[DID NOT ATTEND: September 16, 2025] Mint Field / Halloween/ Sunday Evening Drive
Mint Field is a fantastic band from Mexico City:
Guided by Estrella del Sol and Sebastian Neyra. Mint Field explores the nostalgia and the melancholy of daily life with loud guitars and ethereal vocals that bring to life a unique way of doing shoegaze. Exploring and experimenting with different genres like ambient, dream pop and shoegaze sounds, Mint Field creates a mesmerizing experience to escape to. Their supernatural dream-pop and shoegaze tunes. Sprawling, cosmic rock with shimmering guitar and the heavenly vocals of Estrella Sánchez in an epic location – this is the most beautiful Levitation Sessions yet.
I have a live Levitation Session vinyl of theirs and it is fantastic. I almost saw them open for someone last year but couldn’t make the show. And tonight, we had tickets to Garbage. Bummer. I do hope they return as headliners.
I saw Halloween open for Hello Mary. I really liked them and then
Halloween is a Philly based band and they play an interesting mix of sounds. They are probably based around shoegaze, with fuzzy swirling guitars. The vocals are quiet ( I often couldn’t hear them, but I could tell there was singing). Guitarist Sia Dokos (who also sang lead sometimes) played really cool interesting chords and noises and I wished that I was on their side of the stage to really see what was going on). I loved how things were fairly quiet and then they would just blast off like a classic 90s grunge/noise session.
Sunday Evening Drive is from Philly. Their blurb on bandcamp says
Dance Punks bringing Disco to the basements
And yes, they are synthy and dancey, with a slight edge. I’ll bet they are fun live.
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