MRK 2015 cARTel Indoor stage

If Kate Bush was David Byrne’s conjoined twin and the siblings were raised on the nuked out paradise of Bikini Atoll and creatively weaned on a Broadway stage, the result would be MRK. Madison René Knapp, as she’s otherwise known, carries an aesthetic that’s as confident as it is slippery-to-define. Her tunes use electronic palates to create indie-rock influenced, bombastic theatrical anthems that sing with levity and creativity while always keeping sinister undertones simmering in the undertow.