Tigers Jaw
Artist: Tigers Jaw, Pool Kids, Bleary Eyed
Venue: The Lodge Room
Date: 6/8/2026
Tigers Jaw sold out The Observatory in Santa Ana on a Sunday night, and vocalist Ben Walsh took a moment to acknowledge it. The Scranton band noted it was their third time playing the venue, the last being alongside their friends Manchester Orchestra, and that this was their first time headlining it to a sold-out room. The crowd made sure it was worth the wait. Walsh and Brianna Collins led the band through a full set that wove new material from Lost on You, their seventh album out earlier this year on Hopeless Records, alongside songs that the room clearly knew by heart. The closing stretch had everyone screaming every word back. Stage diving. Crowd surfing. The whole thing.
Pool Kids supported, the Tallahassee math rock and emo quartet fronted by Christine Goodwyne, whose most recent album Easier Said Than Done on Epitaph Records has only widened an already devoted following. The band first broke through when Hayley Williams of Paramore shouted them out on Instagram, calling their debut what Paramore wished they sounded like in the early 2000s. That early cosign made sense and their live show confirms it to us. Goodwyne's stage presence is something else entirely, coming off the stage and into the crowd. She noted the Santa Ana crowd was considerably better than the LA crowd the night before at the Regent, which the room loved. As someone born and raised in Florida, it was great to see fellow Floridians showing how good the scene is in the Sunshine State.
Bleary Eyed opened the night. The Philadelphia noise pop and shoegaze outfit founded by Nate Salfi brings warm distortion and dreamy emo hooks to everything they do; a perfect temperature setter for what followed.
