Fast-food joints, parking lots, house shows, backyards, the grimiest DIY venues you can imagine—you name it, Scowl have played there. The Santa Cruz hardcore-but-so-much-more band toured hard immediately after forming in 2019 and then the following year took a break for obvious reasons. Determined to make up for lost time, they hit every venue or reappropriated public space that would have them as soon as they possibly could.

But even for a band that has a zeal for unusual spaces, frontwoman Kat Moss is still surprised that Scowl’s first-ever show in New York City was at an obscure dive bar called Madison Square Garden. Opening for Limp Bizkit, no less, as the everdisreputable rap-rock group chose the year 2022 to begin an arena comeback tour, as if modern life wasn’t strange enough already.