Friday, October 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM
Healing Force of the Universe, Pasadena
*Patterns*, the debut duo record from **Katy Pinke** and **Will Graefe**, is a covers album–a first for either of them. Before you even press play, its tracklist announces the duo’s fearlessly idiosyncratic sensibility, setting timeless gems from the Beach Boys, Paul Simon, and Elliott Smith alongside hyper-contemporary dispatches from SZA, Frank Ocean, and Yung Lean. These choices, and what the pair do with them, at times feel like an extension of each musician’s original work. Pinke, an NYC based singer-songwriter and multidisciplinary artist, writes songs that seem to take flight from deep in her subconscious, alighting on one piercingly observed emotional truth and then another, guided by dreamlike chains of association and a subtle but persistent sense of mischievous play. Graefe, a prolific guitarist whose resume includes collaborations with Joan As Police Woman and Sam Wilkes as well as session work for stars like Kesha and Orville Peck, is an ideal foil: mining emotionally evocative chord voicings, equally adept at heavenly electronic textures and warm, earthbound acoustic picking, with exquisitely detailed tone and deep sensitivity to the subtle affective shifts in a given piece of music. What both have in common, is a particular emotional vulnerability that radiates from everything they do. Doors at 8 PM $15 adv+DICE fees / $20 at the door ($11.25 for Initiate members, $7.50 for Sponsor members, $0 +1 for Patron members, www.healingforcerecords.com/memberships)