Water Damage

Event ID: MS63575

Wed, Mar 18, 2026 | TBD

Venue: The 13th Floor

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Summary

“Arguably the most exciting rock band to emerge from the American experimental underground this decade.” - Grayson Haver Currin, MOJO Magazine 2025 Drones are a powerful force, capable of whisking our thinking mind far, far, away. Austin-based collective Water Damage yields the same power whenever they pick up their instruments. Veterans from other projects (a.o. Swans, more eaze, Spray Paint, USA/Mexico and more), the band is not unfamiliar with the unshakeable power in drones; still, as Water Damage, they stretch out drone’s possibilities to their limits, bowing to the principle ‘Maximal Repetition Minimal Deviation’. Water Damage explore ecstatic oblivion, repeating basic riffs and rhythms until time seems to falter. Once an idea takes off, they pursue it forever; as Pitchfork said, their 2024 double LP ‘In E’ doubles as a “glorious mind eraser”.

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