In an eleventh-hour deal, Senate Republicans removed the tax on renewables from President Trump’s budget bill. Experts still ...

The organizer of the event is Ekko Astral lead singer and bassist Jael Holzman, who recently was praised for having one of the best rock albums of 2024. As a journalist, ...

Across two days in Washington, D.C., local and national acts threw a sweaty party to publicly reject the Trump Administration’s anti-trans legislation and raise money for the Gender Liberation ...

Ekko Astral frontperson Jael Holzman teased the May event, which organizers are calling Liberation Weekend, in an interview for City Paper’s Spring Arts Guide before officially announcing the ...

Jael Holzman writes and speaks with locomotive urgency, as a political and climate reporter as well as a co-founder of the Washington, D.C., punk trio Ekko Astral.

Ekko Astral have released a new six-and-a-half minute song and video, “Pomegranate Tree,” written about vocalist/bassist Jael Holzman and drummer Miri Tyler’s experiences as American Jews ...

Jael Holzman: Liam and I, we went to college together at the University of Vermont. I’m from the Beltway area — Rockville, Maryland, born and raised. And we started playing music together.

The Brooklyn-based band, led by Kaitlin Pelkey, is working closely with Ekko Astral, whose Jael Holzman explains them as “the punk version of Chappell Roan.” (The two acts have a collaboration ...