Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts presents a night of art rock with performances from Finom and Golden Apples at PhilaMOCA, Thursday, August 7, 2025. Doors at 7:30; show at 8:00. Advanced $15, $20 at the door, $17 at the door with any valid college id or as a Rutgers alum. We’re thrilled to revive our history of hosting experimental music performances and can’t wait to hit the legendary PhilaMOCA space. Join us for this inaugural to-become-annual RCCA summer rock show.

August 7, 2025

Meet the bands

Finom

Chicago duo Finom was started by Macie Stewart and Sima Cunningham in 2014, combining their love for lush vocals and songwriting with their love of experimentation and sound. Produced by Jeff Tweedy in the Wilco Loft, their newest album, Not God, is a marvel of growth, a progression this collaborative band’s improvised conception. That energy combined with Finom’s dramatic vocal and musical gifts puts them in the peripheries of legacies cemented by The Roches, Roxy Music, the B52s, Kate Bush, Cate Le Bon, and Wilco. Cunningham and Stewart are brilliant harmonizers, but harmony doesn’t equate to a utopia. In Finom’s maws, harmony can also be a fight, holding the line until the volcano erupts. Finom are more than one person with more than one dream. But still, they grow together, harnessed by their shared love of pop songwriting, control, chaos, and being generally freaky-deaky. Freaky in that way that is only really fun when you’re doing it with a friend.

Golden Apples

Philadelphia’s Golden Apples, formed by Rusell Edling, might be one of the best kept secrets in guitar music, but their new full-length, Bananasugarfire, is about to change that. The boldly titled album is impossible to ignore, a kaleidoscopic blast of fuzzed out guitars, joyful songwriting, and vibrant production that’s as human as it is hooky. It’s exactly what a truly great indie rock album can be: fun yet fulfilling, inventive yet inviting, confident yet candid–music that lifts you up with melody, noise, and heart.