BANISHED MUSIC & STRANGE NEWS PRESENT
STRANGE UNIVERSE: AUTUMN EDITION - MARCH 2026
* SMERZ (NORWAY) - WEDNESDAY 4 MARCH - DOUBLE WHAMMY
* THE BATS CELEBRATE CORNER COMING UP (NZ) - SATURDAY 7 MARCH - HOLLYWOOD AVONDALE
* TY SEGALL (USA) - TUESDAY 10 MARCH - POWERSTATION
* DERYA YILDIRIM & GRUP ŞİMŞEK (GERMANY) SUNDAY 15 MARCH - DOUBLE WHAMMY
* LES BIG BYRD (SWEDEN) - TUESDAY 24 MARCH - DOUBLE WHAMMY
& MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED!
Ladies and germs, introducing Strange Universe - Autumn Edition, a new show series in March 2026, featuring the return of American psych lord Ty Segall and his scorching band, Norwegian duo of the moment Smerz, Swedish noise makers Les Big Byrd, Anatolian psych-folk sensation Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek, and eternally excellent Flying Nun favourite The Bats celebrating their 2025 already-classic album Corner Coming Up!
The full line-up across March is yet to be unveiled, but this first announcement is enough to melt our minds and have us looking forward to the new year like never before… And you better believe we are planning Strange Universe WINTER Edition already…
SMERZ - WEDNESDAY 4 MARCH - DOUBLE WHAMMY
This genre-bending duo from Norway have been causing a beautiful stir this year, with the likes of Pitchfork going ape over the “retrofuturist warehouse pop” of Smerz’s 2025 album Big city life. While the pairing of Catharina Stoltenberg and Henriette Motzfeldt is impossible to pin down to a single sound, Boomkat labelled them “a sort of genius missing link between Astrid Sonne, Cibo Matto and Luscious Jackson”, and The Quietus placed them “in the zone where club music, art-school minimalism, and emotional confession overlap”.
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