March 2026
While best known for alternative rock mainstays like “Blister in the Sun”, “Gone Daddy Gone” and “Add It Up”, Milwaukee’s Violent Femmes cut their teeth touring gritty punk dive bars and busking on street corners throughout the 1980s. It was a trajectory that would eventually lead them to record with producer Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads and steamroll an era of college radio with an inventive-bordering-on-quirky take on folk punk music.
Fronted by Gordan Gano and Brian Ritchie, the Violent Femmes have produced intantly identifiable songs, not to mention equally identifiable xylophone solos, over the years.
Though the band’s most recent full length release comes in the form of 2019’s Hotel Last Resort record, the group has spent recent tours emphasizing a set list leaning heavily onto their older albums, including 1983’s self titled album with songs like “Kiss Off”.
The band will be bringing their analog instrumentation to Reno’s Grand Sierra Resort’s Grand Theatre on Friday, March 6th.
As it stands, the show is nearly sold out, though a few seats remain available. Tickets and information can be found here. Doors open at 7 and the show begins at 8.
