretty, baby!. Pillowprince feels familiar. Their sound is the noise of nights screaming secrets into old friends’ ears and having just one more; the ache of breaking in heavy boots so you can walk wherever the fuck you want; the relief of tumbling into open arms. They’re bringing back a queer spirit— when are you gonna care about… is a mantra and a dare: there’s no time like now. |
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