Kassie Krut

8MM and Shameless Limitless present their first collab show of the year with Kassie Krut Live.

Kassie Krut began as a solo act, its name impishly garbling that of its maker, Kasra Kurt, who otherwise served as a guitarist and vocalist in Palm. While the Philadelphia-based four-piece undertook bracing new adventures in guitar music, the side project was a venue for Kurt to indulge his taste for electronics and set stray ideas to simmer. When Palm called it quits in 2023, after ten years and three acclaimed albums, Kurt decamped to New York with Eve Alpert, the band’s co-guitarist and -vocalist, and Matt Anderegg, who had produced their last record. Playing together (in person and sometimes remotely), the longtime friends and collaborators christened a new, three-headed incarnation of Kassie Krut.

Kurt and Alpert spent their teenage years in London, whose streets and airwaves were suffused with the sounds of dub, grime, and garage. Those early encounters were soon joined by regard for SOPHIE’s candied hyperpop, Tirzah’s attitudinal minimalism, and DAF’s turn to electronic body music, which created the template by which punk would go electronic for the next forty years.

https://kassiekrut.bandcamp.com/album/kassie-krut

R18

Smoking permitted