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$27.32 Tickets
Psyko Steve Presents
FIELD MEDIC
Sat Apr 4 07:00 pm (Doors: 06:30 pm )
16 and up

Psyko Steve Presents

FIELD MEDIC
with special guest
BEAMING

Saturday, April 4th 2026
Doors at 6:30 / Show at 7:00

16+

General Admission Ticket: $20 + fees
Day of Show GA Ticket: $25 + fees

Artists

Field Medic

For ten years, singer-songwriter Kevin Patrick Sullivan has been releasing music as Field
Medic that meshes the magical and the ordinary. His dreamy lo-fi bedroom folk
discography is vast, with 5 full length albums, multiple EPs and singles, and has no plans
on stopping. Newly sober, Sullivan plans on continuing to build his world through his poetic
lyricism and imagery through his experiences that has amassed him a fanbase that can
relate to the feelings his music evokes.

Field Medic’s latest record, dope girl chronicles, is something of a spiritual sequel to his
2015 debut full length, but it also marks a sonic shift, deconstructing his as we know it in
order to start an exciting new chapter.

Highlights

• Featured on Green Day’s Tribute Album
• Supported tours for Beach Bunny, Backseat Lovers, Indigo DeSouza, The Neighbourhood
• Featured on New Music Friday and covers on all of the top Indie playlists

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Beaming

Are we having fun yet? After years building their respective legacies in the independent music scene,
Derek Ted and Braden Lawrence let this question guide the creation of their latest project: beaming, a
playful indie pop venture built around an ethos of curiosity, collaboration, and levity.
The duo’s self-titled EP introduces the project with four infectious songs at the intersection of pop, rock,
and folk. This comes as no surprise given the band’s pedigree: Braden spent over a decade playing in
Philadelphia-based indie darling The Districts, while Derek is a solo artist and prolific producer who has
lent his talents to rising stars like Odie Leigh, Runnner, and Field Medic.

“In the industry today, it feels like everyone has to be really efficient in order to make the machine run,”
explains Derek. “But back in the day, timeless music was created by a bunch of people. Collaboration is
actually hella goated, and I feel like people forget that nowadays.”

If hella goated is any indication, Derek Ted cut his teeth in the DIY music scene of the San Francisco Bay
Area, busking around the East Bay while studying audio engineering and eventually working at SF’s Tiny
Telephone Studios. By the time he moved south to Los Angeles, he’d found a robust community of fellow
musicians and a strong desire to take full ownership over his production work.
“I turned my garage in Burbank into a studio, but I didn’t really realize I was a producer until I’d already
produced a lot of stuff,” he explains. “I feel like producing took the pressure off me having to make my art
the thing that pays the bills, which was always the part that took all the fun out of it for me. Once I started
producing and mixing for other people, I realized I could have fun making music without having to beg
people to listen to it.”

As his production work took off, Derek relished the experimentation and creative chemistry of helping
artists bring their visions to life. In addition to producing for his frequent collaborator Field Medic, Derek
lent his talents to a wide array of projects including Dora Jar’s “Look Back,” Hunny’s album new planet
heaven, and several tracks on Jesse Rutherford’s album Wanted?.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the country in Pennsylvania, Braden Lawrence was living in a very
different kind of artistic ecosystem. Braden and his friends started their band The Districts when they were
still in middle school and signed to Fat Possum Records right after high school graduation. “It was go to
college or see what happens with the band, and we chose to do the band stuff,” Braden laughs.
Over the next 13 years, Braden wore a variety of different hats for his band as they played all over the
world, touring with the likes of Modest Mouse, Hippo Campus, and Dr. Dog. He credits this experience
with building his confidence on a wide array of instruments, a versatility he now applies to his work with
beaming.

“Most of the instruments you hear on beaming are Braden playing, and then I’ll spend like a month mixing
and hashing out the production details,” says Derek of his and Braden’s artistic process on beaming. I’m
on that Rick Rubin mindset where I don’t like to play as much as I like to oversee the energy and the bigger picture and the songwriting.”

Braden adds, “I love just running around and playing different instruments. It’s a fluid working relationship
where we kind of naturally let each other shine in our own ways.”

The project came together organically after a series of serendipitous encounters in Los Angeles, where
both Derek and Braden had relocated. Braden was already frequenting Derek’s studio as a drummer for
his production projects, and he eventually started playing drums in the live band for Derek’s artist project.
After spending enough time in the studio, they began working together to produce for local artists — and,
eventually, for their own project.

“We didn’t really plan to make a band until ‘first song,’” says Braden. “I had some chords but could never
think of lyrics or melodies over them. When I played the chords for Derek, he started singing over them,
and from there we were like, ‘Huh, maybe we should write a song.’”

This casual collaboration was the genesis of beaming, and the pair didn’t want the party to stop there.
Field Medic lends a verse to “slow sinkin,” a wistful folk-pop earworm reminiscent of Hovvdy or early
Alex G, and Braden’s Districts bandmate Pat Cassidy features on the slide guitar. Kississippi’s Zoe
Reynolds sings background vocals on “colors,” and songwriter/producer Ben Burney provided backing
vocals and additional production on several tracks.

This creative synergy is evident on the EP, which floats effortlessly between indie pop and folk over four
foot-tapping, hum-worthy tracks. Lyrically, the music leans introspective, seeking to capture universal
feelings through personal anecdotes about love, loss, and the passage of time. In “slow sinkin,” the band
reflects on the bittersweet clarity of hindsight, singing “Wasting time thinking life is just slow sinking /
Watch it wash away / Now that I know how the story turns out / Was it worth the wait?”
“colors” takes a brighter turn, cloaking its vulnerability in driving, dance-floor jubilation as it asks the
timeless question of how to reanimate a life stuck on autopilot. “It’s about making a change in your life,
stepping back, and finding what really makes you happy,” says Derek.

As they look toward the future, Braden and Derek only really have one firm plan: keep bringing people
together to create art and make memories. The music industry may be more intimidating and isolating
than ever, but the music community remains full of the joy and camaraderie that keep artists coming back
time and time again. “There’s something special that happens when a room full of people all make
something together,” says Derek. “The right people.”