credit:  Jeff Beasty

Open Head at Chess Club

Mar 12, 2025

8:00pm – 8:40pm CT

Chess Club

Open Head is a 4 piece experimental ensemble from Kingston, New York. With a taste for the concrete and the spectral, their latest work sources beauty in brutalist architecture, holography, and the remnants of industrialism that ornament the Hudson Valley landscape. The result is expansive, stratospheric in volume, and brutally material in its punctuation and delivery. Drawing on New York no-wave and the avant-garde history of punk, noise, hip-hop and electronic music, Open Head presents a sound that is itself a landscape–immediate, colossal, ruined and essential.

Open Head is Jared Ashdown (v,g), Brandon Minervini (g,v), Jon McCarthy (b), and Dan Schwartz (d).

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About
From: Kingston, NY, United States
Genre: Punk
Subgenre: Post-Punk
Type: Showcase