Name: Yot Club + Vundabar
Start: 2025-03-25T20:00:00
End: 2025-03-26T00:00:00
Location: Wild Buffalo

Wild Buffalo Presents Yot Club x Vundabar with special guests Tuesday, March 25th 2025Wild Buffalo 7pm doors | 8pm show | 21+ Yot ClubFor decades the bright lights of New York have drawn artists to its storied city streets — thoseseeking their tribe, those looking to solidify their identity, and those hungry for inspiration and freshencounters, all there for the taking on this new, broadened horizon. And now 26-year-old RyanKaiser has joined those ranks, moving from Nashville to Brooklyn, at the tail-end of 2022. Except,unlike so many who have come before him, Kaiser’s already made a name for himself creatingdaydreamy, sun-blasted, Polaroid-pop as Yot Club.With Yot Club’s second full-length, Rufus, Kaiser is expanding his sonic palette and challenging hisown established modes of music making by letting collaborators in. The record includes co-writeswith the likes of Tommy English (Carly Rae Jepsen, Kacey Musgraves), and singers Charli Adams andHarrison Lipton, with Patrick Wimberly (Lil Yachty, Joji, Blood Orange, MGMT) on mixing duties, and the result is a collection of songs that sounds bolder and brighter. From theshimmering surf-pop of opener “Stuntman,” to the minor chord angst and quiet-loud-quiet pulse of“New Day,” to The Strokesian swoon of album closer “Lazy Eyes,” Kaiser lo-fi hooks have a newcinematic scope.But let’s rewind to 2019 when his music first captured the ears and imagination of listeners thanks tothe song “YKWIM?” off his Bipolar ep, one of three EPs he released that year alone. Newly graduatedand still living in his college town of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, it was a pivotal year for Kaiser.Seemingly out of nowhere the streams on “YKWIM?” started climbing: 500k streams a day soonballooning to a million. Unbeknownst to Kaiser, his song — which is now 2x RIAA Platinum — hadbecome a go-to sad song for nostalgia-centric TikToks. The virality didn’t stem from a dance craze. Itwas about a vibe.The knock-on effect was every major label came calling, but for Kaiser, signing his music away for 25years in exchange for an non-recoupable advance was a hard no. Ultimately, Kaiser signed withAmuse, a distro company-turned-label, where he retained ownership of his masters and gained theirfull support for his vision. Kaiser followed 2020’s Nature Machine EP with 2022’s Santolina EP, andthen, in 2023, he released his debut album off the grid and the EP amateur observer. Not to mentiona ton of loosies including “LAUREN” with spill tab, and “Safe House” with Jordana, releases whichunderscore his newfound explorations in collaboration.Nostalgia is an oft-used descriptor too, but it’s one that Kaiser’s unafraid to lean into — “I don’t likeanything that sounds like it was made now,” he notes — with his own song titled, “Nostalgia,”ringing out like the perfect soundtrack to a movie montage directed by John Hughes (with just apinch of The Postal Service). And then there’s “Drowning,” written with Charli Adams, whereKincaid’s razored guitars recall Bloc Party. With production credits including MGMT, Solange, and LilYachty’s latest LP, Patrick Wimberly mixing brings a different dimension to Yot Club’s sound.There’s an economy to Kaiser’s songwriting, a feel-it, sing-it straightforwardness that cuts to themeat of the matter, with his titles often providing the jumping off point, like lead single “Pixel.” Withits ticking urgency and cascading guitar line, it was written and recorded in two days with producerTommy English, and features Kaiser on live, looped drums, with additional slide guitar. “That song’sabout getting caught up in your own life and technology in relation to self-importance and how yousee yourself,” offers Kaiser. “It’s never been harder to appreciate your own circumstances than it istoday because you can play the comparison game. It’s a complicated dynamic: the people whoselives look the best can often suck, ’cos why else would they go to such efforts to make it look like theirlives are great!”Then there’s “Human Nature,” written with artist Harrison Lipton, who also plays in the bandMICHELLE and happens to live down the street. Written and recorded at Lipton’s parents’ 100+ year-old Connecticut house, Kaiser describes it as a driving-down-the-Pacific-Coast-Highway kind of tune.But those sunny sonics belie the melancholic inevitability of so many splits: the lover you spent everyday with can eventually turn into someone you don’t recognize at all. “This album is not meant toserve as an eloquent story where there’s characters and side characters and betrayal andheartbreak,” he says. “It’s just 13 separate episodes that restart and don’t necessarily match eachother, but I wanted to give it a character to wrap it all together.”Rufus is not exactly Ryan Kaiser, but these snapshots capture the essence of his experiences: a badrelationship and fresh realizations; leaving it all behind to try and find footing in a shiny new city thatmaybe isn’t exactly the imagined, mythologized creative utopia. It continues Kaiser’s coming of age— looking back, picking it all apart, trying to work it all out, and constantly pushing forward.Vundabar Vundabar is a Boston-based trio that delivers jangly, fuzzed-out math-and surf-tinged indie rock shot through with plenty of post-punk spirit. Formed in 2013 by vocalist/guitarist Brandon Hagen and drummer Drew McDonald while still in high school, the duo eventually recruited bassist Zack Abramo and began playing locally. Sporting a melody-rich blend of knotty folk and loud-soft-loud indie rock à la Beantown luminaries Pixies, Vundabar issued their debut album, Antics, in late 2013. They adopted a grittier tone on 2015's Gawk, which added grungy post-punk to the mix. The cathartic and dense Smell Smoke arrived in 2018, delivering an earworm-heavy set that was both bracing and sincere, and in 2020 the trio released the tight and succinct Either Light, which saw them working with a producer, Patrick Hyland (Mitski), for the first time. In 2021, online snippets of fans singing along to the group's 2015 single "Alien Blues" flooded social media, which garnered millions of streams for the seven-year-old cut. Devil for the Fire, Vundabar's wide-ranging fifth studio effort, appeared the following year.