Soccer Mommy & Snail Mail: The S&M Tour

The Read

Sophie Allison built Soccer Mommy out of recordings made in this city and turned it into some of the most precisely observed guitar-pop of the era — melodies that sound casual and lyrics that absolutely are not. Lindsey Jordan’s Snail Mail comes at similar material from a harder angle, with a voice that can go from conversational to raw inside a single line. They are contemporaries rather than a package deal, which is why a co-headline works. Brooklyn Bowl gives both bands a room that can handle the loud parts without losing the words. A hometown show tends to change Allison’s set — more nerves, more people she knows standing at the back, usually a better performance for it. Expect the two camps in the crowd to merge somewhere around the third song.

The Room

Brooklyn Bowl

925 3rd Ave N

A Germantown venue where national touring acts share a building with bowling, food, and enough logistical ease to make group-night planning simple.