DIVE Presents Summer Shows With Biggest Gigs to Date

A Slew Of Summer Shows Offers The Shape Of Things To Come For DIVE PRESENTS With Some Of Their Biggest Gigs Booked To Date Including A Sold Out Met Life Stadium Warmup Show For Thursday

(Upstate New York) DIVE PRESENTS, the show promotion arm of DIVE, is excited for its lineup of summer shows scattered across it’s favorite music venues in the capital region. The company is expanding it’s horizons booking at slightly larger spaces including The Hangar on the Hudson & Lark Hall in addition to No Fun, the venue it recently sold to a collective of staff and community members of Troy.

“Since the beginning of deciding to sell No Fun I looked at this move as an avenue of personal and professional growth”, says August Rosa the owner of DIVE. “My goal is to do less but way larger events in the future. I am excited to explore different spaces in the capital region to bring bigger acts to the region while continuing to book underground and experimental stuff in smaller spaces. This flexibility is something I am really excited about for the years to come.”

DIVE PRESENTS Summer Season includes the following shows:

June 22 – Delicate Steve, Front Biz & Russel The Leaf @ No Fun. Early Sunday Show. Door 4 PM Show 5 PM.

Steve Marion, the critically acclaimed–and completely wordless–songwriter and guitarist known as Delicate Steve has unveiled a new album called Delicate Steve Sings. Is the album title a reference to the instantly recognizable “voice” of his guitar? Does he actually sing this time? Has he not been singing all along? That’s the crux of Sings—Marion is the rare guitarist where you can put on any of his records and know exactly who’s playing. In an indie rock landscape stuffed end-to-end with guitars and amplifiers, nobody else sounds like this. That unique voice has kept Steve busy in an unpredictable variety of settings. The sheer spread of his work outside his own records be it collaborating with Miley Cyrus and Paul Simon or playing in Amen Dunes and The Black Keys — doesn’t mean Steve’s a chameleon. It means he’s singular. One night while on a trip to Greece, Marion looked out over the sea while listening to Willie Nelson’s pop standards record Stardust, a cosmic epiphany washing over him about what his next record could be. Delicate Steve Sings is a record centered on channeling iconic voices with his guitar. In doing so, Marion is casting himself in the role of iconic singers like Willie who make standards their own. In the process, he reveals just how singular (dare we say iconic) that voice is. The guitar sings these songs—smoothly, sweetly, boldly, and on its own terms. Local support from psych funk outfit Front Biz & prolific singer songwriter Russel The Leaf.

July 12 – Os Mutantes & Pinc Louds @ Lark Hall. Door 6:30 PM Show 7:30 PM.

Os Mutantes (“The Mutants”) are an influential Brazilian psychedelic rock band that were linked with the Tropicália movement of the late 1960s. When Os Mutantes was formed, it combined influences from psychedelic acts from the English-speaking world like The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and Sly & the Family Stone with bossa nova, tropicália, samba and the cultural legacy of the Brazilian art vanguards from the modernist movement. One of the most well-known and influential rock bands in Brazil, Os Mutantes are cited as a major influence to many contemporary underground or independent bands in the United States and Europe. “There was nothing quite like Os Mutantes, and there still isn’t” – The Guardian “Kaleidoscopic, politically-charged rock” – Billboard A set by Pinc Clouds opens up the evening. Pinc Louds’ lead singer, Claudi (all pronouns accepted), moved from Puerto Rico to NYC in 2015 to fulfill their dream of playing in the subway. Their music blends punk energy and crooner-style singing with elements of art-rock, electronic and Caribbean music to create a sound that is as exciting as it is unique. They were described as “NYC’s best imaginary band” by The Village Voice.

August 8 – Thursday, I Am The Avalanche & Blood Vulture @ Lark Hall. Door 6:30 PM Show 7:30 PM. SOLD OUT!

Groundbreaking post-hardcore band Thursday have announced three warm up headline shows including Lark Hall in the heart of Albany NY before opening for My Chemical Romance and Death Cab For Cutie at Met Life Stadium. The New Jersey quintet who released six records since their formation in 1997, and enjoyed cumulative worldwide sales of nearly four million units before disbanding in 2011, originally reformed (in typical Thursday manner at two days notice) in 2016 to play the Sound on Sound Festival in Atlanta. Rising from New Brunswick, NJ, in the midst of a DIY basement culture revival, Thursday has always been in a constant state of transition that seemed out of step with the traditional hardcore of their peers. As equally renowned for having their fingers on the pulse of creativity, Thursday has a long history of touring with ground breaking acts in tow. Coheed and Cambria, Thrice, Poison The Well, AFI, Portugal The Man, Murder By Death, Touche Amore, Bring Me The Horizon, Circa Survive and The Gaslight Anthem have all been invited to share stages with them in the past. In 2024, the band broke their audio silence with the release of Application For Release From The Dream, their first new music in 13 years. This was followed up by the surprise drop of White Bikes (recorded at Hansa studio’s in Berlin – where Bowie wrote and recorded Hero’s) on January 1st 2025. Joining Thursday on this mini tour in August is Long Island royalty I Am The Avalanche and Blood Vulture, the new band featuring Two Minutes to Late Night, the world’s only heavy metal talk show.

August 22 – Pile, Nnamdi & Prize @ The Hangar. Door 7 PM Show 8 PM.

From their earliest days as the solo project of frontman Rick Maguire, Pile have followed an unusual path through a decade in which rock bands have generally receded from the cultural spotlight. Starting out in 2007, in the then thriving Boston DIY scene, the band rapidly became heroes and standard-bearers for their hometown’s music community, garnering a cultish-adoration that has only intensified as that cult has grown, expanding by word of mouth across the country and throughout the globe. For fifteen years, Pile’s evolving take on rock has earned the group one oft-repeated superlative: “your favorite band’s favorite band.” Ceaseless touring took its members from Boston’s basement circuit to international festivals, hitting loftier technical apexes with each new record. All Fiction, the band’s eighth record, finds the ambitious group assembling its most texturally complex material yet—despite the fraught inspiration underscoring its restive lyrics. Alongside the blistering drums and scorched-earth riffs that first galvanized Pile’s dedicated fanbase, the band has incorporated elegiac strings, mystifying vocal corrosions, and haunting synths. All Fiction is an ornate, carefully paced study on the subjectivity of perception, the data-shaping despotism of big tech, and the connections between anxiety and death. Support by Chicago’s NNAMDÏ thrives in the porous boundaries of multi-genre pop experimentalism. Over the past decade, NNAMDÏ has received critical acclaim for projects covering ground in post-punk, pop, electronic, orchestral and hip-hop. He has been widely lauded for his singular sound and virtuosic skill set as a producer and songwriter by major music outlets including VICE, the New York Times, New Yorker, NPR, Pitchfork, FADER and more. Local support on this show from noise-rock-leaning hardcore band Prize. ###