Friday, May 22, 2026 at 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM
2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles
Pretty But Wicked presents an evening of new words, images and music brought to you by Discovery Zone and Cate Kennan. Discovery Zone is the experimental pop project of New York musician and multimedia artist JJ Weihl. After the slow-building but undeniable fervor around her debut album *Remote Control*, Discovery Zone released her second album *Quantum Web* on RVNG Intl. and *Mansions and Millions* in 2024, followed by an expanded version in 2025. On *Quantum Web*, Discovery Zone plunged into an uncanny valley, where the distinctions between the earnest and the ironic blur in tandem with the human and the post-human. On stage, Discovery Zone explores a widescreen pop sound speckled with luminous vocal performances and baroque instrumental flourishes. She utilizes a laboratory of instruments and 3D visuals to explore the universe as a source of information. Los Angeles musician Cate Kennan’s self-produced second full-length unfolds with the poetry and immateriality of its title: *Shadows*. 10 vignettes of keys, strings, reverb, and voice, the songs sway and lope between dream and lullaby, rose-colored but remote. The album was inspired by the dislocation Kennan felt upon returning, after several years away, to the rustic neighborhood northwest of L.A. where she’d grown up: “Wandering through a place where my life once existed but where everything had quietly shifted with time.”