LUNG the band

Powerhouse art-punk electric cello + drums rock duo. Lung has a sound that is dark and commanding, evoking the driving sludge of early grunge with layered sinister undertones. The band is Kate Wakefield, a classically trained opera singer, and Daisy Caplan, formerly of Foxy Shazam, Babe Rage, and Ayin. Playing shows from Treefort Music Festival and SXSW to famed DIY venues like 924 Gilman Street, Lung have made their presence known and developed the reputation as a “must see” band. Since their first performance in April 2016, the pair have played over 500 shows across North America and Europe.

When able to tour, Lung lives out of the van for most of the year. The band chooses to play in all-ages, non-bar venues as much as possible because it’s a part of their conviction that all people deserve access to art/music. Lung has shared bills with Le Butcherettes, Screaming Females, Big Business, Brainiac, Dead Rider, Swearing At Motorists, Fucked Up, The Messthetics, Priests, A Deer A Horse, Machine Girl, Shellshag, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Hawthorne Heights, Downtown Boys, and Street Sects.

Touring heavily in 2019, Lung traversed Europe and headlined a US tour. Their third album, Come Clean Right Now (released in 2021), hit the NACC charts at #17. They recently returned from a six week tour through the western US on their way to play Treefort Music Festival 10 in March 2022 and head out on a US tour supporting Mac Sabbath in Fall 2022. Catch them this summer at Nelsonville Music Festival and Mile of Music Festival.

“Powerful, sinister indie rock from Cincinnati, Ohio.” — Mac Rock Music Festival

“There simply are so few other bands currently making music at this level, with this emotional resonance and with such innovation and poise. Lung is in a class all by themselves and this album is the just the latest in a string of incredible releases from them. It is expressive, explosive, and an exceptionally powerful gift to the world.”
— Kate Hoos, Full Time Aesthetic

“Lung is the oddest couple since Oscar Madison and Felix Unger. Former Foxy Shazam bassist-turned-drum-beast Daisy Caplan and electric-cellist-to-the-stars Kate Wakefield team up to either A) slap on spandex onesies and fight crime in Metropolis or B) comprise a completely unexpected musical duo that upends genre expectations and pummels Grungy Indie Rock into new and unclassifiable shapes. Come Clean Right Now is Lung’s third and best album so far, a brilliantly dark document of feral intensity and agitated ferocity. “Sugar Pill” and “Landlocked” suggest Tony Iommi teaching a Nirvana class at Julliard, while the title track is the melodic cacophony of a Classical Punk chamber duo being menaced by murder hornets. Lung doesn’t try to fit in — they pry their way in with a velvet crowbar.”
— Brian Baker, CityBeat Cincinnati