Midwife
Artist: Midwife, Amulets, Pedestrian Deposit
Venue: Lodge Room, LA
Date: 2/2/26
Midwife silenced Lodge Room on February 2nd in the best possible way. Madeline Johnston's "Heaven Metal" — emotional music about devastation, as she describes it — landed with full force, her voice filtered through a rotary phone handset that gave everything a hypnotic, nostalgic ache, like grief heard through a wall. Sparse, devastating, and completely absorbing.
The night built perfectly toward that moment. Pedestrian Deposit opened as a duo playing a handmade branch-like stringed instrument that felt pulled from a Tolkien forest. Amulets followed with over 100 pedals arranged across two levels, building immersive drone soundscapes from cassette loops and live guitar. The two briefly shared the stage, the room suspended between them, before Midwife took over and finished the job.
