Red Brick Weekend 2026 Friday Main Show w/ Flowers for the Dead & more

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Red Brick Presents… Red Brick Weekend 2026 Celebrating 5 Years of Red Brick Presents \*\*\* Friday Main Show with… Flowers for the Dead Mystic and moody, DC’s Flowers for the Dead conjure winding cyclones of distortion that simultaneously soothe and electrify. The trio’s ever-expanding palette of lush, yet unapologetically biting soundscapes, has rendered guitarist/vocalist Jessie Szegö, bassist Naomi Kei, and drummer Ten Bears hypnotic masters of both the calm and the storm. The band’s latest full-length album Magnolia saw the group further hone its signature nineties-infused riffs, dynamic songwriting, and rumbling grooves. The result is raw and eclectic, each song reckoning with themes of self-reflection and resilience, whose crescendos could just as easily thunder into eruption as coil into textured mosaics of verdant medleys. Recent releases such as the contemplative and cheeky First Place EP and singles Ladybug and My Misery is Mine indicate the band is not just in bloom, but yet again blossoming into another vibrant phase. Ever-moving, the trio is set to embark on its first tour across Europe this autumn, following tours with Austin natives Die Spitz and Montreal’s No Joy last fall, as well as a schedule of incessant gigging. With over four years of steadfast evolution and ever-sharpening prowess, Flowers for the Dead is showing no signs of wilting anytime soon. \*\*\* Music Mouse Baltimore Synth Punk \*\*\* Cryptid Summer The Washington, D.C.–based four-piece have carved a distinct space within the city’s underground, pairing the jagged energy of deathrock and post-punk with the melodic precision of classic alternative. Their forthcoming album, Where the Earth Has Teeth, arrives in early 2026, preceded by the first single “Disappointing,” out December 5th. Formed out of D.C.’s tight-knit DIY circuit, Cryptid Summer’s members had long orbited one another in various local projects before coalescing around a shared obsession with the elegance and unease of bands like Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Cure, and Joy Division. What began as a one-off Cure tribute set at Slash Run in early 2020 has since evolved into a band fluent in both the theatricality of goth and the emotional bite of grunge. The group—Lizz Mazer (vocals), Carni Klirs (guitar), Zach Wall (bass), and Eileen O’Grady (drums)—turn those influences inward, crafting songs that balance melancholy with momentum and atmosphere with clarity. With Where the Earth Has Teeth, Cryptid Summer sharpen their sound into something unmistakably their own: haunted yet immediate, literate yet visceral. It’s an album that lingers between decades—too tuneful to be pure goth, too jagged to be pop—and cements the band as one of D.C.’s most vital new voices in dark alternative music. \*\*\* Don Patti Memorial Gym @ Takoma Park Presbyterian Church (enter on Tulip Ave) RESPECT THE SPACE - NO DRUGS OR ALCOHOL Accessibility info: Don Patti Memorial Gym is accessible through the door on Tulip Ave 630pm doors-9pm end $18 ADV / $22 DOS \*valid for Nov 13 Friday Main Show only\* See here for Saturday Main Show tix: https://link.dice.fm/H53e8722c985 See here for Weekend Passes: https://link.dice.fm/V054ca18e050