Beach House Is Playing Disjecta Somewhere Small the Night After Its Sold-Out Crystal Ballroom Show

It's an "installation performance" meant for a maximum audience of 200 people.

By Matthew Singer

Update, April 5: Tickets are now officially scheduled to go on sale April 7 at 9 am, and the venue is now TBD. It will be announced in an email to ticket buyers 36 hours before the event.

Baltimore dream-pop institution Beach House sold out its April 28 show at the Crystal Ballroom super fast when tickets went on sale a month or two ago—not Chappelle fast, but still pretty fast. If you got shut out, though, you've got one more chance to bathe in the band's majestic haziness. Before heading out on the road in late February, the group added a series of installation performances "in galleries, art spaces, community centers, and various other alternative venues" interspersed among its formal tour dates, with the Portland edition taking place at Disjecta Contemporary Art Center an undisclosed location on April 29.

So what the hell is it? The details are unclear, but according to the note on the band's website, it's not just going to be, like, weird video projections set to noodling improvisation. Beach House will play actual Beach House songs, as a duo—meaning, we assume, singer-keyboardist Victoria Legrand and guitarist Alex Scally—within some kind of design with production values that are apparently high enough to justify $54 tickets, which the band is really sorry about.

Tickets go on sale tomorrow at 9 am on March 23 at 9 am April 7 at 9 am. The performance is meant for "a maximum audience of 200," so start your keystroke exercises now, lest you get Chappelle'd yet again. And if you do, Beach House is coming back in early August to play Pickathon.

You can read more about the show below.

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