Empty Lane Fest 2026
Description
Empty Lane Fest returns for its third year at The Charleston. Two days with honestly stacked lineups at the end of October. Presented in partnership with Pegasus Theory.
October 30 and 31
ALL AGES
5PM-12AM both days
Friday:
Generation Decline
Zookraught
The Edison Cabinet
Flesh Produce
Key Party
Constance Tomb
Ghost Fetish
Bonney Rubble
Saturday:
Russian Blue
Hot Stepmom
Art Gecko
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Male//Gaze
Oliver Elf Army
Llaredda
Bandski
Lineup
Russian Blue
Russian Blue’s A Modern Analogue (Pegasus Theory, January 2026) is slowly seeping itself into the indie culture of the Pacific Northwest, but the seven-piece dance punk group isn’t waiting around before moving on to what’s next. Fully embracing their maximalist urges in a time where most bands are slimming down, their live show features 12 synths, drums, guitar, bass, and even a glockenspiel. With a KEXP in-studio session, multiple festival appearances, two single releases, and a bevy of headline shows throughout the PNW, Russian Blue has been busy in the post-release period. "A Modern Analogue is an album’s album in an era of made-for-singles music. With an undeniable soundalike in early LCD Soundsystem; what truly makes this record shine is its reverence for moments and motifs. Arrangements move through songs theatrically, with unconventional structures and record-spanning musical themes that outline an emotional journey over its entire runtime."
Generation Decline
Formed in 2009, Generation Decline is a punk/crust/d-beat/grind band based out of Bremerton, WA. With six releases and multiple tours in the U.S. and Europe under their belt, GD continues their assault of heavy and fast music with pounding drums and pissed off vocals all throughout. They stand on their anti-fascist beliefs through an onslaught of groove-rich heavy tunes, charged with politically catalyzed lyrics.
Zookraught
Hot Stepmom
Stepmom is an indie-alternative band based out of Tacoma, formed in July 2021. The band’s current lineup consists of Anna Norris (Guitar, Vocals), Jarin Szewczyk (Bass), Benjamin Babcock (Drums), and Justin Middleton (Guitar). Drawing from a range of musical influences, their music blends the sounds of post-punk, indie, alt, and funk!
The Edison Cabinet
Bremerton based 7-piece The Edison Cabinet deliver a heavy dose of visceral post-punk and art-rock. With two drummers and a horde of masks, their live shows are vicious and frightening. They are razor sharp in their blending of industrial electronics and droning stoner rock somehow simultaneously filled with ear-worm melodies and mathy time-signature changes.
Flesh Produce
Art Gecko
Art Gecko brings inspiration from disco, synth-pop, funk, rock, new wave, and house to the Seattle music scene. Their first full-length LP “Atomic Age” is forthcoming in November 2026, establishing the band’s transition from their early indie rock era to their new sound: electronic, futuristic, and utterly danceable
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pdx-based eggpunk weirdos
Key Party
Three knuckleheads noisemakers let loose like your funky chickens caboose
Constance Tomb
Constance Tomb is fronted by songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Tony Reed (Mos Generator, Pentagram, Big Scenic Nowhere). Formed in 1988, the band’s sound is rooted in the post-punk and gothic rock movement of the early eighties, drawing primary influence from bands like Christian Death, Bauhaus, and Samhain. After becoming inactive in 1989, Constance Tomb has recently reformed, now featuring Bo McConaghie on bass and Christian Roney on drums.
Male//Gaze
Male//Gaze is a heavy gaze-pop band from the Kitsap peninsula.
Oliver Elf Army
Oliver Elf Army play what they like to call “sinister pop”. Which is an amalgamation of every music they’ve ever loved, run through a blender, and played with limited skill. But it works. Lyrically, there are lots of pop culture touchpoints (John Hughes movies, Simon LeBon), tragedies (Heaven’s Gate, Green River Killer), and lots of songs that split the difference, in a sing along-able way. Musically, they’re all over the map. Pixies, Velvet Underground, Motorhead, everything 120 minutes ever played and more. Garagey psychedelic post-punk power pop new wave metal for mildly misanthropic people.
LLAREDDA
LLAREDDA is a 3-piece alternative rock band based in Seattle, WA. The music is influenced by artists like the Breeders, Interpol, and, loosely, Zookraught.
Ghost Fetish
Ghost Fetish is a Seattle based post punk outfit known for their dance inducing analog sounds and intoxicating live performances. Sometimes dark and brooding, other times blue in sentiment, the songs seem to follow their own secret map of ley lines through the threaded burrows of the desert night.
Bonney Rubble
Sludgy, dreamy, doomy. Bonney Rubble makes heavy music for the genre-fluid. The Seattle doomgaze band fuses the worlds of doom metal, shoegaze and post-rock and has become known for delivering a beautifully crushing wall of sound and live performances that are both mesmeric and cathartic. Their music has been described as dreamy, transcendent, sludgy and LOUD. Formed by Nick Mendonsa (he/him) and Julia Robins (they/them), Bonney Rubble is driven by extracting beauty from the pulverizing soundscapes of Metal and the desire to insert femininity and queerness into a genre that is still largely dominated by masculinity. If you like Chelsea Wolfe, Low, Sub Rosa and Swans, you’ll love Bonney Rubble. The band released two albums in 2025 and is in the midst of recording their third album set to release in 2027.
Bandski
Bandski is a 4-piece rock band from Seattle, WA formed by a collection of music nerds who wanted to color outside of the lines of the traditional rock formula. From shoegaze to hardcore to folk to the winding instrumentals of post-rock, they are unafraid to pull from anywhere and anything to make their music. Bandski self-describes as “post-indie,” a nonsensical genre label that perfectly communicates the nature of their music’s kitchen-sink aesthetics.
Russian Blue - The Centrist (live at Neumos)
The Edison Cabinet - House on Haunted Hill
Oliver Elf Army - Black Nikes
Constance Tomb - Amokt
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