Pixel Grip: Jonathon Freund, Rita Lukea, and Tyler Ommen
In the world of Chicago goth dance trio Pixel Grip, the arena is more than a literal venue where spectators gather to delight in competition it refers to any context our society envisions as a zero-sum game, where no one can win without someone else losing. The band s sophomore album,
Arena, proposes the club as a sanctuary.
Over ten darkly electrifying tracks ( Alphapussy, Dancing on Your Grave ), singer Rita Lukea describes what they call their villain origin story that is, why they ve come to play a commanding hard femme in a queer electro band.