Machine Girl Halloween

Machine Girl brings their electrifying live show to Pioneer Works on the eve of Halloween.

On Wednesday, October 30, Machine Girl comes to Pioneer Works on Devil's Night for an equally freakish and haunting evening. Fresh off the heels of their PsychoWarrior Tour, the boundary-shattering trio brings their signature collision of breakcore, hardcore punk, industrial noise, and rave energy to Red Hook for one night only.

Equal parts dancefloor exorcism and controlled chaos, Machine Girl's live shows have become legendary for their relentless intensity—transforming rooms into ecstatic sites of release. On the eve of Halloween, expect a night of blistering sound, communal frenzy, and beautiful mayhem.

About the artists

Machine Girl has always operated as an inimitable, inventive, and individual sonic phenomenon. The newly trio’d—Matt Stephenson [vocals, producer], Sean Kelly [drums], and Lucy Caputi [guitar]—fortify a punk exoskeleton with electronic alchemy and cinematic ambition outfitted for an uncompromisingly heavy attack. Rave, metal, punk, pummeling electronic and organic drums collide and splinter like shrapnel into kaleidoscopic blasts of vibrant color and visceral sound.

Machine Girl carved out an incomparable lane upon arrival with Stephenson’s 2014 full-length debut LP, Wlfgrl, achieving bona fide cult status, shocked to life by “Out by 16, Dead on the Scene,” “Ghost,” and “Mg1,” which has reeled in north of 43 million Spotify streams and counting. Their sound proceeded to completely reinvent itself across each LP that followed. 2024’s MG Ultra incited the most enthusiastic critical applause of the band’s career so far. Pitchfork professed, “Their music together plays like the soundtrack to the final boss level of some finger-blistering bullet hell,” and Dazed mused, “it’s hard to imagine a better soundtrack for the revolution than Machine Girl.”

The latter LP also set the stage for 2025’s PsychoWarrior: MG Ultra, functioning as a prelude. “Come On Baby, Scrape My Data” is a multi-generational warcry against AI and big tech - Wanna know me? Wanna own me? Wanna clone me? F**k you, you can blow me. Their cathartic live shows have captivated hundreds of thousands of fans, having traversed five continents and thirty-four countries post-covid already.