Editor’s Note: Welcome to our new series spotlighting the bands and artists playing this year’s NICE, a fest. With 49 live performances over three days and two venues — July 28 to 30 at Somerville’s Crystal Ballroom and The Rockwell — there’s a lot going on, but consider this your compass to the NICE-est weekend imaginable. Get ticket info here, and check out our continued coverage of the festival.
Bat House
When and Where: Saturday, July 30 at 5:30 p.m. at The Crystal Ballroom.
Band Bio: Born in the subterranean heart of Boston’s basement scene in the summer of 2014, Bat House challenges heart and mind through their unique pop-laden sludgy psychedelic rock. Their new album Twenty Mule Team, which came out in January 2022, is brought to you the shedding of skin. Music born out of hunkering down throughout a pandemic and losing oneself in sounds inspired by the digital universe, synthesizers, cigarettes inside, late night melodies and a red light.
Fun Fact: “Our bass player Emmet is actually a real life cyborg.”
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