Thursday, November 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM EDT

Rose House

A Rose House song is a quiet moment alone in a Spanish chapel, or getting sunburnt while shooting guns in the desert. It’s looking out the smudged window of a subway car for a glance at the black waters of the East River, or finding divinity in the shoes of a loved one left at the top of the stairs. Scout Watkins, the songwriter, guitarist, and singer at the helm of Rose House, leads with curiosity, and has a keen sense for what is beautiful. Her lyrics invoke the divine and praise the human, exploring the gnarled and undeniable truths that live at the hearts of both tenderness and brutality. From ambient meditations to slick guitar riffs to head-thrashing drums, these songs evolve from peace to madness to peace again. With synthesist Noah Valenti, drummer Billy Svolos, and bassist Grace Schmidhauser, Rose House music is prophecy packaged as post-rock that easily gets stuck inside your head. At shows, Watkins captivates with her frenetic performance, and the trusting attention between bandmates invites the watcher to rage, have their heart broken, and then go for a cool swim in a summer river. Every performance starts with Watkins slipping off her shoes at the front of the stage, then revelation comes in the form of analog projections on the ceiling, looping toy pianos, and keys and bells swinging from the ends of guitars. Rose House is a memory of the past and a destination in the future, it’s flying home to kiss your grandmother and letting go of someone you love. It’s a structure for honesty and truth without judgement, where someone can sing out: “I’d rather disappoint God, than not be on His mind at all.”

The Knife Kickers

Thomaston, Connecticut

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AP Flynn

$10 ADVANCED / $13 AT THE DOOR

21+

DOORS AT 7 PM