Palm’s live performances are revered for their uncanny synchronicity; one gets the sense that, on psychic levels unseen, the members share an intuition unexplained by logic. Drummer Hugo Stanley, bassist Gerasimos Livitsanos and guitarists/vocalists/high school sweethearts Eve Alpert and Kasra Kurt started making music together as teenagers.

On their latest effort, Nicks and Grazes, due October 14 via Saddle Creek, Palm embrace discordance to dazzling effect. “We wanted to reconcile two potentially opposing aesthetics,” Kurt says. “To capture the spontaneous, free energy of our live shows while integrating elements from the traditionally gridded palette of electronic music.” Palm cite Japanese pop music, dub, and footwork as influences , but they also found themselves returning to artists who inspired them to start the group over a decade ago. “When we were first starting out as a band, we bonded over an appreciation of heavy, aggressive, noisy music,” Alpert reflects. Kurt adds, “I found myself rediscovering and re–falling in love with the visceral, jagged quality of guitars in the music of Glenn Branca, The Fall, Beefheart, and Sonic Youth.”

Returning to the fundamentals gave Palm a strong foundation upon which they could experiment freely, resulting in their most ambitious and revelatory album to date. “We’re constantly grabbing at sounds that move us,” Stanley says. “In a sense, the record is cobbled together from these pieces of our lives.”

team
  • agent // Tom Windish // twindish@teamwass.com
  • mgmt // palmbandmgmt@gmail.com
select tour history
(2022 & 2023 seasons)
Rebel Lounge
The Rebel Lounge
Phoenix
AZ
200
2022
Soda Bar
Soda Bar
San Diego
CA
230
2022
Los Angeles
CA
350
2022
Rickshaw Stop
Rickshaw Stop
San Francisco
CA
350
2022
Crocodile (Madame Lou's)
The Crocodile (Madame Lou's)
Seattle
WA
300
2022
Doug Fir Lounge
Doug Fir Lounge
Portland
OR
299
2022
Kilby Court
Kilby Court
Salt Lake City
UT
250
2022
Larimer Lounge
Larimer Lounge
Denver
CO
250
2022
Reverb Lounge
Reverb Lounge
Omaha
NE
150
2022
Sinclair
The Sinclair
Cambridge
MA
525
2022
DC9 Nightclub
DC9 Nightclub
Washington
DC
180
2022
The Pinhook
The Pinhook
Durham
NC
200
2022
Atlanta
GA
300
2022
End (Nashville)
The End (Nashville)
Nashville
TN
200
2022
Gasa Gasa
Gasa Gasa
New Orleans
LA
200
2022
Space Ballroom
Space Ballroom
Hamden
CT
300
2022