College Street Music Hall Weekly Round-up: 4 shows announced, including Modest Mouse

College Street Music Hall announced Sheng Wang, Modest Mouse, Spoon with The Beths and squirrel flower and Binkini Kill this week. Tickets are on sale now at collegestreetmusichall.com

Sheng Wang
College Street Music Hall – 238 College Street, New Haven, CT 06510
March 12, 2026
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Sheng Wang

Sheng Wang is a comedian, actor, and writer originally from Houston, TX. His current stand-up comedy tour will span three years and eight countries, including dates across Asia in 2026. Sheng’s first Netflix special, Sweet & Juicy (2022), produced and directed by Ali Wong, was praised for his laid-back delivery and sharp observations on everyday life. He will return to Netflix with a new special, filmed November 8, 2025, at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D.C., and is set for release in 2026. The special is produced by Ali Wong, Sheng Wang, and John Irwin. Sheng has also appeared on HBO’s 2 Dope Queensand wrote for ABC’s Fresh Off the Boat. He currently lives in Los Angeles, where he enjoys exploring botanical gardens and discovering new ways to snack.

Modest Mouse
College Street Music Hall – 238 College Street, New Haven, CT 06510
June 4, 2026
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Modest Mouse

Having recently completed another successful run with Pixies and Cat Power, Modest Mouse continues to prove themselves to be one of the most consistent live acts today. Modest Mouse released their highly anticipated new album, The Golden Casket, on June 25, 2021 via Epic Records. The Golden Casket heralds another new chapter in the GRAMMY® Award-nominated multi platinum band’s unpredictable evolution. Produced with Dave Sardy and Jacknife Lee in Los Angeles and in Modest Mouse’s studio in Portland, the album hovers in the liminal space between raw punk power and experimental studio science, frontman Isaac Brock explores themes ranging from the degradation of our psychic landscapes and invisible technology, to fatherhood. The twelve tracks behave like amorphous organisms, undergoing dramatic mutations and mood swings that speak to the chronic tug-of-war between hope and despair that plays out in Brock’s head.

Spoon with The Beths and squirrel flower
College Street Music Hall – 238 College Street, New Haven, CT 06510
June 21, 2026
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Spoon, Austin’s esteemed rock ambassadors, and New Zealand quartet The Beths are teaming up for a co-headline tour this summer. Spoon’s most recent album Lucifer on the Sofa garnered the band a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Album, while the Beth’s 2025 release Straight Line Was a Lie was a mainstay on year-end ‘Best Of’ lists , including Rolling Stone, Consequence of Sound, Slate and many more. Geographically divided, rock and roll united, don’t miss this first-ever opportunity to see Spoon and the Beths share the stage!

Spoon

Spoon, Austin’s most esteemed rock ambassadors, have released ten albums to date including a string of five straight top 10 records: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (2007), Transference (2010), They Want My Soul (2014), Hot Thoughts (2017), and Lucifer on the Sofa (2022).

Lucifer on the Sofa earned the band its first-ever GRAMMY nomination (Best Rock Album) and was praised by Rolling Stone as “The best thing they’ve ever done.”

Hailed by TIME as “one of the greatest American rock bands”, Spoon topped Metacritic’s chart as the single most critically acclaimed band of the aughts.

In 2019, Spoon released Everything Hits At Once: The Best of Spoon, which was praised by NPR as a “convincing argument for Spoon being one of their era’s most distinctive and excellent rock bands.” That same year, Fender released the Britt Daniel Signature Telecaster Thinline as part of their artist signature electric guitar series – highlighting the enduring influence of Daniel’s precision-punk style that has helped fuel Spoon to become what the Guardian calls ‘one of the finest bands of their generation.’

The Beths

New Zealand indie rock heroes The Beths’ latest album Straight Line Was A Lie is a catchy, instant classic. Written in Los Angeles and self-recorded in the band’s hometown of Auckland, Straight Line Was A Lie (their first release for ANTI-) follows 2022’s critically celebrated LP Expert in A Dying Field. Lead singer and songwriter Liz Stokes delves deeper into her psyche to address everything from roundabout progress to physical and mental health challenges, and fraught family dynamics. Inspired by The Go-Go’s, Olivia Rodrigo, filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, and Stephen King’s On Writing, amongst others, Stokes’ songwriting has achieved startling new depths of insight and vulnerability. Fans will agree that Straight Line Was A Lie is the most sharply observant, truthful, and poetic Beths project to date.

squirrel flower

squirrel flower is the ever changing project of ella williams (chicago based by way of iowa and boston). It is music for lost sailors and earth witches

Bikini Kill
College Street Music Hall – 238 College Street, New Haven, CT 06510
September 24, 2026
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Bikini Kill

Bikini Kill is a feminist punk band that started in Olympia, WA, and later moved to Washington, DC. The band was active from 1990 to 1998. Although they sometimes switched instruments, the primary lineup was Kathleen Hanna on vocals, Tobi Vail on drums, and Kathi Wilcox on bass. Billy Karren joined on guitar after the band had played several shows as a three-piece. Bikini Kill is credited with instigating the Riot Grrrl movement in the early ’90s via their political lyrics, zines and confrontational live shows.

Bikini Kill started touring in June 1991. In addition to touring the US several times, they also toured Europe, Australia and Japan. In The band recorded and released a demo tape, two EPs, two LPs and three singles. With the exception of their demo tape, which was self-released, all their records were released by the Olympia-based record label, Kill Rock Stars. In 2011, the band cut ties with Kill Rock Stars and began rereleasing their albums through their own label, Bikini Kill Records.

Bikini Kill believed that if all girls started bands the world would change. They actively encouraged women and girls to start bands as a means of cultural resistance. Bikini Kill was inspired by seeing Babes in Toyland play live, and attempted to incite female participation and build feminist community via the punk scene. They used touring as a way to create an underground network between girls who played music, put on shows and made fanzines. This informal network created a forum for multiple female voices to be heard.

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