“What propels Ganser as a band, for me, is what shines here: their performance of joyful apathy so often has many other moving parts underneath that suggest that they are a band of deep caring, simply unsatisfied with the hands they’ve been dealt by the world.”

Hanif Abdurraqib

The Chicago art rock 4-piece made a splash during 2020 with their sophomore album, Just Look at That Sky, finding themselves included in best of lists from that year including Vice, Rolling Stone, Paste, and more. Through the pandemic, the band remotely collaborated with other artists for a remix EP while communicating with listeners online waiting for the opportunity to play their mix of noisy post-punk with “surreal humor and dark playfulness” (Paste).

The band is deep in development on their third record after partnering with Liars’ Angus Andrew in 2022 on an EP called Nothing You Do Matters.

“Anyone can play punk rock. For Ganser, that’s no excuse for low standards. Over a pair of albums, including 2020’s marvelous Just Look at That Sky, the Chicago quartet deployed simple phrasing to make increasingly complicated thematic and artistic statements. On Nothing You Do Matters, a short EP produced by Liars’ Angus Andrew, they offer up their most sophisticated music yet.”

Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork

More on their new EP can be read in features at Rolling Stone and Creem.

Ganser is Alicia Gaines (bass, vocals), Brian Cundiff (drums), Charlie Landsman (guitar), and Sophie Sputnik (keys, vocals).

Past Shows


Sep
13
th
2024
Fine Line
Sep
13
th
2024
Fine Line

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists

'Shake the Sheets' 20th Anniversary
with Ganser
Apr
28
th
2024
7th St Entry
Apr
28
th
2024
7th St Entry

Gustaf

with Ganser and MURF
Mar
16
th
2024
First Avenue
Mar
16
th
2024
First Avenue

Mclusky

with Ganser
Mar
17
th
2022
7th St Entry
Mar
17
th
2022
7th St Entry

Naked Giants

with Ganser
Aug
31
st
2021
Turf Club
Aug
31
st
2021
Turf Club
postponed

Modern English

(rescheduled + moved to Fine Line)
with Ganser and DJ Jake Rudh
Dec
2
nd
2020
Turf Club
Dec
2
nd
2020
Turf Club
Cancelled

Algiers

with Ganser

More Shows

Dec
29
th
7th St Entry

Qmoe

with Mack OC and bdifferent
Jul
9
th
Fine Line

mekons

with Jake La Botz
May
22
nd
First Avenue

Napalm Death and Melvins

with Hard-Ons (with Jerry A) and Dark Sky Burial
Jun
15
th
7th St Entry

Samantha Crain