Dorian Wood (she/they) is an anti-disciplinary artist based in the US. Her intent of “infecting” spaces and ideologies with her creative practice is born from a desire to challenge traditions and systems that have contributed to the marginalization of people.

Her work has been showcased in concert halls and performance spaces around the world, including at institutions like The Broad (Los Angeles), Brown University (Providence), Museo Nacional Del Prado (Madrid), the City Hall of Madrid and Teatro de la Ciudad Esperanza Iris (Mexico City). Wood is a recipient of an FCA Grants for Artists Award, a Creative Capital Award, a NALAC Fund for the Arts Grant, a COLA Individual Master Artist Project Grant, an LA County Performing Arts Recovery Grant and an Art Matters Foundation Grant. In 2023, Wood premiered Canto de Todes, a touring twelve-hour chamber music composition and installation that emphasizes the urgency of folk music as a conduit for social change. In 2024, Wood toured her piano-and-voice interpretation of Sinéad O'Connor's album I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got, honoring the late artist on the anniversary of her passing. Wood has released over a dozen recordings, most recently the albums You are clearly in perversion (2023, Astral Editions), in collaboration with Thor Harris; and Excesiva (Dragon's Eye Recordings, 2023).

Tommy Santee Klaws is an ever-evolving musical project known for its hauntingly cinematic soundscapes, drawing from folk, chamber pop, and experimental rock. While the band once emerged from the hazy sprawl of Southern California, it resists being rooted in any singular geography. Southern California may bear the name of certain bittersweet fruits, but it cannot claim the origin of this music—not literally, not figuratively. The songs of Tommy Santee Klaws are not of that soil. They are nourishing fruits born of something older, deeper—ghost(s), god(s), and loss(es) materializing from every corner of the country and beyond.

Formed in the early 2000s, the project has physically relocated multiple times, from California to Iowa to New York and back again. Yet its essence remains unchanged. The spirit that feeds TSK's music is omnipresent, drawing collaborators across decades to explore universal themes—love, grief, reverence, the haunting weight of existence, and the piercing joys that fracture and heal in equal measure.

More than a band, Tommy Santee Klaws is a locus of shared human experience, a conduit for instinctual, metaphysical truths made musical. Across a diverse discography and countless shifting lineups, it remains fiercely independent and impossible to pin down—except by those whose ears are attuned to the aching beauty it carries.

Katy Pinke (NY)

Tommy Santee Klaws (IC)

Lex Leto (IC)

all ages // $10

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Friday, August 22nd! This show’s got a little something for everyone, hardcore, metalcore, punk & shoegaze 🕷️🕷️

All Ages | 7PM | $10 (PWYC)

On tour from VA: Collapsing and Francis Thornton.

PS1 Cloud House is the next stop for touring musicians Collapsing, and Francis Thornton, of Virginia.

Local musicians Justin K. Comer and Grain Bin Operettas will start the party to usher in these exciting visiting artists. 

Join us at the PS1 Cloud House (538 S. Gilbert St.) for a rowdy night with the sonic chaos of dada noise poetry, vibrantly dripping walls of sound and electrifying experimental music. 

Doors open at 7:30pm. 

Show starts at 8pm.

This event will feature two musical acts, with open poetry reading in-between! Poets with any level of experience are invited to read, please plan to keep readings under 6 minutes so that more can participate.

Christine Burke is a composer from Iowa whose music has most recently been performed by LIGAMENT, UCLA's FLUX ensemble, the Valparaiso University New Music Ensemble, a.pe.ri.od.ic., Duo Axis, and line upon line. Her debut album, "Something kept close", was released on Sawyer Editions in 2022. In February 2025, Lex Leto x the Christine Burke Ensemble (a group Iowa-based experimental musicians) self-released their indie/experimental classical album "I am here but I must go". Current projects include tabletop organ improvisations and recording an album of recent works by members of the Christine Burke Ensemble.

Moving Lines Ensemble will be premiering a new piece featuring a combination of imaginative arrangements of the music of Johnny Cash, and autobiographical spoken word with musical improvisations. An Albuquerque and Iowa City-based ensemble, Moving Lines Ensemble was formed in 2018 with an aim of exploring interactions between music and spoken word. They create primarily through processes of collaboration and improvisation, establishing pieces which range from open frameworks to more traditionally notated scores and poems, playing with the relationship between the inevitable score and its moment-by-moment realization. The current ensemble consists of John Barney (poet/performer), Levi Raleigh Brown (percussionist/composer), saxophonist Charlotte Leung, and guitarist/bassist Ian Davis.

Hour
A shapeshifting Philadelphia-based instrumental ensemble led by composer/multi-instrumentalist and founder of Dear Life Records Michael Cormier-O'Leary. Electric guitar, drums, synths, violin, clarinet, bass clarinet, and flute. 

Jason Calhoun (Philadelphia)

Jamin Shepherd (Iowa City)

$10-$15 suggested donation at the door