"The Mercury's Music Issue hits the streets this week! To celebrate, we're throwing a launch party-Isabeau Waia'u Walker, the Barbaras, Keeks, La Isla Electronica, and you are invited. Plus, comic book titans will post up at Lincoln Hall for the Comics Confluence Festival, weirdo legend Dynasty Handbag celebrates her memoir release with PICA performances, and it's a tale of two Florences: Florence + The Machine head to Moda on May 13, and Florence Shaw brings her band Dry Cleaning to Wonder Ballroom on May 17."
"After their reformation at 2025's Best Friends Forever festival in Las Vegas, the New York post-hardcore band Texas Is the Reason have embarked on a huge, multi-continent tour in 2026 and, thankfully, for those not able to make BFF last year, are stopping at Polaris Hall. Though they only released a single studio album during their initial mid-'90s iteration, the band had (and continues to have) a massive impact on alternative music-Jets to Brazil are direct descendants of TITR, FFS."
"Mark R. Smith's textile paintings address looming issues of climate change and environmental displacement. In Desert or Ocean, he expresses his concern with the changing conditions that are creating unlivable swaths of the earth, either too wet or too dry to support life. Smith's abstract paintings burst with contrasting azure blues and terracottas, representing each atmosphere respectively."
"Some paintings in the series focus on domes, which according to Smith reference the architecture of human gathering spaces like churches and stadiums, and natural collectives like anthills and reefs. (Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 417"
A Mercury’s Music Issue launch party is scheduled with Isabeau Waia’u Walker, the Barbaras, Keeks, and La Isla Electronica. Comics Confluence Festival brings comic book creators to Lincoln Hall. Dynasty Handbag celebrates a memoir release with PICA performances. Two Florence-related shows are planned: Florence + The Machine at Moda on May 13 and Florence Shaw with Dry Cleaning at Wonder Ballroom on May 17. On Monday, May 11, Texas Is the Reason and Growing Pains perform at Polaris Hall as part of a 2026 reunion tour, with the show listed as sold out. On Tuesday, May 12, Mark R. Smith presents Desert or Ocean, textile paintings addressing climate change and environmental displacement through abstract color and dome imagery.
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