Badflower at The Fonda: Raw, Angry, and Exactly What We Needed

Badflower is exactly the kind of band you go see when everything around you feels like it’s gone to hell and you just can’t keep quiet about it anymore. Sure, their lyrics might sound a little off upon a first listen, but once you really sit with it, you understand that frontman Josh Katz is angry about a lot of things. And rightfully so.

He and the band are so unapologetically themselves and the energy they emit is nothing short of magnetic and contagious. They have managed this perfect balance in their shows of starting you off high and then progressively fading into something that breaks your heart all at once, just to come back full circle and end it on the same high note.

You can dance. You can cry. You can scream. And then you can walk away from this while feeling the cathartic intentions behind this music.

Photos by Malika M.